‘Tis the quietest of quiet weeks.  Seriously, this isn’t going to take long.

38.  Michael Molloy & Alex Evans – “Rise And Fall”

Michael Molloy was an 18-year-old aspiring songwriter who was killed in a coach crash last year while returning from the Isle of Wight festival; this is a demo he had previously recorded with partner Alex Evans.  It’s quite good, in fact.  If you’re wondering, that’s apparently Evans singing; Molloy wrote the song and is playing the guitar.

Sales are hugely frontloaded because it’s been available for pre-order for weeks, and of course all those pre-orders counted as sales as soon as the download became available.  (It was at 26 in the midweeks.)  This is, I think, the second time inside a year that we’ve had a chart entry for a posthumous release by an amateur musician; another sign of how the internet era is levelling the playing field.

35.  Misha B – “Here’s To Everything (Ooh La La)”

Last week Amelia Lily’s third single limped to number 40, and now here’s fellow X Factor cast-off Misha B following up last year’s “Home Run” (no 11) and “Do You Think Of Me” (no 9) with… well, a chart placing quite some way distant.  And as with Amelia, I’m not quite sure what’s gone wrong here, since the single itself is perfectly acceptable.

The hook is recycled.  It’s best known from the Fugees’ debut hit “Fu-Gee-La”, which made number 21 in 1996, though they in turn lifted it from “Ooh La La La” by Teena Marie, a reasonably big hit in America that limped to a UK number 74 in 1988.

30.  Rudimental – “Feel The Love”

Re-entry, presumably because the album release has reminded people they’d like to own it.

28.  Loveable Rogues – “What A Night”

I don’t normally bother with fallers, but it’s worth mentioning that the Britain’s Got Talent signees plummet a massive 19 places in their second week out.  Maybe a rethink required here.

12.  The Goo Goo Dolls – “Iris”

Up from 39 last week.  There was a surge of sales following a performance on Britain’s Got Talent a week last Saturday – a few hours made it onto last week’s chart, most of it winds up here.  It’s already on its way back out of the iTunes top 40.

10.  Disclosure (featuring Eliza Doolittle) – “You & Me”

This week’s highest new entry, and the only one inside the top 30.  Told you it was quiet.

It’s the third hit for Disclosure, following “Latch” (no 11) and “White Noise” (2).  Takes a little while to hit its stride, but turns into another good little electropop song once it gets going.

Eliza Doolittle is a name we haven’t seen in quite a while.  She had a couple of hits in 2010 – “Skinny Genes” and “Pack Up” – which positioned her as a whimsical quirk pixie.  (I mean, she’s called Eliza Doolittle, for heaven’s sake.)

She couldn’t be much less like Disclosure, so this single marks a pretty radical departure for her.  According to Wikipedia, she’s done pretty much nothing in the last two years aside from make an appearance on the Justice Collective charity single – and given that she has the sort of page that documents her appearances on Big Brother’s Little Brother, that rather suggests there really has been nothing to report.  I can only assume she’s about to be relaunched with a drastic overhaul and that this single is the first step in reintroducing her.  Whether it’s a wise move in the long term to trade in what was at least a distinctive style for a new life as Katy B remains to be seen.

6.  David Guetta (featuring Ne-Yo & Akon) – “Play Hard”

Leaping from 21 last week, as the single promotion takes hold.  It’s the seventh single from the (various versions of the) “Nothing But The Beat” album.

4.  Passenger – “Let Her Go”

Climbing from 11 to 4 as Britain belatedly decides that if the rest of Europe likes it, it must be okay.

1.  Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell Williams) – “Get Lucky”

Two weeks at the top, admittedly with no real competition, but it’s unlikely that anything would have been able to dethrone it.  This is now the fastest selling single of the year, having shifted 369,000 copies.  That also makes it Daft Punk’s highest selling UK single – it’s sold more copies in 16 days than “One More Time” sold in a little over 13 years.  It’s an enormous hit.

It’s still at number 1 on iTunes now, so it’s got every chance of making three weeks.

Over on the album chart, front-loaded sales watch: the Frank Turner album drops from 2 to 21 in its second week out.  New this week are:

• “Home” by Rudimental at number 1.  After two number one hits, a bit of a foregone conclusion that the album would do well.
  
• “Before I Sleep” by Bo Bruce at number 10.  She was a contestant on season one of The Voice, so the BBC will be very relieved that they can finally point to somebody else who’s actually launched a career off the back of that show – even if it isn’t the winner.
• “Roulette” by Blue at number 13.  Yes, that Blue, and yes it is a new studio album.  The 90s boy band – who actually had a handful of decent singles – reformed for touring purposes a while back.  If you’re wondering who the hell was demanding a new album by Blue, the answer is apparently “the Germans”, who got this album back in January, and sent the lead single to their top ten.
• “Hubcap Music” by Seasick Steve at 14.  The eccentric songwriter’s last three albums made the top 10.
• “Now What?” by Deep Purple at 19.  Their first studio album since 2005.