Owl City has a second week at number one with Fireflies and Paolo Nutini returns for another spell on top of the albums chart.

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A very quiet week in both charts sees Owl City enjoying a second week on top of the singles chart while Paolo Nutini returns to the top of the albums chart.

After climbing to the summit last week Owl City hold on for another week with the excellent Fireflies. Glee Cast move up another place to number two while Journey’s version of Don’t Stop Believin’ also stays in the top ten, the third week there have been two interpretations of the song in the top ten. Iyaz, 3Oh!3 and Sidney Samson complete the top five, the third successive week that these songs have made up the top five singles.

There are just three new entries in the top 40 this week and none of them have made the top ten. The highest of the three, at number 17, is the latest offering from Timothy Mosley, aka Timbaland. This time he has recruited Katy Perry to join him with If We Ever Meet Again.

Rihanna has the week’s second new entry at number 28 with Rude Boy. By her standards this song is pretty poor. She’s made far better songs and, I’m sure, she’ll make better songs in the future. I suppose we’re all entitled to make the odd mistake.

The final new entry, at number 40, is Bedrock by Young Money feat. Lloyd. Maybe we’re supposed to be amused by a song referencing the Flintstones’ home town but this really is atrocious. But then, as it features the likes of Lil Wayne and Drake and Young Money are defined as a rap supergroup (missed out the capital C there), it’s hardly surprising.

It’s another good week for Alicia Keys. In these days of people looking for instant gratification, her songs just seem to get better with every listen. Her version of Empire State Of Mind climbs into the top ten at number seven while the version with added Jay-Z climbs back up to number 18. Previous hit Doesn’t Mean Anything also climbs back up nine places to number 23.

As well as climbing back up with Empire State Of Mind, Jay-Z’s collaboration with Mr. Hudson, Forever Young, enters the top ten, climbing three places to number ten. Alexandra Burke and Lady GaGa drop out of the top ten, the latter after a ten week run (11 top ten weeks in total).

Among those leaving the singles chart is Joe McElderry after just six weeks. A nation rejoices. Black Eyed Peas on the other hand are still hanging around with I Gotta Feeling notching up a 31st week in the top 40. In a nice touch of symmetry it stays at number 31 this week. Pixie Lott spends a seventh successive week (eight in total) between 24 and 29.

In the albums chart, Paolo Nutini’s Sunny Side Up goes back up for a third spell at number one, the previous two having lasted one and two weeks respectively. The album entered at number one in June last year and has been in the top 40 ever since with 21 of those 35 weeks in the top ten. Alicia Keys’ current success is repeated in the albums chart with The Element of Freedom moving up to number two, beating her previous best of number six with Songs In A Minor in 2003. Florence + The Machine drop two places to number three while Dutchman Andre Rieu continues to climb and is now at number four with Forever Vienna.

Biffy Clyro continue to enjoy renewed success with their Only revolutions album. Its initial chart run was typical for such bands these days, an entry at number eight before spending just one more week in the top 40. However, after five weeks out, it re=entered at the beginning of January and has been climbing ever since. That continues this week with a four place climb back into the top ten at number nine. Similarly, Mumford & Sons spent just two weeks on the top 40 in October with Sigh No More. After eight weeks out they returned to the top 40 at Christmas and they are still there, now spending a fourth week in the top ten at number seven, equalling the peak position for this wonderful album.

For completeness, I also feel duty bound to report that Alvin and the Chipmunks have climbed 16 places to number six. You just have to feel sympathy for the poor parents whose little darlings force them to listen to this.

As in the singles chart the albums chart is also rather quiet with the highest of just four new entries as low as number 19. That honour falls to Hadouken! The band formed at Leeds University but are now based in London. Their debut album, Music For An Accelerated Culture made number 12 in 2008 but didn’t hang around for long. The fate of the follow-up For The Masses in the midweek charts suggests that it will suffer the same fate.

Perhaps surprisingly, Del Shannon has never had a Greatest Hits album in the chart and indeed hasn’t had a chart album of any description since 1963. Now, to mark the 20th anniversary of his death at just 55 on 8 February, that has finally been put right. The album is named after his first and probably best known hit, Runaway, which gave him his only UK (and US for that matter) number one single in 1961. It is a new entry at number 25 this week.

Dolly Parton released her first album in the US in 1967 although she didn’t reach the UK albums chart until 1978. She has had nine top 40 albums including various greatest hits collections. The tenth, Live From London, arrives this week at number 33. Among the many songs she has written are Islands in the Stream - so she shares part of the blame for last year’s dreadful charity effort - and I Will Always Love You. It’s hard to forgive someone who gave Whitney Houston a chance to screech her way through a song and inflict it on us for an agonising ten weeks at number one. However, she also wrote Love Is Like A Butterfly which was used as the theme tune for the BBC sitcom Butterflies in the 1970s/80s so it’s not all bad.

Keiran Hebden has been using the moniker Four Tet for his recording career since 1999. His six previous albums as Four Tet and four under his own name have failed to make the top 40 - only two have made the top 75. However, that has changed this week as There Is Love In You enters at number 35. Critics have been lauding him for many years; however, I saw him supporting Radiohead in Dublin in 2003. Basically it was just a bloke on stage with a laptop and one of the most boring support acts I’ve seen.

There are also three re-entries. The highest by some way is from Jay-Z whose Blueprint III album returns at number 23. Cheryl Cole’s 3 Words is back at number 39 (you want three words Cheryl? How about go away now?) and Pink re-enters once again at number 40 with Funhouse.