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There’s no stopping Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You, with two new remixes of the song helping it to celebrate an eighth week at Number 1, with bumper sales and streams.

A Major Lazer remix and a special collaboration version with Stormzy, which the pair debuted at the BRIT Awards last week, count toward Shape Of You’s overall chart placing and have seen the song score 144,385 combined chart sales, racking up 10.95 million streams in the last seven days. It’s Shape Of You’s biggest chart week since its debut at Number 1 back in January.

The Chainsmokers and Coldplay vault 28 places with another BRIT Awards collaboration, Something Just Like This is up to Number 2.

New entries and high climbers

Aside from his cameo on Shape Of You at the top, Stormzy makes seven further appearances in the Top 40 – the highest being Big For Your Boots, which climbs 11 places to 6. Other tracks from his chart-topping debut album Gang Signs and Prayer to make an impression are new entries Cold (21), Bad Boys (22) First Things First (25), Mr Skeng (29) and Kehlani collaboration Cigarettes & Cush (30). Previous Top 10 single Shut Up also zooms 83 places to land at 37.

Every single track from Gang Signs and Prayer has made the Top 100 – Stormzy is only the fourth act to achieve that feat, after Justin Bieber, Beyoncé and The Weeknd.

Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean and Migos team up on Slide, which is new at Number 10, giving Calvin his 22nd Top 10 and Frank and Migos their first.

Anne-Marie’s Ciao Adios breaks into the Top 20 for the first time, rising to 19, and Maroon 5 and Future rise 8 places to Number 24 with Cold.

Zedd and Alessia Cara complete this week’s round of new entries – Stay is brand new at 33.

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Ed Sheeran dominates the Official Singles Chart this week following a big performance at this week’s BRIT Awards of his latest singles Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill.

Shape Of You continues to lead the way on the Top 40, logging a seventh week at Number 1 with 7.37 million streams and 34,000 downloads sold.

Meanwhile, How Would You Feel (Paean) – a track lifted from his upcoming album ÷ (Divide) – is a new entry at 2, and Castle On The Hill is at 4. The Top 5 singles takeover comes ahead of the release of his third album next week, on Friday, March 3.

Elsewhere, Katy Perry’s Chained To The Rhythm gets a boost from her BRITs performance, climbing two spots to 5, while Kygo and Selena Gomez’s brand new collaboration It Ain’t Me opens at Number 9. The entry is Kygo’s second UK Top 10 single and Selena’s third.

Elsewhere, Take That finish at Number 13 with their new single Giants but are this week’s biggest physical seller, shifting 12,000 CDs of the track this week.

Anne-Marie’s Ciao Adios vaults 19 places to 21 this week, and The Chainsmokers and Coldplay’s brand new track Something Just Like This – unveiled and released during Wednesday’s BRITs – enters at 30 after less than 48 hours on sale.

Finally, Maroon 5 earn their 19^th Top 40 single with Cold ft. Future at 32, and Danish DJ Martin Jensen breaks into this week’s Top 40 with Solo Dance at Number 40 five weeks after its release.

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He’s done it again! Ed Sheeran holds onto the Number 1 spot of the Official Singles Chart for a sixth week with Shape of You.

One of two lead singles from Ed’s third studio album, Shape of You remained on top with 36,500 downloads combined with 8 million streams. Ed’s other Top 3 single for the past six weeks Castle on the Hill has now fallen from 2 to Number 3, ending Ed’s record-breaking grip on the top two positions.

Ed’s five-week spell at Numbers 1 and 2 is the longest consecutive tenure holding both spots on the Official Singles Chart. Justin Bieber is the artist with most non-consecutive weeks; his songs Sorry and Love Yourself have spent 7 weeks in total back-to-back on the singles tally.

Breaking through Ed Sheeran’s stronghold this week is Rag’n’Bone Man, whose track Human rebounds from Number 5 to return to its peak position of Number 2. The song has enjoyed a major uplift thanks to the release of his debut album of the same name, and performances of the track on The Graham Norton Show and Sunday Brunch.

New entries and high climbers

Zayn and Taylor Swift’s I Don’t Wanna Live Forever reaches a new peak of Number 5 following the release of Fifty Shades Darker, the movie that IDWLF is the lead soundtrack single from. The collaboration is Zayn’s second Top 5 single and Taylor’s seventh.

Katy Perry’s return to music is off to a solid start, her new Skip Marley-featuring single Chained to the Rhythm debuts at Number 7, becoming KP’s 14th Top 10 single in the process. Dua Lipa will also be celebrating this week – Be The One reaches a new peak of Number 9.

Train’s fourth Top 40 single Play That Song has climbed four rungs to Number 21, while Rag’n’Bone Man is back again with his second single Skin. The song returns to the Top 40 and lands at a new PB of Number 25, climbing 26 slots.

Finally, Anne-Marie scores her second credited Top 40 single – Ciao Adios is new at 40.

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Ed Sheeran’s extended run at Number 1 and 2 on the Official Singles Chart means he sets a new UK chart record this week.

The Suffolk singer-songwriter’s double release hold their positions for a fifth consecutive week, with Shape Of You at 1 and Castle On The Hill at 2. Shape Of You was downloaded 41,000 times and played 8.14 million times on streaming services to keep its place at the top.

It’s the longest time an act had held the Top 2 positions on the Official Chart, overtaking Justin Bieber, who logged four weeks with Sorry and Love Yourself in November/December 2015.

Stormzy claims this week’s highest new entry with Big For Your Boots (8), matching his previous peak on the chart with Shut Up in December 2015. The track is taken from his highly anticipated debut album Gang Signs & Prayer, which follows on February 24.

Elsewhere in the Top 10, Zayn and Taylor Swift’s I Don’t Wanna Live Forever – taken from the new Fifty Shades Darker movie, lifts four spots to a new personal best at 9, and Dua Lipa lands her highest charting single to date with Be The One, which lifts one place to Number 10.

Two songs crack the Top 20 for the first time this week, Martin Garrix’s Scared To Be Lonely ft. Dua Lipa at 14 (up nine places), and Sage The Gemini’s Now And Later rises four places to 17.

Three more tracks make big gains this week: Tinie Tempah’s Text From Your Ex ft. Tinashe lifts ten rungs to 24, Train’s Play That Song (25) becomes the band’s first UK Top 40 hit in five years, and Snakehips’ Don’t Leave ft. MO moves 39 to 29.

Finally, James Arthur’s Safe Inside – the follow up to his Number 1 hit Say You Won’t Let Go – makes its Top 40 debut at 34, a climb of 15 places.

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Ed Sheeran’s grip on the Official Singles Chart isn’t loosening easily – the Suffolk-born singer has now spent four weeks holding the Top 2 positions.

Shape of You notched up sales of 47,000 and 8.8 million streams to keep the top spot this week. In just four weeks, the song has sold a total of 306,000 copies and has been streamed 42.9 million times.

Ed’s streak of domination now matches the all-time record held by Justin Bieber, whose tracks Love Yourself and Sorry also held Number 1 and 2 in the chart for four weeks on the bounce in November and December 2015.

Elsewhere in this week’s Top 5, Jax Jones and Raye’s You Don’t Know Me holds firm at Number 3, Little Mix hold ground at 4 with Touch, and The Chainsmokers earn their third Top 5 record with Paris, a climber of two places.

New entries and high climbers

Sean Paul’s No Lie featuring Dua Lipa infiltrates the Top 10 for the first time this week, rising once slot to Number 10. Dua is back again at Number 11 with Be The One, her highest chart position as a lead artist secured in the process.

A new peak for Zayn and Taylor Swift’s I Don’t Wanna Live Forever occurs this week, the song rising five placings to Number 13. Major Lazer lock in their 4th Top 20 hit with Run Up at Number 20, which features uncredited vocals from Nicki Minaj and PARTYNEXTDOOR.

Dua Lipa returns for her third Top 40 of the week, featuring on Martin Garrix’s Scared To Be Lonely, a new entry at Number 23. The current US Number 1 Bad and Boujee from Migos hops three places to Number 31, and finally, Rag’n’Bone Man’s Skin debuts at Number 35.

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Ed Sheeran dominates the Official Singles Chart for a third week at Number 1 with Shape Of You, while Castle On The Hill holds at 2.

Shape Of You logged impressive sales to keep its place at the top, split between 56,000 downloads and 9.57 million streams. Meanwhile, Castle on the Hill managed 46,000 downloads and was streamed 6.6 million times.

Following the unveiling of Little Mix’s Touch music video last week, the song climbs two places to return to the Top 5 at Number 4, and last week’s highest new entry Paris by The Chainsmokers ascends three spots today to Number 7.

Outside the Top 10, Sean Paul’s No Lie ft. Dua Lipa hits a new peak at Number 11, leaping ten places since last week, while Dua’s Be The One makes its Top 40 debut at 21, up a massive 33 places. The track was originally released in October 2015 but has recently been pushed again with a new music video.

This week’s highest new entry goes to Tinie Tempah, whose latest track Text From Your Ex starts at Number 35 on the Official Chart. The track, which will appear on his upcoming album Youth, marks Tinie’s 23rd Top 40 hit.

Finally, Snakehips return to the Top 40 at 40 with Don’t Leave ft. MO, up 11 places from last week. The duo’s latest single has so far peaked at 33.

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They’ve dominated the chart in the run up to Christmas and today Clean Bandit’s Rockabye keeps its place at Number 1 on the last Official Singles Chart of the year.

After bagging this year’s Official Christmas Number 1 last week, Rockabye remains a staggeringly popular record in Britain. This week, predominantly driven by downloads, Rockabye holding firm to log an eighth week at the summit.

Rockabye is the most purchased track of the week in the UK, racking up 44,000 downloads plus 3.4 million streams. Rockabye is the second-longest running chart-topper of the year behind Drake’s One Dance (15 weeks).

Meanwhile, Zara Larsson claims a new personal best with I Would Like, which rises four places to the Number 2 slot. Her previous highest-charting song is the Number 3-peaking Lush Life.

Chart highlights

Elsewhere in the Top 10, Little Mix’s former Number 1 Shout Out To My Ex jumps seven places to Number 6, and Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic is up two spots to 10.

Finally, in addition to the many Christmas songs in this week’s chart, three more festive classics return to the Top 40: Andy Williams’ It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year at 24, Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree at 31 – its first Top 40 placing in 54 years – and Elton John’s Step Into Christmas at 37, its first Top 40 appearance in 42 years.

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Clean Bandit bring home the most coveted chart accolade of the year – the Official Christmas Number 1 2016, with their huge chart smash Rockabye, the OfficialCharts.com can confirm.

The classical crossover trio have held off competition from Rag‘n’Bone Man, Little Mix and a raft of campaigns and charity singles with Rockabye, a song that first entered the chart nine weeks ago, before later climbing to the top spot to score an impressive seven-week reign at Number 1.

In that time Rockabye has become one of the year’s biggest hits across both downloads and streams, racking up 589,000 combined chart sales to date.

Meanwhile, Clean Bandit have held off competition from breakthrough star and BRITS Critics Choice winner Rag ‘n’ Bone Man who finishes the race in second place with his track Human.

One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson and Steve Aoki slip down one place to Number 3 with Just Hold On, Little Mix new single Touch leaps 19 places this week to land at Number 4, while Zara Larsson’s I Would Like secures its first appearance inside the Top 10 at Number 6.

New entries and high climbers

This year’s race welcomed a host of new contenders battling for the Christmas Number 1 crown, many raising money for worthy causes.

Rangers football fans delivered the highest-charting ‘campaign’ this week, pushing Glad All Over by The Dave Clark Five back into the Official Chart in support of striker Joe Garner, following their 2-1 win over Hamilton last weekend. Glad All Over originally topped the Official Singles Chart back in 1963, toppling The Beatles’ I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

Inspiral Carpets fans helped the Manchester band’s 1994 hit Saturn 5 to its first chart appearance (48) in nearly 23 years, in tribute to drummer Craig Gill who sadly passed away last month.

London Hospices Choir – a team of volunteers and staff from 18 hospices across London debut at Number 81 with their cover of Mike & The Mechanics’ The Living Years.

Festive songs account for nearly one third of this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 100, with a whole host of seasonal classics jingling all the way into the Top 40, led by Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You (5), the song’s highest peak since 2007, The Pogues ft. Kirsty Maccoll’s Fairytale Of New York (15), Wham’s Last Christmas (16), Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (22), Chris Rea’s Driving Home for Christmas (26), Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (27) and Band Aid’s Do They  Know It’s Christmas (35). Festive songs account for Michael Buble’s It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas hits a new peak of 38, and Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody (39).

Check out the Official Christmas Top 100 in full here

In the face of some stiff competition, Clean Bandit hold on to the Number 1 spot with Rockabye.

The band’s second chart-topper, featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie, logs a sixth consecutive week at Number 1, scoring a comfortable lead of over 15,000 combined sales ahead of its nearest rival.

Challenging them at Number 2 is this week’s highest new entry, Just Hold On from One Direction star Louis Tomlinson, in collaboration with Steve Aoki. The pair performed the track for the first time in Saturday’s X Factor final, and the show’s eventual winner Matt Terry is right behind them at 3 with his winner’s single, the Ed Sheeran-penned When Christmas Comes Around, based on just five days’ sales and streams.

Zara Larsson’s I Would Like breaks the Top 20 for the first time, shooting nine places to 12, and Zayn and Taylor Swift’s collaboration I Don’t Wanna Live Forever, taken from the soundtrack of the new 50 Shades Darker movie, debuts at 16.

Following their electrifying medley performance at The X Factor final at the weekend, Little Mix’s Touch zooms 136 places to land at Number 23, while J Cole’s Deja Vu starts at 30.

Chris Rea’s perennial classic Driving Home For Christmas makes its fourth appearance in the Top 40, at 37 – one of seven festive songs in this week’s countdown – and Lady Gaga’s Million Reasons climbs 21 slots to make its Top 40 debut, at 39.

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Clean Bandit score a personal best this week as Rockabye becomes the band’s longest-running Number 1 single.

The Sean Paul and Anne-Marie featured track today notches up a fifth week at the top of the Official Singles Chart, surpassing the four weeks their former chart-topper Rather Be logged at the summit in 2014.

Combined chart sales of over 70,000 kept Rockabye at Number 1, and also claims the most downloaded (30,000) and most streamed (4.04 million) song of the week.

Neiked’s Sexual reaches a new peak of Number 5 today in its 15th week on chart, while Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You vaults 23 places to Number 6, marking the first time the track has appeared in the Top 10 for nine years.

Rag’n’Bone Man’s Human is another new Top 10 entry this week, up three places to Number 8 following his win of the BRITs Critics’ Choice prize. The track was also the second most downloaded single of the week.

Zara Larsson’s I Would Like rockets from Number 54 to Number 21 following her performance on last weekend’s X Factor semi-final, while John Legend’s Love Me Now hops three places higher to a new peak of Number 30. Charli XCX scores her sixth Top 40 hit with After The Afterparty, up seven to 34.

A further four Christmas songs either climb or re-enter the Top 40 this week. They are: The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s Fairytale of New York (16); Last Christmas by Wham (19); Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (28); and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday by Wizzard (37).

Finally, Michael Buble’s It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas enters the Official Singles Chart Top 40 for the very first time, five years after the song was released, landing at Number 39 today.

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