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UK Top 40 Biggest Songs & Albums of 2015 so far
SINGLES
Based on Official Charts Company sales and streaming data, Mark Ronson’s million-selling phenomenon Uptown Funk has come out on top in the Official Charts Company’s list of the UK’s official biggest songs of the first quarter of 2015.
Uptown Funk first hit Number 1 in late 2014, before returning to the top of the Official Singles Chart for New Year and spending six consecutive weeks there. This year, the track, featuring Bruno Mars on lead vocals, has sold over 810,000 copies and been streamed over 26 million times to give Uptown Funk a chart sales tally of over a million.
Up in second is Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do, taken from the hit movie Fifty Shades Of Grey, spent a month at Number 1 from mid-February, scoring over 725,000 chart sales. Fifty Shades bags not one, but two tracks in the Top 10 best sellers list, as The Weeknd’s Earned It lands at Number 7.
Coming in third is Hozier’s Take Me To Church, the ultimate slow burner first entered the Top 100 at Number 79 some 32 weeks ago last summer, where it began its six-month ascent to eventually peak at Number 2. Take Me To Church achieves a combined chart sales tally of over 705,000 so far in 2015, and has performed particularly well on streaming services – we’ll be revealing the most streamed songs of 2015 so far later this week.
The fourth biggest single of 2015 so far comes courtesy of newcomer Philip George with Wish You Were Mine. The track spent three weeks at Number 2 back in January and has since racked up over 460,000 combined chart sales while Rihanna’s collaboration with Kanye West and Paul McCartney, FourFive Seconds, lands in fifth, scoring 452,000 chart sales.
1 UPTOWN FUNK MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS (810k)
2 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO ELLIE GOULDING (725k)
3 TAKE ME TO CHURCH HOZIER (705k)
4 WISH YOU WERE MINE PHILIP GEORGE (460k)
5 FOURFIVE SECONDS RIHANNA/KANYE WEST/MCCARTNEY (452k)
6 THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN
7 EARNED IT WEEKND
8 HOLD BACK THE RIVER JAMES BAY
9 UP OLLY MURS FT DEMI LOVATO
10 SUGAR MAROON 5
11 THE NIGHTS AVICII
12 LIPS ARE MOVIN MEGHAN TRAINOR
13 KING YEARS & YEARS
14 HEROES (WE COULD BE) ALESSO FT TOVE LO
15 ELASTIC HEART SIA
16 BLANK SPACE TAYLOR SWIFT
17 LIKE I CAN SAM SMITH
18 GRAVITY DJ FRESH FT ELLA EYRE
19 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS MEGHAN TRAINOR
20 SOMETHING I NEED BEN HAENOW
21 BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA
22 LAY ME DOWN SAM SMITH FT JOHN LEGEND
23 CHANDELIER SIA
24 AYO CHRIS BROWN & TYGA
25 REAL LOVE CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE
26 SAY SOMETHING KAREN HARDING
27 WHAT I DID FOR LOVE DAVID GUETTA FT EMELI SANDE
28 STAY WITH ME SAM SMITH
29 OUTSIDE CALVIN HARRIS/ELLIE GOULDING
30 I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE SAM SMITH
31 L.A.LOVE (LA LA) FERGIE
32 BANG BANG JESSIE J/GRANDE/MINAJ
33 BLAME IT ON ME GEORGE EZRA
34 I LOVED YOU BLONDE FT MELISSA STEEL
35 SHAKE IT OFF TAYLOR SWIFT
36 COOL KIDS ECHOSMITH
37 DON'T ED SHEERAN
38 HEARTBEAT SONG KELLY CLARKSON
39 GDFR FLO RIDA FT SAGE THE GEMINI
40 DANGEROUS DAVID GUETTA FT SAM MARTIN
ALBUMS
They scored the two biggest albums of 2014 and sales show little sign of slowing for Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran in the first quarter of this year.
Based on Official Charts Company sales data, Sam Smith, who finished second to Ed Sheeran in the best-selling albums’ list of 2014, is leading the way for 2015 so far, with over 370,000 sales of debut album In The Lonely Hour this year alone.
Sam's album was the only release to sell a million on both sides of the Atlantic in 2014. Since its release in May 2014, In The Lonely Hour has spent all but one week in the Top 5, and was revealed by OfficialCharts.com to be the first album by a male solo artist to achieve six different spells at Number 1 in Official Chart history.
d Sheeran’s X settles for runner-up, with over 350,000 copies sold in 2015 to date, while George Ezra’s Wanted On Voyage claims third place, selling almost 270,000 copies this year so far. The star’s debut album has spent 39 consecutive weeks in the Top 10 since its release last summer.
The only international entry in our Top 10 of the year so far comes from Taylor Swift. Her Number 1 album 1989, released in October last year, is the fourth biggest seller of the year to date, shifting over 198,000 copies in 2015 (and 574,000 copies in total).
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ second album, Chasing Yesterday, comes in fifth, with 130,000 sales. Chasing Yesterday is also the fastest selling album of the year so far.
As well as bagging the British Female award at The Brit Awards earlier this quarter, Paloma Faith scoops the accolade of best-selling British female album of the year so far too – A Perfect Contradiction has racked up 127,000 sales.
1 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH (370k)
2 X ED SHEERAN (350k)
3 WANTED ON VOYAGE GEORGE EZRA (270k)
4 1989 TAYLOR SWIFT (198k)
5 CHASING YESTERDAY NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING (130k)
6 HOZIER HOZIER (130-127k)
7 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION PALOMA FAITH (127k)
8 ROYAL BLOOD ROYAL BLOOD
9 NEVER BEEN BETTER OLLY MURS
10 CHAPTER ONE ELLA HENDERSON
11 TITLE MEGHAN TRAINOR
12 UPTOWN SPECIAL MARK RONSON
13 CAUSTIC LOVE PAOLO NUTINI
14 III TAKE THAT
15 AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO FALL OUT BOY
16 LIQUID SPIRIT GREGORY PORTER
17 FOUR ONE DIRECTION
18 1000 FORMS OF FEAR SIA
19 MOTION CALVIN HARRIS
20 CHAOS AND THE CALM JAMES BAY
21 REBEL HEART MADONNA
22 NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE SCRIPT
23 SMOKE & MIRRORS IMAGINE DRAGONS
24 IF YOU'RE READING THIS IT'S TOO LATE DRAKE
25 SONIC HIGHWAYS FOO FIGHTERS
26 V MAROON 5
27 THE ENDLESS RIVER PINK FLOYD
28 SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT BOB DYLAN
29 THE BALCONY CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN
30 LOVE IN THE FUTURE JOHN LEGEND
31 STAY GOLD FIRST AID KIT
32 + ED SHEERAN
33 TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY KENDRICK LAMAR
34 PARTNERS BARBRA STREISAND
35 COMING UP FOR AIR KODALINE
36 ROCK OR BUST AC/DC
37 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE
38 FOREVER QUEEN
39 GHOST STORIES COLDPLAY
40 NEW EYES CLEAN BANDIT
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