Aitch's Official Top 10 biggest tracks in the UK revealed
As debut album Close To Home looks towards chart success, we count down Harrison Armstrong's biggest songs in the UK.
Aitch has only been releasing music since 2017, but in that time Manchester native Harrison Armstrong (you know... H... Aitch...) has become a reliable hitmaking presence in the UK.
Since his first entrance into the chart in 2019, Aitch has notched up 14 Top 40 singles (including an impressive seven Top 10s) plus two Top 10 EPs on the Official Albums Chart.
And he continues this hot streak with his debut album Close To Home - which is currently in the middle of a chart race with Steps and Madonna to claim the UK's Number 1 album.
As a result we thought it was high time that we reveal Aitch's biggest tracks in the UK to date - totalling up both digital downloads and streaming figures.
The Top 10 perhaps unsurprisingly features six Top 10 hits; only ArrDee collaboration War misses out, landing just outside at Number 12.
MORE: Aitch's Official Charts history in full
The chart is also chock-full of collaborations including his second link-up with regular collaborator ZieZie, French Kisses (10) and fellow Manchester local Bugzy Malone on Kilos (8).
Now, let's break down the Top 5:
5. Baby (with Ashanti)
Released: 2022
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 2
UK chart units: 625,000
Aitch's most recent Top 10 hit helped launch his debut album Close To Home, and lit up the radio and streaming thanks to its joyful sample of Ashanti's Rock Wit U. Despite being the newest song of the lot, it already has massive statistics behind it - with 625,000 chart units and over 77 million streams.
4. Buss Down (ft. ZieZie)
Released: 2019
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 8
UK chart units: 658,000
Buss Down is what Aitch refers to as one of the "sickest" tracks on his debut EP, AitcH2O. His first collaboration with British afroswing star ZieZie, it became Aitch's third (and ZieZie's first) UK Top 10 hit. It has clocked up 91 million streams, and is Aitch's fourth most-popular track overall with combined chart sales of 658,000.
3. Rain (with AJ Tracey)
Released: 2020
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 3
UK chart units: 923,000
A massive hit for both Aitch and AJ Tracey, Rain climbed all the way to Number 3 on the Official Singles Chart in 2020. The track is also Aitch's third most-streamed song in the UK, with combined streams in excess of 127 million.
2. Taste (Make It Shake)
Released: 2019
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 2
UK chart units: 1.06 million
Taste (Make It Shake) is Aitch's most-streamed track in the UK to date with audio and video streams of 146 million. It's his most-streamed video too, with the clip notching up over 27 million views. Taste is also Aitch's highest-peaking track on the Official Singles Chart so far along with Baby, reaching Number 2.
1. Strike A Pose (with Young T and Bugsey)
Released: 2019
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 9
UK chart units: 1.1 million
Aitch's most popular track in the UK has chart sales totalling 1.1 million. It's also his most digitally downloaded track with 30,000 sales. A team-up with Young T and Bugsey, Strike A Pose may have only reached Number 9 on the Official Singles Chart, but it's proved increasingly popular since first dropping in 2019.
Aitch's Official Top 10 biggest singles in the UK
POS | TITLE | ARTIST | PEAK | YEAR |
1 | STRIKE A POSE | YOUNG T & BUGSEY FT AITCH | 9 | 2019 |
2 | TASTE (MAKE IT SHAKE) | AITCH | 2 | 2019 |
3 | RAIN | AITCH/AJ TRACEY/TAY KEITH | 3 | 2020 |
4 | BUSS DOWN | AITCH FT ZIEZIE | 8 | 2019 |
5 | BABY | AITCH/ASHANTI | 2 | 2022 |
6 | UFO | D-BLOCK EUROPE FT AITCH | 11 | 2020 |
7 | EI8HT MILE | DIGDAT FT AITCH | 9 | 2020 |
8 | KILOS | BUGZY MALONE FT AITCH | 20 | 2019 |
9 | DAILY DUPPY | AITCH | 99 | 2018 |
10 | FRENCH KISSES | ZIEZIE FT AITCH | 35 | 2019 |
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