It’s the post-Eurovision chart, and for once, there’s a real impact in the top ten. But first…

1. Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding – “Miracle”

…this gets a fairly comfortable sixth week at number one. Still another two weeks to go before it matches “One Kiss” as Calvin Harris’s longest running number 1.

2. Loreen – “Tattoo”

Embedding doesn’t seem to be working right now, so I’ll just do links. You know how to open in a new window, after all.

It’s not unusual for tracks from Eurovision to show up in the top 40 in the following week, but their sales and streams tend to be frontloaded in the days after the contest. This year, four songs make the chart, but they all had actual sustained success and wind up in the top 10 – they’re legitimate hits. Part of that may be because the viewing figures were high this year, possibly because it was held in the UK (subbing for last year’s winner Ukraine). Part of it may be that the standard was unusually high.

We start off with the contest winner from Sweden. Loreen is a rare two-time Eurovision winner – she also won in 2012 with “Euphoria”, which reached number 3 in the UK, and lasted four weeks in the top 40. That track was really good too. We haven’t heard from her since then – and according to her Wikipedia discography, she hasn’t been troubling the Swedish singles chart much either. Nonetheless, this is very much the sort of Eurovision track that feels basically at home in the top 40.

One thing about Eurovision, though, is that it delivers something you don’t really get anywhere else these days – people watching a whole show of music even they have no inherent interest in most of the acts, and being exposed to tracks they weren’t expecting to like. Hence…

6. Käärijä – “Cha Cha Cha”

The UK market for Finnish-language electro-rap with a Rammstein influence is usually, shall we say, somewhat niche. But lo, here it is. Even with the concession of having a singalong chorus in the last third, it’s completely mad, and precisely what people want from Eurovision. But it’s also very catchy. This came second, and won the UK public vote.

9. Mae Muller – “I Wrote A Song”

The UK entry. This got a week at number 30 back in March but re-enters on the strength of the contest…

…where it bombed. Despite generally good reviews, it came in second last. (The Germans came last, and they entered an act who had several hit albums back at home.) This did come as a surprise. Normally when the UK crash and burn you can make the point that it wasn’t a hit in Britain either but… well, here it is. I think there are several like factors: it’s a good song but not a stand-out in the Eurovision format, where there was quite a lot of this genre; the standard was unusually high this year; and the live performance at the final was really not that great. Muller’s just not as strong a singer as some of the diva competition, and the sound mix didn’t do her any favours either.

Anyway, she’ll be breathing a sigh of relief at the single being a hit, especially if it sticks around.

10. Alessandra – “Queen of Kings”

Finally, one from the “kitsch but catchy” file, thanks to Norway. Alessandra’s previous claim to fame was as a contestant on the Norwegian version of The Voice, though she didn’t get past the first week of live shows.

17. Lil Durk featuring J Cole – “All My Life”

Lil Durk has had UK hits before, but only as a guest on other people’s records – he was on a Drake track in 2020, and a minor KSI hit in 2021. Bringing in the children’s choir doesn’t usually work but… this is actually rather good.

J Cole’s Wikipedia entry has a disambiguation tag in case you’re looking for the cricketer who played for Hampshire in 1784, which I consider admirably thorough.

24. Beyoncé – “Cuff It”

Another re-entry. This reached number 5 back in October, and it seems to be here because of the promotion for her UK concert dates. The album “Renaissance” re-enters the album chart at 13.

27. Lil Mabu – “Mathematical Disrespect”

This week’s random rap fragment that took off on TikTok. It’s the debut hit for Lil Mabu. The bit at the start of the video about his background is correct – he’s a rich white kid. The track is better than that makes it sound, though.

29. Ed Sheeran – “Life Goes On”

This is just one of those cases where the tracks from the album swap places in week two, and the three-song-limit rule results in one vanishing and the other becoming a “new entry”. “Eyes Closed” is down one place at 4, while “Curtains” drops from 16 to 32.

Every track on this album has a video, in case you were wondering.

32. Sam Ryder – “Mountain”

Last year’s Eurovision runner-up. “Space Man” got to number 2 at the time, but he hasn’t had a follow-up hit single since then. His album entered at number 1, though. He got to perform this single as part of the Eurovision interval act (they need to kill time during the voting), which is why it’s in the top 40. I don’t see it sticking around.

37. The Jonas Brothers – “Waffle House”

This has been climbing from the lower reaches for 6 weeks. The Jonas Brothers have one UK top ten hit to their name – “Sucker”, from 2019 – but they’ve always struggled to make a consistent impact.

This week’s climbers are fairly few in number, thanks to the four Eurovision entries at the top.

• “Giving Me” by Jazzy vaults from 38 to 14, which is huge in a busy week.
• “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence & The Machine climbs 27-21
• “Dancing is Healing” by Rudimental with Charlotte Plank & Vibe Chemistry climbs 33-23. That makes it Rudimental’s biggest hit since 2018.

There are ten (!) new entries and re-entries this week. The records leaving the top 40:

• “Heaven” by Niall Horan, which peaked at 16 but managed a deserved 12 weeks on the top 40.
• “Escapism” by Raye featuring 070 Shake, a former number 1.
• “Calendar” by Nines & Aisa after two weeks, peaking at 19.
• “Princess Diana” by Ice Spice, which peaked at 22 and got four weeks on chart.
• “Healing” by Tion Wayne after a single week at number 35.
• “Forget Me” by Lewis Capaldi, which must have hit the downweighting rule, since it plummets straight down from 11. This was its second visit to the chart; it had a single week at number 1 on release last September.
• “Pointless” by Lewis Capaldi, which made a brief return visit to the chart over the last five weeks, following its (slightly engineered) week at number one in January.
• “Lost” by Bring Me The Horizon after a single week at number 29.
• “Boat” by Ed Sheeran, which was number 15 last week but gets blanked out by the three song rule.
• “Scrap the Monarchy” by Krown Jewelz after a single week at number 9; it was always intended as a one-week thing.

On the album chart, “-” by Ed Sheeran gets a second week at number 1.

2. Potter Payper – “Real Back In Style”

Potter Payper did get a hit single out of his last album, but no such luck with this one. Still, this is three consecutive top ten albums, and the highest placing too.

3. The Jonas Brothers – “The Album”

We’ve had the single above. It’s their fourth top 10 album, falling one place short of their last album in 2019.

5. Lovejoy – “Wake Up & It’s Over”

Their second album, the first to make the top 10. The single “Call Me What You Like” reached number 32.

6. Alison Goldfrapp – “The Love Invention”

Her first solo album – Goldfrapp was a duo of herself and Will Gregory. They had five top ten albums, the last of which – from 2017 – also landed at 6.

11. Overmono – “Good Lies”

Welsh electronic duo. They’ve been around for years but this is their first album.

16. Daft Punk – “Random Access Memories”

10th anniversary reissue. It’s the one with “Get Lucky” on it, but that doesn’t have a video. It spent two weeks at number one release.

31. BC Camplight – “The Last Rotation of Earth”

He’s a songwriter from New Jersey. This is his sixth album and he’s previously claimed it will be his last. It’s his first to chart; its predecessor only got to number 78.

33. Sub Focus – “Evolve”

The single “Ready to Fly” reached number 29 at the end of February. Their previous album – a collaboration with Wilkinson in 2020 – didn’t chart.