First up, the announcement you’ve all been waiting for – yes, the baby is finally here!

And he’s already showing a heavy comics influence – he came out on Wednesday, he was late, and the original creative team aren’t getting any money out of him.

We shall now celebrate his arrival in the traditional way – with a column I wrote on Monday but didn’t get around to posting until now.

39. AlunaGeorge – “You Know You Like It”

AlunaGeorge made number 2 earlier in the year as guests on Disclosure’s “White Noise”, and reached 17 in their own right with “Attracting Flies”.  The album “Body Music” is out this week and charts at 11.  In an interesting promotional tactic, the video for “You Know You Like It” has been around since June, but it wasn’t actually released as a single.  It’s charting now on the strength of cherrypicking from the album.

34.  Of Monsters And Men – “Little Talks”

Making yet another return to the chart.  Apparently it’s being used in an advert or something.  The track originally made number 12 last year, and remains their only hit single.

30.  Imagine Dragons – “It’s Time”

This has been a single overseas for more than a year, and originally made  number 40 in April as a cherrypicked album track.  It’s now being promoted as a single in its own right in this territory.

28.  Disclosure – “F For You”

The next single from Disclosure’s album, selling already as an album track.  Unusually, this one has them doing their own vocals, and comes with a straight performance video (a pretty good one, too).

24.  Rudimental featuring Foxes – “Right Here”

Ah, Rudimental – never knowingly undervideoed.  The song may be a fairly standard “let out your inner strength” affair, but the video offers five minutes of tiger theft and kung fu.  This is their next single, and again, it’s already available as an album track, so it’s climbing from the lower reaches.  Guest singer Foxes has yet to have a hit in her own right, but previously appeared on Zedd’s single “Clarity”, which made the top 30 in March.

12.  Eliza Doolittle – “Big When I Was Little”

It’s been three years since Eliza Doolittle’s debut album, though apparently that can partly be attributed to her record label getting into trouble.  At any rate, if you were wondering whether her appearance on a Disclosure single earlier in the year heralded a change of style, then think again.  Little Miss Twee returns to normal for her comeback single, which is basically one of those “hey, remember Spangles” tracks, except obviously for people much younger.  (I don’t remember Spangles, incidentally, but for a while there in the 90s they did seem to become the stock shorthand nostalgia reference for people five to ten years older than me.)

It’s cutesy, and it seems terribly confused about what time frame it’s meant to be about (childhood?  teenage years?) but it’s a bouncy little summer song with some neat brass to liven up the arrangement.

Her biggest hit remains “Pack Up”, which made number 5 in 2010.  But she does get the highest new entry of an admittedly quiet week.

9.  Calvin Harris feat Ayah Marer – “Thinking About You”

Climbing from 14, but worth mentioning because it gives Harris an unprecedented ninth top 10 hit from the same album.  (Greatest hits albums not counted, obviously.)

In fact, the previous record for the most hit singles from an album is seven, and was set by Michael Jackson.  Harris beat that record in April, but with a slight asterisk, since one of the top ten hits is “We Found Love”, which was actually credited to Rihanna when it came out as a single back in 2011. Nonetheless, it is on his album too, and having the same track appear on two albums is by no means unknown.  At any rate, with this hit he puts his record beyond any possible dispute.

4.  Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais – “Summertime Sadness”

Climbing from 32 now that the remix version is available.  The OCC is now crediting the remix as the lead version, complete with co-artist credit for Gervais.

This naturally becomes the biggest hit for both Lana Del Rey, who previously made 9 with “Video Games” and “Born To Die”, and Gervais, who had a number 26 hit last year with “Molly” (you know, the one where Siri asks for help in locating a reliable drug dealer).  Decide for yourself who deserves the more credit for this one – it certainly wasn’t doing anything commercially until the remix came along, but on the other hand, the song itself is largely intact in this version.  It’s certainly not a repeat of 1997, when Tori Amos scored a technical number 1 with this entirely unrecognisable version of “Professional Widow”.

1.  Avicii – “Wake Me Up”

Third week at the top, and he’s already passed the half million sales barrier.  iTunes suggests that a fourth week might be a challenge, though frankly, given the competition, I’m rooting for him to hold on…

On the album chart:-

• “The Impossible Dream” by Richard & Adam at number 1.  Runners-up from Britain’s Got Talent, whose performance on the final was largely memorable for featuring a member of the backing group breaking ranks, racing to the front of the stage, and attempting to hurl eggs at Simon Cowell.
• Scouting For Girls’ “Greatest Hits” at 8.  I know, but they did have four top ten hits, including the number 1 “This Ain’t A Love Song” in 2010.
• “Body Music” by AlunaGeorge at 11, as already mentioned.
• “In A World Like This” by the Backstreet Boys at 16.  Reunion album.  Knowing their market, they evidently didn’t bother with promoting any singles for this, though there’s a video for the title track – suffice to say they’re no Take That.
• “The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell – vol 1” by Five Finger Death Punch at 21.  Fourth album by the American metal group, whose other efforts include “War is the Answer” and “American Capitalist”.  It’s the first to chart in the UK.  Vol 2 is apparently coming out later in the year.