HOT on YouTube is a rather cheeky bootleg of Uptown Funk, featuring snippets of Barack Obama’s speeches over the hottest pop song since Pharrell Williams’ Happy.

Although the album sadly doesn’t feature the US President, Mr Ronson’s Facebook guest list does, it transpires, include music royalty.

Bruno Mars is vocalist on the aforementioned Uptown Funk, and on the unnecessarily saucy Feel Right, but trumping Mars is Stevie Wonder, whose harmonica solo opens and closes the set, on Uptown’s First Finale and Crack In The Pearl Pt II.

The success of the lead single can’t be underplayed. Resident at number one in the singles chart for a sixth week, the track was streamed more than 2.5 million times in the past week.

On release, the album Uptown Special secured a double, in also reaching the top spot in the album chart. For good reason, too. This is probably the most consistently accomplished and crafted pop album since Katy Perry’s Teenage Life.

Every track is a sure-fire hit in the making. The James Brown-influenced Feel Right, featuring a filthy hook and a shattering brass section, will keep the craziest of dance floors in a frenzy, while the psychedelic Daffodils has a classy jazz edge surely inspired by Donald Fagen.

True, this is the work of a kleptomaniac magpie, borrowing shamelessly from the greats, but the overriding experience is a joyous fun ride on the best soulful and funky riffs known to mankind.