Well, this one won’t take long.  Seriously, there’s a podcast one post down, you should listen to that first.  Proper content.  And in the next two or three days I will, honestly, try and get to Civil War II: X-Men.  But meantime…

1.  James Arthur – “Say You Won’t Let Go”

Number 1 for the third week.  It’s number one in both streams and sales, too.  But there’s not much more to be said about that.

4.  Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj – “Side to Side”

Up one more place.  In true 2016 style, this has taken a month to move four places.

9.  Bruno Mars – “24K Magic”

The only new entry this week.  Bruno Mars has never clicked with me – he tends to come across as somebody devoted to faithfully replicating other genres rather than having anything much of his own – but this is one of his better tracks, I guess.  It’s still completely generic funk/R&B, but it doesn’t have quite the same museum copy feel that I get from a lot of his work.

It’s pointless making too much of a first week chart place these days, and this obviously has a decent shot of going higher.  Mars has five UK number 1s to his credit, but one of those was 2014’s “Uptown Funk”, which was principally a Mark Ronson track.  The others were “Nothing’ On You”, “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)”, “Grenade” and “The Lazy Song”, all crammed into 2010-11, so it’s been a while.  But that’s bad luck more than anything else; the last album had two number 2 singles.

Let’s run quickly through the climbers in the rest of the chart…

13.  Zara Larsson – “Ain’t My Fault” 

Up three.  We’ve now overtaken her previous hit, an appearance on David Guetta’s World Cup single “This One’s For You”.

17.  Hailee Steinfeld & Grey featuring Zedd – “Starving”

Up eleven in its fourth week on chart (and ninth on release), so that’s a bit more notable.

24.  Neiked – “Sexual”

Up ten.  It’s been out for a couple of months but it feels like something that could take off now that it’s finally making the mainstream playlists.

30.  Dua Lipa – “Blow Your Mind”

Up one more place.  So much for that.

Like last week, the album chart is busier, because people are getting product on the shelves in time for Christmas.  That results in a top ten with eight new entries.  Behold this parade of people who’ve been around for an age.

• “Revolution Radio” by Green Day at 1.  Around since 1994.  This is their third number 1 album – the others were “American Idiot” in 2004, and “21st Century Breakdown” in 2009.  Single: “Bang Bang”.
• “In The Now” by Barry Gibb at 2.  Strangely, Barry Gibb has recorded four solo albums, but only two of them were ever release.  This is one; the other was “Now Voyager”, which failed to chart in 1984.  It’s the first new Bee Gees-related album in ages, though, which probably explains the chart position.  Title track.
• “The Last Hero” by Alter Bridge at 3.  Oh, the guys who did Edge’s ring music years ago.  This is their highest chart placing, though their last two studio albums also made the top 10.  Single: “Show Me A Leader”.
• “Stay Together” by the Kaiser Chiefs at 4.  The Voice UK may not have found new stars, but it’s kept Ricky Wilson’s career going.  They’ve been around for twelve years now – this is their sixth studio album, and remarkably, only one has placed lower than this.  Single: “Hole in my Soul”.
• “Oh My My” by OneRepublic at 6.  Ryan Tedder’s band have nearly a decade of chart track record behind them by now.  An increasingly rare example of a hit album with a hit single on it – though only just, with “Wherever I Go” getting to 29 back in June.  I suspect this might be the point where they transition into being an albums act.
• “Keepin’ The Horse Between Me And The Ground” by Seasick Steve at 8.  Ah, blues.  This is his fifth top ten album since 2008, which is impressively consistent.  Single: “Gypsy Blood”.
• “Day Breaks” by Norah Jones at 9.  All of her solo albums have made the top 10, except for 2009’s “The Fall”, which inexplicably stalled at 24.  The single “Carry On” was growing on me by the end.
• “All Bright Electric” by Feeder at 10.  Their highest placing since 2008, which is also the last time they made the singles top 40.  Their commercial peak was about a decade ago, but they’re holding up well enough as an albums act.  Feeder had their earliest hits back in the late 90s.  Single: “Eskimo”.
• “Friends” by White Lies at 11.  The first of their four albums to miss the top 10, but it is a very busy week for new releases.  Single: “Take It Out On Me”.  (The actual song starts about two and a half minutes in.)
• “13 Voices” by Sum 41 at 16.  They had their first hits in 2001 and haven’t troubled the singles chart since 2003.  Out of nowhere, this is their highest placed album since their debut “All Killer No Filler” – they haven’t even made the album chart since 2002, when the follow-up scraped to 39.  Single: “Fake My Own Death”.
• “A Place For Us To Dream” by Placebo at 21.  Twentieth anniversary compilation.  Here’s an alternative video for “Every You Every Me”.
• “Let Them Eat Chaos” by Kate Tempest at 28.  Rapper/poet, who was nominated for the Mercury in 2014.  This is the first time she’s actually charted, though.  Single: “Don’t Fall In”.
• “The Violent Sleep of Reason” by Meshuggah at 32.  Extreme metal, prog wing.  It’s their eighth album and the first to chart.  Single: “Clockworks”.