And we’re back to another quiet week on the singles chart. The albums are busier, though.

1. Sabrina Carpenter – “Taste”

Five weeks, with “Espresso” still at 3 and “Please Please Please” at 5. That means Sabrina Carpenter has been number one for a total of 17 weeks this year. For those who find such things interesting, this is the most weeks that a female solo artist has spent at number 1 in a calendar year since 1978 (when Olivia Newton-John managed 16 weeks).

There are no new entries inside the top 30, so we skip down to…

35. Alex Warren – “Burning Down”

A second single to join “Carry You Home”, which entered at 39 last week (and climbs). That track has been hanging around for ages in the lower reaches; this is a bona fide new release. It’s another stompy folk-pop track, and perfectly okay at what it does.

37. Addison Rae – “Diet Pepsi”

Her first credited appearance on the singles chart. Hey, this is quite good! It’s a faster Lana Del Rey!

Radio 1 refuse to announce the title of this track for product placement reasons, and are solemnly billing it as “Diet P”, which does not seem like the ideal solution, since… well, it’s not the name of the song. Even weirder, the one mention of Diet Pepsi in the lyrics (at the end of verse 2) has gone unedited, so apparently there’s some sort of judgment call being made about prominence.

There are also two re-entries – Kid Laroi and 38 and Jimin at 40.

This week’s climbers:

• “Die With a Smile” by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars climbs 5-4 in its sixth week.
• “Hot to Go” by Chappell Roan climbs 9-7 in its 15th week on the top 40. “Good Luck Babe” is a non-mover at 2, while “Pink Pony Club” climbs 21-15.
• “Somedays” by Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. climbs to 9 after two weeks at 10.
• “Sailor Song” by Gigi Perez climbs to 11 after a fortnight at 13.
• “The Door” by Teddy Swims climbs to 13 after a fortnight at 16, reaching a new peak in its 18th week on chart. Meanwhile, the new single “Bad Dreams” falls from 28 to 30…
• “I Love You I’m Sorry” by Gracie Abrams climbs 18-17.
• “Embrace It” by Ndotz climbs 36-20 in its second week. Activity!
• “Wildflower” by Billie Eilish climbs 34-23, which is quite the climb after seven weeks in the 30s. She also has “Guess” at 10 and “Birds of a Feather” at 18.
• “Carry You Home” by Alex Warren climbs 39-32 in its second week.

The four tracks leaving the top 40 are:

• “Talk Talk” by Charli XCX featuring Troye Sivan after a single week at number 24.
• “Live Forever” by Oasis, which had four weeks and reached an all-time peak of 8. “Don’t Look Back in Anger” is at 39, and “Wonderwall” is 36.
• “Bye Bye Bye” by NSync had an eight week run on the back of Deadpool vs Wolverine, peaking at 12.
• “All Red” by Playboi Carti got a single week at number 32 and drops straight out of the top 100.

On the album chart:

1. Blossoms – “Gary”

Their fifth studio album, their fourth number one. (Their sophomore album only got to number 4, for some reason.) The title track turns out to be a song about the theft of a fibreglass ape from a garden centre, and I think we can all agree that this is underexplored territory.

4. Tom Walker – “I Am”

His second album, following 2019’s “What a Time to Be Alive”, which reached number 1.

5. Jamie XX – “In Waves”

Slightly below the position of his last solo album, 2015’s “In Colour”, which reached number 3.

6. Katy Perry – “143”

Her previous album got to number 5 in 2020, the one before that got to 6 in 2017. The single is every bit as awful as you may have heard.

12. Future – “Mixtape Pluto”

Officially a mixtape rather than an album, and it places one place below “We Still Don’t Trust You” by Future & Metro Boomin from earlier in the year – basically the bonus tracks for an album that had reached number 2 just a few weeks earlier. So this seems to be the level for a Future side project.

20. Nightwish – “Yesterwynde”

Finnish symphonic metal band who sometimes make the album top 40 . Their previous album “Human II Nature” reached number 28 in 2020, but their highest album chart position was number 12 in 2015 with “Endless Forms Most Beautiful”.

25. IST IST – “Light a Bigger Fire”

Post-punk band from Manchester. It’s their fourth album and the first to chart.

29. Terrorvision – “We Are Not Robots”

Terrorvision haven’t made the album top 40 since 1998, but they’ve reunited sporadically since 2005. They released a new album in 2011 which did absolutely nothing, but I guess they’re now the sort of legacy act that does well on the album chart.