Chase & Status and Stormzy’s BACKBONE debuts at Number 1: “It couldn't get any better for us”

Chase & Status and Stormzy have debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with their new collaboration BACKBONE. 

The energetic DnB track becomes the first UK chart-topper for influential electronic duo Chase & Status (Saul Milton and Will Kennard) and Stormzy’s fourth Number 1, following Vossi Bop (2019), Take Me Back To London with Ed Sheeran (2019) and Own It with Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy (2020). 

Reacting to the news, Chase & Status told Official Charts: 

“We knew that connecting with Stormzy was going to create something special, but we didn't expect a KO reaction like this. To see him running out at our show at The Milton Keynes Bowl, in his best man’s suit; straight from a wedding and in front of 45,000 people was insane! One of the greatest British MCs to ever do it, spitting over DnB & for it to go straight into Number 1? It couldn't get any better for us.” 

BACKBONE ends the week as the most-streamed track in the country over the last seven days (6.4 million streams). 

Chase & Status and Stormzy pose with their Official Singles Chart Number 1 award for BACKBONE

Billie Eilish’s BIRDS OF A FEATHER returns to its previous peak of Number 2, while last week’s chart-topping collab with Charli xcx, Guess, spends a second week in the Top 5 at Number 4. Further down, WILDFLOWER from Billie continues its ascent reaching its highest position yet, up one to Number 36. 

One of the biggest dance hits of the summer, Bl3ss, CamrinWatsin and bbyclose earn another new peak today, up one place to Number 6 with Kisses.  

Congratulations are in order for JADE, who successfully re-enters the UK Top 10 for a second time (10) with Angel Of My Dreams. It vaults up eight thanks to the release of its S.A.D (sad. angelic. dramatic.) Version, and becomes the first single by a Little Mix alum to spend two weeks inside the Top 10.  

Just outside the Top 10, Adam Port, Stryv and KeineMusik move up five with Move (11), while Chappell Roan’s HOT TO GO sashays three places to a brand-new peak (12). Chappell also sees Red Wine Supernova reach new heights today, up one (31). 

Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D’s Somedays leaps 12 places to land in the Top 20 for the first time (19), while Indian rapper Hanumankind and producer Kalmi are up 14 with Big Dawgs (21).  

Just in time for her 66th birthday, the Queen of Pop Madonna sees one of her biggest hits, Like A Prayer, re-enter the UK Top 40 today for the first time in 35 years, thanks to its inclusion in blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine (27). Like A Prayer was originally released in 1989 and spent three weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. This is its 10th week inside the UK Top 40. 

Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding fly up to a new peak on Free (35), as does Gracie Abrams, securing a third Top 40 single with I love you, I’m sorry (38).  

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