{"id":4512,"date":"2019-03-04T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2019-03-04T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:38:30","slug":"charts-1-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4512","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 1 March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a podcast one post down if that&#8217;s more your thing! \u00a0But meanwhile&#8230; here&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t see coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Lewis Capaldi &#8211; &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCuhuePlP8o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The midweeks had it as a toss-up between Ariana Grande and Calvin Harris. \u00a0And while Lewis Capaldi only made his top 40 debut this year, &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221; has been available since last November. Clearly the recently-released video helps &#8211; it has an actual star attached, after all &#8211; but the song has still taken seven weeks to climb through the top 40 to get here. \u00a0Whatever Capaldi might say in interviews, he doesn&#8217;t technically join the one-hit wonder list here; his previous single &#8220;Grace&#8221; is also seeing a second wind, and reaches a new peak of 24 this week.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Giant&#8221; by Calvin Harris &amp; Rag&#8217;N&#8217;Bone Man<\/strong> climbs 4-2, matching the peak of &#8220;Human&#8221; in 2016 to become Rag&#8217;N&#8217;Bone Man&#8217;s joint biggest hit. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Options&#8221; by NSG featuring Tion Wayne<\/strong> climbs 9-7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. \u00a0Pink &#8211; &#8220;Walk Me Home&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQMBlFSu2QU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from her next album, but she got to promote it on primetime TV after getting an Outstanding Contribution award from the Brits. \u00a0Her greatest hits album also re-enters at 18.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s maybe not the first name that springs to mind for that sort of award, but she&#8217;s been having hits for 19 years now, and this is her twentieth appearance in the top 10. \u00a0And this isn&#8217;t some sort of outlier &#8211; the previous one was &#8220;What About Us&#8221;, which spent two months in the top ten in 2017. \u00a0We&#8217;re in the fashionable &#8220;epic country&#8221; territory here, but those vocodered backing vocals are an interesting touch. \u00a0There are a few other tracks seeing delayed climbs on the back of a bit of Brits-related promotion this week, by the way, but I&#8217;m not going to bother singling them all out, since most of them are just getting a bounce on their way out of the chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Just You &amp; I&#8221; by Tom Walker<\/strong> climbs 19-10, giving him a second top ten hit. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Talk&#8221; by Khalid &amp; Disclosure<\/strong> climbs 20-13. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Thotiana&#8221; by Blueface<\/strong> climbs 23-15, and seems to be behaving like more than a novelty record. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m So Tired&#8221; by Lauv &amp; Troye Sivan<\/strong> climbs 22-17. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Think About Us&#8221; by Little MIx featuring Ty Dolla $ign<\/strong> edges up to a new peak of 23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hqDinxaPUK4&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>31. \u00a0YNW Melly &#8211; &#8220;Murder On My Mind&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first hit single for rapper YNW Melly &#8211; the &#8220;YNW&#8221; stands for &#8220;Young N&#8212;- World&#8221;, and other members have also used the YNW initial in their names. \u00a0He has an official single out at the moment &#8211; &#8220;Gang (First Day Out)&#8221; &#8211; but this isn&#8217;t it. \u00a0&#8220;Murder On My Mind&#8221; has been out for months, yet only entered the top 100 last week. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Well, YNW Melly has been arrested on charges of murdering two other YNW members. \u00a0He denies the allegations, and his account is that his friends were killed in a drive-by shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Murder on my Mind&#8221; is not just a song about a fatal shooting, it&#8217;s a story about accidentally killing a friend (&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even mean to shoot him, he just caught me by surprise&#8221;). \u00a0Which makes it deeply uncomfortable listening in the circumstances. \u00a0Despite what some people persist in thinking, it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>not<\/em> a response to the shooting &#8211; it can&#8217;t be, it came first. \u00a0But there&#8217;s no getting away from the reasons why it&#8217;s in the top 40, which is why I haven&#8217;t embedded it. \u00a0Plus, while the video isn&#8217;t especially graphic, it feels deeply insensitive in the circumstances. \u00a0I&#8217;ve linked to the song above if you want to hear it; in fact, judged purely as a song, it&#8217;s decent enough. \u00a0It was well received when it came out, and considered something of a break-out. \u00a0But it&#8217;s all rather troubling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0Dave &#8211; &#8220;Black&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pDUPSNdmFew\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from Dave&#8217;s next album, so it&#8217;s a little surprising to see it limp in at number 40 after his previous (non-album) single &#8220;Freaky Friday&#8221; entered at 1. \u00a0Granted, we&#8217;re in more political territory here, and it&#8217;s not intended to be such a radio-friendly crowd-pleaser, but&#8230; number 40? \u00a0Really?<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Thank U Next&#8221; by Ariana Grande<\/strong> is number 1 for a third week, heading a static top five. \u00a0And five new entries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u00a0Giggs &#8211; &#8220;Big Bad&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/buYd3uzRt_o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His fifth album, and the third in a row to reach the top 10. \u00a0(The last two got to number 2, though, so there&#8217;s a slight falling off.) \u00a0The video above has a weirdly elaborate lead-in compared to what follows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Sleaford Mods &#8211; &#8220;Eton Alive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5uN3n-NjLHc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Electronic punk. \u00a0It&#8217;s their third album to chart since they crossed over to the (relative) mainstream in 2015. \u00a0It&#8217;s number one on the vinyl chart!<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. \u00a0Dream Theater &#8211; &#8220;Distance Over Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C7m7l8iqGAk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re a prog metal band who&#8217;ve been around since the mid 80s and started registering on the album chart about a decade ago. \u00a0This falls one place short of matching their previous album (2016&#8217;s &#8220;The Astonishing&#8221;) for their highest ever position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. \u00a0Offset &#8211; &#8220;Father of 4&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWh-TmG_h7g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The bloke out of Migos. \u00a0This is his debut solo album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. \u00a0Gunna &#8211; &#8220;Drip or Drown 2&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NhSyqwHTUOw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Officially this is his first album, though his collaboration with Lil Baby, &#8220;Drip Harder&#8221;, reached number 12 last year, and there are a string of &#8220;mixtapes&#8221; on top of that (&#8220;Drip Season&#8221; 1, 2 and 3). \u00a0None of those are &#8220;Drip or Drown 1&#8221;, which was an EP from the tail end of 2017. \u00a0He likes the word &#8220;drip&#8221;\u00a0<em>a lot<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a podcast one post down if that&#8217;s more your thing! \u00a0But meanwhile&#8230; here&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t see coming. 1. \u00a0Lewis Capaldi &#8211; &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221; The midweeks had it as a toss-up between Ariana Grande and Calvin Harris. \u00a0And while Lewis Capaldi only made his top 40 debut this year, &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221; [&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-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","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=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}