Drake's One Dance notches up an eighth week at the Official Singles Chart summit
Drake continues to prove unbeatable on the Official Singles Chart as One Dance logs its eighth week at Number 1 today.
The track is now the longest-running UK chart-topper since Rihanna’s Umbrella, which racked up an unbroken 10-week run at the summit in 2007.
MORE: The songs that have spent the longest at Number 1 on the Official Chart
One Dance comfortably finishes in front on this week’s Top 40 just shy of 85,000 chart sales, made up of 23,000 sales and 6.15 million streams.
MORE: See this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full
Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling remains at Number 2 (75,000 chart sales), and Rihanna and Calvin Harris’ This Is What You Came For is unmoved at 3.
Galantis hit a new peak at 4 with No Money, and Sia’s Cheap Thrills rounds off this week’s Top 5.
New Entries and High Climbers
This week’s highest new entry goes to Clean Bandit and Louisa Johnson’s new single Tears, landing at Number 6. The track gives the X Factor winner a second Top 10 (following her Number 9-peaking winner’s single Forever Young) and a fifth for Clean Bandit. Click here to see the band’s full chart history.
US singer-songwriter Gnash enters the Top 10 for the first time with I Hate You, I Love You, up four spots to Number 8, and Kungs Vs Cookin’ On Three Burners vault from 29 to 10 with This Girl.
There are two more big climbers on this week’s chart: Cheat Codes and Kris Kross Amsterdam’s Sex – a reworking of Salt-N-Pepa’s Let’s Talk About Sex – lifts six places to Number 14, and Pink’s Just Like Fire zooms 14 places to 22.
Finally, Adele’s new single Send My Love (To Your New Lover) makes its Top 40 debut this week at Number 34, as does OneRepublic’s Wherever I Go at 36.
Click here to see this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full
Look back at every Number 1 single of 2016 so far below:
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EH
Edward Howard
Why is such bland, flavour of the month music performing so well? No-one will remember this mediocrity in 10 years time, but sadly they've already given him enough money for life. How sad.
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Charla
Which is probably what people said at the time about songs that are well remembered 10 years ago, and the 10 before and so forth... and given that this has spent the most weeks at the summit for 9 years suggests that it will have the same fate as those songs, even if you perhaps don't necessarily understand it, and also makes your use of "flavour of the month" look short-sighted.
EH
Edward Howard
I understand people were probably saying similar sentiment to mine 10 years ago, but it's objectively true that pop music has become worse: https://m.youtube.com/results?q=paul%20joseph%20watson%20modern%20music&sm=1
And I understand that people are snobby to really successful pop songs that top the charts for a few weeks, but a song like Spaceman is a great song and topped the charts for 5 weeks. It's not because it's successful that I don't like it, but rather because it's bland & boring pop music, which dominates the charts these days. And may I ask, Snobby McSnob what deeper meaning I'm missing from Drake's mediocre shlock? His music has no deeper meaning for me to understand, so your claims are groundless. Also, he is flavour of the month music. After all, there's nothing new or original in his music, and his music isn't that good. If he stopped now, no-one would remember him in 10 years time (outside of irony maybe). He , and butthurt fans like you won't change that.
JT
John T
When streaming figures were first included,they normally accounted for about 10% of the total sales units. This week, that figure is as high as 72%. The rule of 100 streams equalling one download or CD single sale needs to be reviewed.
Drake is no.5 on the sales chart. Justin Timberlake is no.1,Clean Bandit are no.2.
DH
David Howe
Disgusting state of the charts these days!! The No 1 song is outsold by over 3-1 75000 sales to 23!!?? Don't get me wrong I like some Drake output but it's just messed up. After following charts for few decades it's sad to see it so messed up. Good songs selling well but not charting.
TL
Terry lindsay
I think they should compile a separate chart for sales & one for streams, then merge them together. For example, Timberlake would be no 1 in the sales chart, but Drake in the streaming chart, but Timberlake would be number 1 as sales should still count for more.