Are The Saturdays finally on course for their first ever Number 1 sing

The Saturdays look set to score their first ever Official Number 1 single this weekend with What About Us? FT Sean Paul.

Always the bridesmaids, never the bride(s), could The Saturdays finally be heading for their first ever Official Number 1 single this weekend?

Since making their chart debut nearly five years ago, UK girl group The Saturdays have sold 3.6 million records, and clocked up no less than 11 Top 10 singles and three Top 40 albums. Despite almost reaching the summit with 2009 singles Just Can’t Get Enough and Forever Is Over, both of which peaked at Number 2, The Saturdays have never landed the coveted Number 1 slot. However, this could all change on Sunday as their new dancehall-infused track What About Us? FT Sean Paul leads a clear charge on the Official Chart Update.

Mollie, Frankie, Vanessa, Rochelle and Una nowlook set to end Justin Timberlake‘s three week run at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with What About Us? currently outselling JT’s Mirrors (Number 2) by more than two copies to one at this halfway stage.

“We’d really love to get that Number 1,” Mollie King tells OfficialCharts.com. “But we’ve been really lucky to have had 11 Top 10 singles, to have gone on three tours and have travelled all over the world.”

What About Us? is taken from the group’s upcoming fourth album, out later this year. The Saturdays have been busy in recent months filming a new E! series Chasing The Saturdays, following the band around Los Angeles as they set out to crack America.

Official Charts - The Saturdays - What About Us interview on MUZU.TV.

The remainder of the Official Singles Chart Update Top 5 stays static with P!nk’s Just Give Me A Reason FT Fun.’s Nate Ruess’ at Number 3, Bruno Mars’ When I Was Your Man (4) and Bastille’s Pompeii (5).

New Entries

Dublin-based rockers Kodaline look set to score this week’s second highest new entry, and their first UK Top 40 hit, on Sunday with High Hopes (13).

British DJ and producer Jakwob, who has previously worked with Ellie Goulding, Jessie J and Lily Allen, is new in at 31 with Fade FT Maiday, while 2010 Britain’s Got Talent finalists ReConnected are on course for their first Top 40 single this weekend thanks to a little help from Dragon’s Den star Duncan Bannatyne; the boyband’s new single One In A Million, which was released on Bannatyne’s RKA label, is at Number 32 today.

30 Seconds To Mars complete today’s new entries with new single Up In The Air debuting at Number 35 after just 24 hours on sale.

And finally, Paramore’s new single, Still Into You, climbs a massive 45 places to enter the Official Singles Chart Top 40 at Number 37. It’s the US band’s second Top 40 hit from their upcoming self-titled album which is out next month.

The Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1	WHAT ABOUT US	THE SATURDAYS FT SEAN PAUL
2	MIRRORS	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
3	JUST GIVE ME A REASON	P!NK FT NATE RUESS
4	WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN	BRUNO MARS
5	POMPEII	BASTILLE
6	ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (TEENAGE KICKS)	ONE DIRECTION
7	THRIFT SHOP	MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS FT WANZ
8	READY OR NOT	BRIDGIT MENDLER
9	WHITE NOISE	DISCLOSURE FT ALUNAGEORGE
10	I COULD BE THE ONE	AVICII VS NICKY ROMERO
11	BOOMERANG	NICOLE SCHERZINGER
12	22	TAYLOR SWIFT
13	HIGH HOPES	KODALINE
14	SUIT & TIE	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FT JAY Z
15	HEY PORSCHE	NELLY
16	HO HEY	THE LUMINEERS
17	I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE	TAYLOR SWIFT
18	ARMY OF TWO	OLLY MURS
19	HARLEM SHAKE	BAAUER
20	CLOWN	EMELI SANDE
21	CHOCOLATE	1975
22	STAY	RIHANNA FT MIKKY EKKO
23	IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW	THE SCRIPT
24	A THOUSAND YEARS	CHRISTINA PERRI
25	RELOAD	WILEY FT CHIP
26	EXPLOSIONS	ELLIE GOULDING
27	RADIOACTIVE	IMAGINE DRAGONS
28	SCREAM & SHOUT	WILL.I.AM FT BRITNEY SPEARS
29	MY SONGS KNOW WHAT YOU DID IN THE DARK	FALL OUT BOY
30	LOCKED OUT OF HEAVEN	BRUNO MARS
31	FADE	JAKWOB FT MAIDAY
32	ONE IN A MILLION	RECONNECTED
33	DRINKING FROM THE BOTTLE	CALVIN HARRIS FT TINIE TEMPAH
34	LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS	K KOKE FT RITA ORA
35	UP IN THE AIR	30 SECONDS TO MARS
36	STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM	DRAKE
37	STILL INTO YOU	PARAMORE
38	INDIAN SUMMER	STEREOPHONICS
39	SKYFALL	ADELE
40	DON'T YOU WORRY CHILD	SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA FT JOHN MARTIN