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Sam Smith scores Official Charts Number 1 double
Lay Me Down and In The Lonely Hour top the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart.
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Sam Smith has overtaken midweek leaders Flo Rida and Madonna to score Number 1 on both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart.
Sam’s collaboration with John Legend, Lay Me Down, debuts at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with a combined chart sales figure of over 105,000.
The Comic Relief track becomes Sam’s fourth Number 1 in less than two years following La La La with Naughty Boy, Money On My Mind and Stay With Me, and marks John Legend’s first UK chart-topper. Proceeds from the track have contributed towards the £78,082,988 raised by Comic Relief so far this year.
While Lay Me Down is the most physically purchased and most downloaded track of the week, Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney’s FourFiveSeconds takes the title of the most streamed, racking up 2.12m listens over the last seven days.
11 other tracks have been streamed over 1 million times in the last week; Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do (1.99m), Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk FT Bruno Mars (1.69m), Hozier’s Take Me To Church (1.67m), Years & Years’ King (1.64m), The Weeknd’s Earned It (1.50m), Maroon 5’s Sugar (1.44m), James Bay’s Hold Back The River (1.34m) Chris Brown & Tyga’s Ayo (1.29m), Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud (1.27m), Sia’s Elastic Heart (1.08m) and Avicii’s The Nights (1.02m).
Over on the Official Albums Chart, Sam’s debut LP In The Lonely Hour returns to top spot for an eighth week, making it the first album by a male solo artist to achieve six different spells at Number 1 in Official Chart history. Only three other artist albums have ever beaten the tally; Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water (8), Adele’s 21 (7) and Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events (7).
Click here to see In The Lonely Hour's full week-by-week Official Chart history
In The Lonely Hour - which was streamed more than 3600 times this week - finishes over 12,000 chart sales ahead of midweek leader Madonna, who scores this week’s highest new entry with Rebel Heart (2).
Official Singles Chart new entries
Flo Rida’s GDFR FT Sage The Gemini and Lookas lands at Number 3 today, scoring the rapper his 13th Top 10 single, while collaboration with Juicy J, I Don’t Mind (8) earns Usher his 19th.
Mumford & Sons are at 20 with Believe - the lead single from the band’s newly-announced third studio album Wilder Mind. Elsewhere, Calvin Harris’ Pray To God FT Haim makes its Top 40 debut at 35.
Finally, Clean Bandit’s Rather Be FT Jess Glynne (39) and John Legend’s All Of Me (40) climb six and three places respectively to re-enter the Top 40 today.
Click here to see the full Official Singles Chart Top 100 from 7pm
Official Albums Chart new entries and high climbers
Former X Factor contestant Rebecca Ferguson scores a third UK Top 10 album today with Billie Holiday covers record Lady Sings The Blues (7), while Blue score their sixth Top 20 with Colours (13).
Bryan Ferry’s Avonmore re-enters the Top 40 at 28, trailed by Clean Bandit’s New Eyes, back in at 30. This week’s highest climber, George Benson’s The Ultimate Collection ascends 17 places to 37, while Spandau Ballet’s The Story – The Very Best Of is up four places to 40.
Other high climbers include Madonna’s Celebration, up 11 places to 27, and Ella Henderson’s Chapter One, up 10 places to 12.
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Vadge Sinclair
Madonna with all the publicity and on top of it a March release couldn't even pull off number 1. The album will be entirely out of the top 50 in less than 5 weeks. She has no talent, and she's toast! Radio 1 doesn't even play her anymore.
HAHAHAHA
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Hans
The charts are dead for years.
Back in the 70's and 80's everybody did know the artists that were in the charts.
Like ABBA,MADONNA,BONEY M,ROLLING STONES,etc etc.
Now when you ask anyone they all say:
I didn't know there is still a chart.
And there are too many artist in that hardly nobody knows.
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allo
At least, she will hit the top spot in the world album chart this week :-)
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Anonymous
50 shades will sorry to disappoint.
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allo
50 Shades sold 150K copies in the world in the last chart so I hope Madonna will sell more than 150K worldwide in the next chart otherwise that would be worrying...;-)
Mickey La Rosa
Gutted Madge is not Number One, when she clearly deserved it! Rebel Heart is terrific and is currently the best pop album out there. It should have been released the week after Comic Relief... Just hope it surges to the top spot next week
de Sascha
Same... hope she does!
de Sascha
I'm shocked! Madonna not at #1? Well, maybe next week if she can pull of a stunt?
I wonder how she fares in the U.S. ? In race with the "Empire" soundtrack.
This really is a surprise!
MusicStan_1997
Gutted Madonna didn't go to number 1, Rebel Heart is her best album since Confessions so I can't complain. I think Sam Smith has a great voice but he is so overrated in my opinion, I like one of his songs though
I L'of Dataz
I freaking love Pray to God. I hope it's a huge hit!
I L'of Dataz
Wow no number 2 in the UK behind an album that has been out forever. Yikes!
JF
Josh Flynn
It's a shame that she missed out because of bad timing; Smith's sales surged due to Comic Relief and Mother's Day, which benefitted him greatly and ultimately cost Rebel Heart the top spot, which it would have achieved in any other week.
Ed Sheeran's x should have topped the two million sales mark this week.
tarotworldtour.wordpress.com
Wow, for Madonna not to hit #1 in the UK debut is surely a blow to her unthinkable even three years ago. Maybe she is not permitted to include ticket sales like in the US. - ' tarotworkdtour.wordpress.com '
Vadge Sinclair
Its a scam to include ticket sales.
RT
Richard Thomas
It's because of this streaming nonsense she's not no 1! Just wish Sam smith would go away - I'm so utterly sick of his songs. He's like the male Emeli Sande - overrated and overexposed. All his songs just stick around like a bad smell that won't go away - mind you thats the problem affecting the charts in general. Loads of old songs that just keep lingering on and on and on. Bad times 😞
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allo
Apparently, his exposure to the Red Nose Day show on the BBC gave a big surge to his album sales...#gutted.com
Mickey La Rosa
Absolutely right! This is just a recycled song for Sam Smith... Bad timing. Madge deserved the top spot :-(
de Sascha
Maybe Madonna's exposure at the Jonathan Ross Show will give her a push for #1 next xend but I doubt it.... Pitty
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allo
I hope so. She so deserves it. I think this album has been released during the wrong week...especially that most fans had to fork out £100 and £100 for the concert tickets.
simon_g42
The report says that Sam Smith's album was 12,000 ahead with streaming amounting to 3,600 "sales". Therefore, he would still have been number one without streaming.
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allo
I actually can't believe Madonna did not make it to n1!