What you might call a quiet week.

36.  Avicii – “Addicted To You”

The next single from the “True” album continues Avicii’s drift away from the dance floor and towards traditional songwriting.  Both this and “Wake Me Up” are co-written by Mac Davies, who’s about as traditional as it gets – he wrote the Elvis Presley hits “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation”.  The uncredited singer this time round is Audra Mae, a singer from Oklahoma who’s been floating around for a few years without actually breaking through in her own right.  Her Wikipedia entry is a veritable blizzard of unlikely trivia – she’s the great-great-niece of Judy Garland, she wrote the only original song on Susan Boyle’s debut album, and in 2011 she wrote a song that Germany didn’t select for the Eurovision Song Contest.

26.  Nick Mulvey – “Cucurucu”

Every so often something crops up in the midweek charts, I look it up on YouTube, and my first thought is “What the hell is this doing in the singles chart?”  This is the first chart appearance of any sort for songwriter Nick Mulvey, probably best known (to the extent that he’s known at all) as a member of the Portico Quartet, who were nominated for the Mercury prize six years ago.  Apparently Radio 1 has been pushing this, though, and once it gets going it is indeed radio friendly enough to explain how it’s made its way into the top 40.

10.  Coldplay – “Magic”

No video for this.  It’s the lead single from their upcoming album “Ghost Stories” – yes, a track called “Midnight” was released a couple of days before, but this appears to be the pre-order incentive track that’s been nominated for chart eligibility.  Inexplicably, it’s “Midnight” that has a video.

It makes a surprisingly modest entry here – the lead singles from their last two albums both went to number 1, once they were eligible to chart.  It’s a rather low key single, though, and time will tell whether it proves to be a grower or just the nicely polished audio coffee table that it first seems.

7.  Lily Allen – “Air Balloon”

So let’s have another stab at launching that new Lily Allen album!  This is the second single from “Sheezus”, following “Hard Out Here”, which suffered the indignity of stalling at 9 and plunging out of the top 40 in a fortnight.  Fortunately, her cover of “Somewhere Only We Know” from a John Lewis advert went to number 1 at the same time, which suggests that it’s more a case of the public rejecting “Hard Out Here” than rejecting Lily Allen.

Is this doing any better?  Um… not really, no.  It’s not sticking around the top ten, that’s for use.  It winds up sounding a bit like  M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes”, and I’m not sure the comparison necessarily does it any favours.

1.  Route 94 featuring Jess Glynne – “My Love”

So the first act to have two number 1s in 2014 is… Jess Glynne, who was the guest singer on the Clean Bandit single, and crops up again here.  This is a more straightforward deep house track by London producer Rowan Jones, making his first chart appearance.  (Presumably.  He used to make dubstep under the name “Dream”, and originally denied that Route 94 was the same person.  Conceivably he might have some other aliases floating around.)

Glynne is evidently taking the now familiar career path of making two guest appearances before launching a solo career – a video for her own single “Home” appeared on YouTube a couple of weeks ago.

On the album chart…

• “G I R L” by Pharrell Williams at 1.  Only his second solo album – the first, “In My Mind”, came out in 2006 and got to number 7.  Obviously, “Happy” will have done wonders for promoting this.
• “Mastermind” by Rick Ross at 11.  That’s an unusually ordinary name for a rapper, isn’t it?  Anyway, this is his sixth album, and the second to make the UK album chart.  Single: “Nobody”.
• “Man on the Rocks” by Mike Oldfield at 12.  Mike Oldfield is unlikely ever to make an album that overshadows “Tubular Bells”.  But this is his 19th top 40 album, only four of which were versions of “Tubular Bells”.  Single: “Sailing”.
• “Is There Anybody Out There?” by A Great Big World at 16.  On the heels of the single with Christina Aguilera.
• “English Oceans” by Drive-By Truckers at 34.  Veteran alt-country act, making their first appearance on the UK album chart.  Sample: “Part of Him”.
• “TV En Francais” by We Are Scientists at 36.  This is about standard for We Are Scientists, though their second album just missed the top 10 back in 2011.  Single: “Dumb Luck”.
• “Vibrate – The Best of Rufus Wainwright” at 39.  Surprisingly low considering that he’s had two previous top ten albums, and he showed up on Jonathan Ross’s show to promote it.