Dear god, really?  Still…?!

1.  Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla – “One Dance”

And that’s ten weeks, matching “Umbrella” from 2007.  “One Dance” was not number one in the midweeks, and it only held on by a relatively narrow margin – the equivalent of 178,000 streams, compared with its streaming total this week of 4.77 million.  On a pure sales chart it would be number 9, but it’s the streaming data that matters these days.

Today’s midweeks have Drake slipping again, but the midweeks have been increasingly erratic since the shift to a Friday chart with streaming data.  Reportedly, they’ve been having problems with getting streaming data in time to properly include it in the midweek chart, which pretty much defeats the purpose of doing it at all.

2.  Kungs vs Cookin’ on 3 Burners – “This Girl” 

So, like last week, there’s not much stuff entering in the top half of the chart, but there are plenty of climbers.  This was number 1 in sales, and very nearly the number 1 combined.  It still has a decent shot of making it next week.

5.  Drake featuring Rihanna – “Too Good”

This has been hanging around the top 10 for five weeks but it’s reaching a new peak.  In total, there are four Drake singles in the top 40 this week, the others being “Controlla” at 24 and his guest appearance on Rihanna’s “Work” at 31.  Rihanna is also on Calvin Harris’s “This Is What You Came For” at 4.  It’s an incestuous world.  Surprisingly, the DJ Khaled single (also featuring Drake) which entered at 25 last week crashes straight out of the top 40.

7.  Gnash featuring Olivia O’Brien – “I Hate U I Love U”

Again, a new peak after two weeks stuck at 8.

9.  Cheat Codes & Kriss Kross Amsterdam – “Sex” 

Entering the top 10 in its sixth week on the top 40.

16.  David Guetta featuring Zara Larsson – “This One’s For You”

The official song of the Euro 2016 football tournament, even if the video director seems to think it’s the World Cup.  Thus far, the tournament has truly lived up to the spirit of the times – which is to say, unremittingly bleak.  It’s in France, hence Guetta.  This is mostly a standard David Guetta track with a bit of Diplo around the edges.  There’s also a gimmick about getting fans to submit crowd vocals through an app, but whatever.  Zara Larsson has three singles on the chart at the moment – she’s also guesting on Tinie Tempah’s “Girls Like” at 15  and has her own “Lush Life” at 19.  Both those singles have been on the chart for over 4 months now, peaked long ago, and are taking an extremely long time to fade.

18.  Dua Lipa – “Hotter Than Hell”

This is the first chart appearance for Dua Lipa, who was on the BBC’s “Sound of 2016” long list at the end of last year.  She’s from London, though her parents were from Kosovo.  In the rest of Europe, she had a hit last year with a track called “Be The One”, which reached number 1 in Belgium and did respectably elsewhere.  I’d say it’s the better song, but what do I know?

21.  The Stone Roses – “Beautiful Thing”

Number 7 on the sales chart but, well, you did hear what I said about the importance of streaming these days, right?  This is the follow up to “All For One”, which got to 17 last month but immediately vanished from the top 100.  Basically, the audience for Stone Roses records in 2016 is people who still buy a copy in week one, and pretty much nobody else.  This is better than “All For One”, mind you, or at least closer to what you’d want from a Stone Roses reunion record.

22.  The Neales – “I’ll Be There”

The Neales are a family singing group – father and three sons – who made the final of Britain’s Got Talent last year.  This is a charity single for a campaign backed by Tesco, and on a pure sales chart, it would have been number 3.  Ostensibly, the idea was to get it to number 1 for father’s day on Sunday.  Like the Invicta Choir single from a few weeks ago, this shows how the shift to streaming data has pretty much screwed charity records and chart campaigns – people buy these records, but they don’t stream them, and it’s not obvious how a charity streaming arrangement would work anyway.  We’ve yet to have a really major charity record come out in the new chart era, and it’s going to be very interesting when one does.

25.  Adele – “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” 

Climbing one further place.  The video is still ace.

29.  OneRepublic – “Wherever I Go”

Also climbing one further place, and not so ace.

34.  Ariana Grande – “Into You” 

Up 6.

40.  Tom Odell – “Magnetised”

Officially the second single from his upcoming album, though the first one didn’t register on the chart anyway.  Odell tends to just miss the top 40 with his singles but has the occasional big hit – “Another Love” made number 10 in 2012, and “Real Love” got to 7 in 2014.  This one tries to soar and doesn’t really convince me – it feels like something a bit wonkier is trying to get out.  Grows on you a bit though.

On the album chart, and ignoring a few re-entries of old compilation albums which I’m guessing were discounted for father’s day:

• “50” by Rick Astley at 1.  Seriously.  It’s his second number 1 album, the first (obviously) being “Never Gonna Give You Up” in 1987.  It’s his eighth album, the last being a decade ago.  Single: “Keep Singing”.  (It’s better than you’re probably imagining.)
• “Wrong Crowd” by Tom Odell at 2.  His previous album, “Long Way Down”, got to number 1.  We’ve had the single already.
• “Pure McCartney” by Paul McCartney at 3.  It’s a compilation from his solo albums.
• “Soulsville” by Beverly Knight at 9.  That’s her highest position since 2007, though it’s pretty marginal.  Single: “Middle of Love”.
• “The Essential Collection” by Gilbert O’Sullivan at 11.  Another compilation.
• “Hollow Bones” by Rival Sons at 13.  Blues rock.  Their highest position to date, though again, not by much.  Single: “Tied Up”.
• “Strange Little Birds” by Garbage at 17.  Yes, they’re still making records, though it’s been four years since the last one.  This is the first time they’ve missed the top 10 with a studio album.  Single: “Empty”.
• “Last Year Was Complicated” by Nick Jonas at 25.   His second or third solo album, depending on whether you count the one credited to Nick Jonas & The Administration.  The single “Close” is at 39.
• “A/B” by Kaleo at 27.  Icelandic folk-rock band.  It’s their second album, but their first to chart in the UK.  Single: “Way Down We Go”.
• “Clean Your Clock” by Motörhead at 36.  Posthumously released live album.
• “Why Are You OK” by Band of Horses at 37.  Folk rock.  Single “Whatever, Wherever”