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Meanwhile, on the charts: re-recorded remixes, film soundtracks, and somebody gets a hit single after The Voice UK final!

40.  Paolo Nutini – “Better Man”

Not officially a single, this has been hanging around outside the top 40 for three weeks before scraping in.  I believe it’s the pre-order instant gratification track from Nutini’s album “Caustic Love”, which came out this week, and finally started getting some more mainstream attention with the release of his official single “Scream”, which entered at 12 last week, and now drops to 28.

38.  Kristen Bell & Idina Menzel – “For the First Time in Forever”

Another song from Frozen, joining “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” (which climbs 40-30), and “Let it Go” (climbing 17-11).  That gives Idina Menzel three hits on this week’s chart, putting her in territory more usually reserved for the likes of Rihanna.

It isn’t officially on YouTube , but you won’t have any trouble finding it.

31.  The Kaiser Chiefs – “Coming Home”

The Voice UK final was a week ago.  The BBC doesn’t do winner’s singles, and while you can buy the finalists’ performances as downloads, er, nobody did.  Runner-up Sally Barker’s version of “Dear Darlin'” (yes, an Olly Murs cover) is 46, with “winner” Jermain Jackman languishing down at 75.  The show’s dismal track record for star-making seems set to continue.

But hey, here’s judge Ricky Wilson’s band, who got to play on the final.  This single actually came out in February, but it was doing nothing until now.  The Kaiser Chiefs last had a hit in 2008, when “Never Miss A Beat” made a respectable number 5.  They’ve released a number of singles since then without troubling the top 100, though to be fair, their 2011 album “The Future is Medieval” did make the top 10 on the album chart.

Paloma Faith’s “Can’t Rely On You”, also performed on the final, leaps 34-18 this week.

22.  David Guetta & Showtek featuring Vassy – “Bad”

Guetta, you’ll certainly know.  Showtek are the Dutch duo who had a top five hit with “Booyah” at the end of last year.  The combination is a bit less than the sum of its parts; frankly, they’ve somehow managed to come up with an over energetic dirge.  Vassy is an Australian singer, though given the amount of processing on her voice, it really could be anyone.

19.  The Saturdays – “Not Giving Up”

Crikey, that video opening is not shy about the product placement, is it?  This is actually a pretty good Saturdays single, but it’s the fifth one to be taken from this album, so most of their fans have probably got it already.  Mind you, given that this was 11 in the midweeks (implying front loaded sales), it also seems that the fans were the only people buying it.  Officially, it marks Frankie Sandford’s return to active membership after her maternity leave.

12.  Tove Lo featuring Hippie Sabotage – “Stay High (Habits Remix)” 

Climbing 33-12, making it this week’s highest climber by a mile.

5.  Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX – “Fancy”

Chart positions of the last four Iggy Azalea singles: 17, 13, 10, 5.  That’s a career going in the right direction.

Technically this is the second UK hit for Charli XCX, since she was credited as a featured artist on Icona Pop’s “I Love It”.  She isn’t actually on that record, but she did write it.  She then followed it up with “Superlove”, which crashed out at 62, so back to the drawing board.  Here she is with another featured artist credit – but this time she’s on it.

The video, of course, is a homage to Clueless.  If you’re too young to remember that film – and Azalea was aged four when it came out – then it must just look odd.

2.  The Vamps – “Last Night”

Their third single, and once again they just miss the number 1 slot.  Let it be noted that both their previous singles swan dived in their second week – the Vamps are a fan base pop band whose sales tend to be very front loaded.  But in fairness, the previous two singles did hang around the mid-table for quite a while, so they evidently have some crossover appeal.

The video is… badly botched, I would say.  If you’re going to do the “the band were given their video budget and decided to spend it on X” schtick, at least try and make it look like the actual filming was done on a shoestring.  What you’ve done here is make a video in which the Vamps were given their video budget, and decided to spend it on making a video.

1.  Sigma – “Nobody to Love”

Sigma are a production duo from Leeds, and this is their first hit single.  The artist credit is, of course, a bit debatable; as is blatantly obvious, this started life as a bootleg remix of the chorus of Kanye West’s “Bound 2”.  Well, if you want to call it a chorus – it’s more of a randomly spliced interruption.  Despite its downright weirdness, “Bound 2” was actually released as a single.  It’s way outside the bounds of anything that was going to get airplay or sell to mainstream audiences in this country, and rather predictably, it stalled at 55.  The video, which is flagrantly taking the piss but runs out of ideas thirty seconds in, does it no favours.

The result, of course, is a legal quagmire of credits – 15 writers and 8 producers are credited for this thing, including West himself, in both capacities.  That despite the fact that all traces of the original “Bound 2” have actually been expunged from this version and replaced with re-creations; that’s a session vocalist standing in for the original Charlie Wilson vocal.

The main sample of Bound 2 doesn’t make it into the Sigma single at all, but there is a brief appearance from its other sampled hook, the “Uh-huh honey”, which comes from the opening seconds of Brenda Lee’s “Sweet Nothin’s” – a number 4 hit in 1960.

On the album chart:

• “Education, Education, Education & War” by the Kaiser Chiefs remains at 1!  Didn’t see that coming.
• “Lift Your Spirit” by Aloe Blacc at 5.  The single “The Man” drops to 3 this week.
• “It’s Album Time” by Todd Terje at 23.  Debut album from the Norwegian DJ.  Single: “Inspector Norse”.
• “Catacombs of the Black Vatican” by Black Label Society at 30.  You don’t need me to tell you it’s a metal album.  The band’s tenth, and their first to chart in this country.  Single: “My Dying Time”.
• “Tremors” by SOHN at 31.  Debut album from Christopher Taylor, a songwriter based in Vienna.  Single: “Artifice”.