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Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club gets a second week at number one. Lady Gaga has a fifth number one album.

Chappell Roan remains at the top of the singles chart. Lady Gaga gets her fifth number one album. Having climbed to the top of the singles chart last week, Chappell Roan remains at number one with her Pink Pony Club. It therefore avoids becoming the first one-week number one since Gigi Perez’s Sailor Song four months ago. Alex Warren climbs one place to number two with Ordinary. The release of Lady Gaga’s new album helps Abracadabra climb three places to number three, matching its previous
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Chappell Roan gets her first number one single. Sabrina Carpenter returns to the top of the albums chart once again.

Chappell Roan finally gets to the top of the singles chart. Sabrina Carpenter returns to the top of the albums chart. Chappell Roan was one of the biggest new stars of 2024 but still ended the year without a number one single to her name. Her success has continued into the early months of 2025; as of last week’s chart, she had spent a total of 29 weeks in the top ten with Good Luck Babem Hot To Go and, to complete the trio of three-word titles, Pink Pony Club. Still, however, a chart-topping s
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Another close race at the top of the singles chart is won once again by Sienna Spiro. Former Mercury Prize-winners Ezra Collective get their first number one album.

With no recent release making any impact near the top of the chart or threatening to be the new Rein Me In, there was another close race for number one in the singles chart. In Wednesday’s update the top four were separated by roughly 1,600 chart sales. I could have chosen to prepare a separate commentary for each possible top four. However, there are 24 different combinations, so I didn’t. The leader in Wednesday’s update was Sienna Spiro’s Great Expectation which climbed to the top last week
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An unusual chart double as Harry Styles tops the singles chart while his former bandmate Louis Tomlinson has the number one album.

As mentioned in last week’s commentary, Harry Styles is the nearest current equivalent to Robbie Williams, someone who started life in a boyband and who has then achieved huge success as a solo artist. Like Williams with Take That, Styles was just sixteen when he became part of One Direction. Any member of a band who starts a solo career faces a difficult choice. They can continue with songs in a similar style to those released by their band, or they can do something different. As a boyband’s
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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’s Ordinary gets a third week as the number one single. Mumford and Sons top the albums chart with their first release in over six years.

Alex Warren gets a third week at number one with his Ordinary single. If he loses the top spot next week, Ordinary will be the first single this year to spend an odd number of weeks at the summit. Warren’s Carry You Home climbs one place to a new peak of number nine. Alex Warren heads an unchanged top four. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club remains at number two. Doechii’s Anxiety, which sounds even better each time I hear it, is still at number three. Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things holds on at
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Alex Warren spends an eleventh week at number one. Sparks take on Sabrina Carpenter at the top of the albums chart.

Alex Warren’s Ordinary continues its run at the top of the singles chart into an eleventh week. Just three other songs have had a run of exactly eleven weeks at the top. Slim Whitman’s Rose marie did it in the early years of the chart in 1955. While four songs have subsequently had longer runs, the next song to spend exactly eleven weeks at number one was Dance Monkey by Tones & I in 2019. Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits (2021) has since matched that run. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club moves back
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Alex Warren spends a seventh week at the top of the singles chart with Ordinary. Stereophonics and Swedish band Ghost compete for supremacy in the albums chart.

Alex Warren’s Ordinary stays at the top of the singles chart for a seventh week. It is the longest continuous run at the top by a male solo artist since Noah Kahan’s Stick Season at the beginning of last year. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club is at number two for a fifth successive week, and a sixth in total. WizTheMC, along with Bees And Honey, continues to climb. Show Me Love is now at number three. Ed Sheeran slips to number four with Azizam. Ravyn lenae climbs four places to number five with
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Alex Warren is still refusing to be budged from the top of the singles chart. Ed Sheeran returns to number one in the albums chart.

Alex Warren’s Ordinary spends a twelfth week at number one in the singles chart. Just four other songs have had a twelfth successive week at number one; all four of them managed at least one more week at the top. Ordinary now has the second longest time at the top for a first number one as the lead artist, behind Drake’s One dance which spent an interminable fifteen weeks there in 2016. He had spent time at number one before, but not as the lead artist. He was the featured artist on Rihanna’s Wh
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Alex Warren has an Ordinary Week 2 on top and The Lottery Winners number comes up

Alex Warren holds at 1 on the Single Track chart, and The Lottery Winners lucky number comes up in albums. That number is 1. Alex Warren makes it week number 2 at number one for Ordinary, a great ballad with gospel choir touches, making it the first time since Kate Bush was Running back Up That Hill that my personal chart and the Official Chart have the same number one. Alex’s previous good hits also get a boost with Carry You Home at a new peak of 10 (and his second top 10 hit) and Burning Do
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Alex Warren has a ninth Ordinary week at the top of the singles chart. Sleep Token get their first number one album.

Alex Warren’s run at the top of the singles chart continues as Ordinary gets a ninth week  at number one. The last single to spend exactly nine weeks at the top came fairly recently - Sabrina Carpenter’s Taste last autumn. Ravyn Lenae’s Love Me Not is still at number two. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club still tethered at number three. WithTheMC with added Bees & Honey remain at number four with Show me Love. Sombr’s Undressed continues its steady climb up the chart. It is up one palace to n
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Alex Warren gets his first number one single.

Alex Warren gets his first number one single. Steve Wilson narrowly misses out on a first number one album. Alex Warren climbs to the top of the singles chart to get his first UK number one. Sadly, it is with the aptly-titled Ordinary rather than the significantly better Carry You Home which is back up to number twenty this week. The Californian singer-songwriter released his first music in 2021, but didn’t enter the UK ((or US) top forty until last year. At the beginning of the week, it was
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Alex Warren gets an extra Ordinary week at the top of the singles chart. James Marriott has the number one album.

After it was replaced at number one last week, people might have thought that Alex Warren’s Ordinary had had its time at the top. The first signs that they were wrong came on Sunday when it was back at number one in the first update of the week. It is still there at the end of the week, giving it a thirteenth week at number one in total. It thereby creates another chart record. Its return to the top after an initial twelve week run shatters the record set by Frankie Laine’s I Believe way back in
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Alex Warren gets a fourth week at number one with Ordinary. Elton John, in collaboration with Brandi Carlile gets his tenth number one album

Alex Warren still has the number one single. Elton John gets another number one album. Alex Warren’s Ordinary remains at the top of the chart for a fourth week at number one. It is the second song to spend a month at the summit this year after Lola Young’s Messy. Yes, we have had a messy month and now we have an ordinary one. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club spends a third consecutive week at number two, it’s fourth week in the runner-up slot in total. When Ed Sheeran released - in 2023m he
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Alex Warren gets a fifth Ordinary week at the top of the singles chart. Those Damn Crows have their first number one album.

Alex Warren remains well clear of the opposition at the top of the singles chart. Ordinary’s fifth week at the summit makes it the longest-running number one single of the year so far. The last five-week number one was Gracie Abrams’ That’s So True in November and December of last year. This means that this year’s Easter number one matches the song that was replaced by last year’s Christmas number one. Ordinary heads an unchanged top four. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club remains at number two.
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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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Alex Warren extends his run at the top of the singles chart to eight weeks. Pink Floyd get a seventh number one album with a live set recorded over half-a-century ago.

There is still no stopping Alex Warren as Ordinary gets an eighth week at number one in the singles chart. The last song to spend exactly eight weeks at the top was Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding’s Miracle in two separate runs in 2023. Afraid To Feel by LF System was the last song to have a single run of exactly eight weeks, in 2022. Warren’s album You’ll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1) enters the top ten for the first time, at number nine. Ravyn Linae’s Love Me Not climbs three places to number
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Alex Warren bags a sixth week at the top of the singles chart. One year after its release, Taylor Swift’s latest album returns to number one.

Alex Warren spends a sixth week at the top of the singles chart with ordinary. The last song to get at least six weeks at number one was Sabrina Carpenter's Taste which had a run of nine weeks from the end of August last year. The last song with exactly six weeks at the summit was Taylor Swift’s Anti-Hero which went to number one in October 2022. Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding’s Miracle had a six-week run starting in April 2023 but that came after a previous two-week run. Once again, the top