Another very quiet week with no real threat of a change at the top. I know, I’m really building this up.

1. Alex Warren – “Ordinary”

Eight weeks. He still needs one more week to match Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” from last year. It’s down a bit, but still has a massive 74% lead over the number 2 single, which is now Ravyn Lenae.

17. Ed Sheeran – “Old Phone”

This is the second single from his upcoming album, making a rather muted debut. It’s been overshadowed by the first single “Azizam”, which is spending its fifth week in the top 5 – albeit without getting above number 3. Obviously, the strategy here is to lead with a pop song and follow up with an acoustic track to cover the bases.

39. Jorja Smith – “The Way I Love You”

Well, that’s a UK garage throwback, isn’t it? Jorja Smith is what you might call a perennial presence in the lower reaches of the chart with the occasional bigger hit along the way. This is her eighth top 40 hit, the first one coming in 2017. That’s counting a guest appearance for Drake and a collab earlier this year with AJ Tracey. Her biggest hit was “Be Honest”, which reached number 8 in 2019 and spent 3 months in the chart.

This week’s climbers:

• “Love Me Not” by Ravyn Lenae climbs 5-2.
• “Undressed” by Sombr climbs 13-6 to give him his first top 10 hit.
• “Back to Friends” by Sombr climbs 21-15.
• “Mystical Magical” by Benson Boone climbs 17-16.
• “Party 4 U” by Charli XCX climbs 34-28.
• “Hairdresser” by Skye Newman climbs 38-30.

The two tracks leaving the top 40:

• “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims, after two weeks as a re-entry at number 40.
• “Damocles” by Sleep Token, after a single week at 25.

On the album chart:

1. Pink Floyd – “At Pompeii – MCMLXXII”

Vinyl reissue of the soundtrack to the 1972 concert film, which features the band performing their normal live set in an empty amphitheatre. It hasn’t actually been released in this form before, and so it’s technically a new entry. It’s their seventh number 1 album – the others are “Atom Heart Mother” (1970), “Wish You Were Here” (1975), “The Final Cut” (1983), “The Division Bell” (1994), “Pulse” (1995) and “The Endless River” (2014).

14. Andy Bell – “Ten Crowns”

The one from Erasure, not the one from Ride. This is the first time he’s made the album chart as a solo artist, though he released solo albums in 2005 and 2010, plus several records as part of his “Torsten” project in the 2010s – some of which were clearly not intended as commercial projects.

27. James – “Live at the Acropolis”

Well, it’s James, and they’re live at the Acropolis. Although unlike Pink Floyd, they had an audience.

35. Andrew Cushin – “Love is for Everyone”

Second album, first to chart. He’s supported some fairly big names, like Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller.