{"id":5549,"date":"2020-08-29T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2020-08-29T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T19:50:09","slug":"charts-28-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5549","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 28 August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, this is certainly eclectic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 Joel Corry featuring MNEK &#8211; &#8220;Head &amp; Heart&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not this one, obviously. &#8220;Head &amp; Heart&#8221; spends a sixth week at number one, with &#8220;WAP&#8221; at number 2. The gap is fairly close, equivalent to 1,700 sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. BTS &#8211; &#8220;Dynamite&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gdZLi9oWNZg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interesting. The K-Pop boy band BTS got their first hit single in 2018 with &#8220;Idol&#8221;, and reached number 13 last year with &#8220;Boy With Luv&#8221;. But thus far they&#8217;ve been something of a fanbase act who perform well in their first week, without crossing over to a wider audience. This, however, has more obvious crossover appeal, since (a) it&#8217;s in English, and (b) it&#8217;s a disco track that sounds not a million miles from something that Bruno Mars might make, albeit sped up a bit. It feels a bit too obviously market-tailored to me, but it&#8217;s number 3, so what do I know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Headie One, AJ Tracey &amp; Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Ain&#8217;t It Different&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMPr9XXGymA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Headie One has had three previous top ten hits, but this is the highest &#8211; and considering one of them was guesting on a Drake single, that&#8217;s not bad at all. It&#8217;s a very good track, too. The hook is sampled from &#8220;Pretty Little Ditty&#8221; by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, an instrumental from the 1989 album &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Milk&#8221;, and previously sampled in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6FEDrU85FLE\">&#8220;Butterfly&#8221; by Crazy Town<\/a> (number 3 in 2001). The uncredited female vocal is more obscure; it&#8217;s a sample from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whosampled.com\/sample\/771048\/Headie-One-AJ-Tracey-Stormzy-Ain%27t-It-Different-Lady-Saw-No-Long-Talking\/\">&#8220;No Long Talking&#8221; by Lady Saw<\/a>. Her only credited appearance on the singles chart was in 2001, when she guested on a UB40 single that spent one week at number 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>11. 24KGoldn featuring Iann Dior &#8211; &#8220;Mood&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GrAchTdepsU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The follow-up to his debut hit &#8220;City of Angels&#8221;, which reached number 25 in March. Apparently it&#8217;s big on TikTok. It&#8217;s alright &#8211; kind of needs a second gear, though. Iann Dior, making his first UK chart appearance, is a Puerto Rican rapper who&#8217;s had some success in the US and, strangely, New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More of 24KGolden later. Meanwhile, <strong>&#8220;Take You Dancing&#8221; by Jason Derulo<\/strong> climbs 19-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>17. Vera Lynn &#8211; &#8220;Land of Hope and Glory&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2YTKeeri7Xc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vera Lynn, who died in June, hasn&#8217;t had a hit single since 1957, when &#8220;Travellin&#8217; Home&#8221; got to number 20. Nobody has previously had a hit single with a version of Elgar&#8217;s &#8220;Land of Hope and Glory&#8221;, for the fairly obvious reason that it&#8217;s not a pop song and it&#8217;s not exactly the sort of thing people actually buy as a single to listen to at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason it&#8217;s here is because of a frankly bizarre tantrum on the British political right over a suggestion that &#8220;Land of Hope and Glory&#8221; and &#8220;Rule Britannia&#8221; would be dropped from the BBC&#8217;s traditionally hyper-patriotic Last Night of the Proms concert, in some sort of gesture of appeasement to the left &#8211; a proposal that, as far as I can see, virtually nobody seems to have actually made. While it <em>is<\/em> true that the BBC did not intend to hold the traditional mass singalong this year, that appears to be due to the more prosaic obstacle that there&#8217;s a pandemic on so there won&#8217;t be anyone in the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, we have the unusual spectacle here of a chart campaign from the <em>right<\/em> &#8211; when these things have a political dimension at all, they tend to be on the left. I can&#8217;t recall seeing one of these since 1998, when George Bowyer&#8217;s pro-fox-hunting track &#8220;Guardians of the Land&#8221; reached number 33. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>22. Conan Gray &#8211; &#8220;Heather&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/24u3NoPvgMw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conan Gray had a minor hit internationally with &#8220;Maniac&#8221; last year, but &#8220;Heather&#8221; is his debut hit in the UK. He started off as a YouTuber but this is a perfectly respectable folky effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;You Broke Me First&#8221; by Tate McRae<\/strong> climbs 34-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>32. Abra Cadabra &#8211; &#8220;On Deck&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Re3oZbrA51E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North London rapper. He&#8217;s been around for a few years, but this is his first appearance on the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>36. Clean Bandit &amp; Mabel featuring 24KGolden &#8211; &#8220;Tick Tock&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yC8SPG2LwSA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gosh, that seems low for the first new Clean Bandit single since 2018. But&#8230; this <em>is<\/em> the first week out, and they do have a tendency to climb from their starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1.<\/strong> <strong>The Killers &#8211; &#8220;Imploding the Mirage&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHNVhrQZG6E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No surprise there, Killers albums usually make number 1 &#8211; this is their sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Erasure &#8211; &#8220;The Neon&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A8NqwW0hJ9w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been three years since the last Erasure album. That album gave them their first top ten studio album since the 1990s (not counting a greatest hits album), and this turns out to be their highest placing album since 1994 (when &#8220;I Say I Say I Say&#8221; was the last of their string of number 1s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6. Jamie Webster &#8211; &#8220;We Get By&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PxJw9kZjeb4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debut album. He&#8217;s from Liverpool, if you couldn&#8217;t guess that from the accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>14. The Waterboys &#8211; &#8220;Good Luck Seeker&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TCromexPn0w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still surprisingly prolific as an albums act. Number 14 is fairly standard territory for them. The video is an obvious pandemic job, but the song&#8217;s pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>22. Bright Eyes &#8211; &#8220;Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K4vO8gh6xdM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The previous Bright Eyes album missed the top 40, but that was nine years ago and absence makes the heart grow fonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>24. Nas &#8211; &#8220;King&#8217;s Disease&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1PDKlfbi4tY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fairly normal territory for a Nas album at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>34. Troye Sivan &#8211; &#8220;In a Dream&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7cHHnj3xWnw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More of a mini-album &#8211; officially it&#8217;s an EP &#8211; so the low position probably shouldn&#8217;t be given too much weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is certainly eclectic. 1 Joel Corry featuring MNEK &#8211; &#8220;Head &amp; Heart&#8221; Not this one, obviously. &#8220;Head &amp; Heart&#8221; spends a sixth week at number one, with &#8220;WAP&#8221; at number 2. The gap is fairly close, equivalent to 1,700 sales. 3. BTS &#8211; &#8220;Dynamite&#8221; Interesting. 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