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13 is unlucky for some, including Ed Sheeran whose thirteen-week stint at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart has come to an end.

Harry Styles scores his first Number 1 as a solo artist with debut single Sign Of The Times. Taken from his fortchoming self-titled debut album, due for release May 12, Sign Of The Times pipped Ed’s Shape Of You to the top spot by just over 3,000 copies, the track has been downloaded 39,000 times and accumulated 3.5 million streams in the seven days since its release.

It’s not all bad though for Ed – Shape of You (2) and Galway Girl (3) are still both in the Top 5, while Shape of You was the most streamed track of the week with 6.8 million plays.

Elsewhere, there are small gains for Martin Jensen’s Solo Dance and Zedd & Alessia Cara’s Stay which both advance one place to new peak positions of 7 and 8 respectively.

New entries and high climbers

Lorde’s Green Light advances seven places this week to crack the Top 20 for the first time (20). Jason Derulo, Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign’s Swalla leaps 10 spots to 24, while Future’s Mask Off climbs seven rungs to Number 26.

Finally, two tracks enter the Top 40 for the very first time; Martin Solveig and Ina Wroldsen’s Places rockets 15 places to Number 27, and Disciples score their first Top 40 entry since July 2015 with On My Mind, a 47 place riser to Number 34.

Check out this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Ed Sheeran extends his reign over the Official Albums Chart for a fifth week as his latest collection ÷ logs a fifth stint at Number 1.

Despite huge first-week sales, Take That couldn’t topple Ed Sheeran’s ÷ from the Number 1 spot. The trio score this week’s highest new entry on the Official Albums Chart at 2, notching up 113,200 across physical, download and streaming equivalent sales.

It means Ed claims the Official Chart double for a fourth week, as Shape Of You logs a mammoth 12^th week at the summit.

Albums

James Blunt scores his fifth Official Albums Chart Top 10 with The Afterlove, new at 6, while Scottish alt-rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain return to the Top 40 for the first time in over two decades with Damage And Joy at 16, and Southampton punk band Creeper are a new entry at 18 with Eternity In Your Arms.

Take That’s 2005 retrospective of nineties hits – Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection – rockets 67 places to Number 25 following the band’s appearance on ITV’s Saturday Night Takeaway last week; Steel Panther score their third Top 40 album with Lower The Bar, new at 26; and Michael Bublé’s Nobody But Me also zooms up the chart, climbing 41 slots to land at 27.

Singer-songwriter Steve Hackett lands a ninth Top 40 album with The Night Siren, new at 28, Phil Collins’ hits retrospective The Singles bounds 39 places to 35, while Trey Songz is new at 40 with Tremaine – The Album.

Check out this week’s Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full

Singles

Ed’s grip on the Top 3 has loosened, with Galway Girl at 2 and Drake’s Passionfruit climbing a place to Number 3. Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson’s Symphony lifts two places to 4, and Ed’s Castle On The Hill completes the Top 5.

Meanwhile, Kygo and Selena Gomez’s It Ain’t Me rebounds 12 spots to 7, Issues by Julia Michaels edges closer to the Top 10 at 13, up 15 places, and Bruno Mars’ That’s What I Like moves ten rungs to 16.

Zayn scores this week’s highest new entry with Still Got Time ft. Partynextdoor, entering at 24, Lorde’s Green Light shifts 14 places to 26, and Rag’n’Bone Man’s Skin re-enters the Top 40 at 30 following the unveiling of its accompanying music video this week.

Check out this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Ed Sheeran records another week of strong sales with his ÷ album on this week’s Official Chart.

The singer-songwriter once again holds the top spots on the Official Albums Chart and Official Singles Chart simultaneously this week, with ÷ logging a third stint at Number 1 and single Shape Of You racking up its 11^th week at the summit.

Drake was Ed’s closest competition this week – his seventh album More Life lands at Number 2 with 63,000 equivalent sales. Meanwhile, Vera Lynn enters at 3 with her new album 100, setting a huge UK chart record in the process.

Singles

Behind Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You (1), the singer continues to hold the Top 3, with Galway Girl at 2 and Castle On The Hill at 3.

This week’s highest new entry goes to Drake’s Passionfruit, which enters at Number 4. A total of 12 songs from the star’s More Life album enter the Top 40 this week, with his Giggs collaboration KMT also reaching the Top 10 at Number 9.

Elsewhere, Martin Jensen’s Solo Dance lifts four places to 8, and Anne-Marie’s Ciao Adios is up ten spots to Number 10 – her first Top 10 as a headline artist.

Finally, there are three big climbers in this week’s Top 40: Zedd & Alessia Cara’s Stay climbs 11 spots to Number 12, Bruno Mars’ That’s What I Like jumps ten places to 25, and Julia Michaels’ Issues lifts eight to 28.

Check out this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Ed Sheeran continues to prove unstoppable as his new album ÷ logs another week of stellar sales on the Official Chart.

The singer-songwriter’s third album has shifted another 304,000 equivalent units over the last seven days to log a second stint at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart. Last week the album set a record as the fastest-selling album by a male artist ever with 672,000 sales.

Ed also claims the Official Chart double for a second week, as Shape Of You notches up a tenth week at the summit with 106,000 sales across all formats. All 16 of ÷’s songs hold inside the Top 40 this week, nine of which are in the Top 10. Behind Shape Of You is Galway Girl (2) and Castle On The Hill (3).

Elsewhere on this week’s Official Singles Chart, The Chainsmokers’ and Coldplay’s collaboration Something Just Like This rebounds three places to Number 4, and Danish DJ/producer Martin Jensen vaults from 25 to 12 with Solo Dance.

Zedd and Alessia Cara’s Stay zooms up 15 places to a new high at 23, rising star Julia Michaels cracks the Top 40 with her debut single Issues, up eight places to 36, and finally, Steps debut at Number 37 with their comeback track Scared Of The Dark, marking the group’s first Top 40 appearance in 16 years.

Albums

Over on the Official Albums Chart, six new albums enter the Top 40, with this week’s highest new entry going to Laura Marling. The singer-songwriter’s sixth album Semper Femina enters at Number 5 to become her fifth Top 10 collection.

Further down, Soft Cell and Marc Almond’s Hits And Pieces debuts at 7, Circa Waves’ Different Creatures is new at 11, and the Motion Picture Cast Recording of Beauty & The Beast enchants the Number 12 slot.

Cambridge rock band Mallory Knox land at 18 with their fourth album Wired, just ahead of US band The Shins, whose fifth LP Heartworms is at 19. Meanwhile, The Beatles’ classic Abbey Road album returns to the Top 40 for the first time in eight years at 21 due to a vinyl promotion, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is back at 29.

Check out this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full