Bruno Mars' 24K Magic charms its way to Number 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart

Bruno's first solo single since his Uptown Funk success is making a big impact this week…

He's been away for a while, but Bruno Mars is back and ready for action with his first release since his mammoth Number 1 hit with Mark Ronson, Uptown Funk, which is set to make a big impact in the UK this week.

New single 24K Magic tops this week's Official Trending Chart – the list of 20 songs stirring things up in the UK at the moment, based on movement up the Official Singles Chart.

24K Magic look set to give Bruno his 10th Top 10 single this week, as it currently stands at Number 7 in the latest sales flash.

The track serves as lead single from Bruno's third album – his first in four years – which is due for release in mid-November.

Elsewhere, Crank It (Woah!) from Kideko and George Kwali continues on the ascent, leaping 28 places on the Official Singles Chart sales flash thanks to its inclusion on the latest Lucozade Sport ad. Fifth Harmony's That's My Girl makes its Official Trending Chart debut – the track got a profile boost when it was performed by X Factor contestant Gifty on Saturday's first live show.

New songs released last Friday (October 4) that are already impacting on the latest Official Trending Chart are: Olly Murs's Grow Up; Million Reasons, Lady Gaga's new song from fourth album Joanne; and John Legend's brand-new single Love Me Now.

This week's Official Trending Chart Top 20 is...

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1		24K MAGIC	BRUNO MARS	NEW	7	0
2		STILL FALLING FOR YOU	ELLIE GOULDING	12	11	1	11
3		AIN'T MY FAULT	ZARA LARSSON	16	12	4	16
4		HURTS	EMELI SANDE	27	18	9	22
5		STARVING	HAILEE STEINFELD/GREY/ZEDD	28	20	8	28
6		AIN'T GIVING UP	CRAIG DAVID & SIGALA	23	22	1	23
7		SEXUAL	NEIKED	34	28	6	34
8		BLOW YOUR MIND (MWAH)	DUA LIPA	31	30	1	31
9		GROW UP	OLLY MURS	NEW	33	0
10		MILLION REASONS	LADY GAGA	NEW	34	0
11		LOVE ON ME	GALANTIS & HOOK N SLING	47	42	5
12	⬆⬆	CRANK IT (WOAH)	KIDEKO/GEORGE KWALI/ROSE/IRIE	77	49	28
13		FADE	KANYE WEST/POST MALONE/TY	55	53	2
14		THAT'S MY GIRL	FIFTH HARMONY	NEW	60	0
15		16	CRAIG DAVID	79	65	14
16	⬆	LOVE ME NOW	JOHN LEGEND	NEW	66	0
17		WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE	JAMES TW	75	67	8
18		PERFECT ILLUSION	LADY GAGA	71	70	1	12
19	⬆⬆	SEND THEM OFF	BASTILLE	98	78	20
20		LOCK DOH	GIGGS FT DONAEO	88	87	1

Key

⬆ - Indicates a climb of 10 places
LW - Last week's Official Singles Chart position
CURRENT - Current position on today's Official Singles Chart sales flash
DIFF - Number of places climbed since the previous week on the Official Singles Chart

Listen to a playlist of this week's Official Trending Chart Top 20 on Spotify below. Click here to listen on Deezer.

About the Official Trending Chart

The Official Trending Chart is a brand new chart launched for 2016 to highlight the hottest new tracks beginning to make an impact in the UK every week.

The Top 20 rundown, published on OfficialCharts.com every Tuesday, based on the first four days’ sales of each chart week, is designed to highlight emerging hits as they begin to scale the Official Charts and build buzz.

The Official Trending Chart ranks titles which are showing week-on-week chart growth, and is the only “new music” chart to reflect audio track sales and streams comprehensively across all services.

Devised by the Official Charts Company in close consultation with labels, retailers and media, the chart since launch has already highlighted emerging hits such as Number 1 singles Mike Posner’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza and Drake's One Dance.

The chart is designed to help highlight hit singles in their early stages of their growth, in the light of the shift in release strategies of record labels over the past six months. Under “On Air On Sale”, labels have started to release new music for consumers to buy or stream on the same day as those tracks are released to media (including radio stations and TV).