The parade of plugs continues – once again, I direct your attention to the post about the upcoming live show, and where to buy tickets!

Coming up sooner or later, a look at Marvel Knights: X-Men, but first…

33.  Haim – “If I Could Change Your Mind”

A slightly surprising chart appearance for the fifth single to be taken from “Days Are Gone” – and thus, a song that’s been out for six months.  Interesting video; playing very much against type for a Proper Band, without being obviously ironic about it.

21.  Tujamo & Plastik Funk featuring Sneakbo – “Dr Who”

Another case of a club track getting a bolted on rapper for the commercial release, though it’s a pretty good fit here.  Tujamo is a German producer, while Plastik Funk are a Spanish/Japanese duo.  This was an instrumental when it was released abroad under the title “Who”, but the UK record label has added Sneakbo, a London rapper who’s had a couple of minor hits in the past.  For once, I think it’s an improvement, at least in the context of the unusually concise two-and-a-half-minute radio edit.

15.  Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne – “Loyal”

Oh dear.  Four minutes of Chris Brown whining about girls being unfaithful, and reminding us of his bank balance.  Awful, but it’s climbing, so we might be stuck with it for a while.

The other guest rapper in the video is Tyga, but there are multiple versions of this track with different people in that slot, which presumably explains his absence from the chart credit.

7.  Martin Garrix & Jay Hardway – “Wizard”

And another name comes off the One Hit Wonders list, as the teenage producer Martin Garrix follows up last year’s “Animals”.  As his name might suggest, collaborator Jay Hardway is another Benelux DJ.

3.  Faul & Wad Ad vs Pnau – “Changes”

Yes, that string of random characters is the artist credit.  Faul and Wad Ad are a production duo from Paris.  “Faul” is German for “lazy”.  Wad Ad doesn’t mean anything, really.

It’s their record, but it’s built around the same children’s choir vocal that formed the basis of “Baby” by Pnau, hence their co-credit.  Pnau are an Australian duo, comprising Peter Mayes and Nick Littlemore, who’s better known as a member of Empire of the Sun.  The name is apparently pronounced puh-NYOW, or something like that – basically it’s meant to be the sound of a ricocheting bullet, though your chances of working that out without having it explained to you must be slim.

It’s their first appearance on the singles chart, though they did top the album chart in 2012 with their Elton John collaboration “Good Morning to the Night” – a rather odd exercise in remix medleys.  If you’re curious, here’s “Sad”, which is constructed from five other Elton John songs.

The original “Baby” – which scraped the bottom end of the Australian charts six years ago – was a much, much spikier affair.  It’s more initially interesting, but to be honest it does wear thin quite quickly.  Faul and Wad Ad have taken all that off and given it a Sonnentanz-style mellowness that holds up rather better.

1.  5 Seconds of Summer – “She Looks So Perfect”

Meet the Australian McFly.  This is their first proper single, which has done well for them back home.  It’s entry level power pop for ten year old girls, basically, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing when it’s done decently.  There’s a place for that sort of transition act, and it’s fine for what it is.

They’re the Australian McFly in more ways than one, though.  This is number one on the strength of some heavily front loaded sales at the start of the week.  But by Sunday they were at the bottom end of the iTunes top 10.  McFly were notorious for getting to number 1 with singles that turned out to have zero crossover appeal and ran out of purchasers on Tuesday, and in fact hold the record for the steepest fall from number 1 – their double A-side “Baby’s Coming Back”/”Transylvania” dropped directly to 20 in its second week.  (Technically that honour is shared with the 2005 reissue of Elvis Presley’s “One Night”/”I Got Stung”, but it had the excuse that it was a limited edition release and the supply ran out.)

5 Seconds won’t fall that far, but it is going to be a steep drop next week.

On the albums chart:

• “The Power of Love” by Sam Bailey at number 1.  Last year’s X Factor winner has been thrown to the wolves, with a knocked-out covers album cheerfully billed on her YouTube channel as “The perfect gift for Mother’s Day.”  Simon Cowell is probably right to think that this is her natural demographic, or at least more so than the singles chart would be, but that doesn’t alter the fact that her album has been rushed out in a way that we haven’t seen for some years.   There is no single for this, but a nine minute preview of the entire album can be found here.
• “Going Back Home” by Wilko Johnson at 3.  A farewell album from the former lead guitarist of Dr Feelgood, who has terminal cancer.  There’s no promotional videos for this that I can find.
• “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” by Elton John at 12.  Billed as a 40th anniversary reissue, although the album actually made number 1 on its first release in… er, 1973.  It’s the one with “Candle in the Wind” and “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”, but the track that’s got a video on YouTube is the lesser known “Harmony”.
• “Shakira” by Shakira at 14.  Um… well, “Oral Fixation vol 2” only got to number 12, but I’d still rate that as a surprisingly low position for her.
• “May Death Never Stop You – Greatest Hits 2001-2013” by My Chemical Romance at 15.  That’s a fairly typical chart position for the last couple of MCR albums.  An interesting title, considering that they didn’t actually have their first hit in this country until 2004.
• “Supermodel” by Foster The People at 26.  Their previous album got to number 12 off the back of “Pumped Up Kicks”, but that was 3 years ago, so a number 26 place doesn’t seem bad at all.  Single: “Coming of Age”.
  
• “The Very Best of the Everly Brothers” at 28.  I’m guessing somebody thought this might do well as a Mother’s Day reissue.  It dates from 1964 and comes with a bit of an asterisk: the boys had just changed record label, so most of their classic hits are actually featured here in re-recorded form.
• “The Classics” by Tony Bennett at 35.  Compilation.
• “Escape from the Shadow Garden” by Magnum at 38.  Veteran rock band who’ve been around since the early 70s.  Sampler: “Too Many Clowns”.
• “Odludek” by Jimi Goodwin at 39.  Debut solo album from the front man of Doves (and, by extension, Sub Sub).  Single: “Oh! Whiskey”.