Luckily for me, as I finally get to this on Thursday night, it was a very quiet week.

32.  Skrillex & Diplo featuring Justin Bieber – “Where Are Ü Now”

Well, that’s how the chart compilers are listing it – I thought the official credit on this collaboration was meant to be “Jack Ü”, but no doubt this is what the record company asked for. Diplo’s other current single, the Major Lazer track “Lean On”, climbs to 6 this week.

If “Lean On” sees Diplo veering ever closer to straight pop, the same applies with even greater force here.  And it’s barely recognisable as a Skrillex record at all.  You could see that as a broadening of the palette, but honestly, this sounds more like a Justin Bieber record than anything you’d expect from the star producers.

17.  Michael Calfan – “Treasured Soul”

Calfan is a French producer, making his chart debut here.  The vocal sample is uncredited, and I can’t find a clear statement about where it comes from, but it sounds like it might be a cut-up and pitch-shift of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” (“Turn my sorrow into treasured gold / You’ll pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow”).

4.  Clean Bandit – “Stronger”

“Clean Bandit in partnership with Microsoft presents”?  That’s not something you expect to see at the start of a video.  No doubt it’s something we can expect to get used to.  Apparently there’s a Microsoft-sponsored contest to work as a member of the video crew (woo!), and some of it was shot on Lumias, so there you go.

It’s Clean Bandit’s fourth top 10 hit.  The song originally appeared on the special edition of “New Eyes”, but this is a re-recording.  You’ll note that the singers are both uncredited and completely absent from the video – apparently, it’s Alex Newell from Glee, and one Sean Bass (whose sister Sharna sang on the earlier CB single “Extraordinary”).

1.  Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth – “See You Again”

Second week – and this is starting to look like a real change of behaviour at the top of the charts.  We’re used to a weekly turnover of number 1 singles, but out of the last six number 1s, five have managed multiple weeks at the top.  (The exception was “King” by Years and Years.)  This last happened in spring 2011, so it’s not that unheard of in recent times, but it’s certainly not what we normally get.

On the album chart:

• “Stages” by Josh Groban at 1.  This could be another sign of the declining album market favouring acts who skew older; Groban has never previously got above number 9.  Anyway, it’s a collection of covers from musicals.  Groban was also the host of the US version of Rising Star, a singing competition with live home voting that made reasonable sense in its native Israel, but was an incomprehensible mess of time-zone-related qualifications by the time the Americans were finished with it.  Single: “Bring Him Home.”
• “Sound & Color” by Alabama Shakes at 6.  Rock band from Alabama, obviously enough.  Their second album, both top 10.  Single: “Don’t Wanna Fight”.
• “Whispers 2” by Passenger at 12.  Remember this guy?  “Let Her Go”?  Big breakthrough hit in 2013?  Well, that was two albums ago, and he hasn’t had a comparable hit since, so the chart positions are drifting down.  Unusually for an album, this is a charity release, with all profits going to assist Unicef in Liberia.  Single: “Catch In The Dark”.
• “Love Story” by Yelawolf at 25.  Rapper from Alabama.  He’s on Eminem’s label.  It’s his second studio album but the first time he’s charted in this country.  Single: “Best Friend” (featuring Eminem – a lot of Eminem, once he shows up).
• “5am” by Amber Run at 36.  Debut album for a band from Nottingham who’ve supported Kodaline. It shows.  Single: “5AM”.
• “Never Happy, Ever After” by As It Is at 39.  Another debut, this time a Brighton guitar band.  Single: “Cheap Shots & Setbacks”.