Justin Timberlake and Bastille battle it out in the race to score this week’s Official Singles Chart Number 1, while Wiley and Chip, Paramore and Laura Mvula are on course for new entries in the Official Top 40 on Sunday.
Justin Timberlake and Bastille are going head-to-head in the race to this week’s Official Singles Chart Number 1.
The US star, who performed at last week’s BRIT Awards, is currently in pole position with his latest single Mirrors up three places from Number 4 last Sunday, while London quartet Bastille are only 2,000 copies behind him at this mid-way stage with their new track Pompeii, which is taken from forthcoming debut album Bad Blood.
If the mighty JT can maintain his lead through to Sunday, it will be his highest charting single since Sexyback as a lead artist, and his fifth Official Number 1. Mirrors is the second track to be lifted from Justin Timberlake’s upcoming third album, The 20/20 Experience, which is due for release next month.
Meanwhile reigning chart kings, One Direction, fall two places to Number 3 with their Comic Relief charity single, One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks). Thrift Shop, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ ode to bargain hunting is at Number 4 on today’s Official Chart Update, while Taylor Swift’s I Knew You Were Trouble completes the Top 5.
Yessss! Obsessed with this song. I'm surprised its doing so well just off the BRITS! It's getting no airplay yet so that performance was very effective!
Mirrors from the BRITS starts to fall, from 42 (peak)... but the original version of the song increased another 3% over Pompeii... so it's about 30% lead over 5 days. YAY