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Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa extend their reign at Number 1 on this week’s Official Singles Chart with their latest collaboration One Kiss.

The track logs a third week at the top spot 7.3 million plays on streaming services over the past seven days, keeping Ariana Grande’s No Tears Left To Cry at bay in second place for a second week.

One Kiss is now Calvin’s longest running chart-topper in seven years, since his feature on Rihanna’s six-week Number 1 We Found Love. As a headline artist, it’s his longest since his first chart leader, 2008’s Dance Wiv Me spent four weeks at the summit.

New entries and high climbers

Elsewhere in the Top 10, Anne-Marie’s 2002 lifts three places to a new peak at 5, and Post Malone’s Psycho rebounds four spots to Number 6. The rapper also claims this week’s top two highest new entries as his new album beerbongs and bentleys lands at Number 1 – Better Now opens at 9 and Paranoid is new at 11.

London rapper EO climbs into the Top 20 with his breakthrough hit German, up six places to 18, while David Guetta and Sia leap from 33 to 19 with their latest collaboration Flames.

Further down, Paloma Faith’s Make Your Own Kind Of Music zooms from 56 to 28 to earn the star her tenth UK Top 40 hit, and two songs from The Greatest Showman soundtrack returns to the Top 40; A Million Dreams at 38, and Never Enough at 40.

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Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa’s One Kiss holds on to Number 1 for a second week on the Official Singles Chart after a bumper week of streams.

The track was played 8.7 million times across all streaming services this week, the highest one-week tally since last June, when Luis Fonsi’s Despacito logged 8.8 million streams in its fifth week at the top.

Landing straight in at Number 2 this week is Ariana Grande’s No Tears Left To Cry, the lead single from her upcoming fourth album. The track was streamed 7.3 million times this week and earns the US star her sixth UK Top 10 single.

New entries and high climbers

Elsewhere in this week’s Top 10, production duo Banx & Ranx along with Ella Eyre and Yxng Bane surge 11 places to Number 7 with Answerphone, Anne-Marie’s new single 2002 – co-written by Ed Sheeran – is new at 8, and Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey’s The Middle rebounds three places to Number 9.

Khalid & Normani’s Love Lies edges closer to the Top 10, up four places to 12, and three tracks from J Cole’s new album KOD land inside the Top 40: KOD at 17, ATM at 28 and Photograph at 30. The entries lift the rapper’s tally of Top 40s from one to four.

Further down, David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Brooks’ Like I Do zooms eight places to 32, Liam Payne & J Balvin’s Familiar is new at 34, and rapper Nines rebounds six spots to 40 with I See You Shining.

Two Avicii songs finish inside this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 40 following his tragic death last week. Million selling chart-topper Wake Me Up returns at 26, while his breakthrough hit Levels re-enters at 36. 2013 hit Hey Brother finishes just outside the Top 40 at 43.

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Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa have scored the biggest Number 1 tally of 2018 to secure this week’s Official Singles Chart crown.

One Kiss, which climbs 3 to 1 this week, amassing a combined total of over 70,000 units (comprising 7.1 million streams and 22,000 downloads) to claim the top spot. It earns Calvin Harris his ninth UK Number 1, while Dua Lipa nets her second chart-topper, following 2017 smash hit New Rules.

Calvin Harris now joins the likes of ABBA, Spice Girls and Rihanna to become only the 11th act in chart history to notch up nine or more chart-topping singles.

Drake’s Nice For What – the most-streamed song of the week with 7.9 million plays – drops one place to Number 2, while Lil Dicky’s former Number 1 Freaky Friday with Chris Brown slips to Number 3.

New entries and high climbers

Sigala and Paloma Faith reach a new peak of Number 7 this week with Lullaby, up two, while Banx & Ranx net their first UK Top 20 hit; Answerphone, the Canadian duo’s collaboration with Ella Eyre and Yxng Bane lifts seven to Number 18.

Zayn secures this week’s highest new entry with Let Me at Number 20, his 7th Top 40 hit, while Cardi B’s I Like It featuring Bad Bunny & J Balvin rockets 17 positions to Number 23. Sean Paul, David Guetta and Becky G are also big climbers, rising 14 to Number 25 with Mad Love.

Nicki Minaj’s two comeback singles Chun-Li and Barbie Tingz both impact the Top 40 at Numbers 26 and 31 respectively, with EO sandwiched in the middle; his breakthrough single German is a new entry at Number 30.

Finally, there are two new entries for David Guetta this week, taking his all-time Top 40 tally to 36 singles. Flames with Sia scales 19 placings to Number 37, and Like I Do, his collab with Martin Garrix and Brooks, hikes 25 to this week’s Number 40.

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Drake has made a last-minute grab to claim this week’s Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.

The Canadian rapper’s latest track Nice For What – surprised released last Saturday (April 7) – has been scaling the Top 40 all week and narrowly edges out last week’s chart-topper, Lil Dicky and Chris Brown’s Freaky Friday (2), to bag the top spot.

Nice For What is Drake’s fourth Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart and second this year, following What’s My Name (with Rihanna, 2010), One Dance (2016) and God’s Plan (2018).

Drake also holds off strong competition from Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa, whose new single One Kiss lands at Number 3, earning Calvin his 24^th Top 10 and Dua her fifth.

It was a close finish at the top, with just 2,096 combined sales separating this week’s Top 3.

New entries and high climbers

UK rapper B Young reaches a new peak with his breakthrough hit Jumanji, up one place to 13, while this year’s winner of The Voice UK, Ruti, debuts at 14 with her winner’s single, a cover of The Cranberries’ 1993 hit Dreams. It’s the second-highest placing for a Voice winner’s single on the Official Chart, behind Stevie McCrorie’s Lost Stars, which reached Number 6 in 2015.

Elsewhere, Banx & Ranx, Ella Eyre and Yxng Bane’s Answerphone zooms 24 spots to Number 25, Cardi B’s Be Careful vaults 45 spots to Number 27, and Nines debuts at 37 with I See You Shining – the North London rapper’s first Top 40 hit.

Further down, Kylie Minogue scores her 51^st Top 40 hit with Dancing at 38, Sean Paul’s Mad Love ft. David Guetta and Becky G lifts five places to enter the Top 40 at 39, and Cardi B makes a second entry with I Like It ft. Bad Bunny and J Balvin at 40.

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Congratulations to Lil Dicky, who scores his first Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart today with Freaky Friday (April 6).

The comic rapper’s track, which features Chris Brown, climbs from 5 to 1, overtaking mid-week leader This Is Me by Keala Settle/Greatest Showman Cast to take the top spot, with 4.6 million streams logged this week.

Freaky Friday first entered at Number 16 three weeks ago and has zoomed up the Official Singles Chart thanks in part to its viral music video, which sees the pair trading lives like the coming of age cult classic film of the same name.

Lil Dicky is the first comedian to top the Official Singles Chart in almost nine years; the last was Peter Kay and his animated All Star Band for Children In Need in 2009. Meanwhile, Chris Brown claims his second UK Number 1 single, after Turn Up The Music reached the top spot in 2012.

Freaky Friday pushes last week’s Number 1, Rudimental’s These Days, down to Number 2 after one week at the top, and This Is Me rebounds five places to Number 3.

New entries and high climbers

This week’s highest new entry goes to The Weeknd who, following the surprise release of his new album My Dear Melancholy, sees three of its tracks land inside the Top 40: Call Out My Name at Number 7, Try Me at 17 and Wasted Times at 18.

Further down, Yxng Bane’s Vroom lifts four places to 36, and two songs return to the Top 40: Dua Lipa’s New Rules 37, and Jason Derulo’s Tip Toes ft. French Montana at 40.

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Rudimental’s latest single These Days takes the top spot on this week’s Official Singles Chart.

After a mammoth seven consecutive weeks at Number 2 – a record jointly held with Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger – the group’s latest track These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen climbs a place to become their third Number 1.

Rudimental told OfficialCharts.com: “It feels amazing! The fact the fans are still sticking by us and keeping our song in the charts for as long as they have is amazing. A massive thank you to all the fans who are supporting us out there.”

The Hackney-based quartet previously topped the Official Chart in 2012 with Feel The Love ft. John Newman and in 2013 with Waiting All Night ft. Ella Eyre.

Rudimental’s third Number 1 single means guest feature Jess Glynne sets a new Official Chart record this week, claiming the most chart-topping singles for a female solo artist ever.

Following the release of his chart-topping new album Staying At Tamara’s, George Ezra’s Paradise climbs from 5 to Number 2 – his highest charting single to date after his debut single Budapest topped out at 3 in 2014. Another album track, Shotgun, is new at Number 35.

Elsewhere in the Top 5, US rapper and comedian Lil Dicky cracks the Top 10 with Freaky Friday ft. Chris Brown, racing 11 places to Number 5.

New entries and high climbers

Sigala & Paloma Faith’s Lullaby lifts three spots to 9, earning the producer his sixth Top 10 and Paloma her fifth, while Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes scores the two highest new entries of the week following his double release – In My Blood opens at Number 13 and Lost In Japan is at 27.

Further down, Yxng Bane’s Vroom lifts five places to Number 40, earning the rapper his third UK Top 40 single.

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God’s Plan by Drake has secured a ninth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.

The Canadian’s latest single joins 20 other songs in the Official Chart’s 66-year history to have logged nine or more weeks at the top. God’s Plan is the star’s second hit to achieve this after his 2016 summer smash One Dance spent 15 weeks at the summit. View the longest reigning Official Singles Chart Number 1 hits here.

Rudimental’s These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen put up another good fight this week, finishing just 3,200 combined sales behind Drake at Number 2. In turn, the song has now matched an Official Chart record for the most weeks spent at Number 2; These Days shares this feat with All-4-One’s 1994 hit I Swear, and the 2011 single Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera.

Elsewhere in this week’s Top 5, George Ezra score his highest chart entry since July 2014, as Paradise climbs seven places to Number 5. Lullaby is now Paloma’s highest charting track since Changing with Sigma debuted at Number 1 in September 2014.

New entries and high climbers

Bebe Rexha’s country crossover hit Meant To Be ft. Florida Georgia Line continues to climb, up eight places to Number 12 this week. One slot behind are Sigala & Paloma Faith with Lullaby, up six to 13. Lullaby is now Paloma’s highest charting track since Changing with Sigma debuted at Number 1 in September 2014.

US rapper and comedian Lil Dicky and Chris Brown score this week’s highest new entry with Freaky Friday at Number 16, plus XXXTentacion makes two appearances in the Top 40 this week, at Number 20 with Sad! (up eight places) and Number 31 with Moonlight (new).

Finally, girl group M.O vault four places with Bad Vibe ft. Lotto Boyz and Mr. Eazi (23), while Love Lies by Khalid and Normani, taken from the upcoming Love, Simon film, climbs six rungs to Number 24.

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Drake has edged out Rudimental to claim an eighth week at Number 1 in the closest Official Chart race of 2018 so far.

Just 937 combined sales separate God’s Plan and These Days this week, with Drake claiming the most streamed track and Rudimental the most downloaded.

God’s Plan is Drake’s third Number 1 on the Official UK Chart, following What’s My Name with Rihanna (2010) and One Dance (2016).

Menawhile, These Days, which features Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen, has now spent six weeks in the runner up slot.

Elsewhere in this week’s Top 5 US band Portugal. The Man reach a new peak with Feel It Still, climbing a place to Number 3 some 33 weeks after it first entered the Top 100, and Marshmello & Anne-Marie’s FRIENDS also lifts a spot to a new high at Number 4.

New entries and high climbers

Zedd claims his fourth Top 10 on the Official Chart with The Middle ft. Maren Morris & Grey, up eight places to 10, and George Ezra’s Paradise zooms seven places to a new peak at 12.

Two more songs climb into the Top 20 this week: Sigala & Paloma Faith’s Lullaby moves two slots to 19 and Bebe Rexha’s Meant To Be ft. Florida Georgia Line shifts 13 places to Number 20.

Two songs from the chart-topping Greatest Showman album – A Million Dreams and Never Enough – are at 22 and 24 respectively, and Years & Years net their sixth Top 40 hit with new single Sanctify at 25.

Further down, M.O’s Bad Vibe ft. Lotto Boyz & Mr Eazi vaults 23 spots to make its Top 40 debut at Number 27, the trio’s second Top 40 entry, and Ed Sheeran’s Supermarket Flowers rebounds 12 places to 32.

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Drake’s God’s Plan is the UK’s Official Number 1 single for the seventh week in a row.

The Canadian rapper holds onto pole position keeping Rudimental’s These Days featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen as runner-up for a fifth week. The last track to spend five weeks at Number 2 was Ed Sheeran’s Galway Girl, which got stuck behind his own chart topper Shape Of You in early 2017.

Dua Lipa’s IDGAF holds firm at Number 3, while Portugal. The Man’s Feel It Still rises two to Number 4. Marshmello & Anne-Marie keep it locked at Number 5 with FRIENDS.

New entries and high climbers

Following her performance at the Oscars, Keala Settle’s This Is Me flutters back up the Top 10 one place to Number 7, while Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton’s Say Something reaches a new peak of Number 9. There’s also a new peak for Mabel & Not3s following their Live Lounge rendition of the track on BBC Radio 1; Fine Line leaps three to Number 11.

Two songs enter the Top 20 for the very first time this week. Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey are this week’s high climbers of 13 places with The Middle, up to Number 18, while George Ezra’s Paradise scales 11 positions to Number 19. Sigala & Paloma Faith also climb 11 rungs to Number 21 with Lullaby.

US rapper XXXTentacion scores his highest charting single with Sad at Number 26, four slots ahead of the next highest new entry from Dave – Hangman becomes his third UK Top 40 single at Number 30.

Bebe Rexha scoops her first chart hit as a lead artist with Meant To Be ft. Florida Georgia Line at Number 33, MoStack manages the same feat with What I Wanna, new at 38. Finally, taken from the soundtrack to upcoming movie Love, Simon, Khalid and Fifth Harmony’s Normani chart at Number 39 with Love Lies.

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Drake celebrates another week of chart glory this week as his latest single, God’s Plan, extends its reign at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.

The track scores a sixth week in pole position, holding off Rudimental’s These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen, which spends a fourth week in the runner-up slot.

This week’s highest new entry goes to US rapper Post Malone, who lands at Number 4 with his new single Psycho. It’s the artist’s second UK Top 10 single, following last year’s chart-topping Rockstar.

Completing this week’s Top 5 is Marshmello and Anne-Marie’s collaboration Friends, up four places to 5.

New entries and high climbers

Justin Timberlake’s Say Something ft. Chris Stapleton zooms 12 places to Number 10 following his performance at last week’s BRIT Awards. The climb earns Justin his 20th Top 10 single and first from his Man Of The Woods album.

Further down, rising star Blocboy JB lifts three spots to 18 with Drake collaboration Look Alive, and British rapper B Young also cracks the Top 20 with Jumanji eight weeks on from its release, up six spots to 19.

Australian rockers 5 Seconds Of Summer earn their seventh UK Top 40 single with Want You Back, new at 22, Ed Sheeran’s Supermarket Flowers re-enters the Top 40 at 29 after last week’s BRITs performance, and Sigala debuts at 32 with Lullaby ft. Paloma Faith, earning the British producer his seventh Top 40 and Paloma her ninth.

Finally, Croydon rapper Hardy Caprio scores his first UK Top 40 hit with Rapper at 34, and Stormzy’s Blinded By Your Grace ft. MNEK returns to the Top 40 after the rapper’s big wins at the BRITs, up 13 places to 35.

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