Bastille set new Official Streaming Chart Record!

Spending its sixth week at the summit, Pompeii by Bastille overtakes Maroon 5’s Payphone to become the Official Streaming Chart’s longest running Number 1.
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Spending its sixth week at the summit, Pompeii by Bastille overtakes Maroon 5’s Payphone to become the Official Streaming Chart’s longest running Number 1.

It’s been seven weeks since it first made its Official Streaming Chart debut, but today Pompeii by London indie rockers Bastille has set a new Chart record!

Pompeii has clocked up a staggering six weeks at Number 1 on the Official Streaming Chart, overtaking Maroon 5’s 2012 single, Payphone, to become the Official Streaming Chart’s longest running chart topper.

Launched in May of last year, the Official Streaming Chart is the first chart which ranks audio streams from both ad-funded and subscription streaming services in the UK, to reflect the growing interest in this new generation of music services.

Pompeii entered the Official Streaming Chart at Number 8 on March 4 of this year, before climbing to the top spot a week later, ending Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ four week run at Number 1 with Thrift Shop.

This week’s Official Streaming Chart Top 5 is completed by Justin Timberlake’s Mirrors (Number 2), P!nk FT Nate RuessJust Give Me A Reason (3), Macklemore and Ryan LewisThrift Shop (4) and The Saturdays and Sean Paul’s What About Us? (5).

New Entries

There are six new entries on this week’s Official Streaming Chart Top 100 and three re-entries.

Imagine Dragons see three tracks from their recently released debut album, Night Visions, enter the Chart; On Top Of The World is new in at 58, followed by Demons (76) and Tiptoe (86). Paramore’s Still Into You and Now debut at Number 83 and Number 93, respectively, and AlunaGeorge’s Attracting Flies enters at 92.

Ed Sheeran’s Drunk is this week’s highest new entry at Number 91, while Train’s Drive By (94) and Emeli Sande’s Next To Me (98) are also back in the Top 100.

See the Official Streaming Chart Top 100 in full, here.

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