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Jess Glynne has her first solo number one
Jess Glynne tops the singles chart on her own for the first time, after being the featured vocalist on two previous chart-toppers. James Bay has this week's number one album.

Jess Glynne has her first solo number one single and James Bay trounces all opposition to top the albums chart.

Just over a year after Jess Glynne topped the chart as the featured vocalist on Clean Bandit’s million-selling Rather Be, Jess Glynne has a number one of her very own as Hold My Hand goes straight to the top of the singles chart. It is her third number one in total as she also featured on Route 94’s My Love last year. She also had a solo hot with Right Here in July last year before teaming up with Clean Bandit again on Real Love. Hold My Hand therefore breaks her pattern of two-word song titles. She led the way in all the midweek updates but, just in case there was any doubt she would go straight to number one, she also boosted her sales in the final few hours of the week by performing on The Voice last night. It is the second song called Hold My Hand to top the singles chart. Don Cornell spent five weeks at the summit with a song of the same name in October and November 1954. On a similar theme, I Want To Hold Your Hand was the Beatles’ third number one single. That too spent five weeks atop the chart.

James Bay’s Hold Back The River continues to climb, rising a further two places to reach number two in its 14th week in the top forty. Years & Years fall one place to number three with their former number one, King. Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney are back in familiar territory as FourFiveSeconds slips back to number four. The song has spent all but two of its nine weeks in the chart in the two positions named in the title. Lower down the chart, Rihanna gets her 41st top forty single in just under ten years as Bitch Better Have My Money enters at number 27.

Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do stays steady at number five. After two weeks at number one, Sam Smith and John Legend’s Lay Me Down takes a tumble to number six.

Sigma’s last two singles, Nobody To Love and Changing (featuring Paloma Faith), both reached number one last year. The drum and bass duo fail to make it a hat-trick of chart-toppers as their latest single, Higher, enters at number twelve. Perhaps Lower would have been a more suitable title. This could be the price they have paid for enlisting the services of Labrinth for whom it is an eleventh top forty hit.

Watford-born rapper Olajide Olatunji, also known as Ksiolajidebt, or just KSI, makes his top forty debut at number 30 with Lamborghini. He previously featured on Sway’s No Sleep which fell a few positions short of the top forty in 2013. The featured artist on this song (using the word song in its loosest sense) is P Money, who was one of several named artists on Lethal Bizzle’s 2011 hit POW 2011. Why Londoner Paris Moore-Williams chose a name which sounds like some small change one might carry in case there is an entry fee for a public lavatory at a time of need, remains a mystery. Why anyone bought this rubbish is a bigger mystery.

While a song performed on The Voice last night has gone straight to the top of the chart, songs performed on last week’s show have done less well. There is no sign of the song performed by last year’s winner, Jermain Jackman. The song performed by Olly Murs, Seasons, is at number 41.

As usual, the singles section ends with an update on the all-time list of songs with the longest consecutive run in the top forty. Sam Smith’s Stay With Me moves into joint second place with Mr ‘Acker’ Bilk’s Stranger On The Shore on 45 weeks. George Ezra’s Budapest remains in fifth place on 41 weeks, one place and one week ahead of Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud. Sia’s Chandelier is a further one place and one week behind. Sam Smith’s I’m Not The Only One may yet join the top ten list. It is currently on 33 weeks but is only just holding on to a top forty place. Hozier’s Take Me To Church has now been around for 28 weeks and remains in this week’s top ten.

The winner of the BBC’s Sound Of 2015 award, James Bay has already had a major hit single with the slow-burner Hold Back The River. He can now add a number one album to his CV as his debut set, Chaos And The Calm, goes straight to the top of the chart. Fittingly, the album contains a track called Clocks Go Forward, a timely reminder of what those of us in the EU should have done last night or this morning.

Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour stays at number two and Ed Sheeran’s × is back up to number three. Each of those albums has spent just one week outside the top five in a lengthy chart run - 44 weeks for Smith and 40 for Sheeran. After a week at number one, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly falls to number five.

Two of the most prolific artists of recent years have new albums in the chart this week. American blues musician Seasick Steve didn’t release his first album until he was over sixty. He entered the UK charts for the first time in 2007 with Dog House Music (released the previous year). Eight years on, he gets a seventh top forty album as Sonic Soul Surfer lands at number four.

Fellow American blues musician Joe Bonamassa makes Seasick Steve’s work rate seem positively sluggish. Mind you, he is only half Steve’s age. His latest album, Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks which enters at number 27, is his ninth top forty album (including collaborations) since he made his debut with The Ballad Of John Henry in 2009. He also managed to find the time to record another three albums as part of Black Country Communion. It is tempting to wonder what he does on his days off.

While Laura Marling’s debut album, Alas I Cannot Swim, enjoyed only modest commercial success, it peaked at number 45, it was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize. The former member of Noah & The Whale also picked up nominations for her second album, I Speak Because I Can (2010) and her fourth, Once I Was An Eagle (2013). Both those albums and the one in between, 2011’s A Creature I Don’t Know, reached the top five. Her fifth release, Short Movie, is a new entry at number seven. She uses an electric guitar for the first time on this album, but it has not caused as much fuss as Bob Dylan’s decision to make the same move fifty years ago. For all her success in the albums chart, her singles chart career is limited to a solitary week at number 97 with Devil’s Spoke at number 97 in 2010.

For most of their existence, The Cribs could accurately be described as a family band, comprising as it did, twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their brother Ross. That changed for a few years when they were joined by Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths and one half of one of the most celebrated song-writing partnerships of the 1980s. Marr’s time with the band helped them to achieve their first top ten album with Ignore The Ignorant (2009). The follow-up (without Marr), In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull (2012), also reached the top ten. This week, they released their fifth studio album, For All My Sisters, and it is a new entry at number nine.

The next new entry also comes from a family band, sisters Camilla, Emily and Jessica Staveley-Taylor, collectively known as The Staves. Their choice of band-name manages to make them sound less posh than The Staveley-Taylors would sound, while also using a musical term. Their first album, Dead & Born & Grown (2012), fell just short of the top forty. Their second album of acoustic folk music, If I Was, gives them a top forty debut at number fourteen.

Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett enters at number sixteen with her first album, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit. Before embarking on a solo career, she worked with Brent DeBoer of the Dandy Warhols, best-known for their hit single Bohemian Like You. DeBoer’s cousin Courtney Taylor was also a member of the band, so he clearly has a thing about Courtneys.

Last year, Il Divo reached the chart with an album called A Musical Affair - Live In Japan. Confusingly, it did not contain many tracks from their earlier album, A Musical Affair, although it was at least recorded in Japan. Now, Kylie Minogue has chosen to follow suit. Her album, Kiss Me Once Live At The SSE Hydro, contains only a few tracks from her Kiss Me Once album which reached number two last year. It does, however, contain live versions of five of her six solo number ones and a further nine top ten hits. It enters at number 26 to give her a 23rd top forty album.

British metal band While She Sleeps (a touch of irony in their name, perhaps) get their second top forty album with Brainwashed at number 29. They reached number 27 with their debut set, This Is The Six, in 2012.

Hip-hop artist Arian Arslani might be thought by some to have a rather unhealthy fixation with violent crime, both real and fictional. For his musical career, he styles himslef as Action Bronson. The suspicion that he took part of his name from the notorious violent criminal Charles Bronson is fuelled by the fact that he called his debut album Dr Lecter. This week, he makes his chart debut with his modestly-titled third album, Mr Wonderful, at number 35.

There are a lot of different ways of choosing a band name. They include characters in films such as McFly and Duran Duran. The characters need not be even vaguely human. They could, for example, be a dog. They could even make “What was the name of Dorothy’s dog in Wizard Of Oz” an easier question than it might otherwise be. The answer to that question is, of course, Toto. The band of that name have been around since the late 1970s and enjoyed their biggest hit here with their song Africa in 1983. That song came from their most successful album, Toto IV, which reached number four. Perhaps in an attempt to repeat the success of that album, they have called their fourteenth studio album Toto XIV. It hasn’t worked out as well as they might have hoped. It was in the top forty in all the midweek updates, but didn’t hold on for the only chart that actually counts. Therefore, they remain without a top forty entry for over thirty years.

Ever since its launch, the BBC version of The Voice has been criticised for failing to find a major star, whether one of the winners or one of the other contestants. Curiously, the same applies elsewhere. Various versions of the programme around the world have also failed to produce a major star. This week, last year’s winner Jermain Jackman released his debut album. The album, with the unimaginative title Jermain Jackman, is another absentee from the top forty.
Published on: 2015-03-29 by BuzzJack.com Suedehead2 || 8967 Views
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