{"id":4299,"date":"2018-09-08T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2018-09-08T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T18:56:29","slug":"charts-7-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4299","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 7 September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Looks at number of new entries this week. \u00a0Whimpers. \u00a0Cracks knuckles.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Calvin Harris &amp; Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;Promises&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kkLk2XWMBf8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Climbing to number 1 in its third week. \u00a0This is Calvin Harris&#8217;s tenth number one, the others being &#8220;Dance Wiv Me&#8221; (2008), &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Alone&#8221; (2009), &#8220;We Found Love&#8221; (2011), &#8220;Sweet Nothing&#8221; (2012), &#8220;Under Control&#8221; (2013), &#8220;Summer&#8221; (2014), &#8220;Blame&#8221; (2014), &#8220;Feels&#8221; (2017), and &#8220;One Kiss&#8221; (2018). \u00a0It&#8217;s hard to argue with that sort of track record &#8211; yes, two of them are &#8220;featuring&#8221; credits, but they&#8217;re very prominent ones &#8211; and clearly his change of direction a year or so back has paid dividends. \u00a0He joins a very,\u00a0<em>very<\/em> small list of artists with ten or more number one hits &#8211; the others are Take That, Madonna, Cliff Richard, Westlife, the Beatles and Elvis Presley. \u00a0(He had 21, so there&#8217;s still a long way to go&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sam Smith is on a mere seven number ones: &#8220;La La La&#8221; (2013), &#8220;Money on my Mind&#8221; (2014), &#8220;Stay With Me&#8221; (2014), &#8220;Lay Me Down&#8221; (2015), &#8220;Writing&#8217;s On The Wall&#8221; (2015), &#8220;Too Good at Goodbyes&#8221; (2017), and this one. \u00a0Novice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Eminem &#8211; &#8220;The Ringer&#8221;<br \/>\n6. \u00a0Eminem featuring Joyner Lucas &#8211; &#8220;Lucky You&#8221;<br \/>\n9. \u00a0Eminem &#8211; &#8220;Fall&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MfTbHITdhEI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eminem has a surprise new album out, &#8220;Kamikaze&#8221;. \u00a0It enters the album chart at number one, and it duly maxes out its allowance for the singles chart, with all three tracks entering the top ten. \u00a0This is Eminem&#8217;s ninth consecutive number one album, a run stretching back to &#8220;The Marshall Mathers LP&#8221; in 2000 (his 1999 debut only got to number 10). \u00a0And that&#8217;s a new record for consecutive number one albums, breaking his tie with Abba and Led Zeppelin on eight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fall&#8221;, the official single, is one of his technically impressive monotone dirges. \u00a0&#8220;Lucky You&#8221; is an interesting one to find charting since the first half is a guest verse by Joyner Lucas, but it\u00a0<em>is<\/em> on his YouTube channel in audio form, so that might make a difference. \u00a0&#8220;The Ringer&#8221; isn&#8217;t on YouTube at all, though. \u00a0It&#8217;s the opening track on the album, which is bound to help a bit, but rarely seems to be decisive in these things &#8211; it&#8217;s the ones that get singled out for repeat listens that make the chart.<\/p>\n<p>The common theme to all these songs (and the video above) is that Eminem doesn&#8217;t much care for these young rappers, who mumble too much, and while he, Eminem, is his own worst critic, the poor reception of his previous album is very much everyone else&#8217;s fault for not understanding it. \u00a0Welcome to the bitter old man phase of Eminem&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. \u00a0LSD featuring Sia, Diplo &amp; Labrinth &#8211; &#8220;Thunderclouds&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kg1BljLu9YY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LSD are Labrinth, Sia and Diplo, and yes, the official credit really is &#8220;LSD featuring Labrinth, Sia and Diplo&#8221;, presumably so that people will find it more easily. \u00a0This is the third LSD single, but &#8220;Audio&#8221; sank without trace, and &#8220;Genius&#8221; could only make it to number 72. \u00a0Clearly, this is a bit more like it. \u00a0It&#8217;s a weird 60s-throwback thing which is probably closer to Labrinth&#8217;s normal wheelhouse than either of the other two. \u00a0That&#8217;s not Sia in the video, of course &#8211; it&#8217;s her usual video stand-in Maddie Ziegler.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. \u00a0Dean Lewis &#8211; &#8220;Be Alright&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0czvJ_jikg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an Australian number one being promoted internationally. \u00a0It&#8217;s basically an Ed Sheeran-style breakup song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Bazzi featuring Camila Cabello &#8211; &#8220;Beautiful&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-bx_vG94LSo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the follow-up to &#8220;Mine&#8221;, which reached number 21 in March. \u00a0The video above is for the original version, which doesn&#8217;t have any Camila Cabello on it. \u00a0Much like &#8220;Mine&#8221;, it&#8217;s certainly different from the rest of the chart, but in a rather sludgy and syrupy way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. \u00a0AJ Tracey &#8211; &#8220;Lo(v\/s)er&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-gCwVIaOx68\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s a title that probably seemed cleverer before anyone wrote it down. \u00a0This is AJ Tracey&#8217;s second hit, after &#8220;Butterflies&#8221; reached number 19 and hovered there for a couple of months over the summer. \u00a0It&#8217;s, um, vaguely Latin, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Taste&#8221; by Tyga featuring Offset<\/strong> is up 9-8. \u00a0Oh, people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Happier&#8221; by Marshmello featuring Bastille<\/strong> edges 16-15.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Leave Me Alone&#8221; by David Guetta featuring Anne-Marie<\/strong> is up 20-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;High Hopes&#8221; by Panic at the Disco<\/strong> climbs 25-21. \u00a0This has really taken its time &#8211; it&#8217;s been out since June and it entered the top 40 at the end of July &#8211; but it&#8217;s finally getting somewhere. \u00a0With this climb, it overtakes &#8220;I Write Sins Not Tragedies&#8221; and &#8220;But Its Better If You Do&#8221; become their second-highest single. \u00a0(&#8220;Nine in the Afternoon&#8221; is the highest, at 13.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;079Me&#8221; by B Young<\/strong> climbs 24-23.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lost Without You&#8221; by Freya Ridings<\/strong> climbs 36-29.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Panic Room&#8221; by Au\/ra &amp; Camelphat<\/strong> climbs 33-30.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Baby Shark&#8221; by Pinkfong<\/strong> climbs 37-32. \u00a0By the way, the BTS single &#8220;Idol&#8221; drops straight from 21 to 73, so so much for my thinking it might climb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The album chart is\u00a0<em>very<\/em> busy this week, so we&#8217;ll take some of these very quickly. \u00a0As already mentioned,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Kamikaze&#8221; by Eminem<\/strong> enters at number one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Idles &#8211; &#8220;Joy as an Act of Resistance&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CzNOD7ukMA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not sure &#8220;joy&#8221; is the word that that video brings to mind, but it&#8217;s a great (post-)punk track for all that. \u00a0This is Idles&#8217; second album, but the first to chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u00a0Passenger &#8211; &#8220;Runaway&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uZTlVv-9iIg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Passenger&#8217;s one-hit wonder status on the singles chart (&#8220;Let Her Go&#8221;, which spent thirty weeks in the top 40 and peaked at number 2) is tempered by his consistent run of top ten albums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0The Kooks &#8211; &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Sunshine&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ks1JUIwBV9Q\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their first top ten album since 2011, though they&#8217;ve never fallen short of the top 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0Troye Sivan &#8211; &#8220;Bloom&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officially his second studio album after &#8220;Blue Neighbourhood&#8221;, but in fact it was his EP &#8220;Wild&#8221; that gave him a top 10 album in 2015. \u00a0The single &#8220;My My My&#8221; reached number 38 in January. \u00a0Come on, surely you remember it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. \u00a0Collabro &#8211; &#8220;Road to the Royal Albert Hall&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dcgbnaSKNic\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the musical theatre boy band-ish group who won\u00a0<em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> a while back. \u00a0So middle of the road it&#8217;s practically a traffic island. \u00a0 The album title is unusual &#8211; it&#8217;s to tie in with the name of their live tour, which probably tells you where the real money is in this exercise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. \u00a0Anna Calvi &#8211; &#8220;Hunter&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJ-CtToFsWM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her third album to chart, and easily the highest. \u00a0She was nominated for the Mercury in 2013. \u00a0The video above is probably the best thing in this week&#8217;s post (though Idles is worth a click too).<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. \u00a0Emma Blackery &#8211; &#8220;Villains&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tvEkIOSx3qs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a YouTuber with 1.4 million subscribers, but in theory at least, that&#8217;s always been ancillary to her music career (and the track above is actually pretty decent). \u00a0This is her first album to chart.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0Why Don&#8217;t We &#8211; &#8220;8 Letters&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C3DlM19x4RQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;here&#8217;s a YouTube-spawned boy band associated with Logan Paul. \u00a0It&#8217;s polished and surprisingly dull.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. \u00a0Alexis Ffrench &#8211; &#8220;Evolution&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVvRwXsCAoM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a pianist and composer signed to Sony Classical, and this is his first appearance in the album chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Pineapple Thief &#8211; 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