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Chart Listings: UK : King #1 with 101k, FFS goes top3
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UK : King #1 with 101k, FFS goes top3
Years & Years have taken the crown on this week’s Official Singles Chart.
The trio – who topped the BBC Sound Of 2015 poll earlier this year, enter straight in at Number 1 with their electro-dance track King with combined chart sales of 101,000.
King knocks last week’s chart-topper Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding down to 2 after a four-week reign at the summit. However, the singer’s 50 Shades Of Grey song is once again the most-streamed of the week, racking up 2.15 million streams over the last seven days.
Meanwhile Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney’s FourFiveSeconds reaches a new peak at Number 3, Hozier’s Take Me To Church is at 4, and The Weeknd completes the Top 5 with Earned It.
New entries and high climbers
This week’s second-highest new entry comes from Marlon Roudette. The steel drum-infused When The Beat Drops Out debuts at Number 7 and marks the British singer’s UK breakthrough, having already hit Number 1 with the track across Europe.
Following his performance at last week’s BRIT Awards, Kanye West enters at 18 with All Day, Taylor Swift jumps six places to Number 22 with Style, and Imagine Dragons vault 60 to 33 with Demons after its outing on last week’s battle rounds on The Voice.
1 KING YEARS & YEARS
2 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO ELLIE GOULDING
3 FOURFIVE SECONDS RIHANNA/KANYE WEST/MCCARTNEY
4 TAKE ME TO CHURCH HOZIER
5 EARNED IT WEEKND
6 UPTOWN FUNK MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS
7 WHEN THE BEAT DROPS OUT MARLON ROUDETTE
8 HOLD BACK THE RIVER JAMES BAY
9 SUGAR MAROON 5
10 HEARTBEAT SONG KELLY CLARKSON
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Noel Gallagher and his band of High Flying Birds will no doubt be celebrating today as they land straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
The band’s second album Chasing Yesterday racked up combined sales of 89,000 to become the fastest-selling LP of the year so far.
Chasing Yesterday, which follows their chart-topping 2011 self-titled debut, was streamed 1,700 times over the past seven days. The most-streamed album was Ed Sheeran’s X with 3,700 plays. Details of how streaming is included into the Official Albums Chart can be found here.
Meanwhile, Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour is at 2, Sheeran’s X is at 3, George Ezra’s Wanted On Voyage holds at 4, and Royal Blood’s self-titled album completes the Top 5.
New entries and high climbers
Kelly Clarkson is new at Number 6 on today’s chart with her seventh studio album Piece By Piece, marking her fifth UK Top 10 album, and five-piece harmony group The Overtones earn their fourth Top 10 album with Sweet Soul Music at Number 8.
Rounding off this week’s Top 10 is Brave from country duo The Shires. The band – made up of Crissie Rhodes and Ben Earl - make Official Charts history with the placing by becoming the first British country band to score a UK Top 10 album.
1 CHASING YESTERDAY NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING
2 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH
3 X ED SHEERAN
4 WANTED ON VOYAGE GEORGE EZRA
5 ROYAL BLOOD ROYAL BLOOD
6 PIECE BY PIECE KELLY CLARKSON
7 1989 TAYLOR SWIFT
8 SWEET SOUL MUSIC OVERTONES
9 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION PALOMA FAITH
10 BRAVE SHIRES
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Kelly probably would have been #2 if it wasn't for the Brit Awards. Oh well, bad timing.
Paloma is slaying so much, so happy for her. Great for Kelly & Taylor too!
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King Best #1 in about 2 years
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slay Rih
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Yay Years & Years
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King is so flawless, it deserved more tbh. Now smash WW please!
Rihanna's 18th top3.
Pon De Replay, #2
SOS, #2
Unfaithful, #2
Umbrella, #1
Take A Bow, #1
Disturbia, #3
Live Your Life, #2
Run This Town, #1
Russian Roulette, #2
Rude Boy, #2
Love The Way You Lie, #2
Only Girl (In The World), #1
What's My Name?, #1
S&M, #3
We Found Love, #1
Diamonds, #1
The Monster, #1
FourFiveSeconds, #3
WOW.
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I love the #1 Although I was expecting at least 130k+ sales, oh well
Ellie is really strong
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Years & Years also
Discovered them after the BRIT awards and Take shelter/King are amazing tracks
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Originally posted by I'mRihannaFan
King is so flawless, it deserved more tbh. Now smash WW please!
Rihanna's 18th top3.
Pon De Replay, #2
SOS, #2
Unfaithful, #2
Umbrella, #1
Take A Bow, #1
Disturbia, #3
Live Your Life, #2
Run This Town, #1
Russian Roulette, #2
Rude Boy, #2
Love The Way You Lie, #2
Only Girl (In The World), #1
What's My Name?, #1
S&M, #3
We Found Love, #1
Diamonds, #1
The Monster, #1
FourFiveSeconds, #3
WOW.
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King
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Not a huge fan of the #1, my friend loves the song tho. Kanye getting another top 20 hit.
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Yas King
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Years & Years
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Another top 10 week for HBS
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Originally posted by I'mRihannaFan
King is so flawless, it deserved more tbh. Now smash WW please!
Rihanna's 18th top3.
Pon De Replay, #2
SOS, #2
Unfaithful, #2
Umbrella, #1
Take A Bow, #1
Disturbia, #3
Live Your Life, #2
Run This Town, #1
Russian Roulette, #2
Rude Boy, #2
Love The Way You Lie, #2
Only Girl (In The World), #1
What's My Name?, #1
S&M, #3
We Found Love, #1
Diamonds, #1
The Monster, #1
FourFiveSeconds, #3
WOW.
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a legend.
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