Not the most memorable of top 10s. We have a static top four, and nine of the ten songs were there last week too. So for a third week…

1. Dave & Central Cee – “Sprinter”

… is number one.

11. Leigh-Anne – “Don’t Say Love”

That would be Leigh-Anne Pinnock of Little Mix, whose surname has apparently been deemed unsuitable for solo status. The fact that she misses the top 10 is likely to cause a bit of concern, but Little Mix tracks have climbed from mid-table entries before, so the jury is still out. The track itself is… okay, I guess?

The first Little Mix member to release a solo single was the exiled Jesy Nelson, who reached number 4 in 2021 with “Boyz” and… then vanished off the face of the charts. She left her record label in 2022, and released another single earlier this year – “Bad Thing”, which got decent reviews, but bombed spectacularly. Admittedly, the decision to release a mid-pace ballad about domestic violence as a comeback record was, er, bold – and probably intended more to reposition her as a Serious Artist.

14. Peggy Gou – “(It Goes Like) Nanana”

Debut hit. She’s a South Korean DJ, though she’s currently based in Germany. It’s a pretty good retro dance track.

28. Taylor Swift – “Cruel Summer”

This is an album track from 2019’s “Lover” which has picked up some steam on TikTok. Swift has decided to run with it and promote it as a single. Well, why not? “Karma” is still on the charts, at number 33 this week.

31. Tom Grennan – “How Does It Feel”

His third album “What Ifs and Maybes” enters the album chart at number 1. It’s his second number 1, following 2021’s “Evering Road” (his debut got to number 5).  None of the singles from this one have got above number 27, and the album’s release finally gets this track into the top 40 a month after it came out.

37. Doja Cat – “Attention”

This is the first single from her next album. She’s been making noises about swinging back away from pop to something more credible, and that’s clearly the message that this single is going for. Number 37 would be low for her, but she’s climbed from the lower reaches before.

This week’s climbers:

• “Padam Padam” by Kylie Minogue climbs 9-8. She last got this high in 2011 when she guested on a Taio Cruz single.
• “Good Love” by Hannah Laing & RoRo climbs 13-9.
• “UK Rap” by Dave & Central Cee climbs 14-13.
• “Little Things” by Jorja Smith climbs 20-15.
• “Satellite” by Harry Styles finally gets momentum as a single, climbing 31-18 – although it’s still overshadowed by “As It Was” at number 5. And “Late Night Talking”, which has been hanging around in the 30s for four weeks now, suddenly jumps to 22.
• “0800 Heaven” by Nathan Dawe, Joel Corry & Ella Henderson climbs 23-21.
• “Unhealthy” by Anne-Marie & Shania Twain climbs 36-24. Twain hasn’t been this high since her last top 10 hit, 19 years ago.
• “Talibans” by Byron Messia climbs 37-34-33. I really wouldn’t have predicted this one sticking around.
• “Area Codes” by Kali, which had a week at number 39 a fortnight back, re-enters at 38.

There are six records leaving the top 40:

• “Side Effects” by Becky Hill & Lewis Thompson, which managed four weeks in the top 40 but couldn’t get past number 35.
• “People” by Libianca, a number 2 hit that spent ten weeks in the top 10 alone, and entered the top 40 back in January.
• “Heaven” by Niall Horan, after re-entering at 40 last week.
• “Wish You The Best” by Lewis Capaldi, which had a week at number 1 on its release and crashed due to the downweighting rule in its tenth week.
• “Chemical” by Post Malone, which got nine weeks on chart, entering at 11 and dawdling slowly down.
• “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence & The Machine, which got six weeks as a back catalogue hit, peaking at 21.

“Calm Down” by Rema is still the longest running hit, and since it’s at number 10, it’s likely to stay that way for some time to come.

The album chart is absurdly busy. “What Ifs & Maybes” by Tom Grennan is number 1; we’ve covered that.

2. Queens of the Stone Age – “In Times New Roman”

Their last studio album, 2017’s “Villains”, reached number 1; the one before that, in 2013, got to number 2. They’re consistent.

4. Pet Shop Boys – “Smash – The Singles 1985-2020”

Exactly what it sounds like. Well, kind of. The “1985” is there to cut off their two pre-fame singles – the original version of “West End Girls” and its follow-up “One More Chance”. Also missing are a 2020 vinyl-only release, “Burning the Heather”; the 1994 Comic Relief single “Absolutely Fabulous”, which was a hit but arguably doesn’t really belong on a career retrospective; and, oddly, “How Can You Expect To Be Seriously”, which was a released as a double A-side with “Where The Streets Have No Name” in 1991, and has a video, but seems to have been memory-holed because the duo don’t like it any more.

5. Far From Saints – “Far From Saints”

This is a side project of Kelly Jones from the Stereophonics. The rest of the group are members of The Wind & The Wave.

6. Texas – “The Very Best Of – 1989-2023”

Again, self-explanatory. Texas still release albums fairly regularly and usually make the top 5.

10. Gunna – “A Gift & A Curse”

That’s below the position of his last two albums, but it’s still a third top ten album, and it’s a busy week.

10. Ateez – “The World EP 2 – Outlaw”

K-pop. It’s their 11th EP, but it seems to be the first time they’ve seriously tried to promote themselves abroad.

17. Ben Howard – “Is It?”

His fifth album and the first time he’s missed the top 10. Considering that his last album, 2021’s “Collections from the Whiteout”, was a number 1, this looks to have underperformed, even allowing for the fact that it’s a shift of style.

20. Asake – “Work of Art”

Nigerian Afrobeats. Last year’s album got to 22.

40. Little Simz – “No Thank You”

Her previous album, in 2021, got to number 4 – so this is a massive decline.