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Rihanna has scored a fifth week atop the UK singles chart with ‘We Found Love’.

The Bajan star fought off strong debuts from Flo Rida’s ‘Good Feeling’ and One Direction’s ‘Gotta Be You’ to keep her Calvin Harris-team up at pole position.

Rihanna has now overtaken Adele as the artist to have spent the longest time at number one in 2011, with a total of six weeks between ‘We Found Love’ and her January release ‘What’s My Name?’.

The 21 singer previously held the title after ‘Someone Like You’ topped the chart for five weeks over February and March.

Further down the chart, JLS drop six to eight with ‘Take A Chance On Me’, Professor Green’s Emeli Sandé collaboration ‘Read All About It’ slips to nine from four and Christina Perri’s ‘Jar Of Hearts’ leaps back into the bestsellers at ten after finishing at 17 last week.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (1) Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris: ‘We Found Love’
2. (-) Flo Rida: ‘Good Feeling’
3. (-) One Direction: ‘Gotta Be You’
4. (3) Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah: ‘Earthquake’
5. (5) Ed Sheeran: ‘Lego House’
6. (7) David Guetta ft. Usher: ‘Without You’
7. (9) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
8. (2) JLS: ‘Take A Chance On Me’
9. (4) Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande: ‘Read All About It’
10. (17) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’

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Professor Green has scored his first UK singles chart number one with Emeli Sandé collaboration ‘Read All About It’.

The Hackney-born rapper’s fifth studio release sold over 153,000 copies in its first week, just 1% less than the total achieved by 2011’s fastest-selling single so far, ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ by One Direction.

This week’s runner-ups Labrinth and Tinie Tempah also post impressive seven-day sales of 115,000 copies for their latest team-up ‘Earthquake’, while previous number one ‘We Found Love’ by Rihanna and Calvin Harris settles in at three.

Elsehwere, Kelly Clarkson boosts two to four with ‘Mr Know It All’ and Charlene Soraia dips to six with The Calling favourite ‘Wherever You Will Go’

Rizzle Kicks, meanwhile, debut at eight with ‘When I Was A Youngster’, last week’s runner-up ‘Lightning’ by The Wanted crashes to nine and Gym Class Heroes complete the Top 10 with their Adam Levine team-up ‘Stereo Hearts’, which is down five.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Professor Green ft. Emeli Sandé: ‘Read All About It’
2. (-) Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah: ‘Earthquake’
3. (1) Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris: ‘We Found Love’
4. (6) Kelly Clarkson: ‘Mr Know It All’
5. (4) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
6. (3) Charlene Soraia: ‘Wherever You Will Go’
7. (8) LMFAO: ‘Sexy And I Know It’
8. (-) Rizzle Kicks: ‘When I Was A Youngster’
9. (2) The Wanted: ‘Lightning’
10. (6) Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine: ‘Stereo Hearts’

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N-Dubz star Dappy has scored his first solo UK singles chart number one with ‘No Regrets’.

The 24-year-old, real name Costadinos Contostavlos, bumped last Sunday’s champions One Direction and ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ down to third place behind Maroon 5, who finish as runners-up for a fourth week with their Christina Aguilera collaboration ‘Moves Like Jagger’.

Dappy first topped the chart in 2009 as a featured artist on Tinchy Stryder’s ‘Number One’ and has collected seven top 20 hits as part of N-Dubz.

Elsewhere, a double bill of new entries in the shape of Jason Derulo’s ‘It Girl’ and ‘I Wont Let You Go’ by James Morrison completes the top five, while Pixie Lott trips three to six with ‘All About Tonight’.

Former album chart victor Ed Sheeran soars to seven from 14 with ‘The A Team’, Olly Murs drops down four to eight with ‘Heart Skips A Beat’ and Damien Rice’s 2002 track ‘Cannonball’ makes a shock return to the Top 10 at nine. The song has soared an enormous 30 places after it was covered on The X Factor by contestant John Adams.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Dappy: ‘No Regrets’
2. (2) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
3. (1) One Direction: ‘What Makes You Beautiful’
4. (-) Jason Derulo: ‘It Girl’
5. (-) James Morrison: ‘I Won’t Let You Go’
6. (3) Pixie Lott: ‘All About Tonight’
7. (14) Ed Sheeran: ‘The A Team’
8. (4) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
9. (39) Damien Rice: ‘Cannonball’
10. (9) Will Young: ‘Jealousy’

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One Direction have stormed to the top of the UK singles chart with their debut release ‘What Makes You Beautiful’.

The X Factor boyband – known individually as Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson – achieved the biggest first-week sales of 2011 after shifting over 153,000 copies of their eagerly-anticipated track.

The group’s tally is ahead of the numbers posted by established artists such as Adele, Bruno Mars and Jennifer Lopez, who have also managed to exceed 100,000 sales in one week with their releases throughout the year.

Last week’s number one ‘All About Tonight’ by Pixie Lott is bumped down to third place behind Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera with ‘Moves Like Jagger’, while Olly Murs climbs two to four with Rizzle Kicks team-up ‘Heart Skips A Beat’.

Will Young returns to the single digits this Sunday with ‘Jealousy’, which is up to nine from 12, and Leona Lewis – the third X Factor act in this week’s Top 10 – crashes six places from four with ‘Collide’.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) One Direction: ‘What Makes You Beautiful’
2. (2) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
3. (1) Pixie Lott: ‘All About Tonight’
4. (6) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
5. (3) The Saturdays: ‘All Fired Up’
6. (5) Example: ‘Stay Awake’
7. (7) Calvin Harris: ‘Feel So Close’
8. (8) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
9. (12) Will Young: ‘Jealousy’
10. (4) Leona Lewis ft. Avicii: ‘Collide’

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Pixie Lott has collected her third UK singles chart number one with ‘All About Tonight’.

The 20-year-old, who first reached pole position in 2009 with debut tracks ‘Mama Do’ and ‘Boys And Girls’, kept Maroon 5 and ‘Moves Like Jagger’ in the runner-up spot for a second week to take the top spot.

The Saturdays once again just miss out on their first UK number one with their latest release ‘All Fired Up’, their tenth Top 10 single since 2008, while Leona Lewis returns to the chart with her Avicii collaboration ‘Collide’ at four.

Last week’s number one ‘Stay Awake’ by Example concludes the top five and Olly Murs stumbles three to six with ‘Heart Skips A Beat’. Ed Sheeran rounds out this Sunday’s best sellers with ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You’, down six from its previous finish of four.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Pixie Lott: ‘All About Tonight’
2. (2) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
3. (-) The Saturdays: ‘All Fired Up’
4. (-) Leona Lewis ft. Avicii: ‘Collide’
5. (1) Example: ‘Stay Awake’
6. (3) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
7. (5) Calvin Harris: ‘Feel So Close’
8. (6) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
9. (10) Sean Kingston: ‘Party All Night (Sleep All Day)’
10. (4) Ed Sheeran: ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You’

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Example has scored his second number one on the UK singles chart with his latest song ‘Stay Awake’.

The track, taken from the rapper’s third album Playing In The Shadows, follows his previous single ‘Changed The Way You Kissed Me’, which also topped the charts back in June.

Last week’s number one, ‘Heart Skips A Beat’ by Olly Murs, is forced into third place, while Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera climb one place with ‘Moves Like Jagger’.

Ed Sheeran debuts at number four with ‘You Need Me I Don’t Need You’, nine places ahead of his previous single ‘The A Team’. ‘Lick Ya Down’, the first track from Bajan four-piece Cover Drive, is straight in at number nine, while Sean Kingston climbs eight places to complete the top ten with ‘Party All Night (Sleep All Day)’.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Example: ‘Stay Awake’
2. (3) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
3. (1) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
4. (-) Ed Sheeran: ‘You Need Me I Don’t Need You’
5. (2) Calvin Harris: ‘Feel So Close’
6. (6) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
7. (4) Wretch 32 ft. Josh Kumra: ‘Don’t Go’
8. (5) Will Young: ‘Jealousy’
9. (-) Cover Drive: ‘Lick Ya Down’
10. (18) Sean Kingston: ‘Party All Night (Sleep All Day)’

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Olly Murs has grabbed his second UK singles chart number one with ‘Heart Skips A Beat’.

The X Factor star’s latest release beat fellow new entry ‘Feel So Close’ by Calvin Harris to pole position, following in the footsteps of his August 2010 debut ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’.

Last week’s number one Wretch 32 is instead forced to settle for fourth with ‘Don’t Go’, while album chart champion Will Young achieves his tenth Top 10 hit with ‘Jealousy’, a new entry at five.

Emile Sandé’s ‘Heaven’ falls from the runner-up spot to seven, Rizzle Kicks – who lend their vocals to Murs’s chart-topper – are a non-mover at eight with ‘Down With The Trumpets’, while ‘The A Team’ by Ed Sheeran and David Guetta’s ‘Little Bad Girl’ fall three apiece to nine and ten.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
2. (-) Calvin Harris: ‘Feel So Close’
3. (3) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
4. (1) Wretch 32 ft. Josh Kumra: ‘Don’t Go’
5. (-) Will Young: ‘Jealousy’
6. (8) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
7. (2) Emeli Sandé: ‘Heaven’
8. (8) Rizzle Kicks: ‘Down With The Trumpets’
9. (6) Ed Sheeran: ‘The A-Team’
10. (7) David Guetta ft. Taio Cruz & Ludacris: ‘Little Bad Girl’

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Wretch 32 has grabbed his first UK singles chart number one with ‘Don’t Go’.

The Tottenham-born rapper, aka Jermaine Scott, knocked album chart champions Nero and their ‘Promises’ record from pole position with his third release of 2011.

“To be honest, if someone told me this was going to happen this time last year, I probably would have laughed,” he told the Official Charts Company. “I would have thought they were winding me up.”

‘Don’t Go’ leads an all-new top three, also populated by Scottish singer Emeli Sandé’s debut single ‘Heaven’ and Maroon 5‘s team-up with Christina Aguilera ‘Moves Like Jagger’.

David Guetta, Taio Cruz and Ludacris, meanwhile, are forced down three to seven with ‘Little Bad Girl’, as former chart-toppers JLS and The Wanted drop to the depths of the best-sellers with ‘She Makes Me Wanna’ and ‘Glad You Came’, down seven and four respectively.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Wretch 32 ft. Josh Kumra: ‘Don’t Go’
2. (-) Emeli Sande’s ‘Heaven’
3. (-) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
4. (5) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
5. (1) Nero: ‘Promises’
6. (7) Ed Sheeran: ‘The A Team’
7. (4) David Guetta ft. Taio Cruz & Ludacris: ‘Little Bad Girl’
8. (8) Rizzle Kicks: ‘Down With The Trumpets’
9. (2) JLS ft. Dev: ‘She Makes Me Wanna’
10. (6) The Wanted: ‘Glad You Came’

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London-based dubstep duo Nero have collected their first UK singles chart number one with ‘Promises’.

The electronic act, otherwise known as Dan Stephens and Joe Ray, pushed Cher Lloyd‘s ‘Swagger Jagger’ from pole position with their fourth ever release.

Speaking to the Official Charts Company, Ray credited the momentous feat to the success of their January single ‘Me & You’ and their nomination for the BBC’s ‘Sound Of 2011’ poll.

“We’d been going since about 2004, then suddenly we had this number 15 hit,” he said. “Before that, we were expected to carry on being an underground, word-of-mouth thing. Suddenly we were being played on Radio 1 and everything changed.”

Beyond the summit of the chart, David Guetta, Taio Cruz and Ludacris climb two to this week’s four with ‘Little Bad Girl’, as Christina Perri’s ‘Jar Of Hearts’ rises 12 spots to round out the refreshed top five.

Their ascent, coupled with Nero’s arrival at number one, forces Ed Sheeran’s ‘The A Team’, ‘Louder’ by DJ Fresh and Beyoncé’s ‘Best Thing I Never Had’ three, four and three places down the rankings respectively to this week’s seven, nine and ten.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Nero: ‘Promises’
2. (2) JLS: ‘She Makes Me Wanna’
3. (1) Cher Lloyd: ‘Swagger Jagger’
4. (6) David Guetta ft. Taio Cruz and Ludacris: ‘Little Bad Girl’
5. (-) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
6. (3) The Wanted: ‘Glad You Came’
7. (4) Ed Sheeran: ‘The A Team’
8. (9) Rizzle Kicks: ‘Down With The Trumpets’
9. (5) DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans: ‘Louder’
10. (7) Beyoncé: ‘Best Thing I Never Had’

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