Can Oliver Heldens and Becky Hill topple Ella Henderson?

It's the X Factor vs. The Voice as Ella Henderson goes head-to-head with Oliver Heldens and Becky Hill in this week's Number 1 race.

The race for this week’s Number 1 is officially on as Oliver Heldens and Becky Hill pull into poleposition on today’s Official Singles Chart Update.

19 year-old Dutch house producer, Oliver Heldens, has teamed up with The Voice 2012 semi-finalist, Becky Hill, for dance anthem Gecko (Overdrive), which is currently on track to debut at Number 1 on Sunday with a lead of nearly 12,000 copies at this midway stage.

While Oliver Heldens is a relative newcomer to the UK charts, Becky Hill has previously worked with chart favourites Rudimental, as well featuring on Wilkinson’s Top 10 hit, Afterglow.

However, Gecko (Overdrive) faces stiff competition from current chart-topper, Ella Henderson’s Ghost (Number 2 today) which reclaimed the top spot in the eleventh hour last week by a margin of just 3,000 copies, after an intense chart battle with 5 Seconds Of Summer.

Ed Sheeran’s Sing holds firm at Number 3 on today’s Update, followed by new entries; Example’s One More Day (Stay With Me) (4) and Usher’s Good Kisser (5), set to give both artists their highest charting singles in two years.

New Entries

Further to Oliver Heldens and Becky Hill’s Gecko (Overdrive) (Number 1), Example’s One More Day (Stay With Me) (4) and Usher’s Good Kisser (5), there are five more new entries on today’s Official Singles Chart Update Top 40.

American pop singer/songwriter, Austin Mahone’s Mmm Yeah FT Pitbull enters the chart at Number 25, while Dimitri Vegas, Martin Garrix and Like Mike’s Tremor is at 27.

Following the release of his new album, X, Ed Sheeran has a total of five tracks in today’s Update, with three new entries, Thinking Out Loud (20), Don’t (31) and Photograph (34), joining Sing (3) and One (21).

The Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 is as follows. The Official Singles Chart Top 100 will be posted in full, here, on Sunday at 7pm.

1	GECKO (OVERDRIVE)	OLIVER HELDENS & BECKY HILL
2	GHOST	ELLA HENDERSON
3	SING	ED SHEERAN
4	ONE MORE DAY (STAY WITH ME)	EXAMPLE
5	GOOD KISSER	USHER
6	STAY WITH ME	SAM SMITH
7	BUDAPEST	GEORGE EZRA
8	WIGGLE	JASON DERULO FT SNOOP DOGG
9	WAVES	MR PROBZ
10	DON'T STOP	5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
11	WASTED	TIESTO FT MATTHEW KOMA
12	ALL OF ME	JOHN LEGEND
13	HERE FOR YOU	GORGON CITY FT LAURA WELSH
14	DANGEROUS LOVE	FUSE ODG FT SEAN PAUL
15	SUMMER	CALVIN HARRIS
16	A SKY FULL OF STARS	COLDPLAY
17	HAPPY	PHARRELL WILLIAMS
18	I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN	RITA ORA
19	ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS	PALOMA FAITH
20	THINKING OUT LOUD	ED SHEERAN
21	ONE	ED SHEERAN
22	I WANNA FEEL	SECONDCITY
23	JUBEL	KLINGANDE
24	SALUTE	LITTLE MIX
25	MMM YEAH	AUSTIN MAHONE & PITBULL
26	LET IT GO	IDINA MENZEL
27	TREMOR	DIMITRI VEGAS/MARTIN GARRIX
28	FANCY	IGGY AZALEA FT CHARLI XCX
29	HIDEAWAY	KIESZA
30	LOYAL	CHRIS BROWN/LIL WAYNE/TYGA
31	DON'T	ED SHEERAN
32	LOVE NEVER FELT SO GOOD	MICHAEL JACKSON
33	NEON LIGHTS	DEMI LOVATO
34	PHOTOGRAPH	ED SHEERAN
35	NOBODY TO LOVE	SIGMA
36	RATHER BE	CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE
37	CLARITY	ZEDD FT FOXES
38	EEZ-EH	KASABIAN
39	SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT	5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
40	I GOT U	DUKE DUMONT FT JAX JONES