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Years & Years have claimed the number one spot on the UK Official Singles Chart with their electro-dance track ‘King’.

The three-piece, who won the BBC Sound Of 2015 poll earlier this year, achieved combined chart sales of 101,000 to take the top spot in this week’s chart.

Speaking to OfficialCharts.com, frontman Olly Alexander said: “I don’t think any of us thought we’d be Number 1. No one told us it would be Number 1. They said it wouldn’t get to Number 1, but it did!”

The group have knocked Ellie Goulding’s ‘Love Me Like You Do’into second place, after the Fifty Shades Of Grey track topped the chart for four weeks. However the song remained the most-streamed track of the week, with 2.15 million streams.

Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney’s ‘FourFiveSeconds’ climbs two places to reach a new high of number three, while Hozier falls two places with ‘Take Me To Church’.

The top five is completed by The Weeknd, whose Fifty Shades Of Grey track ‘Earned It’ falls one place from last week.

The second-highest new entry of the week comes from Marlon Roudette, whose UK breakthrough track ‘When The Beat Drops Out’ has already topped the charts across Europe and has now hit number 7 in the UK.

British producer Alex Adair, who has previously remixed tracks by Ella Henderson, Ed Sheeran and Jessie Ware, enters the chart at number 13 with his song ‘Make Me Feel Better’.

Kanye West enters at number 18 with ‘All Day’ following his performance of the song at last week’s BRIT Awards, while Taylor Swift , who also performed, climbs six places to number 22 with ‘Style’.

Meanwhile Imagine Dragons jump from number 60 to 33 with ‘Demons’ after it was performed on the battle rounds of The Voice UK last week.

Source: Official Charts Company

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Ellie Goulding’s ‘Love Me Like You Do’ remains the UK’s number one single for the fourth week running.

The Fifty Shades of Grey track is also named the most streamed song of the week with over 2.3 million streams.

Last week, the track broke an all-time streaming record, beating previous record holder Mark Ronson with ‘Uptown Funk’.

Hozier’s ‘Take Me to Church’ remains at number two for the third consecutive week, while ‘Uptown Funk’ by Ronson and Bruno Mars stays at number three.

‘Earned It’ by The Weeknd is still at number four, with Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney’s ‘FourFiveSeconds’ rounding off the top five.

David Guetta and Emeli Sandé’s ‘What I Did for Love’ enters the top ten at number six, and ‘Heartbeat Song’ by Kelly Clarkson debuts at seven.

‘Lay Me Down’ by Sam Smith climbs 73 places to number 15, while George Ezra’s ‘Budapest’ is at 18.

‘Something New’ by Axwell and Ingrosso is a new entry at 22, as Disciples debut at number 24 with ‘They Don’t Know’.

Madonna’s ‘Living for Love’ enters the chart at number 26 after her performance during February 25’s Brit Awards, and Paloma Faith’s ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’ re-enters the top 40 at number 32.

Ed Sheeran has three tracks currently in the top 40, with ‘Bloodstream’ at 35, ‘Sing’ at 38′ and ‘Don’t’ at 40.

Source: Official Charts Company

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