Justin Bieber's Love Yourself scores sixth week at Number 1

Plus, David Bowie classics return to the Official Singles Chart.

This week saw two Canadian stars battling it out for the Number 1 spot, but there can be only one winner, and the top of the Official Singles Chart belongs once again to the unstoppable Justin Bieber.

Justin’s Love Yourself notches up a sixth, non-consecutive week at the summit, leaving his countryman Shawn Mendes' Stitches in second place and over 13,000 chart sales behind.

Love Yourself is also this week's most streamed track, racking up over 3.94 million listens. Last week, Justin scored a new chart record when he occupied the Top 3 places of the Official Singles Chart – the first ever artist to do so.

MORE: Check out this week's Official Top 100 Singles Chart in full

Justin Bieber's former chart-toppers Sorry and What Do You Mean each slip a place to 3 and 4 respectively, while Sigala climb three places to Number 5 with Sweet Lovin' feat. Bryn Christopher.

New entries and high climbers

Away from the battle for Number 1, the big story on the Official Singles Chart is the reappearance of classic David Bowie tracks following the star's death earlier this week.

Five of Bowie's most iconic singles have returned to the Top 40, with Heroes making the biggest showing at Number 12. This is a new chart peak for the 1977 track, which reached Number 24 on its original release.

Other Bowie songs returning to the Top 40 are 1973's Life On Mars (16), 1972's Starman (18), 1983 Number 1 Let's Dance (23), his 1969 debut hit Space Oddity (24). An additional eight Bowie tracks further down the chart mean that 13 of the Top 100 songs belong to the Thin White Duke. Here's the full list of his singles chart entries this week:

12	HEROES	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
16	LIFE ON MARS	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
18	STARMAN	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
23	LET'S DANCE	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
24	SPACE ODDITY	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
43	UNDER PRESSURE	QUEEN & DAVID BOWIE	VIRGIN
45	LAZARUS	DAVID BOWIE	RCA
49	CHANGES	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
61	BLACKSTAR	DAVID BOWIE	RCA
62	ASHES TO ASHES	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
65	REBEL REBEL	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
76	ZIGGY STARDUST	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE
97	CHINA GIRL	DAVID BOWIE	PARLOPHONE

Elsewhere, it's good news for Snakehips, whose All My Friends feat. Tinashe and Chance the Rapper rockets 16 places to Number 11.

There's another big climb for Craig David and Big Narstie with When The Bassline Drops. The track zooms 21 spots to Number 15, giving Craig his first Top 20 hit in over 8 years, since Hot Stuff (Let's Dance) in 2007.

It's a 13th Top 40 for Little Mix and a 14th for Jason Derulo – their collaboration Secret Love Song jumps 22 places to break into the Top 40 for the very first time.

Kygo lands his fourth Top 40, with Stay feat Maty Noyes leaping ten places to Number 40 this week.

Check out this week's Official Top 100 Singles Chart in full

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James England

18th January 2016

Yeah, the chart sure is amazing this week. Check out all the new songs this week by new artists! Amazing how many there are.

(sarcasm overload)

The chart it totally stagnant. Might as well just rename it the Justin Bieber fan chart. :P

I dunno why the OCC even bothers doing the chart. Since downloads/streaming were introduced the chart is irrelevant. Streaming is not the same as buying a single and buying a single online is not the same as actually going out to a record store - remember them? - and buying a single.

Seniors

16th January 2016

JB's comeback is insane but he will never win a Grammy because they don’t want him to and their hate for him goes too deep.

All Haters have serious mental health issues. Those most at risk for emotional and physical abuse from haters, other than themselves, are their own immediate families and friends. The world we live in is ugly enough without haters. Get over it! JUST DON'T HATE..

Brad

16th January 2016

Amazing achievement for Justin Bieber! As well congratulations go to Justin's fellow Canadian Shawn Mendes for rocketing to #2 with his single "Stitches", between Justin and Shawn it is a Canadian invasion on the U.K. Official Charts since Justin and Shawn have the 4 highest ranking singles in the top 5!