Once again, not a great deal is going on. Perhaps this is just seen as a bad time of year to promote singles, since there’s not much happening outside the top 40 either. Still, even with rules designed to shoulder records out of the chart if they’ve been out for more than 10 weeks and have passed their peak, we’re very much clogged up with long running records right now.

1. Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso”

No, that’s not a typo. “Espresso” gets a sixth week at number one, after five weeks at number 2. In the interim, we had two weeks for Eminem’s “Houdini”, and three weeks for Carpenter’s own “Please Please Please” – which is now number 2. The difference between the two tracks is absurdly small – the equipment of 962 sales, a margin of 1.8% – and both tracks are actually past their peak. There just isn’t anything else to take them on.

20. David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds – “3 Lions”

The Euros are on right now, and England are doing quite well, so here’s the obligatory England football perennial. In fact, we had this as a re-entry at number 32 three weeks ago, but it promptly dropped out of the top 75.

29. Eminem, Big Sean & BabyTron – “Tobey”

The second single from “Death of Slim Shady”, which was a midweek release last week – though the video only came out this week. The co-stars are given equal billing on this, which seems reasonable given that Eminem doesn’t show up until the second half. “Houdini” is still at number 6, though, and it’s obviously the more commercial single. BabyTron gets his first UK chart credit. Technically, this is only the second time that serial collaborator Big Sean has been credited as a primary artists on a UK top 40 hit, but the other one was 2012’s “Clique”, where he shared billing with Jay-Z and Kanye West. We haven’t seen him on the chart since 2019.

32. Quavo & Lana Del Rey – “Tough”

From the improbable collaborations file. It works surprisingly well, though. Quavo’s previous hits have almost all been as a featured guest – technically, he had equal billing with Post Malone on a single in 2017, and his group Migos had a couple of minor UK hits around the same time.

And… that’s it. This week’s climbers:

• “I Don’t Wanna Wait” by David Guetta & OneRepublic climbs 20-19, finally passing the number 20 mark that it reached back in May. Despite being awful, it’s been hanging around in the 20s for the previous twelve weeks.
• “Hot to Go” by Chappell Roan climbs 26-24. (“Good Luck Babe” is down one at 5 this week, while the album “Rise and Fall of a MIdwest Princess” rises to a new peak of 5.)
• “Kisses” by Bl3ss feauring CamrinWatsin & Bbyclose climbs 35-26.
• “Nights Like This” by the Kid Laroi climbs 30-28. His actual current single “Girls” is struggling, down to 54 this week.

There’s a re-entry from Zach Bryan’s “Pink Skies” at number 40 (rebounding from 43). So the four tracks leaving the top 40 are:

• “Red Wine Supernova” by Chappell Roan, after two weeks at 40.
• “Houdini” by Dua Lipa, which re-entered at 38 last week on the back of Glastonbury.
• “Us.” by Gracie Abrams featuring Taylor Swift, after two weeks at 37.
• “Pour Me a Drink” by Post Malone & Blake Shelton, which had two weeks peaking at 34, and evidently tested the UK’s country-receptiveness a bit too far.

“Stick Season” by Noah Kahan is still the longest running track in the top 40, at number 31. It’s been in the chart for 40 consecutive weeks now.

The album chart is pretty quiet too, with just two new entries.

1. Kasabian – “Happenings”

This is Kasabian’s seventh consecutive number 1 album, though it clocks in at under half an hour. It’s the lowest selling of their opening weeks but… well, that was true of all of their number 1 albums. They go down every time, and part of that is just the state of the album market.

16. Zach Bryan – “The Great American Bar Scene”

His previous album got to 22. Obviously, this includes the current single “Pink Skies”, which peaked at 25.