Six new entries, three artists…

1. Alex Warren – “Ordinary”

Three weeks, and continuing to grow – it had more than double the points of the number 2 single, “Pink Pony Club”. Meanwhile, “Carry You Home” climbs 10-9 (which is a new peak), and “Burning Down” is still at 24. “Ordinary” is finally making some headway in his home country, reaching the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, but it’s been a number 1 in much of Europe.

5. Ariana Grande – “Twilight Zone”
19. Ariana Grande – “Dandelion”
26. Ariana Grande – “Intro (End of the World)”

This is the maximum three tracks from the deluxe edition of her album “Eternal Sunshine”, which had two weeks at number 1 last March. Yes, she waited over a year to release the deluxe edition. This is remarkable patience in this day and age. “Twilight Zone” and “Dandelion” are both new tracks, and “Twilight Zone” is the obvious single. The appearance of “Intro (End of the World)” is a bit more surprising, since it’s the opening track on the album and it’s only 90 seconds long. The deluxe version includes an extended version of “Intro” as the first of the new tracks, tacking on a whole extra minute with a bridge and everything. That probably means it’s getting double counted when people listen to the whole album, and so its appearance on the chart may be a statistical quirk.

35. sombr – “Back To Friends”
37. sombr – “Undressed”

Chart debut, with two of his tracks climbing from the lower reaches simultaneously. Sombr is Shane Boose, a teenage New Yorker. He’s big on TikTok. He sounds nothing like you’d expect from someone called Sombr, but then it’s a name he’s been using for years, and it probably seemed like a better idea when he was 14.

“Back to Friends” is the stronger of the two tracks, and the indie-est thing we’ve had in the charts in years. “Undressed” is fine, but feels more like a lost Gotye follow-up. Still a strong first week on the chart.

39. Nemzzz featuring Central Cee – “Dilemma”

He’s a Manchester rapper. This is his first appearance in the singles top 40 (doubtless helped by the Central Cee appearance), but his first mixtape reached the album top 20 last year, and its follow-up “Rent’s Due” enters at 6 this week.

This week’s climbers:

• “Carry You Home” by Alex Warren climbs 10-9.
• “Nokia” by Drake climbs 12-10. It’s now being promoted as a single, complete with video, which explains why it’s climbing, but there’s no getting away from the fact that this one has actually hung around the chart for 7 weeks and seems to be an actual hit. Maybe we shouldn’t write Drake off just yet.
• “Love Me Not” by Ravyn Lenae climbs 19-15.
• “Mutt” by Leon Thomas climbs 26-22.
• “Tell Me” by Sonny Fodera & Clementine Douglas climbs 39-36.

The six tracks leaving the top 40 this week are:

• “Rather Lie” by Playboi Carti & The Weeknd, which entered at 10 two weeks ago.
• “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar, which was a number 1.
• “It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be” by Olivia Dean, which re-entered at 40 last week.
• “Emergence” by Sleep Token, which entered at 17 and lasted two weeks.
• “Evil Jordan” by Playboi Carti, which entered at 7 and lasted two weeks.
• “Guess” by Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish, after a seven week re-entry run which peaked at 21.

On the album chart:

1. Mumford & Sons – “Rushmere”

Very much an albums act these days – the lead single only got to number 83. But it’s their third number 1, and their other two albums both reached number 2. After a seven year gap, that’s not bad.

2. The Darkness – “Dreams on Toast”

Hmm. This is the highest position the Darkness have reached since their debut in 2003 – their last album only got to number 21 – but this is another album where there are shenanigans going on with massive numbers of variant editions. It’s available in 27 different physical formats and it might be getting to the point where the chart rules should take a look at this.

3. Ariana Grande – “Eternal Sunshine”

See above.

5. Lucy Dacus – “Forever is a Feeling”

Her fourth album, her first to make the top 40. Of course, since the last one, she’s had a number 1 album as a member of Boygenius.

6. Nemzzz – “Rent’s Due”

See above.

20. Lil Durk – “Deep Thoughts”

That’s low for him – his last album reached number 12 in 2023, and the previous two both made the top 10. None of the singles charted, although he did appear recently on a Central Cee track that got to number 13.