Jamie Miller gets a second week at number one in the singles chart. My Chemical Romance get their first number one album with a reissue.

Last week Jamie Miller climbed to the top of the chart by a fairly narrow margin. This week, after performing Babydoll on a popular Saturday evening television programme, he has a significantly larger lead at the top of the chart. This means that, for now at least, the last three number one singles by solo Welsh male singers (Shakin’ Stevens and Chico are the others, so we are using a very generous definition of singer) have spent exactly two weeks at the summit.

McRae’s Housewife remains at number two. Ashe’s Stop The Wedding climbs back up to number three, swapping places with Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan’s Expectations. An expectant top five is completed by Sienna Spiro’s Great Expectation at number five.

The first of just two brand new entry this week is a song that was excluded from last week’s chart which limits the number of songs allowed in the chart by the same lead artist to three. This week there are still three songs from Fontaines DC’s Dopamine Chamber album, but the third of them is now Mimesis at number 34. Apparently there is an online survival horro game called Mimesis so this song’s appearance one day before Hallowe’en is quite appropriate. Regardless of what it’s about, it is a great song. On the subject of Hallowe’en, Michael Jackson’s Thriller is up[ to number seventeen.

The other new entry is the fourth single from Harry Styles latest album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. The album was released back in March, so this is quite a long wait for a new single. Coming Up Roses is at number 35. I’d rather hear Aperture again.

There is another batch of re-entries, most of them for old songs that have been in and out of the top forty for a large part of this year. However, there is one that hasn’t been in the top forty for a couple years. The song in question is Jade (Thirwall)’s Angel Of My Dreams. The former Little Mix-er reached number seven with her debut solo single in July 2024. It is back this week at number thirteen.

Robyn’s Dancing On My Own enters the top forty for a fifth time in 2026, this time at number 38.

For the last few weeks, Raye’s search for her husband has had a lower profile with her chart-topping single meandering around outside the top forty. Now the search has been stepped up again and Where Is My Husband returns at number 40.

Alex Warren’s Ordinary entered the top forty in February of last year (cue Somebody Told Me going through my head). It was one of the survivors of last year’s Christmas onslaught and has, so far, remained in the chart for the whole of this year as well. It has now accumulated 90 successive weeks in the top forty.With this year’s Christmas rush only weeks away, it is unlikely that he will manage an unbroken 100-week run.

Two of this week’s biggest albums are anniversary editions of albums originally released in late October 2006 - My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade and Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black.

The Black Parade entered the chart at number two, behind Robbie Williams’ Rudebox. However, the (almost) title track Welcome To The Black Parade spent two weeks atop the singles chart. It soon tumbled down the chart although it has made brief appearances in the lower reaches over the last two decades. The twentieth anniversary edition, with three additional tracks and three live tracks, finally takes the album to number one, a first UK number one album for the US band.

Back To Black was Amy Winehouse’s second album and, sadly, the last to be released in her lifetime. One week after The Black Parade entered the chart, Back To Black came in at number three, behind Robbie Williams and a Girls Aloud compilation. Like The Black Parade, it fell away fairly sharply. However, it then started to climb back up the chart and reached number one in January 2007. A deluxe edition was released a year after the original release. That album was treated as a separate release under chart rules in operation at the time and it too reached number one.

Back To Black returned to number one for another three weeks after Amy Winehouse’s untimely death in 2011.The new edition is at number four, its first top forty appearance since December 2024.

After a week at the top, Fontaines DC’s Dopamine Chamber holds up very well, slipping to number two. Olivia Rodrigo’s You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love is at number three. The Essential Michael Jackson is at number five.

Back To Black is not the only old album with a tragic background to re-enter the chart this week. The Holy Bible, released in 1994, proved to be the last Manic Street Preachers album to feature original vocalist and lead songwriter Richey Edwards before his disappearance in February 1995. The lyrics reflected Edwards’ struggles with his mental health, making it a fairly bleak album. Many Manics fans still cite this album as their finest work.

In 2014 the three remaining members of Manic Street Preachers performed The Holy Bible live in full for the first time. That has led to the release of The Holy Bible - Live which enters at number ten this week. The album reached number six on its original release.

Tony Iommi has recorded four solo albums along with various other projects but is best known as a founding member of Black Sabbath. His fourth solo album, From The Dark, is his first since 2005 and the first release of any kind since Black Sabbath’s final album in 2013. It is at number eleven.

Michael Kiwanuka’s first four albums all reached the top five, including the chart-topping Love & Hate. That album’s follow-up, Kiwanuka, won the Mercury Prize in 2020. While working on Small Changes (released in 2024), he was also writing songs for the next album Fudge. Shortly after he finished recording the album earlier this year, he suffered a major stroke. Now that he is on the road to recovery, he has released the album and it is at number thirteen.

This year’s Mercury prize-winner, Raye’s This Music May Contain Hope, is a re-entry at number fifteen.