NOW WAIT! I thought Fergie was done and LA Love flopped. So it has a chance to be a decent hit? I already buried it in the grave

Singles

Uptown Funk’s non-consecutive run at the top – it was interrupted by X Factor winner Ben Haenow during Christmas Number 1 week – means the track has tallied the most weeks at Number 1 since Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love in 2007.

Uptown Funk is also the most streamed track of the past seven days, notching up over 2.3m listens. Seven other tracks achieve more than a million streams this week: Hozier’s Take Me To Church (1.7m), Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud (1.4m), Wish You Were Here from Philip George (1.2m), Sia’s Elastic Heart (1.09m), Meghan Trainor’s Lips Are Movin’ (1.08m), Alesso FT Tove Lo’s Heroes (1.06m) and Like I Can from Sam Smith (1.04m).

Hozier’s Take Me To Church climbs one place to reach a new chart peak at Number 2, while Black Eyed Peas’ frontwoman Fergie scores her first solo UK Top 40 hit since Big Girls Don’t Cry, which peaked at Number 2 in 2007. L.A. Love (La La) rockets over 120 places to land at this week’s Number 3.

Meghan Trainor’s Lips Are Movin’ falls two to Number 4 and Rihanna returns to the Top 40 with a brand-new entry at Number 5. The Barbadian star shock-released new single FourFive Seconds, with Kanye West and Paul McCartney earlier this week.



Albums

It’s all about that Number 1 for Meghan Trainor – her first album Title debuts at the top this week.

Title finished 5,000 copies ahead of nearest rival, Ed Sheeran’s x, to secure the Number 1 spot on the Official Albums Chart, following the album’s chart-topping run in the US, Canada and Australia. Meghan now has two Number 1s under her belt – her debut single All About That Bass topped the Official Singles Chart in 2014.

Last week’s Number 1, Uptown Special from Mark Ronson, takes a tumble to Number 3, while Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour and George Ezra’s Wanted On Voyage hold steady at Number 4 and 5 respectively. This means this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 5 contains releases that have all topped the chart at some point.

Singles

1 1 8 Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars Uptown Funk
2 3 24 Hozier Take Me To Church (22wks T75)
3 N 1 Fergie L.A.LOVE (la la)
4 2 6 Meghan Trainor Lips Are Movin (5wks T75)
5 N 1 Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney FourFiveSeconds
6 4 5 Philip George Wish You Were Mine
7 N 1 Karen Harding Say Something
8 6 32 Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud
9 5 9 Olly Murs feat. Demi Lovato Up (7wks T75)
10 8 3 Avicii The Nights
11 11 5 Sia Elastic Heart (4wks T75)
12 7 6 Alesso feat. Tove Lo Heroes (we could be)
13 N 1 Hannah Wants and Chris Lorenzo Rhymes
14 9 13 Taylor Swift Blank Space (12wks T75)
15 12 12 Sam Smith Like I Can
16 29 10 James Bay Hold Back The River (8wks T75)
17 14 22 Meghan Trainor All About That Bass
18 17 6 Echosmith Cool Kids
19 10 7 Ben Haenow Something I Need
20 16 13 Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding Outside
21 13 11 Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne Real Love
22 55 2 Maroon 5 Sugar
23 15 9 Blonde feat. Melissa Steel I Loved You
24 20 36 George Ezra Budapest (35wks T75)
25 22 31 Sia Chandelier
26 23 11 David Guetta feat. Sam Martin Dangerous
27 21 27 Sam Smith I'm Not The Only One (26wks T75)
28 18 4 Tchami feat. Kaleem Taylor Promesses
29 19 24 Taylor Swift Shake It Off
30 N 1 Selena Gomez The Heart Wants What It Wants
31 27 37 Sam Smith Stay With Me
32 25 12 One Direction Night Changes
33 41 5 The Weeknd Earned It (3wks T75)
34 28 19 Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj Bang Bang
35 24 25 George Ezra Blame It On Me
36 26 11 Olly Murs feat. Travie McCoy Wrapped Up
37 32 32 Ed Sheeran Don't
38 30 10 Take That These Days
39 33 52 John Legend All Of Me
40 37 21 Calvin Harris feat. John Newman Blame
41 35 35 Ed Sheeran Sing


Albums:

1 N 1 Meghan Trainor Title (5,000 ahead)
2 3 32 Ed Sheeran x
3 1 2 Mark Ronson Uptown Special
4 4 36 Sam Smith In The Lonely Hour
5 5 31 George Ezra Wanted On Voyage
6 8 17 Hozier Hozier (16wks T75)
7 N 1 The Charlatans Modern Nature
8 7 14 Taylor Swift 1989
9 N 1 Rae Morris Unguarded
10 2 2 Fall Out Boy American Beauty / American Psycho
11 54 25 First Aid Kit Stay Gold (19wks T75)
12 15 47 Paloma Faith A Perfect Contradiction
13 N 1 Papa Roach F.E.A.R.
14 10 10 Olly Murs Never Been Better
15 25 17 Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear (11wks T75)
16 18 23 Royal Blood Royal Blood
17 22 9 Take That III
18 N 1 Gaz Coombes Matador
19 20 16 Ella Henderson Chapter One
20 21 42 Paolo Nutini Caustic Love
21 19 11 One Direction FOUR
22 11 2 Björk Vulnicura
23 35 55 John Legend Love In The Future (53wks T75)
24 24 13 Calvin Harris Motion
25 9 2 Belle And Sebastian Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
26 64 168 Foo Fighters Greatest Hits (104wks T75)
27 14 2 The Waterboys Modern Blues
28 23 47 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (39wks T75)
29 29 20 Catfish And The Bottlemen The Balcony (17wks T75)
30 26 12 Pink Floyd The Endless River
31 40 10 David Guetta Listen
32 30 20 The Script No Sound Without Silence
33 33 168 Ed Sheeran + (154wks T75)
34 N 1 Bethel Music We Will Not Be Shaken
35 32 12 Foo Fighters Sonic Highways
36 6 2 Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
37 47 22 Maroon 5 V (20wks T75)
38 38 28 The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream (13wks T75)
39 34 9 AC/DC Rock Or Bust
40 31 20 Barbra Streisand Partners

Slay Meghan

Paloma

Fergie

Impressive from Meghan!

1989 14 weeks in the top ten

Karen getting top 10! new queen of music

MEGHAN First debut act at #1 in albums from US Since Lana

Fergie & Meghan

What the HELL are the navy talking about? 45s was released on Monday in the UK. It had a full week

UF with 7 weeks.

They were talking about the midweek predictions/numbers. The OP and title of this thread got changed but it was originally about Rihanna being in the midweek rankings.

Songs:
1 Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars 101,962 78,484 23,478
2 Hozier 66,298
3 Fergie 57,834
4 Meghan Trainor 46,565
5 Rihanna and Kanye West and Paul McCartney 44,543
6 Philip George 41,924
7 Karen Harding 37,950
8 Ed Sheeran 32,806
9 Olly Murs feat. Demi Lovato 32,613
10 Avicii 31,609

13 Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo 22,913
16 James Bay 19,808
17 Meghan Trainor 19,186
22 Maroon 5 16,659
30 Selena Gomez 13,044
33 The Weeknd 12,457

42 Jay-Z & Linkin Park 10,279
67 Big Sean feat. E-40 5,473
72 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel 5,397

101 Meghan Trainor [Dear Future Husband] 3,774


Albums:
1 Meghan Trainor 25,246
2 Ed Sheeran 20,640
3 Mark Ronson 14,667
4 Sam Smith 13,493
5 George Ezra 11,391
6 Hozier 11,233
7 The Charlatans 10,708
8 Taylor Swift 10,650
9 Rae Morris 9,808
10 Fall Out Boy 9,199

11 First Aid Kit 7,726 (76,536)
13 Papa Roach 6,698
14 Olly 5,585
15 Sia
18 Gaz Coombes 4,483
25 Belle & Sebastian 2,974
26 Foo Fighters
34 Live Bethal Music 2,354
36 Enter Shikari 2,261
37 Maroon 5

43 Periphery [Juggernaut - Alpha] 2,018
44 Chicane 1,987
45 Periphery [Juggernaut - Omega] 1,938
50 Karen Prass 1,755
53 Linkin Park
54 The Decemberists 1,641
55 Above & Beyond 1,635
64 Selena Gomez 1,435
73 First Aid Kit 1,269 (92,414)

Ouch for Riri. She normally debuts with 100k for her first singles. Even WFL did 80+ with only 4 days.