So is the parade of huge-selling number ones over, or are we just in a lull for now?  Probably a lull…

40.  Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx – “Gold Digger”

This charted on the strength of a late surge of sales after it cropped up on an X Factor audition show on Saturday 31 August.  So yes, it’s that time again.  Originally a number 2 hit in 2005.

39.  Bastille – “Things We Lost In The Fire”

What do you mean, “Florence + The Machine”?

Bastille made number 2 with their previous single “Pompeii”, but this doesn’t look set to repeat that – it’s been climbing from the lower reaches for a few weeks, and it’s currently at 37 on iTunes.  Perfectly nice record, though.

34.  The 1975 – “Sex”

This song has been released as the lead track of an EP almost a year ago, but for whatever reason the album version is being released as a single again.  Don’t ask me.  The 1975’s big hit was “Chocolate”, which peaked at 19 but hung around the chart for ages earlier this year; follow-up “The City” only made 30, and this isn’t going to stick around either.  To be honest, most of the good bits about this track were on “Chocolate” anyway.

25.  Macklemore & Ryan Lews featuring Mary Lambert – “Same Love”

Um, okay.  This is a track from their album “The Heist” which was first promoted as a single last year.  It’s his gay rights and equality song, and it’s very earnest.  It wasn’t in the midweeks, so there’s been a sudden surge of sales in it for some reason.  Possibly because it won the 2013 MTV Music Award for (no really, this is a regular category) Best Music Video With A Message.

“Can’t Hold Us” is still hanging around at 35, giving the duo two hits on this week’s chart.  Seattle songwriter Mary Lambert gets her first UK hit.

14.  Shane Filan – “Everything To Me”

Shane Filan was a member of Westlife, the dreary Irish boy band balladeers who dominated the charts in 1999-2001, despite mainly releasing records that made you yearn for the edgy confrontationalism of Boyzone.  It’ll be gone next week.

According to his manager Louis Walsh, Shane Filan is meant to be targetting the Michael Buble market, so a brief appearance in the top 40 will be a nice bonus as far as he’s concerned.  And the record’s okay, if I’m being honest.

He’s the second Westlife member to have a solo hit, following Brian McFadden, who had a number 1 in 2004 with “Real To Me”.

6.  Rizzle Kicks – “Lost Generation”

The lead single from their second album “Roaring 20s” follows in the steps of the brass-driven tracks from the first one.  There’s quite a bit of moaning about pop culture on here, though they were surely overdoing it when they claimed that they’d had to get the lawyers to approve the lyrics about Jeremy Kyle and John Terry.  Leaving aside their appearance on Olly Murs’ “Heart Skips A Beat”, this is their second-biggest hit – the biggest is “Mama Do The Hump”, which made number 2 at the tail end of 2011.

1.  Ellie Goulding – “Burn”

3rd week at the top.  Looks like this is going to be it, though.

Album chart:

• “Hail to the King” by Avenged Sevenfold at 1.  No, seriously.  They’ve made the top 10 once before, but this is still a bit of a surprise.  It’s partly a reflection of how few albums you need to sell to make number 1 these days – increasingly, you can do it with a sufficiently dedicated fanbase.  Video for the title track.  Now, that said…
• “Hotel Cabana” by Naughty Boy at 2.  So Avenged Sevenfold did beat a fairly major release to top the chart.  Naughty Boy’s had a respectable track record on the singles chart, with both “Lifted” and “La La La” still in the top 40.
• “Another Self-Portrait, 1969-1971” by Bob Dylan at 5.  A well-reviewed collection of unreleased tracks.
• “Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action” by Franz Ferdinand at 6.  Their fourth album, the lowest chart place to date, and the first not to spawn any hit singles (though that’s hardly unique for guitar bands this far into their career).  Lead single: “Right Action”.
• “Studio Zoo” by Newton Faulkner at 10.  His fourth album.  Two of the others made number 1 and the other got to number 3, so…  The gimmick here was that he streamed the entire recording of the album, for any fans with loads of time to spare.  Lead single: “Losing Ground”.
• “One and All” by Fishermen’s Friends at 29.  They do sea shanties.  They had a top 10 album in 2010.  Lead single: “Mary Anne”.  The video is indeed a bunch of middle aged guys singing a sea shanty.
• “Rieu Royale” by Andre Rieu at 40.  Pop-classical violinist.  He’s had top 5 albums before, but this one (commemorating the recent coronation of a new Dutch monarch) is admittedly of limited international appeal even to the Classic FM crowd.