Drake closes in on a chart record as One Dance scores a 15th week at Number 1

Plus, new entries from Katy Perry, 5 Seconds of Summer, M.O. and Snakehips featuring Zayn.
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He may only want One Dance, but Drake shows no signs of vacating the dance floor as he fights off his rivals to claim a 15th straight week at Number 1.

This feat places him level with Wet Wet Wet, who notched up 15 weeks at the top with Love Is All Around in 1994, and gives him only one more week to go until he equals the longest consecutive run at the summit in chart history – the 16 weeks achieved by Bryan Adams in 1991 with (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. See the songs which have spent the longest at Number 1 in chart history

MORE: Bryan Adams reacts to Drake edging closer to his chart record

One Dance, which features Wizkid and Kyla, was also the most streamed track of the week, racking up 4.33 million listens.

MORE: Check out this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Jonas Blue and JP Cooper rise one place to Number 2 with Perfect Strangers, while Don't Let Me Down, from Chainsmokers feat. Daya, slips a spot to 3.

Calum Scott's cover of Robyn's Dancing On My Own holds firm at 4, and Kungs vs Cookin' On 3 Burners' This Girl is also a non-mover at 5.

New entries and high climbers

Shawn Mendes, who scored a Number 1 earlier in the year with Stitches, breaks into the Top 10 with Treat You Better, at 9, while MØ leaps nice places to 19 with Final Song.

Highest new entry this week goes to Katy Perry. Rise, which is set to be used in Olympics' coverage for US TV channel NBC, goes in at 25. 

5 Seconds of Summer also score a brand-new entry, with Girls Talk Boys, taken from the new Ghostbusters movie, starting at 28, and French star Christine and the Queens vaults 11 places to Number 29 with Tilted.

British girl group M.O. score their very first UK Top 40, with Who Do You Think Of leaping 12 places to Number 35, while MK & Becky Hill's Piece Of Me rebounds five slots to 37. Finally, a new entry for Snakehips and former One Direction star Zayn – their collaboration Cruel goes straight in at 38.

MORE: The UK's official Top 40 biggest songs of 2016 so far

Check out this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Remind yourself of every Official Number 1 single of 2016 so far below:

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etin

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I bet he did manipulation

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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When Drake Reigns it Bores

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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15 weeks? Prepare for 15 more... not a bad week in terms of climbers though

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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"while MØ leaps *nice* places to 19"
Think that needs a fix

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Alfred Lock

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If any can outstream Drake and his cult it's Bieber ! So band together all Bieberettes for the sake of our sanity and the No.1 spot and deny him any more history before it's too late.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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Beliebers... When is Company getting released anyway?

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Edward Howard

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Streaming should stop counting in the main charts. Sign if you agree: https://www.change.org/p/official-charts-don-t-let-streaming-count-in-the-main-charts

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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Signed.

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Dawid Kamys

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Please notice that pure sales strongly decreased while streaming became so popular and it isn't a mistake that Drake is keeping his place for so long. But I regret Chainsmokers and Kungs didn't get their no. 1.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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Chainsmokers but I agree with This Girl

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John T

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Can OCC give us the both the sales figures and the streaming figures for the no.1 and no.2 singles please?

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guilherme

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where is britney????? not even top 40!!! such a great song!!!! cant stand drake anymore!!!!

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Dawid Kamys

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Britney songs are sh*t for 10 years. Didn't you notice?

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tomriise

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Drake is not a artist but a virus..

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DodoRabbit

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It's been going on too long and it's not even a good song

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Dustin

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Welp too bad chart's says otherwise :)

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DodoRabbit

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I preferred it when streams and sales were separate.

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Mark Victor

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Complete garbage. Once more Drake cannot even make top10 for sales, but reigns at no1. If he does break record it will make it meaningless, and sorry to keep going on but streaming is making the charts pointless.

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Marcothedonjuan

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C'mon Justin BIEBER!!!! Take Drake out the no. 1 with Major Lazer's Cold Water!!!! I live in the US and I bought JB and will stream it all week. UK fans need to out stream Drake..lol. It's #1 worldwide in sales including the UK. C'mon! JB!!!!

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DodoRabbit

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Justin Bieber is not much better but if he can get rid of drake I'm happy

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Dawid Kamys

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Are you joking? Bieber is even bigger joke than Drake. Drake is talented, Bieber is a primadonna

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DodoRabbit

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I don't think talented is the right word for drake, his music is monotonous and boring. If Bieber can dethrone Drake and juggle up the charts again so we can have a less biased system then I don't care. Personally I'd rather have someone like Emeli Sande return and bring back some quality music to the charts but for now we need some sort of change.

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Mrs. Brooks

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Yeah, we understand, Drake is the king of streamings and a flop in sales. Can he get out of the top already? 15 weeks is WAY TOO MUCH.

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Marcothedonjuan

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It's not a better song than Bryan Adams no matter what happens..lol

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Mrs. Brooks

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Wow! Are you kidding me? In my opinion, it's one of the best songs of all time, it's a classic, man. It spent 7 week at number one in the U.S, 16 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK, won a Grammy and sold around 15M copies world wide. 'One Dance' is NOTHING compared to it.

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A Taste Of International Music

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You might read the comment again!

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Marcothedonjuan

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Thank you Tim. :)

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Mrs. Brooks

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Oh, sorry! My bad.

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GC0020 .

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MO and MØ in the top 40 on the same week. Very confusing

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Ecpg

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The different O

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I.B.

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They need to stick to combined sales and legal downloads. This "streaming" is becoming more of a joke!

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Dustin

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Get over it

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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Drake fanboy

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Adam

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Another week for Drake at the top based on streams alone when he's barely in the T15 (at the time of writing this, this week's charts hadn't updated yet, hence the T15 figure) on pure sales. The charts stay becoming more and more of a joke. I'm aware streaming is the future, but no one will ever be able to convince me that being #1 based on streams alone for this amount of time (9 weeks, I believe, if you discount the weeks he was #1 on pure sales also) with such a big gap in both chart positions and streams vs. pure sales is fair.

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Ashley

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Back up to number 8 in the sales chart...but then again it was reduced to 59p on iTunes during the week. I wouldn't even waste 59p on it!