{"id":4485,"date":"2019-02-02T19:24:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2019-02-02T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:24:45","slug":"charts-1-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4485","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 1 February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re settling back into the normal routine here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;7 Rings&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s two weeks, and it&#8217;s still doing over ten million streams. \u00a0I still don&#8217;t think much of it. \u00a0So let&#8217;s move on. \u00a0The rest of the top three is static &#8211; below that,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Giant&#8221; by Calvin Harris &amp; Rag&#8217;n&#8217;Bone Man<\/strong> climbs 5-4, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Call Me Up&#8221; by Mabel<\/strong> moves 11-7. \u00a0That overtakes &#8220;Finders Keepers&#8221; to be her biggest hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0J Cole &#8211; &#8220;Middle Child&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e8CLsYzE5wk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is the first time J Cole has made the top 10 &#8211; his previous best was &#8220;KOD&#8221;, which reached number 17 last year. \u00a0It was also something of an old-style fanbase record, which vanished from the charts almost instantly, so we&#8217;ll see how this does. \u00a0The idea here is that he sees himself somewhere between the two major generations of rap, hence &#8220;middle child&#8221;. \u00a0The sample is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lKtw_kLomEg&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Wake Up To Me&#8221;<\/a>, an album track by the seventies girl group First Choice. \u00a0They had two hits in the UK in 1973 &#8211; &#8220;Smarty Pants&#8221; (9) and the wonderfully titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EIvTSvZoG8s&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Armed And Extremely Dangerous&#8221;<\/a> (17).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221; by Lewis Capaldi<\/strong> climbs 13-10 to give him his first top ten hit. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Options&#8221; by NSG featuring Tion Wayne<\/strong> edges up to 11, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Going Bad&#8221; by Meek Mill featuring Drake<\/strong> moves 18-15, finally beating the number 17 peak of its entry week back in December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;Swan Song&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kO8fTk6oKQg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the soundtrack of\u00a0<em>Alita: Battle Angel<\/em>, hence what would otherwise be a prohibitively expensive video (complete with uncanny-valley Alita). \u00a0Judged purely as a song, I like this; it&#8217;s a bit overly serious, but clatters along nicely enough to get away with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Leave Me Alone&#8221; by Flipp Dinero<\/strong> climbs 37-30, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Saturday Nights&#8221; by Khalid<\/strong> climbs 34-31.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. \u00a0Yungen featuring Dappy &#8211; &#8220;Comfortable&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yn_jrwyZPrs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might remember Yungen reaching number 10 in 2017 with &#8220;Bestie&#8221;. \u00a0His only other appearance on the singles chart was on a Steel Banglez single later that year, but he was one of five credited artists on that, so who remembers? \u00a0More surprisingly, Dappy from N-Dubz extends his chart career into another year &#8211; his commercial glory days are long, long behind him by this point, but he did get a record to number 23 last year, and here he comes again. \u00a0The pairing makes sense for the song: it&#8217;s Yungen doing the usual &#8220;I came from nothing and now I am successful and everyone wants a piece&#8221; song, but with Dappy chipping in to remind him that it isn&#8217;t going to last.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. \u00a0Little Mix featuring Ty Dolla $ign &#8211; &#8220;Think About Us&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QP2i38LiA1g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A second single from the Little Mix album that came out back in November, with the obligatory guest rapper. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit of a mess, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. \u00a0A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie featuring 6ix9ine &#8211; &#8220;Swervin&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-rxFHRTrJc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is his first appearance on the singles chart, but we had him on the album chart last Christmas when &#8220;Hoodie SZN&#8221; reached number 23. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure why this track from the album is suddenly making the singles chart now &#8211; it&#8217;s the same mix as the album. \u00a0If you wanted an example of just how one-dimensional 6ix9ine is, his shouting is spectacularly out of place on this track.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0Kehlani featuring Ty Dolla $ign &#8211; &#8220;Nights Like This&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I99qCuWx1mI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ty Dolla $ign has never had a hit single in the UK under his own power, but he&#8217;s cropped up as a guest start four years running &#8211; and now twice in a single week. \u00a0Meanwhile, <em>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> alumnus Kehlani Parrish (she was in a band called PopLyfe) gets her first hit single as lead artist; her only previous chart appearance was nearly two years ago, when she appeared on a Stormzy single that scraped the top 30. \u00a0The song&#8217;s okay, the sci-fi video is actually pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart&#8230;\u00a0that bloody soundtrack album is not number one for once!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Bring Me The Horizon &#8211; &#8220;AMO&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MocF43ncu8I\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bring Me The Horizon are an English rock band who&#8217;ve been releasing albums since 2006 but didn&#8217;t make the album top 40 until 2010. \u00a0Their last two albums made 3 and 2 respectively, so it&#8217;s been a long slow grind to get here. \u00a0The single above has been playlisted by Radio 1, but it still only got to number 42.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Rudimental &#8211; &#8220;Toast To Our Differences&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their first album not to reach number 1, but hey, it&#8217;s still top five. \u00a0The singles included last year&#8217;s number one &#8220;These Days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0The Backstreet Boys &#8211; &#8220;DNA&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6SuMbFuKDf8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Westlife that can reform &#8211; American boy bands can do it too! \u00a0Although it turns out that technically they&#8217;ve never actually broken up since reforming after their hiatus in 2004 &#8211; they&#8217;ve just taken an inordinately long time to follow up 2013&#8217;s &#8220;In A World Like This&#8221;. \u00a0This is the Backstreet Boys&#8217; fourth top ten album &#8211; the others are &#8220;Backstreet&#8217;s Back&#8221; and &#8220;Millennium&#8221; from their late nineties peak, and their 2001 greatest hits album. \u00a0The song above, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Go Breaking My Heart&#8221;, is nothing to do with the Elton John and Kiki Dee track, but it&#8217;s actually a lot better than I was expecting. \u00a0The lead credited songwriter is Stuart Crichton, who used to make dance records in the early\u00a02000s under the anagram Narcotic Thrust (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=deYgQcAGjZU&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this was his big hit<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. \u00a0Trevor Horn featuring the Sarm Orchestra &#8211; &#8220;Reimagines the Eighties&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCOs75JHlIU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Self-explanatory, really, though the list of guest stars is curious &#8211; Robbie Williams, Seal, All Saints, Matt Cardle&#8230;? \u00a0I can&#8217;t say the track above makes me want to hear the rest of the album. \u00a0This is the first time Trevor Horn has received an individual artist credit on the singles or albums chart, since producers didn&#8217;t get artist credits in his day. \u00a0Of course, he was also a member of the Buggles, best remembered for their 1979 number 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Video Killed The Radio Star&#8221;<\/a> (though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S3Ecs07in7U&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they had other hits too<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. \u00a0Rival Sons &#8211; &#8220;Feral Roots&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vx60Fsu-w9M\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re a Californian rock band and this is their highest placed album so far &#8211; marginally, since the previous two got to 14 and 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Steve Hackett &#8211; &#8220;At The Edge Of Light&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pApZ15HM10E\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Formerly of Genesis, Steve Hackett has a string of solo albums going back to 1975. \u00a0Prog lives. \u00a0The video above is&#8230; erm&#8230; well, it&#8217;s certainly <em>something<\/em>. \u00a0Boy, is it something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And finally,<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. \u00a0Mabel &#8211; &#8220;Ivy to Roses&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had the single already. \u00a0What&#8217;s interesting here is that &#8220;Ivy to Roses&#8221; came out in October, missed the top 40 entirely, and now finally crawls into the lower reaches. \u00a0Albums don&#8217;t normally behave like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re settling back into the normal routine here. 1. \u00a0Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; That&#8217;s two weeks, and it&#8217;s still doing over ten million streams. \u00a0I still don&#8217;t think much of it. \u00a0So let&#8217;s move on. \u00a0The rest of the top three is static &#8211; below that,\u00a0&#8220;Giant&#8221; by Calvin Harris &amp; Rag&#8217;n&#8217;Bone Man climbs 5-4, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}