I’m going to be busy this coming week, and that means the next annotations probably won’t be until the weekend. So if you’re looking for those, and this is still the top post, that’s why. In the meantime, let’s cover this week’s chart.

1. Sabrina Carpenter – “Taste”

I know, you’re amazed. That’s nine weeks. But it does get hit by the downweighting rule next week, so barring a miracle, this will be the last. “Bed Chem”, which entered last week due to a quirk of chart rules, falls to 11 and is not in contention to take over. Instead, Gigi Perez’s “Sailor Song” seems to be the number one in waiting, climbing to 2.

4. Rosé & Bruno Mars – “APT.”

Hey, this is great! Rosé is a member of Blackpink, but they’ve never placed a single above 17, so this is a big hit for her. Her bandmate Jennie just released a solo single too; it got to number 37. So clearly there’s more at work here than just the hardcore Blackpink fans.

Always on the lookout for a record, the OCC is billing her as the “first K-pop female soloist to earn a Top 10 single” – the first male one was Psy, obviously. This wording also leaves it open to them to christen somebody else in future as the first South Korean female solo act to reach the top 10, because although Rosé has spent her whole career in South Korea, she was born in Auckland and grew up in Melbourne. Not coincidentally, this single is number 1 in Australia and New Zealand.

It’s the lead single from her debut solo album – Bruno Mars has another duet in the top 10 with Lady Gaga at the moment, but that’s just a coincidence. If you were thinking that all this sounds a bit too obviously targeted at the international market, fear not – the whole thing is about a Korean drinking game. Apparently the chant comes from the game, but for fairly obvious reasons of caution, there’s a credit for the writers of “Mickey”.

6. One Direction – “Night Changes”
9. One Direction – “Story of My Life”
23. One Direction – “What Makes You Beautiful”

Obviously, these three tracks are here because of the death of Liam Payne. They’re maybe not the tracks that you would expect, although the appearance of the entire One Direction back catalogue on the album chart suggests that listening was split among a wide number of records. Still, “Night Changes” and “Story of My Life” are clearly ahead of the others.

Perhaps surprisingly, One Direction only had five number 1 hits, and two of those are charity singles: a credited guest appearance on the 2011 X-Factor Finalists charity single (the season after theirs), and a 2013 medley of “One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)”. The others were “What Makes You Beautiful” (2011), “Little Things” (2012) and “Drag Me Down” (2015). They had another six top five hits, and a further four that made the lower half of the top 10.

“Story of My Life” was a big hit, to be fair – it was number 2 in 2013, and spent 10 weeks in the top 10. “Night Changes” is more of a surprise, since it previously peaked at number 7 in 2014, but it’s a track that’s relatively well suited to the occasion.

Surprisingly, none of Liam Payne’s solo tracks make the top 40 – “Strip That Down” just misses, at number 41, with “For You” at 43.

19. Gracie Abrams – “That’s So True”

This is one of the bonus tracks on the deluxe edition of the album “The Secret of Us”, which rebounds to number 7  on the album chart this week. The big hit is still “I Love You I’m Sorry”, which peaked at 4 and falls back to 5 this week. But given that her previous singles never got above 35, she’s consolidating her success here.

40. Morgan Wallen – “Love Somebody”

Morgan Wallen’s biggest UK hit was as a guest on Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help”, which reached number 2 – but he did have a previous hit of his own, “Last Night”, which got to 28 last year.

This week’s climbers:

• “Sailor Song” by Gigi Perez climbs 3-2.
• “Diet Pepsi” by Addison Rae climbs 14-12.
• “Wildflower” by Billie Eilish climbs 18-17.
• “Bad Dreams” by Teddy Swims rebounds from 33 to a new peak of 28, though it remains far behind previous single “The Door” (currently at 13).
• “Prada” by cässo, Raye & D-Block Europe, which re-entered at 34 two weeks ago, rebounds to 31.

The six tracks leaving the top 40 are:

• “Stick Season” by Noah Kahan, after a three-week re-entry hovering at 39-40.
• “Backbone” by Chase & Status and Stormzy, a two-week number 1 in August.
• “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House, which had two weeks and peaked at 32.
• “Austin” by Dasha, which peaked at 5 but spent 21 weeks in the top 10 and 31 in the top 40.
• “Who” by Jimin, after a two-week re-entry in the 30s.
• “Mantra” by Jennie, after a single week at 37.

The longest-running track in the top 40 is still “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims, which has been with us for 43 uninterrupted weeks. It rebounds to 29 this week.

On the album chart:

1. Kylie Minogue – “Tension II”

Her 17th studio album and her 10th number 1 (some of which were compilations). The first was back in 1988. For what it’s worth, it also means we’ve had 11 number one albums by female soloists this year, which is apparently a record.

3. Rag’n’Bone Man – “What Do You Believe In”

His third album, and the first to produce no hit singles. It’s also the first to miss number 1, though not by much.

9. Confidence Man – “3am (La La La)”

Australian electropop act. This is their third album, and the first to chart in the UK, but that’s because they’ve relocated to London and hit the festival circuit.

13. One Direction – “Midnight Memories”
21. One Direction – “Made in the AM”
22. One Direction – “Four”
25. One Direction – “Take Me Home”
38. One Direction – “Up All Night”

Nothing else enters the album chart this week, but we do have the reappearance of all five One Direction albums. “Midnight Memories”, the highest placing, was their third album, and it’s the one with “Story of my Life” on it.