{"id":5013,"date":"2020-01-10T23:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T23:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2020-01-10T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T23:18:47","slug":"charts-10-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5013","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 10 January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week&#8217;s chart was quite eventful, what with all the post Christmas stuff. This one, though&#8230; this is a proper dead week. This <em>really <\/em>isn&#8217;t going to take us long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eYwbGaSurCQ\">1. Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran &amp; Burna Boy &#8211; &#8220;Own It&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two weeks, and his album <strong>&#8220;Heavy is the Head&#8221; <\/strong>climbs to number 1 as well (on its fourth week on release). There&#8217;s a bit of an asterisk next to these, mind. Stormzy is number one on the singles chart because &#8220;Dance Monkey&#8221; by Tones &amp; I is far enough past its peak to have its streams downweighted under the chart rules &#8211; but it <em>is<\/em> the best selling and best streamed track of the week. The album&#8217;s a bit less contentious &#8211; it was at number 2 already, but it <em>did<\/em> have some one-week discounts to push it over the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the top 4 is static, and this week&#8217;s highest new entry is&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;Yummy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EJ3zbKTWQ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<!--more Read more-->\n\n\n\n<p>When a major artist releases a single in a week like this, you have to wonder if it&#8217;s because they think they need a dead week for it to get noticed. &#8220;Yummy&#8221; is the lead single from Justin Bieber&#8217;s fifth album, and it&#8217;s the sort of song best experienced by non English speakers. On a purely musical level it&#8217;s <em>fine<\/em> &#8211; it bounces along pleasantly enough. The lyrics are&#8230; well, the wrong kind of stupid, basically. I mean, it knows it&#8217;s stupid, but it&#8217;s aiming for charmingly, knowingly stupid, and it&#8217;s not that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221; by the Weeknd<\/strong> climbs into the top 10 (from 11) &#8211; that&#8217;s his eighth top 10 hit. <strong>&#8220;The Box&#8221; by Roddy Ricch<\/strong> makes a more impressive jump from 40 to 16, beating his previous peak of 18 (when he guested on &#8220;How It Is&#8221; by the Plug last year). Other than that, the chart is overrun with older records floating around, none of which is really worth talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>35. Mist &#8211; &#8220;Savage&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9aRk5tCk48k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The only other new entry this week. Mist had a top 10 hit last year with &#8220;So High&#8221;, but this feels like it&#8217;s retrenching with his base. He&#8217;s very keen to tell us that he&#8217;s a gangsta and there&#8217;s a lot of gun effects &#8211; that sort of thing. Mind you, it does the standards very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the album chart, we&#8217;ve already mentioned <strong>Stormzy<\/strong> at number one, and predictably, the chart is almost entirely devoid of new entries. The <strong>Roddy Ricch<\/strong> album, <strong>&#8220;Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial&#8221;<\/strong>, climbs from 39 to 17, which is unusual. And there&#8217;s a single, inexplicably-scheduled new entry&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>30. Gene Pitney &#8211; &#8220;Gold&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8ZIErShjw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Gene Pitney died in 2006, and he hasn&#8217;t charted with a non-compilation album since 1967. This is a 3 CD set, described by the record label as &#8220;the only Gene Pitney compilation you&#8217;ll ever need&#8221;. He had ten top 10 hits in the sixties, but his only number one came in 1989 as a guest on Marc Almond&#8217;s cover of &#8220;Something&#8217;s Gotten Hold of My Heart&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s chart was quite eventful, what with all the post Christmas stuff. This one, though&#8230; this is a proper dead week. This really isn&#8217;t going to take us long. 1. Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran &amp; Burna Boy &#8211; &#8220;Own It&#8221; Two weeks, and his album &#8220;Heavy is the Head&#8221; climbs to number 1 as [&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-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","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=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5014,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/5014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}