{"id":4565,"date":"2019-05-03T22:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2019-05-03T22:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T21:37:54","slug":"charts-3-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 3 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is a pleasingly eclectic week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Vossi Bop&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ClYy0MxsU0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s slightly unexpected. \u00a0Stormzy is a big name &#8211; his 2017 album &#8220;Gang Signs &amp; Prayer&#8221; got a week at number one. \u00a0But his previous peak in the singles chart is number 6, and on top of that, Taylor Swift has a new single out this week. \u00a0(Though as we&#8217;ll see, it wouldn&#8217;t have made number one anyway.) \u00a0&#8220;Vossi Bop&#8221; has 12.7 million streams in its first week, though, so it&#8217;s a big hit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A couple of guest appearances aside, this is the first thing he&#8217;s released since &#8220;Gang Signs&#8221;, and it&#8217;s very good indeed &#8211; the video is excellent. \u00a0The Vossi bop is apparently one of these viral dance things that the young folk enjoy &#8211; a pre-existing one &#8211; and despite what some people seem to have thought, the chorus lyric is &#8220;dab&#8221;, not &#8220;die&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; by Lil Nas X drops to 2 after a two week run, and so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Taylor Swift featuring Brendon Urie &#8211; &#8220;Me!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FuXNumBwDOM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from Swift&#8217;s seventh album, featuring the bloke from Panic! At The Disco, who is evidently back in favour after the unexpected comeback hit &#8220;High Hopes&#8221; (the echoes of which are distinctly noticeable here). \u00a0The video may well be the most garish and elaborate I&#8217;ve posted in years that didn&#8217;t come from South Korea, not that that&#8217;s a bad thing. \u00a0Despite her A-list status, number three is actually rather good for Taylor Swift &#8211; she&#8217;s only had one number one hit in the UK, and inexplicably it&#8217;s 2017&#8217;s underwhelming &#8220;Look What You Made Me Do&#8221;. \u00a0Mind you, she\u00a0<em>has<\/em> had three number 2s, three number 4s and a number 5 &#8211; so hey, she&#8217;s completed the set by getting a number 3.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing else of note in the top 10. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;All Day And Night&#8221; by Jax Jones &amp; Martin Solveig featuring Madison Beer<\/strong> climbs 14-12. \u00a0And here&#8217;s a real oddity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. \u00a0The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds &#8211; &#8220;Let Nature Sing&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ge-cYtK8QwI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is literally two and a half minutes of bird song. \u00a0It&#8217;s a campaign download track to raise awareness of biodiversity loss, and (for what it&#8217;s worth in 2019, which isn&#8217;t much) would have been number one on a pure sales chart. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0assembled from various recordings, and it carries a composer credit as a result, but it would be stretching a point to say this was music in the normal sense of the term. \u00a0Still, nothing in the chart rules says anything about a single having to comprise music; and back in 2010, the Royal British Legion reached number 20 with &#8220;2 Minute Silence&#8221;, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polyhex.me.uk\/uksingles\/chartruns-uksingles.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">literally just the soundtrack to this video<\/a>\u00a0(not technically two minutes of silence, but two minutes of ambient noise).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;No Diet&#8221; by Digga D<\/strong> climbs 27-20 in its second week, while\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Earth&#8221; by Lil Dicky<\/strong> climbs 24-21, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;What I Like About You&#8221; by Jonas Blue featuring Theresa Rex<\/strong> &#8211; which vaulted twenty places to enter the chart last week &#8211; manages only a 23-22 climb in week two. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Carry On&#8221; by Kygo &amp; Rita Ora<\/strong> climbs 39-30. \u00a0And it seems worth noting in passing that\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Swervin&#8221; by A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie featuring 6ix9ine<\/strong>, which sits at 31 this week, has now been hovering between 38 and 27 for fourteen straight weeks &#8211; a remarkable amount of time to remain stuck in that range without getting higher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. \u00a0Zara Larsson &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry Bout Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOUgsAmD51s\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No, there&#8217;s no apostrophe before &#8220;Bout&#8221;, and yes, that does annoy me. \u00a0This is the second single from her upcoming album, and the follow-up to &#8220;Ruin My Life&#8221;, which reached the top ten. \u00a0It&#8217;s okay, I guess? \u00a0&#8220;Ruin My Life&#8221; grew on me after a while, so maybe this will too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Ellie Goulding &#8211; &#8220;Sixteen&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oXwiVsWJqRs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When the assumed audience for your pop songs is looking back nostalgically at the age of sixteen, it&#8217;s usually time to brace yourself for the transition to Radio 2. \u00a0But Ellie Goulding, a decade into her career, still makes the top 20 reasonably often, and this track is climbing from the lower reaches, so it could yet go further.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Pink &#8211; &#8220;Hurts 2B Human&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her eighth studio album in a chart career stretching back to 2000, and her third number 1 (after 2008&#8217;s &#8220;Funhouse&#8221; and 2017&#8217;s &#8220;Beautiful Trauma&#8221;. \u00a0The single &#8220;Walk Me Home&#8221; reached number 8 in March, and is still hanging in the top 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0Catfish &amp; The Bottlemen &#8211; &#8220;The Balance&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their third album just misses out on repeating the number 1 place for 2016&#8217;s &#8220;The Ride&#8221;. \u00a0Very unusually for the modern album chart, this album produced a hit single too: &#8220;Longshot&#8221;, which managed a single week at number 25 in January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Marina &#8211; &#8220;Love +<\/strong> <strong>Fear&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GiOGlYjKgX8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Marina Diamandis, formerly Marina &amp; The Diamonds. \u00a0It&#8217;s not a split &#8211; there weren&#8217;t any other Diamonds. \u00a0She&#8217;s just dropped the extended name. \u00a0No hit singles from this album, though she did recently appear on a Clean Bandit singles. \u00a0Not sure why &#8220;Handmade Heaven&#8221; didn&#8217;t chart, since it&#8217;s quite good &#8211; though the video reminds me rather of a Scottish Widows advert re-done in red.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Kiefer Sutherland &#8211; &#8220;Reckless &amp; Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncwoWxFMwgY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Kiefer Sutherland&#8217;s second album of country music, but 2016&#8217;s &#8220;Down in a Hole&#8221; passed the British charts by. \u00a0If I was going to make the video above, I might at least have chosen a track that didn&#8217;t feature prominent backing singers and a piano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0The Cranberries &#8211; &#8220;In The End&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h1lMxX8doSU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a final album by the Cranberries, completed by the other members of the band using demo vocals recorded by Dolores O&#8217;Riordan before her death last year. \u00a0The reviews have been positive, and the consensus seems to be that this is a respectable way for the group to end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. \u00a0Bear&#8217;s Den &#8211; &#8220;So That You Might Hear Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xLmTgWeu5oU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bear&#8217;s Den are a folk rock outfit from London, and this is their third studio album; the last one reached number 6 in 2016. \u00a0They have nothing to do with the middle class Glasgow suburb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0Peter Doherty &amp; The Puta Madres &#8211; &#8220;Peter Doherty &amp; The Puta Madres&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-aktHQjzkg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the new band from the Libertines and Babyshambles singer, though it&#8217;s a development of the band that was backing him already in his solo tours. \u00a0Despite what you might expect from the band name, the actual song above is a rather lovely acoustic ballad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. \u00a0Schoolboy Q &#8211; &#8220;Crash Talk&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_qAwMHhkwQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, now I like the production on that. \u00a0Anyway&#8230; it&#8217;s Schoolboy Q&#8217;s third appearance on the album chart. \u00a0His only singles chart appearance came in 2014 when he guested on a Macklemore track.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. \u00a0Aldous Harding &#8211; &#8220;Designer&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QyZeJr5ppm8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s the album chart debut (on her third album) of New Zealander Aldous Harding. \u00a0The video is genuinely bizarre, so job done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is a pleasingly eclectic week. 1. \u00a0Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Vossi Bop&#8221; 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