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Drake extends his reign at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart for a third week with his latest track In My Feelings.

The track – streamed 9.1 million times this week – is Drake’s third chart-topper from his Number 1 album Scorpion, following God’s Plan and Nice For What, and his fifth leader overall.

George Ezra’s Shotgun holds at Number 2, and Jonas Blue’s Rise ft. Jack & Jack hits a new peak, jumping from 6 to 3. There are also new peaks in the Top 10 for 5 Seconds Of Summer’s Youngblood (4) and Tiesto’s Jackie Chan ft. Dzeko, Preme and Post Malone (5) – the DJ’s highest charting single in four years.

New entries and high climbers 

US rapper Juce Wrld edges closer to the Top 10 with his breakthrough hit Lucid Dreams, up five to Number 12, Cheat Codes x Little Mix’s Only You continues its climb up the Top 40, lifting three places to 16 this week, and Jax Jones’ Ring Ring ft. Mabel and Rich The Kid cracks the Top 20, up six rungs to Number 17.

There are also new peaks for M-22’s First Time ft. Medina, which climbs six spots to 20 for its 20th week inside the Top 100, and Body by Loud Luxury ft. Brando, up 15 places into the Top 40 at 26.

This week’s highest new entry goes to The 1975 – Love It If We Made It from their upcoming album A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships debuts at 33.

Further down, 6IX9INE, Nicki Minaj and Murda Beatz’s Fefe is new at 35, Panic At The Disco zoom 14 places to 37 with High Hopes – their first UK Top 40 hit in ten years – and B Young’s 079ME, the follow-up to his hit single Jumaji enters the Top 40 at 39.

Finally, hit US producer Benny Blanco – whose hits include Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl and Kesha’s Tik Tok – scores his first Top 40 hit as a credited artist; new single Eastide ft. Halsey & Khalid leaps 12 places to Number 40.

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They say three’s a crowd, but we’re sure Drake won’t mind making room in his award cabinet for his third Official Singles Chart Number 1 of the year!

In My Feelings follows God’s Plan and Nice For What to give Drake a hat-trick of chart-toppers in 2018 – the first time in three years an artist has achieved this in a calendar year. Justin Bieber did it last in 2015 with What Do You Mean, Sorry and Love Yourself.

The song’s success has been buoyed by the “In My Feelings Challenge” dance craze, created by Instagram comic Shiggy, which has seen a number of stars – including Drake himself – uploading videos of their own attempts. In My Feelings is Drake’s fifth chart-topper in total.

After being deposed by Three Lions last week, Shotgun, by George Ezra, remains at Number 2. Three Lions itself isn’t in the Top 40 this week.

Drake claims a second Top 5 spots today, too: his duet with the icon Michael Jackson, Don’t Matter to Me, is a non-mover at 5.

New entries and high climbers

Highest new entry this week comes from Ariana Grande, with God is a Woman, the third track to be taken from forthcoming fourth album Sweetener, straight in at 4.

5 Seconds of Summer score their first Top 10 hit in four years with Youngblood, up three slots to 8, and Tiesto’s Jackie Chan feat. Dezko, Preme and Post Malone is up from 12 to 9.

Breaking the Top 20 for the first time this week are Tyga’s Taste, feat. Offset, which bounds eight spots to 16, while Cheat Codes & Little Mix leap nine places to 19 with Only You.

Childish Gambino is new at 30 with Summertime Magic; Martin Garrix and Khalid enter the Top 40, rising eight slots to 34 with Ocean; while The Greatest Showman anthem This is Me, from Keala Settle, sneaks back into the Top 40, rebounding six places to 37

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Football may not have come home this week, but at least something did. Three Lions is not only Number 1 on this week’s Official Chart, but it’s set a new all-time record too, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

The Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds track returns to the top spot 22 years after it first hit Number 1 with an impressive 80,000 combined sales this week, made up of 43,000 sales, 6.8m audio streams and 5.2m video streams.

Following a dramatic week of hope and heartbreak for English football fans, the welcome news was revealed on air today by new BBC Radio 1 Official Chart host Scott Mills. It’s the first time in the Official Chart’s 66-year history that a song has scored four spells at Number 1 with the same artist line-up; the original 1996 version had two one-week stints in 1996, while the 1998 re-work had one three-week spell at the top. England’s recent run of form in the 2018 World Cup has propelled it to a record-breaking fourth outing at the top.

David Baddiel said: “Well, this is awkward,” while Frank Skinner added: “I must say, as consolation prizes go…”

BBC Radio 1 Official Chart host Scott Mills concludes: “England gave us everything at this World Cup. The whole country got swept away with it, and Three Lions being the Official Number 1 shows how we really got behind our amazing team.”

New entries and high climbers

George Ezra’s Shotgun slips to Number 2 after two weeks at the top, and Drake’s In My Feelings from his new album Scorpion is new at Number 4.

Elsewhere in the Top 10, Years & Years’ If You’re Over Me climbs three places to hit a new peak at 6, and Jonas Blue claims his fourth Top 10 hit with Rise ft. Jack & Jack, up four spots to 7.

Further down, a Facebook campaign to get Green Day’s American Idiot back into the charts in time for President Trump’s UK visit lands at Number 25, and Cheat Codes x Little Mix’s Only You rebounds 12 places to 28.

Finally, two songs make their Top 40 debut this week: Fine Girl by South London newcomer Ziezie lifts eight spots to 38, and club hit Panic Room by Au/Ra & Camelphat hops five places to 39.

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George Ezra claims a second week at Number 1 with Shotgun on this week’s Official Singles Chart – and the first under the Official Singles Chart’s new rules, which come into effect this week.

The biggest change to the chart is the inclusion of official video streams for the first time, reporting services will include the newly-launched YouTube Music plus video streams from Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal.

Today sees Shotgun’s strongest performance yet with combined units of 76,000. It was the best-selling track of the week with 18,000 pure sales, while on audio streaming services it racked up 5.8 million plays, and its accompanying video tallied just under 3 million views.

Drake’s Michael Jackson collaboration Don’t Matter To Me nabs the title of UK’s most streamed track of the week, and leads three new Drake entries in the Top 5, including Nonstop at 4 and Emotionless (5).

However it’s Maroon 5’s Girls Like You ft. Cardi B that scores the most streamed video of the week with 2.67m video streams, the track lifs from 13 to 10 to give the band their tenth UK Top 10 single, while Jonas Blue’s Rise ft. Jack & Jack just misses out on this week’s Top 10, up one place to 11.

Martin Talbot, Chief Executive of the Official Charts Company said: “Congratulations to George Ezra, both for holding on to the Number 1 spot but also having the first Official Number 1 of this new era – thanks to 5.8m audio streams, 2.3m video streams and 20,000 sales.”

Further down, Tiesto & Dzeko’s Jackie Chan ft. Preme & Post Malone hops three spots to 17, and ahead of England’s quarter-final, Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds’ Three Lions zooms into the Top 40, up 18 places to 24.

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