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Ed Sheeran's Perfect becomes his fourth Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart
Plus lots of Christmas songs surge up the Top 40, and there are big climbers and new entries from Pink and Louis Tomlinson.
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Ed Sheeran claims the Number 1 spot on the Official Singles Chart this week as his latest single, Perfect, climbs to the top, propelled by a new version featuring Beyonce.
Perfect originally entered the chart at Number 4 in March this year, when Ed released his ÷ album. After being announced as the record’s fourth single in October, the track has steadily climbed back up the Top 40 for the past 11 weeks.
A new mix of the song featuring Beyonce sees it jump from Number 3 to Number 1 this week, shifting 89,000 downloads and streaming equivalent sales over the last seven days.
"It feels like things have come full circle," he told Radio 1, referring to having topped the Official Chart with Shape Of You at the start of 2017.
On whether he hopes to land this year's Official Christmas Number 1, he admitted: "I'd be lying if I said no... I think Mariah Carey's streaming might help her. This is my Christmas song without having a Christmas song."
Perfect earns Ed his fourth Number 1 single, following Sing and Thinking Out Loud in 2014 and Shape Of You earlier this year. View Ed's complete Official Chart history.
Meanwhile, this year’s X Factor champions Rak-Su are new at Number 2 with their winner’s single, Dimelo ft. Wyclef Jean and Naughty Boy. The quartet, comprising of Ashley, Jamaal, Myles and Mustafa, performed their self-penned track during this year’s series.
The chart position is one better than the last year’s winner Matt Terry, who peaked at 3 with When Christmas Comes Around.
New entries and high climbers
Several Christmas songs surge up the Top 40 this week, led by Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, which zooms from 22 to 5, followed by Wham’s Last Christmas, up from 29 to Number 6. The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York ft. Kirsty MacColl zooms 55 to 10, returning to the Top 10 for the first time in nine years.
Further down, the original Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? vaults from 85 to 16, Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone shifts from 87 to 21, and Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day jumps from 98 to 24.
MORE: The Official Christmas Number 1 2017 contenders
Further down, Pink’s latest single Beautiful Trauma leaps 35 places to Number 29, her 31st UK Top 40 single, and Louis Tomlinson’s new single Miss You bows at Number 39.
View this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full
Look back at every Number 1 single on the Official Chart this year below:
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luca
Boring as usual
I Am A Stegosaurus
So glad that this is #1 but I hope people don't get hard ons for the Beyonce version and pretend the other never existed
Tina Cohen-Chang
Why the isnt beyonce credited for the number one? Without her it wouldn’t have gone number one.
This is ridiculous, you guys credited Justin Bieber when Despacito hit number one bit you won’t credit beyonce?
Don’t add the sales/streams from Beyoncé’s version if you’re not even going to credit her that’s so unfair. How come you credit Justin and not Beyonce? AN absolute joke. She deserves it.
PA
Pablo Asenjo
Girl I am with you 100%, in my contry Spain she has been credited, the same thing happened in the US but they changed 3 days agos and now she is credited. In the BBC charts she is credited, this year the UK didnt credited her in the Mi gente sales too
etin
there isnt cliff richard this year again.. :(((( is mistletoe & wine somewhere between 101-200 ?
east 17 s.a.d #90 in saleschart
my other favourites: chrisdeburg's spaceman & gloria estefan's love on layaway didnt chart
Steven Pickup
Now I LIKE Wham! being in the top 10 again. That is the REAL news, Sheeran who?
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luca
Sheeran the most boring man in the whole world
Piran
I love the Beyoncé duet of 'Perfect' so much more than the original, but I'm still pleased that Ed's solo version is #1 this week! :)
'Havana' had a very successful run at the top & that's such a good sign for Camila's debut album being released on the 12th of next month!
I like every single Christmas song in the chart this week & the new entries for 'Beautiful Trauma' & 'Miss You'.
Mark Sannin
but Beyoncé was not credited
Piran
Oh sorry, what I meant to say was, it would be amazing if the Beyoncé duet was #1, but I think it's still good that the original got to the top.
Calum Pk7
it wasn't really just eds version at #1, it was kinda both but more the remix this week :)
Pa
What do you think , is there still any chance for Rita Ora to be number 1 ?
PA
Pablo Asenjo
I think you dont understand, the original perfect is not the number 1 song in the UK jajajja, both are, but for some reasons they didnt credited Beyoncé, on the contrary in the BBC radio charts she is credited like in the US or some other countries, so if it wasnt for the Perfect duet Ed wouldnt have achieved the number one
Piran
What's weird is that, yes, both versions being combined is the reason that 'Perfect' is #1 this week, but OCC are not recognising the Beyoncé remix even though that contributes to most of the song's performance.
I find it strange that, while she is credited on the official charts for other countries on 'Mi Gente' & 'Perfect', she isn't in the UK on either.
Piran
Sorry, but I think 'Perfect' Is too far ahead for 'Anywhere' to hit #1 now. :(
I Am A Stegosaurus
They're not considered the same version?