In which the influx of debut hits, mostly from dance and EDM acts, continues.  But first…

40.  The Kooks – “Down”

The Kooks haven’t had a hit in six years – none of the singles from their 2011 album “Junk of the Heart” got anywhere.  “Down” is the first single from their fourth (as yet untitled) album, and at least gets them back in the top 40.  It’s pretty good, too.  But it’s some way distant from their biggest hit, “Always Where I Need To Be”, which made number 3 in 2008.

39.  Lana Del Rey – “Gods & Monsters”

This is a track from her 2012 album “Paradise”, which also appeared on the soundtrack of her short film “Tropico” last year.  It’s in the charts because Del Rey’s woozy self-conscious Americana is apparently exactly what the BBC thinks of when it wants to soundtrack a trailer for Eastenders.

35.  Justin Timberlake – “Not a Bad Thing”

Yes, that’s the video.  Yes, it talks over most of the song.  The documentary stuff is supposedly genuine.  Number 35 is a bit muted for Justin Timberlake, but then it’s the third single from “The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2”, and none of them have done well in this country.  “Take Back The Night” couldn’t get past 22, while “TKO” managed a single week at number 58.

At time of writing, the song’s Wikipedia entry informs me that “The song is a mid-tempo pop ballad, that makes use of an acoustic guitar throughout, with its lyrics centring around the semantic field of love.”

34.  Joel Compass – “Forgive Me”

Debut hit!  Joel Compass is an R&B singer who was getting some attention at the tail end of last year, but with his first proper release, we have a bit of a production shift designed to broaden his appeal to people who are looking for something a bit more Massive Attack.  It’s a pretty strong record, and if they were thinking of this as a soft launch for his career, not a bad start.

14.  Indiana – “Solo Dancing”

Debut hit!  Indiana is an electronica songwriter from Nottingham, and this song is the latest entry in the sub-genre of song about masturbation that can still be played on the radio.  The video is basically Catchphrase with wanking euphemisms, though I can’t help wondering whether some of it is just deliberately confusing gibberish.

It’s actually a good record, though, sniggering aside.  We’re having a strong week here!

13.  Idina Menzel – “Let It Go”

And still it climbs.  What’s more, “Do You Want To Build A Snowman” is now up to 26, and “For the First Time In Forever” is hanging in there at 38 – so Frozen still technically has three singles in the chart at once.  (Contrary to what I said before, though, Idina Menzel doesn’t.  Whatever the BBC chart page may say, she’s not on “Do You Want”, and the Official Charts Company website correctly credits that song simply to Kristen Bell and Agatha Lee Monn.)

7.  Neon Jungle – “Welcome to the Jungle”

With a whole three singles to their name, girl band Neon Jungle virtually have veteran status by the standards of this chart.  It doesn’t match previous single “Braveheart”, which got to number 4, but it’s another strong release that fits their niche as the clubland-ish girl band.  Like “Braveheart”, the band themselves rather get overpowered by the backing track except during the rap sections; they don’t even get to do the hook on this one.  But it’s a decent pop record.

And no, it’s not a cover of the Guns N’ Roses song – which reached number 24 in this country in 1988, four years before any of Neon Jungle were born.

6.  DJ Cassidy featuring Robin Thicke & Jessie J – “Calling All Hearts”

Debut hit!  Cassidy Podell is a DJ from New York.  Apparently he DJ’d at Barack Obama’s inauguration and the wedding of Beyonce and Jay Z.  But this is the first single he’s actually released.  It’s presumably going for disco, but it winds up sounding more like the opening group dance in a new series of Strictly Come Dancing.  Pretty bad.

5.  Cash Cash featuring Bebe Rexha – “Take Me Home”

Debut hit!  Cash Cash are an EDM group from New Jersey who have three albums and several EPs under their belt, but have never done anything in this country.  Actually, from the look of their Wikipedia entry, they’ve not done much anywhere else either.  This, however, was a top 10 hit in Australia last year, which might explain why somebody’s suddenly had a go at promoting it in Britain.

Singer Bebe Rexha is from Brooklyn, and she’s the lead singer of the Black Cards.  She has a co-writer’s credit on Eminem’s “The Monster”.

1.  Mr Probz – “Waves”

Debut hit!  Though the version that’s selling is actually the Robin Schulz remix, so the German producer probably deserves equal credit here.  This version has gone to number 1 in six European countries already.

The original version, in contrast, is a slower-paced Dutch ballad, which was a top ten hit in Belgium and the Netherlands, and a minor hit in France.  Even this was a bit of a turnaround for Mr Probz, a Dutch rapper who seems to have previously had little in the way of chart success in even in his own country.

(For a more typical example of his back catalogue, here’s “Who Are You?”)

On the album chart, a quiet week for new entries.

• “Caustic Love” by Paolo Nutini is still at 1.
• “The New Classic” by Iggy Azalea is the highest new entry at 4.  Single “Fancy” is still at 11.
• “The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett” by Eels at 7.  Their (or his, let’s be honest) 11th charting album – 13th if you count the two compilations.  If it stays at 5, it matches the peak of “Beautiful Freak” back in 1997.  Single: “Mistakes of my Youth”.
• “Food” by Kelis at 20.  Intriguing.  This is Kelis’ fifth album, but only the second to make the top 40 (the other was “Tasty”, which just missed the top 10 in 2004).  So in that respect her switch to Ninja Tune has paid off well – but the advance single “Rumble” seems to have sunk without trace.  (She also released “Jerk Ribs” as a free download, but that’s not chart eligible, of course.)