Despite offering something relatively unique in the multiplayer space, it seems that Ubisoft’s For Honor has hit a nerve with a large audience. It debuted in the top spot in the UK in its launch week, and it stayed that way last week.
The numbers are in, and despite a hefty drop in physical sales, a steep 72% decline week-on-week, For Honor still managed to hold on to the throne. That forced Halo Wars 2 to settle for a second place in its debut week.
Below you’ll find the top 10:
1. For Honor (Ubisoft)
2. Halo Wars 2 (Microsoft/THQ Nordic)
3. Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
4. FIFA 17 (EA)
5. Sniper Elite 4 (Sold Out)
6. Battlefield 1 (EA)
7. Rocket League (505 Games)
8. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Activision)
9. Resident Evil VII (Capcom)
10. Forza Horizon 3 (Microsoft)
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 19th 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.
For Honor has debuted at the top of this week’s GfK Chart-Track multi-platform top ten, pipping fellow debutante Sniper Elite 4 to the coveted top spot. Ubisoft’s online slash ’em up is actually the biggest new IP to hit top spot since last year’s No Man’s Sky. Meanwhile, Rebellion’s long range shooter also managed to chart above Grand Theft Auto V, which drops to third after its early year renaissance.
Here’s the top ten in full:
1. For Honor / Ubisoft
2. Sniper Elite 4 / Sold Out
3. Grand Theft Auto V / Take-Two
4. FIFA 17 / EA
5. Battlefield 1 / EA
6. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard / Capcom
7. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare / Activision
8. Rocket League / 505
9. Forza Horizon 3 / Microsoft
10. Watch Dogs 2 / Ubisoft
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.
Once again it is Grand Theft Auto V that sits on top of the weekly UK retail charts. And it does so for the 12th time since its original release in September, 2013. Earning 12 top spots in the charts is not a record, but only 5 titles have managed to do so since the charts began. The record holder? Who Want’s To Be A Millionaire? from Eidos, which managed a whopping 18 weeks at number one. Wii Fit sits at number two with 16 weeks.
However, it should be noted that the number two game this week, the PS4 exclusive Nioh from Koei Tecmo and Sony (European publisher), did pull in the most revenue thanks to its higher average price of £44.45. It also took number one in the individual chart. The number one of the last two charts, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard falls to number three.
All Formats (all prices):
1. Grand Theft Auto V / Rockstar
2. Nioh / Sony (new)
3. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard / Capcom
4. FIFA 17 / EA Sports
5. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare / Activision
6. Battlefield 1 / EA Games
7. Rocket League / 505 Games
8. Hitman: The Complete First Season / Square Enix
9. Overwatch / Blizzard
10. Watch Dogs 2 / Ubisoft
Individual Formats (units):
1. Nioh / PS4 (new)
2. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard / PS4
3. Grand Theft Auto V / PS4
4. Grand Theft Auto V / Xbox One
5. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare / PS4
6. FIFA 17 / PS4
7. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard / Xbox One
8. FIFA 17 / Xbox One
9. Battlefield 1 / PS4
10. Hitman: The Complete First Season / PS4
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.
The Resident Evil series is enjoying a resurgence thanks to the release of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and it seems it is not just reviewers who are enjoying it as it spends it second week on top of the UK retail charts in spite of losing 68 percent of its first week sales. Hitman saw the retail release of its first season and came in at a respectable fourth spot on the all formats chart. Another new release, Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World didn’t have the same chart success as it came in at number 20, which given it only saw release on Nintendo 3DS could be considered decent. Final Fantasy XV climbed back into the top 10 thanks to continued price promotions.
All Formats (all prices):
1. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard / Capcom
2. Grand Theft Auto V / Rockstar
3. FIFA 17 / EA Sports
4. Hitman: The Complete First Season / Square Enix
5. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare / Activision
6. Rocket League / 505 Games
7. Battlefield 1 / EA Games
8. Final Fantasy XV / Square Enix
9. WWE 2K17 / 2K Sports
10. Mafia III / 2K Games
Individual Formats (units):
1. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard / PS4
2. Grand Theft Auto V / PS4
3. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard / Xbox One
4. Grand Theft Auto V / Xbox One
5. Hitman: The Complete First Season / PS4
6. FIFA 17 / PS4
7. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare / PS4
8. FIFA 17 / Xbox One
9. Rocket League / Xbox One
10. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare / Xbox One
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.
