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Clean Bandit score a personal best this week as Rockabye becomes the band’s longest-running Number 1 single.

The Sean Paul and Anne-Marie featured track today notches up a fifth week at the top of the Official Singles Chart, surpassing the four weeks their former chart-topper Rather Be logged at the summit in 2014.

Combined chart sales of over 70,000 kept Rockabye at Number 1, and also claims the most downloaded (30,000) and most streamed (4.04 million) song of the week.

Neiked’s Sexual reaches a new peak of Number 5 today in its 15th week on chart, while Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You vaults 23 places to Number 6, marking the first time the track has appeared in the Top 10 for nine years.

Rag’n’Bone Man’s Human is another new Top 10 entry this week, up three places to Number 8 following his win of the BRITs Critics’ Choice prize. The track was also the second most downloaded single of the week.

Zara Larsson’s I Would Like rockets from Number 54 to Number 21 following her performance on last weekend’s X Factor semi-final, while John Legend’s Love Me Now hops three places higher to a new peak of Number 30. Charli XCX scores her sixth Top 40 hit with After The Afterparty, up seven to 34.

A further four Christmas songs either climb or re-enter the Top 40 this week. They are: The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s Fairytale of New York (16); Last Christmas by Wham (19); Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (28); and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday by Wizzard (37).

Finally, Michael Buble’s It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas enters the Official Singles Chart Top 40 for the very first time, five years after the song was released, landing at Number 39 today.

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Clean Bandit aren’t loosening their grip at the top of the charts as they score a fourth week at number one with their hit single ‘Rockabye’.

The group racked up 82,500 combined sales, including 4.24 million streams, over the last week to keep hold of their place at the top.

That means they’ve now equalled the success of their breakthrough hit ‘Rather Be’ in terms of weeks at the top while scoring their seventh Top 40 hit overall.

Elsewhere Rae Sremmurd and Gucci Mane’s ‘Black Beatles’ stays at two while The Weeknd and Daft Punk’s collaboration ‘Starboy’ climbs five places to three.

James Arthur’s ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’ is at four while Little Mix’s ‘Shout Out To My Ex’ drops two places to round off the Top 5.

Rag’n’Bone Man’s ‘Human’ leaps 66 places to 11 as Jonas Blue’s ‘By Your Side’ ft. Raye climbs six places to a new peak of 15.

And now, as it’s December, Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ is back in the Top 40 at 29 after being streamed 1.2 million times in the UK in the last week alone.

On a similarly festive note The Pogues’ ‘Fairytale of New York’ is at 66, Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ is at 75 and Shakin’ Stevens’ ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ is at 93.

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

Clean Bandit are at the top of the UK Official Singles Chart for the third week in a row.

The group’s ‘Rockabye’, featuring Anne-Marie and Sean Paul, fended off competition from the Mannequin Challenge song ‘Black Beatles’ by Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane.

‘Rockabye’ managed combined sales of 74,000, and was also the most streamed and most purchased track of the week, earning 31,000 downloads and 4.3 million streams.

Behind it at No.2 is ‘Black Beatles’, which shot up from No.4 in part due to its use in the Mannequin Challenge videos being uploaded by everyone from Beyoncé to the England football team.

Little Mix, who have just claimed their first ever UK No.1 album with Glory Days, stay at No.3 with ‘Shout Out To My Ex’, followed by fellow X Factor veteran James Arthur with ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’. Bruno Mars rounds off the Top 5 with ’24K Magic’.

A new entry to the Top 20 this week is Swedish DJ Nevada with his Fetty Wap-featuring track ‘The Mack’, which moves up to 17.

The Weeknd has also scored three spots in the Top 40, with ‘I Feel It Coming’ featuring Daft Punk at 18, ‘Party Monster’ at 33 and ‘Starboy’ (again with Daft Punk) the highest-placed at No.8.

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

Clean Bandit claim a second week at Number 1 with Rockabye on this week’s Official Singles Chart.

The trio’s latest track, which features Anne-Marie and Sean Paul, notched up 76,000 chart sales to keep the top spot, made up of 34,400 downloads and 4.18 million streams.

Rockabye is Clean Bandit’s second Number 1 single following Rather Be in 2014, the first for featured singer Anne-Marie and the third chart-topper for Sean Paul, after Breathe with Blu Cantrell (2003) and What About Us with The Saturdays (2013).

Elsewhere in the Top 10, hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd zoom 32 places to Number 4 with Black Beatles ft. Guuci Mane. The track has taken off across the world thanks in part to its use as the unofficial theme song of the #MannequinChallenge.

Stockholm producer Nevada enters the Top 40 this week at 23 (up 21 places) with his debut single The Mack; a re-working of Mark Morrison’s Return Of The Mack, which celebrates its 20^th anniversary this year. Meanwhile, Olly Murs’ Grow Up climbs 36 spots to Number 25 to give him his 18^th Top 40 single.

Nathan Sykes’ Famous, taken from his debut solo album Unfinished Business, leaps from 62 to 28, and Robbie Williams bags his first Top 40 single in three years with Love My Life, up 24 places to 28.

Finally, The xx’s brand new single On Hold debuts at Number 38, and Sigma’s Find Me ft. Birdy lifts seven spots to 39.

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Clean Bandit are ruling the charts after knocking Little Mix off the No.1 spot.

Despite being a member down, the group are in the top position with their Sean Paul and Anne Marie collaboration ‘Rockabye’ after snagging 2,000 combined chart sales, comprised of 37,000 downloads and 3.5 million streams.

“Thank you so much to everyone who has been listening to this song,” Clean Bandit said. “‘Rockabye’ is a song that means a lot to us and it means even more to us that so many of you are listening to it and liking it. Thank you!”

That means Little Mix slip to two with ‘Shout Out To My Ex’ while James Arthur drops a place to three with ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’, The Weeknd stays at four with ‘Starboy’ and Bruno Mars round off the Top 5 with ’24k Magic’ after climbing a spot.

Elsewhere, Maroon 5’s Kendrick Lamar collaboration ‘Don’t Wanna Know’ climbs four places to seven, to give the band their ninth Top 10 single.

Louisa Johnson’s ‘So Good’ leaps seven places to 13 while The Vamps nab their eighth Top 40 hit with ‘Black Beatles’ ft. Gucci Mane at 36.

Finally, Fifth Harmony soar 11 places to 26 with their single ‘That’s My Girl’.

See this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full