The KPop Demon Hunters remain at the top of the singles chart. Florence + The Machine have the number one album.

After climbing back to the top of the singles chart last week HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast get another week at number one with Golden. This brings its total number of weeks at the summit to ten. However, it is still not the longest-running number one of the year. That title is still held by ASlex Warren’s Ordinary which had a total of 13 weeks at the top. That song is in the top twenty for a 39th week, climbing two places to number fourteen. In the separate Streaming Chart, it has been in the top ten since March, apart from one week when it fell to number sixteen, behind the tracks fro, Taylor Swift’s album. It spent twenty of those weeks at number one.

Taylor Swift remains at number two with The Fate Of Ophelia and at number four with Opalite. In between the two Taylor Swift songs, as last week, is Raye’s Where Is My Husband. The only change in the top five is that Olivia Dean’s Man I Need climbs back up one place to number five. Dean also has a new entry at number 22 with A Couple Minutes, bringing her 2025 tally up to eight top forty singles.

There are many singles whose chart peak is lower than many music fans assume. One particularly extreme example is Bryan Adams’ Summer Of ‘69 which has never reached the top forty. For all its ubiquity, The Killers’ Mr Brightside has only spent one week in the top ten, at number ten. That is also its only week in the top twenty.

Similarly, one of Michael Jackson’s best-known songs, Thriller, also peaked at number ten although its initial chart run did include an additional eight weeks in the top twenty. It gained another top twenty week after Jackson’s death in 2009, but the predominance of streaming in the chart calculations means that it is now a regular visitor to the chart around Hallowe’en. This year, Hallowe’en was on a Thursday but it seems that many people chose to celebrate it over the weekend. As a result, Thriller climbs to a new peak of number nine.

Three other old songs re-enter the top forty. Ray Parker Jr’s theme song from the film Ghostbusters is at number seventeen, two places ahead of Rockwell’s Somebody’s Watching Me which features Michael Jackson on backing vocals. Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett gets his annual outing in the top forty with Monster Mash at number twenty.

We will soon reach the time of year when the influence that Christmas playlists on streaming sites have on the charts becomes an issue. Warning - Mariah Carey entered the top 100 this week. Now, the same thing is starting to happen around Hallowe'en. Whatever happened to Bonfire Night? The return of songs like Thriller to the chart is one thing, but now we are starting to see the appearance of random songs most people have never heard of.

Andrew Gold is best known for his marvellous 1977 hit Lonely Boy. Almost half-a-century later, and fourteen years after Gold died, he gets a fourth top forty hit with Spooky Scary Skeletons at number 30. Danny Elfman’s This Is Hallowe’en, from the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas, reached number fourteen last year, but just missed out on a top forty place last year. This year it is back at number 31.

Rapper EsDeeKid is at number 40 with Century, a song that thankfully lasts a good deal less time than that. His other current hit Phantom hasn’t got a Hallowe’en boost; it stays at number 28. Presumably its title hasn’t got it added to any seasonal playlists yet.

Florence + The Machine’s fabulous debut album Lungs was, for some time, an exceptionally unlucky album in chart terms. It spent its first five weeks at number two behind a Michael Jasckson compilation in the immediate aftermath of Jackson’s death. After spending another week in the runner-up spot in January 2010, it finally ascended to the summit the following week and stayed there for two weeks. Three of the following four studio albums also went to number one.

Three years after Dance Fever, Florence + The Machine released their sixth studio album Everybody Scream, appropriately enough on Hallowe’en. It was written after Florence Welch suffered a serious miscarriage, threatening her own life. As a result, she has described the songs as her most personal songs to date. The album, another great offering, is this week’s number one.

Lily Allen’s West End Girl continues to be one of the most talked about albums of the year. The exposure sees it climb two places this week to number two. The three songs that entered the singles chart last week have all climbed. Pussy Palace climbs four places to number eight, giving her a first top ten single for fourteen years. The title track climbs to number fifteen with Madeline one place behind.

Taylor Swift remains at number three with The Life Of A Showgirl. Olivia Dean’s The Art Of Loving climbs one place to number four.

The timing of the release of Cat Burns’ second studio album How To Be Human has been rather fortunate. It came near the end of a period where she has been on television every week on one of the most-watched shows for many years. Her reward is a number five start, completing an all-female top five (for vocalists at least).

Manchester band The Charlatans made their name thanks, in large part, to the distinctive keyboard skills of Rob Collins. When he was killed in a road accident shortly before the band had finished recording their fifth studio album Tellin’ Stories, many people assumed that that would be the end of the band. Just a few weeks after his death, the band were due to support Oasis at Knebworth. They chose to go ahead with Martin Duffy from Primal Scream replacing Collins. Tony Rogers then became the permanent replacement.

Last week The Charlatans released We Are Love, their fourteenth studio album, after a gap of eight years. It was recorded at the same studio as Tellin’s Stories, the first time the band had returned there since Collins’ death. It enters at number eight making it the ban’d eleventh top ten album.

In their 30+ years together, Radiohead have only released two live albums. I Might Be Wrong came out in 2001 and reached number 23 in the chart. Now they have released Hail To The Thief, a collection of live recordings of their 2003 album of the same name. The original release gave them a fourth number one album. This version is at number twelve.

The week’s “Does hat it says on the tin” award goes to an outfit calling themselves The Rock Orchestra. Their album Classics Volume 1 includes versions of Zombie, Paint It Black and Stairway To Heaven. It is a new entry at number fourteen.

Bob Dylan continues to release his Bootleg series. Volume 18, Through The Open Window, enters at number 28 to give him a 57th top forty album, winning him the Heinz Award. The album is made up of some of his earliest live recordings dating back as far as 1959.

Liverpudlian Sophie Morgan Howarth, recording as Luvcat, is at number 31 with Vicious Delicious.

There are two new editions of old albums in this week’s new entries. The Who released their eighth studio album Who Are You in 1978 when it reached number six. A Super Deluxe Edition enters at number 34. Their legendary drummer Keith Moon died just a few weeks after the original release.

K T Tunstall’s Eye To The Telescope joins the list of albums whose “Anniversary” edition is released in the wrong year. The album was released in 2004, but the 20th Anniversary Edition has only just landed. It is at number 35.