Well, at least one safe seat could be disrupted by a Labour person on Friday: Ellie Goulding is, apparently out of nowhere, looking like she could replace the seemingly immovable Tones And I at number one.

Her Peak Goulding cover of Joni Mitchell’s River was only 2,000 ~chart ~sales (a complicated number worked out by combining sales and streams) behind Dance Monkey during the first midweek sales flash over the weekend.

And here’s where it gets super interesting: River is not on Spotify, Apple Music or even on iTunes. The video is on YouTube, but the audio is exclusive to… Amazon Music(!!?!?!!).

Realistically it feels like the track will need to land on other streaming services pretty pronto if it’s going to seriously challenge for No1, but HOW! FASCINATING! that a song only available on one of the smallest (lol @ calling Amazon “one of the smallest”) streaming platforms is doing so well. Is Alexa just thumping it into pensioners’ homes willy-nilly?! Is it the first thing that plays whenever you ask it for Christmas music? (Answer: possibly).

If it does hit the top, it’ll be Ellie’s third No1 – after Burn and Love Me Like You Do. After climbing 57-14 last week, it’s already her highest-charting single since Still Falling For You in 2016, and should be her first Top 10 since On My Mind in 2015.