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One Dance scores a 15th week at Number 1

Friday, July 22nd, 2016

He may only want One Dance, but Drake shows no signs of vacating the dance floor as he fights off his rivals to claim a 15th straight week at Number 1.

One Dance, which features Wizkid and Kyla, was also the most streamed track of the week, racking up 4.33 million listens.

Jonas Blue and JP Cooper rise one place to Number 2 with Perfect Strangers, while Don’t Let Me Down, from Chainsmokers feat. Daya, slips a spot to 3.

Calum Scott’s cover of Robyn’s Dancing On My Own holds firm at 4, and Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl is also a non-mover at 5.

Shawn Mendes, who scored a Number 1 earlier in the year with Stitches, breaks into the Top 10 with Treat You Better, at 9, while MØ leaps nice places to 19 with Final Song.

Highest new entry this week goes to Katy Perry. Rise, which is set to be used in Olympics’ coverage for US TV channel NBC, goes in at 25.

5 Seconds of Summer also score a brand-new entry, with Girls Talk Boys, taken from the new Ghostbusters movie, starting at 28, and French star Christine and the Queens vaults 11 places to Number 29 with Tilted.

British girl group M.O. score their very first UK Top 40, with Who Do You Think Of leaping 12 places to Number 35, while MK & Becky Hill’s Piece Of Me rebounds five slots to 37. Finally, a new entry for Snakehips and former One Direction star Zayn – their collaboration Cruel goes straight in at 38.

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One Dance logs 14th week at Number 1

Friday, July 15th, 2016

Drake has done it again: One Dance is once again the UK’s Number 1 song on the Official Singles Chart, logging a staggering 14th week at the top.

The rapper is fast approaching a chart record with the song; the longest stint at Number 1 on the Official Chart is 16 weeks, a record held by Bryan Adams’ 1991 hit (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. Will he hold on long enough to match or surpass them?

He faces strong competition from two songs that make big gains on the chart this week; Chainsmokers’ Don’t Let Me Down shoots from 7 to Number 2, and Jonas Blue’s Perfect Strangers up 13 places to Number 3 today. Both are now in a strong position to potentially snatch the title from Drake.

Making up the rest of this week’s Top 5 are Calum Scott’s Dancing On My Own, up from 10 to 4 and surpassing Robyn’s Number 8 peak with the original song in 2010, and Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl slips from 2 to 5.

Miami rapper Kent Jones climbs two places to crack to the Top 10 at 10 with Don’t Mind, and Shawn Mendes’ Treat You Better leaps 7 spots to Number 13.

This week’s highest new entry comes from Olly Murs’ You Don’t Know Love at 23, and three songs hit the Top 40 for the first time: Mo’s Final Song at 28 (up 25 places), Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez’s We Don’t Talk Anymore at 30 (up 19 spots), and Selena’s Kill Em With Kindness at 35 (up 22).

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Drake lands a 13th week at Number 1 with One Dance

Friday, July 8th, 2016

Drake has done it yet again – he’s still at Number 1 with his Wizkid and Kyla collab One Dance.

The most streamed track of the week, One Dance has now notched up 13 consecutive weeks at the top, the third longest consecutive Number 1 of all time, behind Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around (15 weeks) and fellow Canadian Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You.

Despite being the biggest sellers of the week, Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl settles for Number 2 for the fourth week in a row, and Drake and Rihanna’s Too Good holds firm at 3 for the second straight week. Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s This Is What You Came For is static at 4, while Adele’s Send My Love (To Your New Lover) climbs one place to a new peak of Number 5.

New Entries and High Climbers

The Chainsmokers crash the Top 10 for the first time in their careers with their Daya collaboration Don’t Let Me Down, up nine places to Number 7 and Calum Scott hits Number 10 (up two) with Dancing On My Own, his first UK Top 10 single.

Leaping 14 places to this week’s Number 12 is Kent Jones with Don’t Mind and also on the up is Ariana Grande; Into You ascends eight to 14, the highest charting so far from her Dangerous Woman album.

This week’s highest climber is Jonas Blue with his track Perfect Strangers, which climbs 22 rungs to Number 16. Also on the rise is Shawn Mendes’ latest single Treat You Better, his second Top 20 single bounces nine places to Number 20.

Finally, two new tracks enter the Top 40 for the very first time. Rihanna scoops her 45th Top 40 single with Needed Me, up three to 38. The second newbie this week is from MK & Becky Hill; Piece of Me is MK’s first and Becky’s second (not including her uncredited vocals on Wilkinson’s Afterglow) Top 40 single.

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Drake tightens his grip on the Official Singles Chart with TWO Top 3 singles

Saturday, July 2nd, 2016

Drake’s reign over the Official Singles Chart is not letting up – he now has two singles in the Top 3.

The longest reigning Number 1 of the digital age One Dance has notched a twelfth week on top, the lengthiest consecutive run since Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around spent 15 weeks at the helm in 1994.

After leading in the midweeks for the third week running, Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners settle for Number 2 with This Girl. Drake and Rihanna’s Too Good storms two places to a new peak this week of Number 3. This week marks the seventh in a row that both Drake and Rihanna have had two singles inside the Top 10.

And Rihanna is back again, a non-mover at Number 4 with Calvin Harris on This Is What You Came For, and Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling is down two rungs to complete the Top 5.

New entries and high climbers

Adele’s Send My Love (To Your New Lover) makes its Top 10 debut this week, up nine spots to Number 6. Fresh from Glastonbury, this is Adele’s eighth Top 10 single. Tracks from Calum Scott and Dua Lipa also achieve new personal bests; Dancing On My Own is up four to 12 while Hotter Than Hell also rises, this time two positions to 15.

The Chainsmokers hit the Top 20 for the third time in their career as Don’t Let Me Down shoots up eight places (16), and after their Glasto headline slot, Coldplay catapult from 30 to 19 with Hymn For The Weekend. Also rising this week are Ariana Grande’s Into You (up four to 22) and Don’t Mind from Kent Jones, which vaults 13 places to 26.

Shawn Mendes’ Treat You Better hits a new peak of 29 on its fourth week on chart, just ahead of Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris’ Hype, new at 34. Hype marks Dizzee’s 24th Top 40 single and Calvin’s 26th.

Finally, Jonas Blue’s Perfect Strangers makes its Top 40 debut, rising six to 38 and Christine and the Queens’ Tilted experiences a post-Glastonbury uplift, up 13 slots to 40.

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Drake sees off Kungs to claim longest running Number 1 of the digital age

Friday, June 24th, 2016

Looks like Drake really is unstoppable – he’s done it again.

The Canadian rapper’s One Dance, featuring Wizkid and Kyla, held off a midweek challenge from French producer Kungs to claim the Number 1 prize for an astonishing 11th week. This makes One Dance the longest running chart-topper of the digital age, since 2004 and the introduction of legal download services.

It was pretty close, with just over 3,000 combined chart separating Drake from Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl, which settles for runner-up position today.

Drake was the most streamed track of the week, too, notching up 4.67 million listens over the last seven days.

Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling holds firm at 3, while Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s This Is What You Came For stays at 4. Drake and Rihanna both make another appearance in the Top 5 – their collab Too Good is a non-mover at 5.

Sigala’s teamup with John Newman and Nile Rodgers, Give Me Your Love, zooms 82 places to Number 9, and Adele’s Send My Love (To Your New Lover) rises 10 spots to 15 to break the Top 20 for the first time.

Britain’s Got Talent star Calum Scott’s cover of Robyn’s Dancing On My Own bounces 12 places to 16, and Bastille return to the Top 40 with a brand new entry – Good Grief is at 25.

Ariana Grande’s Into You hits a new chart peak, advancing eight places to 26, and Twenty One Pilots are new at 33 with Heathens.

Shawn Mendes’ Treat You Better is up 7 to Number 38, and US hiphop star Kent Jones vaults 21 places to 39 with Don’t Mind, his first UK chart hit.

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Drake overcomes the competition to score his tenth week at No.1

Friday, June 17th, 2016

It was a close one, but Drake has managed to hold on to the top spot for an incredible 10th week, with One Dance seeing off a strong challenge from French producer Kungs.

Kungs’ remix of Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl was the midweek leader, but Drake snatched victory – and the Number 1 – by just 1,773 combined chart sales. One Dance, featuring Wizkid and Kyla, is the first song to top the Official Singles Chart for 10 weeks since Rihanna’s Umbrella in 2007.

The Canadian rapper’s first Number 1 as a lead artist was also the most streamed track of the last seven days. One Dance notched up 4.77 million listens this week.

Kungs and Cookin’ On 3 Burners, then, settle for Number 2, while Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling slips a place to 3. Calvin Harris and Rihanna also drop one, with This IS What You Came For at Number 4, and Drake and Rihanna both secure a second spot in the Top 5, with their collaboration Too Good moving up one to 5.

Cheat Codes and Kris Kross Amsterdam’s Sex has broken into the Top 10 for the first time, rising two to 9, and David Guetta’s official Euro 2016 This One’s For You, featuring Zara Larsson, rockets 30 places to enter the Top 40 at Number 16 as the tournament gets in full swing.

Also making big gains is Dua Lipa’s Hotter Than Hell, zooming 26 slots to Number 18, and the Stone Roses score their 15th Top 40 hit, with Beautiful Thing going straight in at 21.

Britain’s Got Talent stars the Neales go in at 22 with I’ll Be There, while Tom Odell surges 39 places to Number 40, with Magnetised.

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Drake, Wizkid and Kyla make it nine weeks at Number 1

Friday, June 10th, 2016

Drake has bopped his way to an impressive ninth week at Number 1 with One Dance.

The track, featuring Wizkid and Kyla, achieved 73,000 combined chart sales to top the Official Singles Chart yet again, extending its reign as the longest reigning Number 1 single in nine years.

If the track can hold on for another seven days, it will equal the 10-week tenure of Rihanna’s Umbrella from 2007. The last time a song was knocked off the top spot after nine weeks at the helm was Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy in 2006.

One Dance is also the most streamed track of the week, notching up 5.6 million listens in the last seven days.

Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling settles for Number 2 for the fourth week in a row, and Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s This Is What You Came For enjoys a sixth week in the Top 3 at 3.

Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl rockets six places to Number 4 – breaking into the Top 5 for the first time – and Clean Bandit and Louisa Johnson’s Tears hops one place to 5.

P!nk’s Just Like Fire vaults into the Top 20 for the first time, rising three to Number 19. The track is her 24th Top 20 hit, the latest since 2013’s True Love featuring Lily Allen.

DJ Khaled’s collaboration with Drake For Free is new at 25, and marks Khaled’s first Top 40 entry. The track is Drake’s 19th Top 40 single.

Following closely behind is Adele’s Send My Love (To Your New Lover), advancing eight to 26, while Calum Scott’s Robyn cover, Dancing On My Own, reaches a new peak, up 15 places to 27.

Finally, Shawn Mendes’ new single Treat You Better starts out 31 and Ariana Grande’s Into You makes its Top 40 debut, up five rungs at 40.

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Drake’s One Dance notches up an eighth week at No.1

Sunday, June 5th, 2016

Drake continues to prove unbeatable on the Official Singles Chart as One Dance logs its eighth week at Number 1.

The track is now the longest-running UK chart-topper since Rihanna’s Umbrella, which racked up an unbroken 10-week run at the summit in 2007.

One Dance comfortably finishes in front on this week’s Top 40 just shy of 85,000 chart sales, made up of 23,000 sales and 6.15 million streams.

Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling remains at Number 2 (75,000 chart sales), and Rihanna and Calvin Harris’ This Is What You Came For is unmoved at 3.

Galantis hit a new peak at 4 with No Money, and Sia’s Cheap Thrills rounds off this week’s Top 5.

This week’s highest new entry goes to Clean Bandit and Louisa Johnson’s new single Tears, landing at Number 6. The track gives the X Factor winner a second Top 10 (following her Number 9-peaking winner’s single Forever Young) and a fifth for Clean Bandit.

US singer-songwriter Gnash enters the Top 10 for the first time with I Hate You, I Love You, up four spots to Number 8, and Kungs Vs Cookin’ On Three Burners vault from 29 to 10 with This Girl.

There are two more big climbers on this week’s chart: Cheat Codes and Kris Kross Amsterdam’s Sex – a reworking of Salt-N-Pepa’s Let’s Talk About Sex – lifts six places to Number 14, and Pink’s Just Like Fire zooms 14 places to 22.

Finally, Adele’s new single Send My Love (To Your New Lover) makes its Top 40 debut this week at Number 34, as does OneRepublic’s Wherever I Go at 36.

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Drake secures longest run at Number 1 in nearly nine years

Friday, May 27th, 2016

Drake may only be asking for One Dance, but it’s a long one – he doesn’t show much sign of leaving the dancefloor any time soon.

The Canadian rapper has notched up 92,500 combined chart sales to score an impressive seventh consecutive week at the top, giving him the longest run of 2016 so far.

One Dance also claims the longest straight stint at Number 1 since Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love also enjoyed a seven-week reign atop the Official Singles Chart in autumn 2007.

Drake’s One Dance, feat. Wizkid and Kyla, was the most streamed track of the last seven days too, racking up almost 6.68 million plays this week.

Despite a close battle earlier in the week, Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling remains at 2, while Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s This Is What You Came For (3) and Sia’s Cheap Thrills (4) are also non-movers.

US singer Gnash makes a big leap – his breakthrough song I Hate U, I Love U zooms 21 places to Number 12 – while Cheat Codes and Kris Kross Amsterdam advance ten spots to Number 20 with Sex.

Take That score a 27th Top 40 hit thanks to their guest spot on Sigma’s Cry, new at Number 21, and Australian trio Cookin’ On 3 Burners team up with French producer Kungs on This Girl, which rockets 62 places to land at Number 29.

Craig David’s One More Time is brand new at 30, and following her mesmerising performance at the Billboard Music Awards, Pink’s Just Like Fire returns to the Top 40, rising eight to 36.

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Drake holds off Justin Timberlake to stay at Number 1

Friday, May 20th, 2016

Drake’s One Dance holds on to Number 1 on this week’s Official Singles Chart, logging a sixth week at the top.

The rapper/singer sees off strong competition from Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling, which after leading the way at the mid-week stage, has to settle for Number 2.

It was a close race between the two: One Dance finishes the week on 105,000 chart sales (including 7.5 million streams), while Can’t Stop The Feeling notched up 99,000.

Drake’s sixth week at the top also gives him the longest-leading Official Chart Number 1 of 2016 so far – and the longest since Mark Ronson’s seven weeks at the summit with Uptown Funk in 2014/2015.

Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s This Is What You Came For dips a place to three this week, while Sia’s Cheap Thrills holds at 4, as does Mike Posner’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza at 5.

Two songs make sizeable leaps to enter thes Top 10 for the first time this week; Desiigner’s Panda, up five spots to Number 7, and Drake and Rihanna’s Too Good zooms 15 places to Number 8.

This week’s highest new entry goes to The Stone Roses. Their first brand new release in 21 years All For One debuts at Number 17, earning the band a 13th Top 40 hit.

Further down this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 40, X Factor alumni Reggie ‘N’ Bollie land at Number 26 with New Girl. The track is the duo’s first since finishing second place on last year’s series to Louisa Johnson.

Elsewhere, Gareth Malone’s Invictus Games Choir are new at 29 with Flesh And Blood – the theme to this year’s games – and US singer/rapper/producer Gnash makes his UK Top 40 debut with I Hate You, I Love You, up 12 places to 33.

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