So is the parade of huge-selling number ones over, or are we just in a lull for now?  Probably a lull…

40.  Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx – “Gold Digger”

This charted on the strength of a late surge of sales after it cropped up on an X Factor audition show on Saturday 31 August.  So yes, it’s that time again.  Originally a number 2 hit in 2005.

39.  Bastille – “Things We Lost In The Fire”

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The great thing about these posts is that you can write them in small bits.

And then completely forget to actually post them until the end of the week.

30.  OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”

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Another new number one, and yet again it’s selling comfortably over the 100K mark, as the trend towards high-selling number one singles continues.

Five new entries this week.  Let’s dash through them.

35.  Le Youth – “C O O L”

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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”

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Dead week, pretty much.  And judging from iTunes, next week’s going to be pretty dead too.  So brace yourself for a long run at the top for Avicii…

32.  Lana Del Rey – “Summertime Sadness”

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After a run of twelve weeks in which the number 1 single sold over 100,000, the charts finally run out of momentum and gives us, well, a number 1 by default…

36.  Pink featuring Lily Allen – “True Love”

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We now return you to your regularly scheduled weekly turnover of number one singles.

40.  Russ Chimes – “Turn Me Out”

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So Robin Thicke doesn’t manage a fifth week at number one – but to be honest, he was unlucky.  He still sold over 100,000 copies, and he was only dethroned by a track that had its release date brought forward when the record company finally started panicking about cover versions.

40.  Evanescence – “My Immortal”

As covered on The Voice UK by Andrea Begley – of whom more in a bit.  This is probably the best known Evanescence song that isn’t “Bring Me To Life”, and it made number 7 in 2003 before going on to an afterlife soundtracking TV shows and being used in, well, singing contests.  The band’s biggest UK hit was, obviously, “Bring Me To Life”, which made number 1 the same year.

39.  Kanye West – “Black Skinhead”

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Seven new entries this week, and a truly odd bunch they are too…

36.  Leah McFall – “Killing Me Softly”

The Voice UK is cursed.

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Whoops.  Nearly forgot about this one.

From the look of it, virtually everyone decided to steer clear of releasing new material this week.  That could be because last weekend saw the final of Britain’s Got Talent; perhaps nobody wanted to risk going head to head with some viral sensation.  If so, they needn’t have worried, because there is no viral sensation.  The result is an almost totally dead chart, to the point where the lower end is propped up by a string of back catalogue material from the iTunes 59p sale.

Such as this…

40.  Pras Michel featuring Ol’ Dirty Bastard introducing Mya – “Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)”

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