With the Jubilee receding from view, Gary Barlow’s “Sing” drops back to number 3.  No surprise there.  The album is still holding up remarkably well, with a third week at number 1, but it’s surely got to peter out sooner rather than later.

There are a couple of very unlikely new entries on this week’s chart, but first, one that’s entirely predictable…

1.  Cheryl – “Call My Name”

Yes, officially it’s now just “Cheryl”.  For the benefit of readers overseas, this is Cheryl Cole, who you may remember from when she wasn’t on X-Factor in the USA.  Cole is her married name, but her marriage to footballer Ashley Cole broke down some time ago.  (“How do you think I feel when you call my name?”  Well, if the tabloids are anything to go by, I’d guess at “relieved”.)  Her maiden name of Tweedy has evidently been deemed insufficiently glamorous for the demands of the celebutainment industry.

This is her third UK number 1 after “Fight For This Love” in 2009 and “Promise This” in 2010 – in other words, the lead singles from her two earlier albums.  She also had another four number 1s as a member of the presumably defunct Girls Aloud.  It’s the fastest selling single of the year so far, though that seems to be in part a case of front loading, since it won’t be at the top next week.

If you can’t be bothered playing it and you’re wondering what it sounds like, suffice to say it’s produced by Calvin Harris, and sounds very much like everything else produced by Calvin Harris.  It’s got a good hook, it’s comfortably above average, but it’s not exactly trendsetting.

Oddly enough, Cheryl Cole is indeed the only Cheryl ever to have had a UK top 40 hit under that name.  So maybe she can get away with claiming it as a mononym.

4.  Coldplay & Rihanna – “Princess of China”

This has been in the charts for weeks, but it keeps on climbing, and it’s got a video now, which makes it worth a passing mention.  On the current run, it’s moved 30-20-13-8-4 – though judging from the iTunes chart, this is probably as far as it’s going to get.

9.  Precision Tunes – “Payphone”

Now this is a genuine surprise.  It is, of course, a copycat cover version of Maroon 5’s single, which came out this Monday.  There has been something of a plague of these things lately, with cover factories such as Precision Tunes taking advantage of the ridiculously long promotional lead-in times before major singles are released in the UK (“on air on sale” having apparently bitten the dust with major labels) and the fact that they can legally cover the song as long as it’s been released somewhere else in Europe.  There are apparently some 86 pre-emptive cover versions of “Payphone” available, though many of them are probably the same thing credited to different people.

Normally when one of these things picks up sales, the record company responds by panicking and releasing the real version.  This time, for whatever reason, the record company held its nerve – and so a cheap knock-off of “Payphone” shows up in the top 10.  Perhaps the thinking is that this merely demonstrates the strength of demand for the real thing and builds hype.  If so, that’s certainly not the orthodox wisdom of the record industry – not that the orthodox wisdom of the record industry is generally anything to write home about.

You have to wonder how many of the people who bought this actually appreciated that it was a knock-off.  The iTunes listing gives the track title as “Payphone (Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa tribute)”, though of course the word “tribute” is cut off by column size in the search results.  It seems very hard to believe that quite so many people were so desperate to own a version of “Payphone” that they actually wanted to buy this rather cheap rendition, even at 79p.

With the original now available, this will be nowhere in a week’s time.

17.  Emeli Sande – “My Kind of Love”

Suddenly rebounding from 34, to beat the number 19 peak it reached in May.  I’m honestly not sure why.

26.  Avicii – “Silhouettes”

This originally entered at 26 in May and dropped out of the top 40 after a couple of weeks, but there’s a (mildly unusual) video now, so it’s back.

28.  Trey Songz – “Heart Attack”

This guy has been having hits in America since 2005 but he’s never previously made the UK top 40.  He’s probably not going much further this time either, with this rather average R&B song, but at least it gets him into the chart at last.  Kelly Rowland appears in the video.  But not on the record.

30.  Justin Bieber (feat Big Sean) – “As Long As You Love Me”

This week’s promo track for Bieber’s upcoming album.  Big Sean is a rapper who’s been around since 2007 but has not previously made any headway in Britain.

31. Katy Perry – “Wide Awake”

This is one of the bonus tracks from the reissue version of her album, though it’s being promoted for a single release in early July, to coincide with the release of her concert film.  In 3D!  It’ll shoot up next week, obviously.  The video is a frankly bizarre assembly of call-backs to earlier Katy Perry videos, and dream sequences Replete With Symbolism.  I assume it’s the opening minutes of the movie, in which context it might make some degree of sense.

34. Flo Rida (feat Sia) – “Wild Ones”

Re-entry.  It had previously dropped to 50, so this is a genuine resurgence, presumably prompted by the success of “Whistle” (currently at 2).

39.  Tyler James – “Higher Love”

…what?

This is very strange. It’s a track from a digital-only compilation of performances from Voice UK quarterfinalists.  The track by winner Leanne Mitchell failed to make the top 40 last week, which was embarrassing enough in itself.  Now, to rub salt into the wound, the British public have decided to deliver an (admittedly marginal) top 40 placing to the runner-up.  That’s just cruel.

After a strong start in the ratings, The Voice UK went horrendously off the rails, losing around half its audience by the time of the final.  The scheduled UK tour by the finalists has just been cancelled due to lack of interest.  The BBC is contractually committed to a second series.  The whole thing is undoubtedly an enormous headache for somebody.

Part of the problem with The Voice is that all its distinctive features come right at the start of the series.  Once you reach the elimination stages, it’s basically X Factor on a lower budget… and that’s a tricky thing to address.

As if you need to be told, “Higher Love” is a cover of the Steve Winwood song that reached number 13 in 1986, though the style is based largely on the James Vincent McMorrow version that reached number 21 last year and charted again a few weeks ago based on Tyler’s performance in the Voice heats.

This is Tyler James’ third hit, as he had an abortive recording career in 2004-5 that ended with Universal denying his album a physical release and dumping it straight to digital (in the days when that was a bigger deal).  Since said album includes three tracks co-written by his friend Amy Winehouse, you’d think somebody would have thought it was worth digging up before now.

James’ biggest UK hit – not that anyone remembers it – is “Foolish”, which reached number 16 in 2005 (though it crashed out of the top 40 in two weeks).  He also got to number 25 with this song, “Why Do I Do.”

40.  Kelly Clarkson – “Dark Side”

This is going to be the third single from her current album.   As a rule, the later singles from her albums tend not to go much higher than this.