It’s still Olivia Rodrigo’s chart.

1. Olivia Rodrigo – “Good 4 U”
9. Olivia Rodrigo – “Traitor”
17. Olivia Rodrigo – “Favorite Crime”

That’s 5 weeks at number 1 for “Good 4 U”. The chart compilers are claiming that as the longest run at the top for a – and I quote – “rock-influenced” track since “Spaceman” by Babylon Zoo in 1996. Which… okay? There does seem to be something of a resurgence in guitars right now. We’ll see if that lasts.

The album “Sour” returns to number 1 for a third week. And thanks to the three-song cut-off rule, the jostling for position among her album tracks results in another new entry, this time for “Favorite Crime”. You’ll never guess – Olivia is upset about her break-up. This time, the genre is folk (or the Taylor Swift lockdown iteration thereof) and yes, it’s very good.

2. KSI – “Holiday”

Oh, this is much better than I was expecting. I was braced for a summer dance anthem, and it’s very much not that. It’s rather sweet. Poor KSI has now had five top three hits without reaching number 1, which is starting to feel like weirdly bad luck. He’s bound to get there in the end.

10. Måneskin – “Beggin'”

Wow. That’s a third hit single in four weeks for the Eurovision winners – and their second top ten hit, neither of which is the winning song. The other one, “I Wanna Be Your Slave”, climbs 7-6 this week. Two concurrent top ten hits for a band that almost nobody in Britain had heard of a month ago, outside the Eurovision hardcore. That’s remarkable.

This particular track is an even more unlikely hit because it comes from their 2017 debut album, mostly made up of cover versions that they performed on the Italian version of X Factor as teenagers. They’re definitely a work in progress as performers at this stage, especially the two Sleeperblokes, but it’s a good version of the song.

The original of “Beggin'” was released by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in 1967, but didn’t chart in the UK until a remix got to number 32 in 2007. (It’s a surprisingly decent remix, which limits itself to sounds from the original record.) Arguably the best known version in Europe is the Madcon version, which reached number 5 in the UK in 2008.

22. Becky Hill & David Guetta – “Remember”

Becky Hill remains the only artist discovered by The Voice UK who could fairly be said to have had a successful pop career. She’s still something of a serial collaborator with well known producers, rather than an artist with a strong following of her own – but she’s still charting regularly after seven years. David Guetta seems to have mounted something of a comeback in the last year, after a bit of a fallow period. This is… a very professional dance pop song. It’s fine but it doesn’t feel like it has new ideas.

38. Mabel – “Let Them Know”

Well, that didn’t do anything for me.

This week’s climbers:

• I’ve already mentioned “I Wanna Be Your Slave” by Måneskin, climbing 7-6.
• “Good Without” by Mimi Webb climbs 9-8. (The follow-up single “Dumb Love”, which entered at 12 last week, falls to 15.)
• “By Your Side” by Calvin Harris featuring Tom Grennan climbs 13-11.
• “Our Song” by Anne-Marie & Niall Horan climbs 18-13.
• “T r a n s p a r e n t s o u l” by Willow featuring Travis Barker climbs 33-28.

On the album chart, as already mentioned, Olivia Rodrigo reclaims number 1, with Noel Gallagher’s best-of album dropping to 2.

3. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – “Carnage”

That’s the one from the Dirty Three, not the… well, the other one. This particular Ellis is also a member of the Bad Seeds, and he’s done plenty of other collaborations with Nick Cave, often on soundtrack albums. It’s the first time that Ellis has received a solo credit on the album chart, though.

4. Griff – “One Foot in Front of the Other”

Officially classed as a mixtape rather than a debut album – it’s only a shade over 20 minutes long, and thus only just qualifies for the album chart. It includes the single “Black Hole”, which peaked at number 18 and is still on the singles chart.

10. Joan Armatrading – “Consequences”

Joan Armatrading is 70, not that she sounds it. The single above is quite decent, though the video is, well, inexpensive, and you don’t get many songs these days ending on a fade out. Armatrading had her first hits back in 1976; this is her sixth top ten album, and her highest position for a studio album since 1983. She’s been charting fairly consistently in the album chart mid table, though.

24. Helloween – “Helloween”

The German metal band’s 16th studio album. In one of those odd coincidences, only one of their other studio albums has charted in the UK – “Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2”, back in 1988 – and that got to number 24 too. Their 1989 live album “Live in the UK” got to number 26, but otherwise none of their albums have made an impact here. Making their appearance with this album a bit unexpected, to be honest. The video above is completely ridiculous, which I’m going to assume they’re well aware of, but I’m still surprised that someone signed off on the budget.

26. Kings of Convenience – “Peace or Love”

Norwegian indie-folk. It’s their fourth studio album, and the first to make the top 40 in the UK. I like the single, but gosh, that’s the twee-est video I’ve seen in quite a while. And I keep expecting a link to the flat-pack furniture catalogue.