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Alex Warren’s run at the top of the singles chart goes into double figures. Morgan Wallen gets his first UK number one album.

Alex Warren’s Ordinary gets a tenth week at the top of the singles chart. While it is only the fourteenth single to spend at least ten successive weeks at number one, it is the fourth in the 2020s. The last song to do it was Dave and Central Cee’s Sprinter which had a run of ten weeks in 2023. Last weekend some newspapers (and tabloids) reported that Warren had broken the record for a US solo artist’s consecutive weeks at number one. Others added the word male. Both were wrong. Slim Whitman’s
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Alex Warren finally faces a challenge at the top of the singles chart. Pulp top the albums chart with their first release in nearly a quarter of a century.

After many weeks when Alex Warren’s Ordinary finished well clear of all  rivals at the top of the singles chart, he finally faced a real challenge this week. It came from Sabrina Carpenter with her new single Manchild. In Monday's update, Manchild had a fairly clear lead over Ordinary. However, by Wednesday the lead had narrowed leaving the final outcome in doubt. The lack of an additional update yesterday (Thursday) was perhaps a hint that  Sabrina Carpenter’s lead had either stabilised or eve
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Lewis Capaldi’s comeback single is his sixth number one. Lorde gets her first number one album. Both singers have benefitted from playing at Glastonbury last weekend.

Whatever you may think of Lewis Capaldi’s music, it is surely hard as a fellow human being not to sympathise with him for his experience at Glastonbury two years ago. His Tourette’s syndrome forced him to abandon his set. This year, he chose to play his first live show since then at the same venue and he wowed the audience in a way many of his critics may be reluctant to acknowledge. Oh, and his first cousin once removed, former Doctor Peter Capaldi, joined Franz Ferdinand for Take Me Out in a g