{"id":4471,"date":"2019-01-20T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T21:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2019-01-20T21:44:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T21:44:54","slug":"charts-18-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 18 January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singles chart is getting back into the swing of things. \u00a0The album chart&#8230; very much isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WXBHCQYxwr0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1. \u00a0Ava Max &#8211; &#8220;Sweet But Psycho&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s four weeks at number one, but at least some other records are marching on her. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Nothing Breaks Like a Heart&#8221; by Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus<\/strong> climbs 3-2, which is Miley&#8217;s highest position since 2014 (when she was one of a ton of guests on will.i.am&#8217;s &#8220;Feelin&#8217; Myself&#8221;). \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Wow.&#8221; by Post Malone<\/strong> climbs 4-3, equalling the peak of his previous single &#8220;Sunflowers&#8221;, which in turn is still hanging around at 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Sam Smith &amp; Normani &#8211; &#8220;Dancing with a Stranger&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brmW88EO_cI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Mmm, smooth. \u00a0The sort of smooth I struggle to pay attention to. \u00a0Smooth like a recently resurfaced car park. \u00a0Smooth. \u00a0It&#8217;s better on headphones, to be fair.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Smith needs no introduction. \u00a0Normani Hamilton gets her second solo chart credit &#8211; the first one was on Khalid&#8217;s &#8220;Love Lies&#8221;, which reached number 12 last year. \u00a0(By an odd coincidence, we&#8217;ll be seeing Khalid again later on.) \u00a0She&#8217;s a former member of Fifth Harmony, who had a couple of top five hits in 2015-6. \u00a0So it&#8217;s been a while since she was this far up the chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Calvin Harris &amp; Rag&#8217;n&#8217;Bone Man &#8211; &#8220;Giant&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9Im71aNhYA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a name I&#8217;d almost forgotten about. \u00a0Rag&#8217;n&#8217;Bone Man&#8217;s 2016 hit &#8220;Human&#8221; was excellent and reached number 2; the follow-up reached number 13 in spring 2017; and we haven&#8217;t heard from him since. \u00a0He&#8217;s got the sort of big soulful voice that can round out a Calvin Harris production, and this is pretty good &#8211; though I&#8217;m still not sure what I make of that artificial-sounding brass riff.<\/p>\n<p>Number 8 is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Play&#8221; by Jax Jones and Year &amp; Years<\/strong>, climbing from 11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Gesaffelstein featuring The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Lost in the Fire&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZGDGdRIxvd0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, now\u00a0<em>this<\/em> is quite good. \u00a0Musically, at any rate &#8211; lyrically, verse 2 is distinctly questionable. \u00a0Gesaffelstein is a French producer getting his first chart credit, though he had a hand in Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;Black Skinhead&#8221;, a minor hit in 2013. \u00a0Supposedly\u00a0the name &#8220;Gesaffeltstein&#8221; is a combination of &#8220;Einstein&#8221; and &#8220;Gesamtkunstwerk&#8221;, though that doesn&#8217;t really explain where the &#8220;affel&#8221; bit comes from. \u00a0A &#8220;Gesamtkunstwerk&#8221; is literally a &#8220;total work of art&#8221;, but the connotations are more along the lines of &#8220;multimedia artwork&#8221;. \u00a0This is the second single from his\u00a0<em>second<\/em> album &#8211; the first single was the instrumental\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_3YPik6HTpw&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Reset&#8221;<\/a>, which didn&#8217;t chart but is also worth a look. \u00a0&#8220;Lost in the Fire&#8221; is a rather more commercial proposition, but it&#8217;s also the first time we&#8217;ve seen The Weeknd in nearly a year, which probably goes a long way to account for its presence in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. \u00a0Westlife &#8211; &#8220;Hello My Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/753Gl2VlPF8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The skies will rain blood, the oceans will boil, and Westlife will have hits again. \u00a0Ireland&#8217;s uber-bland boy band dominated the charts at the turn of the century, and they&#8217;re back for a 20th anniversary reunion. \u00a0They&#8217;re also putting out some new material which, mercifully, doesn&#8217;t sound much like Westlife. \u00a0Instead, it sounds more like Ed Sheeran, which isn&#8217;t surprising, because he wrote it. \u00a0In fact, underneath the arrangement, the chorus is not a million miles distant from &#8220;Castle on the Hill&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s a better single than you might expect, but it&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re short of people doing acceptable takes on Ed Sheeran&#8217;s acceptable cast-offs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Options&#8221; by NSG featuring Tion Wayne<\/strong> climbs 25-14, which makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0Catfish &amp; The Bottlemen &#8211; &#8220;Longshot&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XUd2S8a2ChQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Huh, indie rock. \u00a0We don&#8217;t get much of that in these parts. \u00a0It&#8217;s not bad, either, though the video is very much one of those ideas that probably seemed better on paper and winds up being mainly a showcase for the drone pilot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Lewis Capaldi &#8211; &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moHc1eRVshU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So this is a little unusual. \u00a0Capaldi made his top 40 debut last week when &#8220;Grace&#8221; unexpectedly appeared &#8211; unexpectedly because apparently it&#8217;s actually the previous single and this is the one that&#8217;s meant to be the main focus of promotion at the moment. \u00a0This week things are back on script, as &#8220;Grace&#8221; drops out of the top 40 and this takes its place. \u00a0The studio version is actually a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xrcMgO2fgpA&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piano and strings arrangement<\/a>, but I prefer the guitar version above (which is the only proper video for the song, anyway).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Gun Lean&#8221; by Russ<\/strong> rebounds from 39 to a new peak of 34.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Flipp Dinero &#8211; &#8220;Leave Me Alone&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9L-pHRITk0g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s his first hit single. \u00a0He&#8217;s a New York rapper without much in the way of mainstream input until this became his breakout hit in America last year; there&#8217;s been some minor international spillover, of which this is part.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. \u00a0Khalid &#8211; &#8220;Saturday Nights&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/esh8mNoPxGE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, we&#8217;ve got this Khalid track, scheduled as a (somewhat belated) second single from his album &#8220;Suncity&#8221;, which came out back in October. \u00a0It&#8217;s not officially a single till the end of the month, so it&#8217;s off to a promising start.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart, literally nothing is happening, because still nobody is releasing any albums. \u00a0Predictably,\u00a0<strong>The\u00a0<em>Greatest Showman<\/em> Soundtrack<\/strong> is still number 1, for a 27th (non-consecutive) week in total. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t exactly unheard of \u00a0&#8211; Adele&#8217;s &#8220;21&#8221; managed a total of 23 weeks, Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Divide&#8221;, 20.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s still the highest number of the modern era and the seventh-highest ever. \u00a0One more week, and it&#8217;ll be joint sixth with &#8220;Sgt Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band&#8221;. \u00a0After that, &#8220;Please Please Me&#8221; 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