Well, it’s still quiet on the singles chart and the albums are just plain dead. But things are starting to get back to normal.

1. Gracie Abrams – “That’s So True”

Seven weeks at number 1, and with a lead of more than two weeks over the number 2 single – which is still Rosé and Bruno Mars. The midweeks have this as its last week, though.

Number 5 is a rather odd re-entry for “Who” by Jimin, originally a number 4 hit in August. It has been hanging around the lower reaches for an extended period since then, but given that it only managed a week in the top 10 first time round, this is odd behaviour. It did qualify for a reset on the strength of last week’s increase in streams (following the Christmas clear-out), and that accounts for part of the jump, but it’s still curious. The midweeks have falling straight back to number 27, so there’s some sort of weird surge going on here, organic or otherwise.

21. SZA – “BMF”

This is a track from the deluxe version of her album “SOS”, which has been out for three weeks now. Another couple of tracks from the album are hanging around outside the top 40.

Number 22 is a re-entry for “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan, which has also been given a reset from downweighting, and is currently being pushed as the lead single from the album. (Although “Good Luck Babe” is still higher, at 17.)

32. Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith – “La La La”

Here’s our first track of 2025 to be dusted off by Tiktok. It was a number 1 for a single week in 2013 – to be fair, it then spent the next three weeks at number 2 behind “Blurred Lines”.

39. Doechii – “Denial is a River”

Debut hit. She’s from Florida and apparently she had a viral hit on Tiktok a few years back which didn’t really translate into any meaningful commercial success in the UK. This is pretty good, though, and less of a novelty track than it first appears. The video is great, but might not be the best intro point for new listeners – it had me expecting something along the lines of “Bad Babysitter”, and the song is written on the assumption that you already know who Doechii is. Her Colbert performance is definitely worth a look. The staging is quite something.

This week’s climbers:

• “Push 2 Start” by Tyla climbs 33-24 to become her second top 30 hit.
• “Like Him” by Tyler, The Creator climbs 35-30. This has been around since mid-November as an album track, but hasn’t actually got above number 33 until now.

Um… yeah, that’s it, at least in terms of tracks reaching new peaks. There are two new entries and three re-entries, and the five records leaving the top 40 are:

• “Close to You” by Gracie Abrams, which re-entered last week at 37.
• “Hot to Go” by Chappell Roan, which re-entered last week at 32.
• “Nights Like This” by The Kid Laroi, which re-entered last week at 40.
• “Austin” by Dasha, which re-entered last week at 39.
• “It Can’t Be Christmas” by Tom Grennan, which re-entered… oh, hold on, no. It was a 2024 Christmas release and it got to number 3.

There are no new entries on the album chart, but there is a new number one – “Diamonds” by Elton John, a greatest hits collection that’s  been out since 2017. It shipped physical collector editions last week, which puts it over the top for a week. It won’t be there long.

It’s his ninth number one album – the others are a somewhat unlikely collection. There’s a run of four albums from 1973-74: “Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player”, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “Caribou” and, um, “Elton John’s Greatest Hits”. There’s the 1989 album “Sleeping with the Past”, which is the one that had “Sacrifice” on it. There’s another compilation album, “The Very Best of Elton John”, from the following year. There’s “Good Morning to the Night”, the Pnau album built from mash-ups of his songs, in 2012. And in 2021, there was “The Lockdown Sessions”.