{"id":4582,"date":"2019-05-19T21:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2019-05-19T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:17:33","slug":"charts-17-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4582","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 17 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was bound to be back sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &amp; Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y83x7MgzWOA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the first new Ed Sheeran single in two years &#8211; unless you count his guest appearance on Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;River&#8221;, and even that came out right at the end of 2017. \u00a0Yes, new songs written by Ed Sheeran seem to chart all the time; he&#8217;s approaching Barbara Cartland levels of prolificity. \u00a0But this is a\u00a0<em>proper<\/em> Ed Sheeran single, so it&#8217;s an entirely predictable number one (his sixth in total). \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>quite<\/em> have the highest sales\/streaming figure of the year &#8211; that&#8217;s still Ariana Grande &#8211; but it&#8217;s close. \u00a0The song is&#8230; pretty routine and on brand: Sheeran is an ordinary bloke who feels out of place in the celebrity world and his girl makes him feel okay about that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is not a song which calls for a guest verse from Justin Bieber, then, but it&#8217;s got one anyway. \u00a0Bieber&#8217;s current standing in pop is tricky to judge, since he hasn&#8217;t released an album since 2015. \u00a0Consequently, that&#8217;s also when he last had a number one as the lead artist. \u00a0But he did have number ones in 2016 and 2017, as a guest on Major Lazer and DJ Khaled singles, plus the English-language remix of &#8220;Despocito&#8221;. \u00a0This number one &#8211; his seventh &#8211; obviously bodes well for the upcoming fifth album. \u00a0Then again, it\u00a0<em>is<\/em> Ed Sheeran, who would have been number one anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing of note happening in the rest of the top 10. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;All Day and Night&#8221; by Jax Jones &amp; Martin Solveig featuring Madison Beer<\/strong> reaches a new peak of 11 (but it&#8217;s been hovering in this area for a month now). <strong>&#8220;What I Like About You&#8221; by Jonas Blue featuring Theresa Rex<\/strong> reaches a new peak of 19, in similar circumstances &#8211; it&#8217;s taken it three weeks to climb to there from 23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. \u00a0Skepta &amp; Nafe Smallz &#8211; &#8220;Greaze Mode&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-9dxYcH7sg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is one of two lead singles from the upcoming fifth Skepta album &#8220;Ignorance is Bliss&#8221;. \u00a0The other one, &#8220;Bullet from a Gun&#8221;, just misses the top 40, to land at 42.<\/p>\n<p>Skepta is not a consistent presence on the singles chart. \u00a0His last appearance in the top 40 was as a guest on A$AP Rocky&#8217;s &#8220;Praise The Lord (Da Shine)&#8221; last year; as a lead artist, he&#8217;s yet to get above number 14 (with &#8220;Rescue Me&#8221; in 2010). \u00a0Nafe Smallz is another UK rapper, from the &#8220;melodic and heavy treated&#8221; school of vocals; he\u00a0<em>has<\/em> had a hit before, barely, when he was one of several guests on &#8220;Broken Homes&#8221; by the Plug, a track which managed a week at number 38 last year. \u00a0&#8220;Greaze Mode&#8221; is&#8230; okay? \u00a0It&#8217;s a decent production but lyrically it&#8217;s on autopilot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sixteen&#8221; by Ellie Goulding<\/strong> climbs 31-25, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Carry On&#8221; by Kygo &amp; Rita Ora<\/strong> climbs 30-27.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. \u00a0James Arthur &#8211; &#8220;Falling Like The Stars&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IQ7N7xRsRPo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 2012\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> winner is still going, and kicks off his 2019 chart career with a rather generic (though well delivered) ballad of love and family commitment. \u00a0The arrangement is, shall we say, firmly unchallenging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. \u00a0DaBeatfreakz x Deno x Swarmz x Dappy &#8211; &#8220;Motorola&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d3omSYgWlkk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DaBeatfreakz are producers, and not to be confused with the producers of (nearly) the same name who had a couple of top ten hits in 2006. \u00a0The others are (mildly) familiar names. \u00a0Deno is the same person as Deno Driz, who guested on Cadet&#8217;s number 14 single &#8220;Advice&#8221; last year. \u00a0Swarmz had a number 32 hit earlier this year with &#8220;Bally&#8221;. \u00a0And yes, that&#8217;s Dappy from N-Dubz, still racking up chart appearances 12 years after his debut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. \u00a0Mark Ronson featuring Lykke Li &#8211; &#8220;Late Night Feelings&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OpNJTr7q1LM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to &#8220;Nothing Breaks Like a Heart&#8221; has been out for five weeks and finally scrapes into the top 40 at number 39, which&#8230; doesn&#8217;t bode well, does it? \u00a0As usual with Ronson, it&#8217;s a classy retro piece and probably deserves better than this &#8211; the slow down in the bridge is really well done. \u00a0Of course, this time he hasn&#8217;t gone for such a big name collaborator as Miley Cyrus. \u00a0Lykke Li is a Swedish songwriter, initially in the circle of Peter Bjorn &amp; John, who&#8217;s been active since 2007. \u00a0She&#8217;s had consistent success in Sweden, but in Britain she&#8217;s only placed a couple of albums on the outskirts of the top 40. \u00a0Internationally, she&#8217;s probably best known for her excellent 2011 single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vZYbEL06lEU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;I Follow Rivers&#8221;<\/a>, which was a top five hit around Europe&#8230; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3FXMsoTTcog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only in a heavy handed remixed version<\/a>, and even that did absolutely nothing in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart,\u00a0<strong>Pink&#8217;s &#8220;Hurt 2B Human&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>is still number 1, and there&#8217;s remarkably little of note going on in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Whitesnake &#8211; &#8220;Flesh &amp; Blood&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hKMwGzOmtsE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whitesnake&#8217;s thirteenth album, and the highest placing (by quite some way) since 2008. \u00a0As well as the single above, songs include &#8220;Hey You (You Make Me Rock)&#8221;, &#8220;Trouble Is Your Middle Name&#8221; and &#8220;Get Up&#8221;, so you get the idea. \u00a0\u00a0They had consistent top ten albums back in the eighties, and boy, the video above suggests that they&#8217;d really like to go back to those happy days. \u00a0It mainly features girls being sultry adjacent to a car. \u00a0David Coverdale is 67.<\/p>\n<p>Number 12 is\u00a0<strong>Logic&#8217;s &#8220;Confessions of a Dangerous Mind&#8221;<\/strong>. \u00a0The single &#8220;Homicide&#8221; reached 15 last week (and now drops to 26). \u00a0This is his highest placing album, but only just; last year&#8217;s &#8220;Bobby Tarantino II&#8221; made 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. \u00a0Mac DeMarco &#8211; &#8220;Here Comes The Cowboy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HS2Ahm2EpL0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a Canadian songwriter. \u00a0This is his sixth album in total, and the third to chart in the UK (all of which placed between 21 and 24, so he&#8217;s consistent if nothing else). \u00a0The title track above wasn&#8217;t actually released as a single, for reasons which will be entirely obvious if you play it, but the video is striking. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SD7BCqc1Juw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The actual single&#8217;s<\/a> quite good as well &#8211; I should give this a listen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0The Brotherhood of Man &#8211; &#8220;Gold&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_0fC_HL2NL8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, we&#8217;ve got this 3 CD compilation, boldly described on the cover as featuring &#8220;60 hit songs&#8221;, despite the minor technicality that only eight of them made the top 40. \u00a0Presumably this is timed to coincide with Eurovision, which they won in 1976 with &#8220;Save Your Kisses For Me&#8221;, back in the days when the British adopted the radical approach of entering songs that they actually liked. \u00a0They also had two other number ones: &#8220;Angelo&#8221; in 1977 and &#8220;Figaro&#8221; in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was bound to be back sooner or later. 1. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &amp; Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221; This is the first new Ed Sheeran single in two years &#8211; unless you count his guest appearance on Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;River&#8221;, and even that came out right at the end of 2017. \u00a0Yes, new songs written [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","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=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}