It’s Sabrina Carpenter week!

1. HUNTR/X – “Golden”

I’m going to go with the short version of the artist credit, I think. Anyway, this is its fifth week at number 1, and it’s still growing. The two Saja Boys tracks fall to 5 and 8 this week, but that’s more of a reflection of two high new entries. Their actual streaming figures went up.

3. Sabrina Carpenter – “Tears”
7. Sabrina Carpenter – “My Man on Willpower” 

Sabrina Carpenter’s album “Man’s Best Friend” enters the album chart as her second number 1, and gets the obligatory three singles. The third is former number 1 “Manchild”, which rebounds from 26 to 4. It’s her seventh studio album (ignoring the Christmas EP “Fruitcake”), but the first four were on Disney labels and don’t really count. Its predecessor “Short & Sweet” rebounds to number 8, but after 54 weeks on release, it’s never actually dropped below number 13. More surprising is that her first post-Disney album, “Emails I Can’t Send”, shows up at number 21 – it reached number 76 on release, and until now has only managed a single week at number 40.

“Tears” is the second single from the album and the one with an actual video. It’s one of only three tracks on the album that doesn’t have an “Explicit” tag on Apple Music, which is slightly remarkable if you’ve seen the lyrics. As it happens, the three charting songs are also the first three tracks on the album – the whole thing would have charted if it wasn’t for the cap. Nonetheless, the first week numbers are actually slightly down on last year.

30. Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc”

Is this going to happen every time an indie band goes on tour? “Feel Good Inc” reached number 2 on release in 2005. Oddly, it’s here on its own, with no other Gorillaz tracks in the top 100.

35. Tyler, The Creator – “Sugar on my Tongue”

This has been floating around the top 75 for the last six weeks, and hovering just outside the top 40 since the video came out. By his standards it’s a crowd pleasing dancefloor number. (The video is, um, a bit unpleasant towards the end.)

This week’s climbers:

• “Yellow” by Coldplay climbs 19-17
• “Sparks” by Coldplay climbs 22-19. This is healthy!
• “Dive” by Olivia Dean climbs 31-22. Meanwhile, “Man I Need” is a non-mover at 2 and “Nice to Each Other” is at 9.
• “Takedown” by Twice climbs 27-24.
• “WGFT” by Gunna & Burna Boy climbs 34-29.
• “Breakin’ Dishes” by Rihanna climbs 40-31.
• “Strategy” by Twice climbs 39-32.

There are four new entries, plus a re-entry for “Victory Lap” by Skepta & Fred Again at number 40. The five tracks leaving the top 40 are:

• “Hot to Go” by Chappell Roan, which re-entered at 28 last week.
• “Dealer” by Lola Young, after a five-week run that peaked at number 27.
• “Blessings” by Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas, which had 16 weeks in the top 40 chart, 13 of them in the top 10. (And then it got hit by the downweighting rule.)
• “Survive” by Lewis Capaldi, which got a week at number 1 but only lasted 9 weeks in the top 40 – a short run by current standards.
• “Ceremony” by Stray Kids after a week at number 37.

On the album chart, we’ve covered “Man’s Best Friend” by Sabrina Carpenter at number 1.

2. CMAT – “Euro-Country” 

This is her third album. The first didn’t cart at all, the second one got to number 25, and the single “Take a Sexy Picture of Me” only marginally missed the top 40.

3. Bryan Adams – “Roll with the Punches” 

This is the standard position for Bryan Adams – his last three studio albums all reached 2 or 3.

5. The Hives – “The Hives Forever Forever the Hives” 

Their second album since reforming; the last one reached 2 (and dropped straight out of the top 100 the next week). This is their fourth top ten album in total. You can’t accuse them of straying from their sound.

21. Sabrina Carpenter – “Emails I Can’t Send”

As already mentioned. There were five singles from this album but the only one to make the singles top 40 was the final one, “Nonsense”. It reached number 32. “Feather”, a bonus track from the deluxe edition, reached number 19. Different time.

27. Nova Twins – “Parasites & Butterflies”

Second album, landing at exactly the same position as the first.