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Jess Glynne gets a 3rd week at number one
Jess Glynne gets a third week at the top of the singles chart. All Time Low win a very tight race to get their first number one album.

Jess Glynne wins a close race to the top of the singles chart. All Time Low hit an all time high at the top of the albums chart.

The race for this week’s number one single was a close one, with three different songs topping the iTunes chart in the course of the week. The early front-runner was the debut single from the winner of last week’s final of The Voice, Stevie McCrorie. By the end of the week, the solo single by Nick Jonas and last week’s number one from Jess Glynne had each taken a turn at the top. By then, it was clear that McCrorie was out of the running, but the final outcome was still unclear.

In the event, Jess Glynne held on to get a third week at the top with Hold My Hand despite being in third place in each of the updates throughout the week. In the fifteenth chart of the year, we are still only on our fifth number one. The record number of chart-toppers in a calendar year - 42 in 2000 - will only be equalled if we now have a new number one every week for the rest of the year.

The runner-up was Nick Jonas, who went straight to the top of the pile with his second solo single, Jealous. He was previously a member of the Jonas Brothers, whose chart record in the UK was less than stellar. They had just two top forty hits with a peak position of number thirteen. The brothers ceased performing together after their television series was cancelled in 2010. By then, Nick had released a solo single, Introducing Me, but that spent just one week at number 51. Clearly, music buyers either did not need, or did not want, to be introduced to him. Since then, the brothers have reunited and split again although few people noticed. His latest attempt at a solo career has got off to a rather better start, in chart terms at least. It is only the second song called Jealous to reach the chart and comes just a few months after the first, last December’s top ten hit for Labrinth.

Years & Years climb back up to number three with King, having received a late boost from an appearance on Graham Norton’s show on Friday. James Bay slips number four with Hold Back The River and Ed Sheeran & Rudimental’s Bloodstream falls three places to number five.

The term “The curse of The Voice”. has been used to describe the failure of the programme’s winning contestants to follow their triumph with a successful musical career. In an attempt to improve their track record, this year’s winner, Scottish fireman Stevie McCrorie, has released a “winner’s song” as a debut single immediately after the final. Both of the final contestants performed the song, Lost Stars (perhaps a reference to previous winners), written by Maroon 5’s Levine, in their own style. This clearly favoured McCrorie over his opponent, Lucy O’Byrne who is an operatic singer. Earlier in the final, she had performed a stunning version of Radiohead’s No Surprises. However, she was at a disadvantage when performing a song which was little-known and which was not written for an operatic singer. The people involved with the show will have been delighted to see McCrorie at number one in Wednesday’s update. Although he failed to hold on to the top spot, he has nonetheless performed better than his predecessors by bagging himself a number six hit.

Dutch producers Pep And Rash enter at number seventeen with their debut hit, Rumors. Quite why they have chosen the American spelling for the British market is unknown. Perhaps they should be reminded of the title of Duke Dumont’s number one hit from 2013, Need U (100%).

Wiz Khalifa enters at number 22 with See You Again, from the Furious 7 film soundtrack. It enters the chart predominantly as a result of streaming. It has been available to download on other sites, but was only released on iTunes today(Sunday). While he has had several hits as a featured artist, this is only Khalifa’s second top forty hit as the lead artist, following Black & Yellow in 2011. The song features Charlie Puth, who is, apparently, in the video for Meghan Trainor’s Dear Future Husband.

Speaking of which, Meghan Trainor gets her third top forty single as Dear Future Husband enters at number 40. So far at least, it looks like doing substantially less well than her two previous hits, which both reached the top two. Still, it isn’t doing too badly for a song which sounds like a cross between those two previous hits and Olly Murs’ Dance With Me Tonight.

Bars & Melody got their major break when they appeared on last year’s Britain’s Go Talent with their anti-bullying song, Hopeful. Later in the year, they released the song as a single which reached number five. As they are both still at school, their subsequent releases have been timed for the school holidays. This leaves them free to do some publicity without disrupting their schooling or that of their fans, most of whom are also still at school. Their second single, released in the last half-term holiday, missed the top forty. Their latest song, Stay Strong, has exploited the Easter holiday. The song will probably top the physical singles chart if the queues outside my local HMV when the boys made an appearance are a guide. In the overall chart, Bars & Melody are not in the top forty.

Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud extends its top forty run to a 42nd week, putting it clear in fifth place in the all-time list. Sia’s Chandelier is one week behind, in joint sixth place alongside George Ezra’s Budapest. Hozier’s Take Me To Church has now been in the top forty for 30 weeks and is still in the top ten (for a fifteenth week). Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk has been in the top ten for 18 weeks.

There was also a close race for the top spot in the albums chart. In most close races, it is either a battle between two albums already in the chart in a week with no big new entries, or a battle between two major new entries. However, this week it was between a new entry and an album already in the chart. In Wednesday’s update, the newcomer held a fairly narrow lead, making it likely that the older album - with sales less heavily concentrated at the start of the week - would triumph in the end. However, by Friday, the new album was still in the lead.

That album was Future Hearts, the third set from American pop band All Time Low. While they have yet to achieve a top forty single in the UK, their albums have done a little better. Their first three albums missed the charts altogether but their last two, Dirty Work (2011) and Don’t Panic (2012), both reached the top twenty. Future Hearts outperforms all previous releases by giving them a first number one album, albeit by fewer than 300 copies.

James Bay’s Chaos And The Calm remains at number two. Ed Sheeran’s double million-seller × climbs back up one place to number three in its 42nd week.

In its 46th week in the chart, Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour falls one place to number four. After a week at the summit, Prodigy fall to number five with The Day Is My Enemy.

Drenge, named after the Danish word for boys but not pronounced the Danish way, comprise Derbyshire brothers Eoin and Rory Loveless. Their eponymous debut album, released in 2013, fell just short of the top forty but their new set, Undertow, storms into the top twenty at number fourteen. The band made the news when Labour MP Tom Watson named them in his letter of resignation from the Shadow Cabinet in July 2013. There are a number of possible explanations for this recommendation. It could have been an attempt to appear to be in touch with popular culture, or he could have been a genuine fan. On the other hand, it may have been a reference to the history of the Labour Movement. A previous pair of Loveless brothers were among the Tolpuddle Martyrs, deported to Australia for forming a trade union.

While frequently being described as difficult to work with, Brian Wilson has also gained a reputation for being one of the best American songwriters of his generation, having written many hits for his band, The Beach Boys. Despite that reputation as a songwriter, his last two albums - neither of which reached the UK top forty - were a collection of songs by other writers. In 2010, he released an album of songs by another great American composer, George Gershwin. The following year, he released a collection of Disney songs. Thankfully the ghastly Let It Go had not been written, so there was no chance of him taking that on. Now, he has returned with No Pier Pressure, his first album of original material since 2008. Guest artists include two original members of The Beach Boys as well as Nate Reuss from fun. It is a new entry at number 25.

When Scottish group Young Fathers released their second album, Dead, in January last year, it was largely ignored and it failed to reach the top 100, just like their 2013 debut.. Even when it was nominated for the Mercury Prize, it remained absent from the chart. When Young Fathers were announced as the winners of the prize, it finally sold enough copies to reach number 35 but lasted just one week in the top forty. Clearly, winning the prize cannot guarantee success for an act as obscure as this. It hasn’t given much of a boost to their third album either. White Men Are Black Men Too has missed the top forty.

There is an unusually large number of re-entries this week. After appearing on The Voice last weekend, The Script see their latest album, No Sound Without Silence, back in the chart at number 23. Imagine Dragons’ Night Visions is back at number 27 and Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon returns at number 34. Drake is back at number 37 with If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Rebecca Ferguson’s Lady Sings The Blues returns at number 38 and Michael Jackson’s Number Ones collection re-enters at number 39.
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