This won’t take long – it’s spectacularly uneventful singles chart.

1. Sam Fender & Olivia Dean – “Rein Me In”

Yes, this again. “Rein Me In” has now been on the top 40 for 53 weeks without interruption. The all-time record is 54 (held by Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”), and obviously “Rein Me In” is going to shatter that. In an admittedly very quiet week, it returns to number 1 for a fourteenth week. This ties it with Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You”. Only four tracks have spent more weeks at number 1 – if it can manage another week (and it almost certainly will), then it will tie with Wet Wet Wet’s “Love is All Around” and Drake’s “One Dance” to be joint third.

This is “Rein Me In”‘s fourth run at number one. The all-time record is seven stints at number one, but that’s held by “Last Christmas”, which did it over multiple years. “Rein Me In” has done it in a single uninterrupted chart run, and that’s unprecedented.

To some extent we’re not comparing like with like here. For most of its history, the chart was measuring sales, and so it picked up the point where people started to listen to a record. A streaming chart will continue to register major hits for as long as people continue to listen to them, and so they can be expected to hang around for longer. Still, “Rein Me In”‘s performance stands out as exceptional even in the current market. The downweighting rule hasn’t always managed to shunt older tracks out of the top 40 – hello, “Ordinary” – but it’s generally been pretty good at keeping them off number one. It kicks in once a track has been out for more than ten weeks and has had three weeks in a row where it fell by more than the market average. What makes “Rein Me In” truly remarkable is that after 53 weeks it has yet to meet that condition.

25. Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas – “Blessings”

Didn’t we just have this three weeks ago? Yes, we did – it had a single week at number 27 and left again. There’s no obvious reason for it to be back, unless you think that being in the soundtrack of Forza Horizon 6 is a big deal. (And that game has been out for several weeks.) Another factor is a bunch of long-running tracks going to downweighting this week, which does result in a bit of shuffling within the chart, but that wouldn’t explain this track leaping 19 places.

Harris does have a current single out, “Satisfy”, which has been out for seven weeks and has yet to get above number 46.

32. Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull – “On The Floor”

Again, didn’t we just have this three weeks ago? And again, yes, we did – it had a week at number 35. This one probably is just a case of shuffling due to other tracks being shunted down the chart after going to downweighting.

33. Oasis – “Wonderwall”

Popular with the England fans, apparently. “Wonderwall” was a number 2 hit in 1995. It was held off by Robson & Jerome’s version of “I Believe”, which was number 1 for four weeks. This is what the nineties were really like, kids.

There’s also a re-entry at number 35 for Alex Warren’s “Fever Dream”, but that’s just a dead cat bounce by a track which dropped to 41 last week.

There are no truly new entries at all on this week’s top 40.

This week’s climbers (and bear in mind what I said about some tracks going to downweighting, creating a void that had to be filled by climbers):

• “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson rebounds from 7 to 3, the third time it’s reached that peak on its current run. “Beat It” falls to 10 this week.
• “Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley climbs 14-9 to become her first top 10 hit. (And indeed still her only top 40 hit, though “Be Her” could yet be the second.)
• “Free Your Mind” by Prospa & Cloonee climbs 17-12.
• “On 2Nite” by Silva Bumpa climbs 30-14 – that’s a significant move.
• “Material Lover” by Sienna Spiro climbs 20-15.
• “Talk To You” by ANOTR & 54 Ulta climbs 23-16 to enter the top 20 in its 12th week on the chart.
• “Earrings” by Malcolm Todd climbs to 17 after three weeks at 19.
• “Boston” by Stella Lefty climbs 26-18
• “Dai Dai” by Shakira & Burna Boy climbs 28-19, giving Shakira her first top 20 hit since “Empire” in 2014.
• “Sign of the Times” by Harry Styles climbs 29-20, a peak for its current run. He also has “American Girls” at 8 and “Aperture” at 27, but the third single from the current album, “Dance No More”, does appear to have bombed out.
• “Cinderella” by Mac Miller featuring Ty Dolla $ign climbs 27-21.
• “The One That Got Away” by Katy Perry climbs 38-28. That’s still below its number 18 peak from its original release.
• “Self Aware” by Temper City climbs 33-29, returning to a peak from three weeks ago.

The four tracks leaving the top 40 are:

• “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac, which had a four-week run including an all-time peak of number 18.
• “Just the Way You Are” by Milky, which had a 20-week run peaking at number 11, mostly thanks to the Ely Oaks remix.
• “Everywhere” by Fleetwood Mac, which had a four-week run peaking at 24.
• “I Want You Back” by the Jackson 5, with a six-week run and a peak of 26.

On the album chart:

1. Olivia Rodrigo – “You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love”

Two weeks. She also has three tracks in the top 5 singles – “Stupid Song” at 2, “The Cure” at 4 and “Drop Dead” at 5.

2. Myles Smith – “My Mess, My Heart, My Life”

Debut album – most of his big hits were on earlier EPs, but this does include “Stay (If You Wanna Dance)” (number 32) and “Drive Safe” (number 27).

14. Placebo – “Placebo Re-Created”

Described as a director’s cut version of their debut album, which seems to mean a mix remixing, remastering and re-recording. The original album reached number 5 in 1996.

20. When Rivers Meet – “Rhythm, Rust & Static” 

Blues rock band; their last two studio albums made the top 10, so this is an underperformance.