Mike Posner tops the singles chart for a third week and Zayn Malik has a number one album.

Mike Posner’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza stays at number one in the singles chart for a third week. At the end of the first quarter of 2016, we have had six number one singles so far this year. Only Zayn’s Pillowtalk has had its run restricted to a single week.

Fifth Harmony climb one place to number three with Work From Home., swapping places with Lukas Graham’s 7 Years which drops out of the top two after seven weeks. Sia’s Cheap Thrills climbs four places to number four, giving her a fourth top five hit, her first since Titanium and Wild Ones were simultaneous hits in 2012. Zara Larsson’s Lush Life slips one place to number five.

The dearth of new entries continues, with just one this week. After three weeks climbing the chart outside the top forty, Meghan Trainor enters at number thirty with No. It is the first top forty hit called No, bringing the title level with Yes. McAlmont & Butler’s brilliant song of that name made the lower reaches of the iTunes top forty at the beginning of the week after a contestant on The Voice performed it on Saturday. Unfortunately, it didn’t sell enough to balance Trainor’s song. The band Yes had four top forty hits, but no band called No has ever reached the chart, assuming such a band has even existed.

Not only is their a distinct lack of new entries once again, but the broadcast part of the chart, the top 25, contains all the same songs as last week, albeit in a different order. The same applies to the top ten. In the 26 - 40 section there is one re-entry as Zayn returns at number 39 with Like I Would.

Among the songs to reach a new peak this week are Alan Walker’s Faded (up seven places to number eleven) and Chainsmokers’ Roses (climbing seven to number 26).

The first of Justin Bieber’s three number one singles, What Do You Mean, has now spent 31 weeks in the top forty. MNEK and Zara Larsson’s Never Forget You is on 26 weeks.

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Adele’s 25 slips back to number two after a three-week spell at the summit. It is the album’s fifth week in the runner-up spot to add to the twelve weeks spent at number one. In its 19 weeks in the chart, it has yet to fall below number four. This week she was nominated for a BAFTA award for her programme with Graham Norton to promote the album.

Despite being one of the most prolific artists in the last few years, Joe Bonamassa can still hardly claim to be a household name. In this decade alone he has released five studio albums, ten live albums, three albums in collaborations with female singers and three albums as a member of Black Country Communion. Even so, his name would elicit a response of “Who?” from most members of the public.

This week Bonamassa enters at number three with Blues Of Desperation, his fifth solo studio album this decade and his twelfth in total. It is his third top ten album, beaten only by 2012’s Driving Towards The Daylight which reached number two.

Jasmine van den Boegaerde, great-niece of the late actor Dirk Bogarde, and better known as Birdy enters at number four with her third album, Beautiful Lies, an appropriate title for the chart unveiled on April 1st. She continues her record of achieving a higher chart position for each successive album after Birdy peaked at number 13 and Fire Within went to number eight.

Justin Bieber’s Purpose falls three places to number five, equalling its lowest position in its twenty weeks in the chart.

Since their last album, From Death To Destiny, York-based rock band Asking Alexandria have had a change of vocalist. Danny Worsnop has departed to try and find fame and fortune elsewhere (with the equally unknown We Are Harlot) and has been replaced by Ukrainian Denis Stoff who failed to get famous as a member of Make Me Famous. Their fourth album, The Black, enters at number fifteen, comfortably beating the number 28 peak achieved by From Death To Destiny. They’re still not famous though.

There’s more rock at number twenty from Texan band White Denim. The highlight of their UK chart career to date came in 2013 when they reached the dizzy heights of number 65 with their Corsicana Lemonade album. This week they write a new chapter in their history as their seventh album, Stiff, enters at number twenty. The title is probably not a tribute to Stiff records, home of artists such as Elvis Costello and Ian Dury.

From British and American rock we make the seamless journey to Swedish rock in the form of Amon Amarth. Some people may recognise the name as the Sindarin name of a volcano in Middle-earth. Others will read that last sentence and make little sense of it. From 1998 to 2013 they released nine studio albums, none of which got anywhere near the top forty. For their tenth album, they have finally realised why they are not very successful. Their album titles haven’t been Scandinavian enough, so they have called their tenth set Jomsviking, the first time they have used the letters J and K in an album title. The tactic has worked as they have a new entry at number thirty.

Two of this week’s re-entries have very long chart histories. Bob Marley’s Legend collection, released in 1984, returns at number 36. It has now 471 weeks in the top 75 (the first twelve of them at number one), placing it third in the all-time list. Two places behind it in that list, on 444 weeks, is Fleetwood Mac’ 1977 release Rumours, a re-entry this week at number 39. That album spent just one week at the summit, almost a year after it entered the chart. The rather less ubiquitous (for now at least) Sia album 1000 Forms Of Fear is back at number 40.