Next week… next week looks set to be pretty busy at the top of the chart.  This week, yeah, not so much.

38.  Kygo featuring Parson James – “Stole The Show”

Isn’t the video display on the helmet visor Daft Punk’s thing?  Oh well.  This is the follow-up to “Firestone”, and sees the Norwegian producer moving away from dance music to something a bit more mid paced.  Takes forever to get going, but the hook is great when it finally shows up.  Parson James is from South Carolina and this looks to be one of those “do a few guest spots before launching a major label career” jobs.

34.  The Weeknd – “I Can’t Feel My Face”

No video for this one.  It’s not a novel observation that he sounds like Michael Jackson on this, but by god, there are moments on the verses where he really sounds like Michael Jackson.

16.  Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea – “Pretty Girls”

Hmm.  It’s the lead single from Britney Spears’ album.   This was at 8 in the midweeks, landed at 16 at the end of the week, and looks on course to drop straight out of the top 40.  So yeah, that’s a fan base record, and a dwindling fan base at that.  There’s a decent bass line on this, and it is at least an attempt to get a bit more of her own personality onto a single, but it’s clearly not worked.  Part of it must be that Britney Spears is 33 and she can’t keep doing the teen brat act indefinitely.

Weirdly, this has a co-writing credit for all four members of Little Mix.

4.  Deorro x Chris Brown – “Five More Hours”

Deorro is a Californian DJ making his first chart appearance.  Chris Brown, well, he’s promising here to treat you like a lady.  His track record in that department doesn’t inspire confidence.

“Five More Hours” is now onto its third iteration.  It started as an instrumental called “Five Hours”, which was a moderate hit as an instrumental in Europe last year.  It’s also previously been released in America with added vocals by DyCy under the name “Five Hours (Don’t Hold Me Back)”.  The instrumental is the best of the bunch – to be honest, the DyCy version was a bit lacklustre, so I can see why somebody thought it was worth revisiting.

1.  Jason Derulo – “Want to Want Me”

That’s four weeks at number one, but with the midweeks showing a clean sweep of new entries in the top three, this surely has to be the end of the road.

On the album chart:

• “Drones” by Muse spends a second week at 1.
• “Before This World” by James Taylor at 4.  Taylor’s been around since the 1970s and is now 67.  He’s probably best known for his 1971 cover of “You’ve Got A Friend”, which was his only significant hit single in the UK.  On the album chart, this matches the number 4 peaks of the 1971 parent album “Mud Slide and the Blue Horizon” and his 2003 greatest hits album.   Single: “Angels of Fenway”.
• “The Original High” by Adam Lambert at 8.  The runner up of American Idol in 2009.  Without the TV back story, he’s struggled to make any impact on the singles chart in this country – the single from this album stalled at 71 – but strangely, his albums are doing increasingly well.  Single: “Ghost Town”.
• “Let The Road” by Rixton at 19.  The single “We All Want The Same Thing” drops from 21 to 33 this week.
• “Deja Vu” by Giorgio Moroder at 30.  The legendary producer released solo albums from 1969 until 1985, but remarkably, this extremely late-career comeback is the first one to actually make the album top 40.  He’s in his mid-70s now, but he’s not going out without a fight…