Sabrina Carpenter holds the top three places in the singles chart again. Definitely Maybe returns to number one after thirty years.

Sabrina Carpenter dominates the top of the singles chart again. An Oasis anniversary edition tops the albums chart.

For the second successive week, Sabrina Carpenter occupies the top three positions in the singles chart. All three singles are in the same place as last week, so Taste is at number one for a second week, Please Please Please is at number two and Espresso is at three.

Chappell Roan’s Good Luck Babe is at number four while Billie Eilish is at number five with Birds Of A Feather.

There is just one new entry in the top forty this week and it comes from a band whose first hit came at the very end of the twentieth century. Yes, Coldplay now have two singles in the top forty. We Pray (which features contributions from Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and someone called Tini) is a new entry at number 31 while FeelsLikeI’mFallingInLove is at 33. The new entry is rather more interesting than the other hit, and has a more coherent title.

Even before Oasis made headlines by announcing their first UK gigs since an acrimonious split fifteen years ago, it was highly likely that a 30th anniversary edition of their debut album Definitely Maybe would reach number one. However, those predictions were made before it was known just how strong sales of Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n’ Sweet would be. The size of Oasis’s lead in Wednesday’s update suggested that it could have been quite a tight race without the extra exposure for Osis - not all of it positive with controversy over the pricing strategy for concert tickets. In the event, the Definitely Maybe anniversary edition climbs ??? places to number one. It gets its second week at number one, some thirty years after the first. Perhaps a reader will be able to say whether that is a record.

Oasis are also at number three with their Time flies comp-ilation and at four with their second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory. They very nearly had five albums in the top forty, but B-Sides collection The Masterplan finished at number 41 with Be Here Now at 42.

They still have three singles in the top forty. Live Forever climbs to number eight, a new peak for the song after it reached number ten on its original release to become the first of their 23 top ten hits. Don’t Look Back In Anger is one palace behind at number nine and Wonderwall is at eleven.

Sabrina Carpenter slips to number two after a week at number one for Short ‘n’ Sweet.

For the second time in five years, Nick Cave has found himself releasing an album reflecting on the death of a son. His 2019 album Ghosteen was written after the death of his 15-year-old son Arthur four years earlier. His latest album Wild God is not directly influenced by the loss of his son Jethro in 2022, but it would be surprising if it had no effect on the writing at all. It took Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 24 years to get their first top five album when the, rightfully, highly acclaimed Dig Lazarus dig reached number five. Each subsequent album has also reached the top five. Wild God (the band’s eighteenth studio album) extends that run to five albums as a new entry at number five.

Rock band Wunderhorse get their first top ten album with Midas, their second release. Las Vegas band have their second top forty album with Death Or Glory at number 38, one place behind the number 37 peak of 2022’s Fever Dream.