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 peak. She also climbs back up to number eighteen with Die With A Smile (assisted by Bruno Mars) and has a new entry at number 23 with Garden Of Eden. That becomes her 32nd top forty single. Four versions of a song called Garden Of Eden were in the charts in January 1957. That would have made for a rather repetitive Chart Show if one had existed at the time.

Last week Sleepy Hallow had a new entry with Anxiety, featuring vocals from Doechii who released a solo version of the song in 2019. That version falls one place to number sixteen this week. However, it has triggered renewed interest in the original version which is a new entry at number four. Thankfully, it is so much better than Denial Is A River that it’s hard to believe they are by the same singer.

Benson  Boone’s Beautiful Things falls one place to number five.

Blackpink member Jennie’s singles chart record so far has been rather underwhelming (thankfully). This week she gets her fourth solo top forty single as the lead artist. By entering at number 36, Like Jennie has already outperformed the three previous hits. Much as I dislike the song, it seems rather odd that the Radio 1 chose not to play it on the Chart Show. Surely all new entries should be played unless there is no version suitable for a play on teatime radio.

Australian-born Sonny Fodera gets his fourth top forty hit with Tell Me at number 39. The song is graced with vocals from Clementine Douglas who also feature on Fodera’s number seven hit Asking in 2023.

Teddy Sims has a re-entry at number 35 after a four-week absence.

Lady Gaga’s career has been a near constant success.Her debut single Just Dance was the first of six number one singles and all but one of her studio albums has topped the chart. She has also had two top ten albums with veteran singer Tony Bennett. With her continued success in the singles chart, one not enjoyed by many artists who first entered the chart as long as sixteen years ago, her new album Mayhem was always likely to top the chart. OK, it has to be said. A few weeks ago, the top of the singles chart was Messy; now there is Mayhem at the top of the albums chart.

As predicted last week (not that it was hard), Sabrina Carpenter’s latest run at number one with Short ‘n’ Sweet lived up to the album’s title once again. It is back at number two for a seventeenth week in the runner-up position. Its five weeks away from the number two opposition is its longest so far. Carpenter released her debut album, Emails I Can’t Send, in 2022. It spent a week at number 76. It returned to the chart last year after she finally started to achieve significant success, eventually getting to number 41 in June. This week it finally makes it into the top forty at number 40.

The arrival of a new single from Jennie in the top forty coincides with the release of her debut solo album. Ruby is a new entry in the albums chart at number three.

Tate McRae is at number four with So Close To What. Sam Fender’s People Watching is at number five.

Lady Gaga is a very long way from being the oldest act to have a new entry this week. That honour falls to folk-rock band Jethro Tull who formed in 1967 and had their first top forty album the following year. Ian Anderson is the only remaining founder member of the band. Curious Ruminant, at number 25, is their 26th top forty album. Just one of those album’s 1969’s Stand Up, went all the way to the top.

Many bands, including Jethro Tull, have split up and then re-formed. Rather fewer bands do it as often as The Wildhearts. They were formed in Newcastle in 1989. When they split up in 2022, it was the fourth time they had done so. Now they are back yet again and have released a new album. Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts enters at number 26 to give them a sixth top forty album.

Hot Wax was the name of a record company formed by the legendary songwriting partnership of Holland-Dozier-Holland when they broke away from Motown. HotWax, on the other hand, are a rock band from Hastings. Their debut album, Hot Shock, is at number 38. They appear to be the first charting act from the East Sussex coastal town. The partying there should go on all night.