{"id":4585,"date":"2019-05-25T21:37:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2019-05-25T21:37:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T20:37:23","slug":"charts-24-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4585","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 24 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s a busy week for albums, at least.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &amp; Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks. \u00a0Since last week, we&#8217;ve established that Sheeran&#8217;s upcoming album is entitled &#8220;No 6 Collaborations Project&#8221;, which goes some way towards explaining what Bieber is doing here &#8211; commercially, at any rate, because he sure isn&#8217;t adding much creatively. \u00a0The title refers back to his self-released 2011 album &#8220;No 5 Collaborations Project&#8221; (numbers 1-4 apparently being earlier EPs, though his discography lists seven earlier EPs, so you may picture me here shrugging and moving on). \u00a0It heads up a top 4 made up entirely of records that reached number 1, which &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221;, &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221; and &#8220;Vossi Bop&#8221; still hanging around &#8211; &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; is actually still growing, despite being shoved aside by Sheeran.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lewis Capaldi<\/b>&#8216;s first charting single\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Grace&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0has been hanging around for a while, but vaults from 28 to 9 on the release of parent album <strong>&#8220;Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>(I know), which goes straight to number one. \u00a0The single&#8217;s previous peak was 21. &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221; climbs 4-3, and &#8220;Hold Me While You Wait&#8221; climbs 8-5, giving him the maximum three songs on the singles chart, all in the top 40 &#8211; though for once, they&#8217;re all song that were on the top 40 already. \u00a0It goes without saying that without the three-song cap, we&#8217;d be swimming in Lewis Capaldi tracks this week.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;All Day &amp; Night&#8221; by Jax Jones &amp; Martin Solveig featuring Madison Beer<\/strong> climbs 11-10, having taken four painful weeks to get here from number 14. \u00a0It&#8217;s Jones&#8217;s fifth top ten hit, and Solveig&#8217;s second (to go with 2015&#8217;s &#8220;Intoxicated&#8221;). \u00a0<strong>&#8220;What I Like About You&#8221; by Jonas Blue featuring Theresa Rex<\/strong> climbs 19-16, but there&#8217;s not much to say about that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. \u00a0Tyler, the Creator &#8211; &#8220;Earfquake&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m91Vq-Yd3BA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>30. \u00a0Tyler, the Creator &#8211; &#8220;I Think&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HmAsUQEFYGI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tyler, the Creator has had four previous hit albums, going back to 2011, but has never previously registered on the singles chart, even as a guest. \u00a0His fifth album <strong>&#8220;Igor&#8221;<\/strong> enters at number 4 this week (improving on number 9 for its predecessor), and he just misses out on getting the maximum three hit singles, with &#8220;Igor&#8217;s Theme&#8221; landing at 41. \u00a0Those are the first three tracks on the album, by the way, though not in that order.<\/p>\n<p>The video for &#8220;Earfquake&#8221; seems to be channelling &#8211; at least in the first half &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2XmrmaXeLg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Conn&#8217;s &#8220;Never Get Ahead&#8221;<\/a>, which inexplicably used to keep cropping up on lists of the worst video ever, presumably prepared by the sort of people who wouldn&#8217;t notice irony if it was kicking them in the teeth. \u00a0Though admittedly the sound quality was terrible, because it really did come from a public access TV performance. \u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zmT3Ny9fRIw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a proper live version from Norwegian TV<\/a>, if you&#8217;ve ever wondered what the song would sound like done properly. \u00a0(Short answer: very good.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sixteen&#8221; by Ellie Goulding\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 25-21.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. \u00a0Halsey &#8211; &#8220;Nightmare&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q_dqfcvTZik\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Halsey more often charts as a collaborator than a lead artist, though she did have a number 3 hit of her own last year, &#8220;Without Me.&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Nightmare&#8221; is a bit of a change of direction, with a shouty bit and random collage-y video. \u00a0It&#8217;s an interesting watch but feels like it&#8217;s trying a bit too hard &#8211; frankly, it reminds me of t.A.T.u, which I doubt was the intended effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Motorola&#8221; by Da Beatfreakz x Deno x Swarmz x Dappy<\/strong> climbs 35-32, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Late Night Feelings&#8221; by Mark Ronson featuring Lykke Li<\/strong> climbs 39-33.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Martin Garrix featuring Macklemore and Patrick Stump &#8211; &#8220;Summer Days&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8OwVaewDtS8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Garrix has never really come close to matching his number 1 debut from 2011 (&#8220;Animals&#8221;), this is still his tenth top 40 hit. \u00a0Macklemore should be a familiar name. \u00a0Patrick Stump hasn&#8217;t had a solo hit before, but he&#8217;s the singer from Fall Out Boy. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit of a mish mash, this, and the video is a nice idea that doesn&#8217;t work at all in practice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. \u00a0DJ Khaled featuring Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Big Sean &#8211; &#8220;Jealous&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dl37B3zlJ30\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a track from Khaled&#8217;s album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Father of Asahd&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at number 6 &#8211; his third, and marginally highest-placing, top ten album. \u00a0It&#8217;s not officially a single, but it&#8217;s got the big names on it and it does have a video.. \u00a0That video is as bloated as you&#8217;d expect from the self-mythologiser, taking two and a half minutes to get to the actual song, so that they can fit in an extended appearance from Jennifer Lopez, who is not on the record. \u00a0The track itself is generic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. \u00a0Dominic Fike &#8211; &#8220;3 Nights&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OWKzRngush4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>.<\/p>\n<p>Chart debut. \u00a0This track was originally released on an EP in 2017, but he&#8217;s signed to Columbia since then, and it&#8217;s being repromoted. \u00a0The song&#8217;s been a moderate hit in Europe, and reached the top five in Australia. \u00a0It&#8217;s fairly boring.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart, we&#8217;ve already talked about\u00a0the Lewis Capaldi album at number one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0The National &#8211; &#8220;I Am Easy To Find&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5FQtSn_vak0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t repeat the number one place for their previous album, but it&#8217;s still a fourth consecutive top five album, which isn&#8217;t bad at all. \u00a0There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ifElv18k2O8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a whole 26-minute film to go with this<\/a>, if you want.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Rammstein &#8211; untitled<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0NfI2NeDHI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rammstein haven&#8217;t made it above number 16 before, but then this is their first new studio album in a decade, and that makes a difference. \u00a0The chart company is actually listing this as a self-titled album, but officially it&#8217;s meant to be untitled. \u00a0Note of warning: the video above is (very mildly) NSFW, though I&#8217;ve never quite understood which workplaces you might be viewing these videos in regardless of content, so I suppose that&#8217;s probably academic.<\/p>\n<p>Number 4 is Tyler, the Creator; number 6 is DJ Khaled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Slowthai &#8211; &#8220;Nothing Great About Britain&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZsNnuaUSNs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a rapper from Northampton, and this is his debut album. \u00a0The name started off as &#8220;Slow Ty&#8221; (his real name is Tyron). \u00a0Number 11 is <strong>&#8220;Double Tap Diaries&#8221; by Digga D<\/strong>; the single &#8220;No Diet&#8221; reached number 20, and it&#8217;s still on the chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. \u00a0Carly Rae Jepsen &#8211; &#8220;Dedicated&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0ih3FriG1k\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carly Rae Jepsen is in the odd position of making pop records that seem to be bought by a niche albums audience. \u00a0This is her third album and the lowest charting. \u00a0I don&#8217;t get why she doesn&#8217;t have more hit singles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. \u00a0Big Big Train &#8211; &#8220;Grand Tour&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qh6tPwd4GNA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re a prog rock band finally charting (just) with their twelfth album; others included &#8220;Goodbye to the Age of Steam&#8221;, &#8220;English Electric Parts One and Two&#8221;, &#8220;Folklore&#8221; and &#8220;Grimspound&#8221;, so you get the idea. \u00a0The video above features the band members miming without instruments, which is presumably a devilish plan by the lead singer to make everyone else look like a tit. \u00a0Which is a shame, since the song itself is quite good if you like that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Biffy Clyro &#8211; &#8220;Balance Not Symmetry OST&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9XR15E4vZw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new Biffy Clyro album would normally make the top five, but this is a film soundtrack &#8211; a film co-written by their lead singer, admittedly, but also a film that isn&#8217;t out yet. \u00a0The premiere isn&#8217;t for another month, which makes the decision to release the album now look a little odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s a busy week for albums, at least. 1. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &amp; Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221; Two weeks. \u00a0Since last week, we&#8217;ve established that Sheeran&#8217;s upcoming album is entitled &#8220;No 6 Collaborations Project&#8221;, which goes some way towards explaining what Bieber is doing here &#8211; commercially, at any rate, because he sure [&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-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","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=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}