{"id":5038,"date":"2020-01-20T22:43:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2020-01-20T22:43:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T22:43:38","slug":"charts-17-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5038","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 17 January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s mid January, so we&#8217;re starting to settle back into the routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1 Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran &amp; Burna Boy &#8211; &#8220;Own It&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three weeks at number 1 (and a total of eight weeks in the top 5). But Stormzy also has another record out this week, which we might as well deal with right now&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>21. Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Still Disappointed&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/912YaSKGdlo\" 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>This is part of an exchange of diss tracks with Wiley, though unusually Stormzy has decided to give his track a full scale single release. It&#8217;s, er, quite personal. If the backing track sounds surprisingly well developed for something thrown together at short notice, that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s taken wholesale from Kano&#8217;s 2005 track <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p0407jiKLO4\">&#8220;Mic Check 1-2&#8221;<\/a>. Apparently that&#8217;s because it was also used in a Kano v Wiley clash years ago which I gather is well known among interested audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stormzy has the maximum three singles on this week&#8217;s chart, since &#8220;Vossi Bop&#8221; is still hanging around at 27. Meanwhile, back in more conventional releases&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Future featuring Drake &#8211; &#8220;Life is Good&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l0U7SxXHkPY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, this is structurally unusual. It&#8217;s basically a 90 second Drake track followed by an entirely different Future track. Previously, Future&#8217;s biggest hit was &#8220;Mask Off&#8221; (number 22 in 2017) and obviously this is way bigger. But it&#8217;s got Drake, hasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not much happening this week in terms of climbers. <strong>&#8220;The Box&#8221; by Roddy Ricch<\/strong> climbs 16-5. <strong>&#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221; by the Weeknd<\/strong> is up from 10-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>28. Selena Gomez &#8211; &#8220;Rare&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ia1iuXbEaYQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The title track from her album, which enters at number 2 this week. That&#8217;s comfortably the highest she&#8217;s ever been on the album chart &#8211; her other studio albums, dating back to 2010, all placed between 11 and 15. The previous single, &#8220;Lose You To Love Me&#8221;, rebounds slightly to 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>37. Halsey &#8211; &#8220;You Should Be Sad&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8nBFqZppIF0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This week&#8217;s only other new entry is actually quite a pleasant country-ish song, but ye gods, the video is shamelessly gunning for clicks. It really does feel desperate. Halsey had a number 1 hit with the Chainsmokers in 2016, and got to number 3 under her own power in 2018, but none of her singles last year could make the top 20. Still, at least they&#8217;re still charting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we move on to the album chart, let&#8217;s talk about download campaigns. People still seem to get quite worked up about seeing a song on top of the iTunes chart &#8211; this week it was <strong>&#8220;Yma O Hyd&#8221; by Dafydd Iwan <\/strong>(a Welsh nationalist song from the early eighties). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-51083459\">It was indeed on top of the iTunes chart on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the iTunes chart just measures sales, and the chart these days is about streaming. The song didn&#8217;t make the top 100. Its total weekly sales equivalent was below 3,500. And here&#8217;s the thing &#8211; that was <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/charts\/singles-sales-chart\/\">still enough to make it number 3 on the sales only chart<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/charts\/singles-sales-chart\/\">.<\/a> That&#8217;s how small the sales market is these days. It&#8217;s a streaming world. Download campaigns are a relic of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the album chart, <strong>&#8220;Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent&#8221; by Lewis Capaldi<\/strong> is back at number 1 for an eighth week in total. The first was back in May last year, and the album has yet to drop below 8. <strong>&#8220;Rare&#8221; by Selena Gomez<\/strong> is number 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7. Easy Life &#8211; &#8220;Junk Food&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FteLuLDSiIU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>English alt-R&amp;B band who were listed at number 2 in the BBC&#8217;s Sound of 2020 list (which, to be honest, does tend to skew towards names who happen to have imminent album releases).  This is officially billed as a mixtape, and only barely qualifies as an album; it&#8217;s 7 tracks but comes in at just under 20 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8. Sheku Kanneh-Mason, The London Symphony Orchestra &amp; Simon Rattle &#8211; &#8220;Elgar&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O70uVmW4y9Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The cellist who played at the wedding of Harry and Meghan. His first album reached number 11 in 2016; this collection of Elgar gives him his first top ten appearance. It&#8217;s unusual for any straight classical album to appear this high up the mainstream album chart. This apparently makes him the highest-charting cellist of all time, though I can&#8217;t imagine the category is hotly contested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>19. Big Moon &#8211; &#8220;Walking Like We Do&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OijD72t4XY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the Big Moon&#8217;s first appearance on the album chart, but their previous album was on the Mercury shortlist in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>24. Georgia &#8211; &#8220;Seeking Thrills&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A4Y9V07wry4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Another debut hit. It&#8217;s an electropop album that surely ought to have produced some hit singles (it&#8217;s not like there was no radio support for it), but didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s her second album, after a five year gap. Her dad was a member of Leftfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>29. Andy Williams &#8211; &#8220;Gold&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cOK6YJmT5_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, a 3-CD collection of the best of Andy Williams. On paper, his biggest hit was &#8220;Butterfly&#8221;, which spent two weeks at number 1 in 1957, but these days he&#8217;s probably best known either for the Christmas standard &#8220;It&#8217;s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8221;, or for &#8220;Music To Watch Girls By&#8221;, a minor hit in 1967 which made the top 10 as a nostalgic advert soundtrack in the late 90s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mid January, so we&#8217;re starting to settle back into the routine. 1 Stormzy featuring Ed Sheeran &amp; Burna Boy &#8211; &#8220;Own It&#8221; Three weeks at number 1 (and a total of eight weeks in the top 5). 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