Sometimes I hope for a nice quiet week. Sometimes the charts really, really deliver.

1. Noah Kahan – “Stick Season”

Six weeks. It heads up a gloriously uneventful top four of non-movers.

40. Good Neighbours – “Home”

There you go. That’s this week’s new entries. They’re a London duo and this is their debut single. Entirely pleasant! It’s also climbing from last week’s number 81, so there’s every reason to think that it’s likely to go further.

We do have some climbers:

• “Beautiful Things” by Benson Boone climbs 11-5 to become his first top 10 hit.
• “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” by YG Marley climbs to 9 from last week’s debut at 20.
• “Alibi” by Ella Henderson featuring Rudimental climbs 24-16.
• “Nothing Matters” by the Last Dinner Party climbs 22-19, which is unusual for an indie band, but then they do have the parent album entering at number 1 this week.
• “Selfish” by Justin Timberlake climbs 37-29 – not out of the woods, but enough for his label to breathe a sigh of relief.
• “Scared to Start” by Michael Marcagi climbs 38-31.

There are a couple of low-end re-entries – Kanye West’s “Runaway” at 35, and Mason & Princess Superstar’s “Perfect (Exceeder)” at 39. So three records leave the top 40 this week:

• “Can’t Catch Me Now” by Olivia Rodrigo, which peaked at 12 before Christmas and had a further five weeks in the new year.
• “Seventeen Going Under” by Sam Fender after two weeks, peaking at 35.
• “Gas Me Up (Diligent)” by Skepta after a single week at 32.

The longest-running track in the top 40 is (obviously) still “Greedy” by Tate McRae, still at number 7 after 21 straight weeks on the chart.

On to the album chart, then! The Last Dinner Party enter at number 1 with their debut “Prelude to Ecstasy”, and the single is in the top 20. They shifted 14,000 copies of this on vinyl, which probably tells you something about the demographic.

2. Jamie Webster – “10 for the People”

Liverpool songwriter. It’s his third album, all of which have made the top 10; this is the highest placed. He’s very big in his home city, by all accounts.

16. Paul McCartney & Wings – “Band on the Run”

Officially a 50th anniversary re-issue. Technically it’s slightly late, since it came out in December 1973. It spent seven weeks at number 1 on its release, though it didn’t get there until July 1974.

21. Dylan John Thomas – “Dylan John Thomas”

Glasgow songwriter. The reviews are strong, the video above is… well, it’s inexpensive.

22. Kula Shaker – “Natural Magick”

You’d have thought Kula Shaker would be well placed for the album chart as a legacy act, but this is their highest position since 1999, when their second album “Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts” reached number 9. To be fair, they’ve only released three  albums since then – but only one of them even made the top 40. Their previous album, 2022’s “1st Congregational Church of Eternal Love and Free Hugs”, missed the top 100 entirely, so in that context this is a success.