Well, Ed Sheeran has a new album out, and we all know what that means.

Oh, hold on.

1. Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding – “Miracle”

That’s a total of five weeks, albeit with a one-week interruption by Lewis Capaldi in the middle. That overtakes “Love Me Like You Do” to be Ellie Goulding’s longest running number one. (Calvin Harris’s record is eight weeks, with “One Kiss”.) The midweeks have it holding on for a sixth week.

9. The Krown Jewelz – “Scrap the Monarchy”

A fourth top ten hit for the group who normally go by “the Kunts”, released to tie in with the Coronation. Like a lot of their records, it’s boosted by releasing multiple remixes – Apple Music appears to have 35 version of this song – but plenty of people try the chart campaign schtick and it doesn’t work for anyone else. Inevitably, what with the coronation itself being over a week ago now, this is not going to be in the top 100 next week.

15. Ed Sheeran – “Boat”
16. Ed Sheeran – “Curtains”

So, Ed Sheeran’s album “-“ – or “subtract”, if you prefer – enters at number 1. It’s his sixth number one album, following “Plus”, “Multiply”, “Divide”, “Equals” and, er, “No 6 Collaborations Project”. But… what it doesn’t do is flood the top end of the chart with Ed Sheeran tracks. “Eyes Closed”, which had a single week at number 1 in April, has never dropped below six, and rebounds to 3 this week. “Boat” was released as a promotional single a couple of weeks ago but didn’t actually make the top 40; it and “Curtains” now show up at numbers 15 and 16 respectively. No, they’re not the first two tracks on the album… well, actually, “Boat” is the first track on the album, but “Curtains” isn’t.

Some of Sheeran’s other albums show up on the albums chart – or rather, enjoy a resurgence, because they never went away. “Equals” rebounds 19-12 this week. “Divide” rebounds 27-16.

Nonetheless, the week one performance of “Subtract” is way below previous Sheeran albums, mainly because it doesn’t seem to be getting the same volume of streams. To be fair, this album genuinely doesn’t seem to be going for the big hit singles in the same way as the predecessors were, and the chart performance is still entirely respectable. But it does feel like we might be moving into Sheeran’s post-imperial phase.

27. Florence & The Machine – “Dog Days Are Over”

Reactivated thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3, this track was first released on 2008, but didn’t chart until a re-issue in 2010, when it got to number 23.

29. Bring Me The Horizon – “LosT”

The video for this isn’t embeddable because it’s age restricted. It is fairly unpleasant, to be honest, even though it’s meant to be comedy violence. Anyway, Bring Me The Horizon occasionally get a track into the bottom end of the top 40 and it always vanishes after a week. According to the midweeks, this will be following suit.

33. Rudimental with Charlotte Plank & Vibe Chemistry – “Dancing is Healing”

Rudimental had a minor hit with Raye in early 2021, but they haven’t a hit of their own since “Come Over” reached number 26 back in 2020. Charlotte Plank gets her first hit single; she’s a member of Loud LDN, the same collective that produced venbee. Vibe Chemistry is another producer, who had a minor hit with “Balling” last year. The midweeks have this climbing significantly.

35. Tion Wayne – “Healing”

This is pretty good. The video, for reasons which defy budgetary explanation, is filmed in England, Nigeria, Ghana and India.

38. Jazzy – “Giving Me”

Her debut solo single, but she was the featured singer on “Make Me Feel Good” by Belters Only, a deserved number 4 hit last year. It’s been climbing from the lower reaches for three weeks, and the midweeks show it jumping into the top 20 next time.

This week’s climbers:

• “Cupid” by Fifty Fifty edges up another place, from 9 to 8.
• “See You Again” by Tyler, the Creator featuring Kali Uchis climbs 27-21. That’s his second-highest position – “Earfquake” is his highest, and it got to 17.

And… oh, that’s it. Well, there are eight new entries. The tracks making way for them are:

• “Die For You” by the Weeknd, which peaked at 3.
• “Sure Thing” by Miguel peaked at number 4 and spent 16 weeks in the top 40.
• “Flip a Switch” by Raye only managed two weeks, peaking at 35.
• “Peaches” by Jack Black peaked at 28 and actually lasted three weeks, despite being a 90 second novelty.
• “Never Felt So Alone” by Labrinth entered at 33, dropped out, and re-entered for a single week at 40 last time.
• “Double Fantasy” by the Weeknd featuring Future entered at 14 and dropped out after two weeks.
• “Favela” by Nines featuring J Styles got a single week at 34.
• “Red Flags” by Mimi Webb spent sixteen weeks in the top 40, and spent four of those weeks at its peak of 12.

On the album chart, Ed Sheeran’s “-” is number 1. (And yes, the midweeks do show it getting a second week, obviously.)

4. Tunde – “First Lap”

UK rap. This is his debut album, despite what the Official Chart Company’s database will try to tell you. The Tunde who had a number 32 self-titled album in 2004 is, however, someone else entirely – specifically, the lead singer of the Lighthouse Family.

17. Tom Meighan – “The Reckoning”

Debut album from the former lead singer of Kasabian. He left the group in 2020 after pleading guilty to assaulting his fiancée; they got married the following year.

23. Taylor Swift – “Speak Now”

You know, I thought it was painful when YouTube insisted on showing me the same Grammarly advert before every song. But now it’s on to showing me the same Susan Calman advert for Bank of Scotland (“We Scots! We’re a hardy bunch…”) and oh god, bring back the grammar plug-in.

Anyway! This has re-entered the album chart because Taylor Swift has announced that she’s released her re-recorded version of it in July. You know, so that you don’t have to listen to this version. It’s her third album from 2010, which reached number 6 on release. From the perspective of the UK market, this is very much a pre-megastar release – the biggest single from it was “Mean”, above, which got to… er, number 30. To most people at this point, she was a functional one-hit wonder whose reputation rested on “Love Story”, a number 2 hit single which she had yet to follow up with anything of comparable success.

29. Therapy? – “Hard Cold Fire”

Aside from a greatest hits album, this is the first time Therapy? have got an album into the top 40 since 1998’s “Semi-Detached”.