Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do set to topple Uptown Funk

Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do leads the race for this week’s Number 1.
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Love Me Like You Do, which counts Max Martin (Britney Spears, Celine Dion), Savan Kotecha (Christina Aguilera , One Direction) and Ilya Salmanzadeh (Ariana Grande, Jessie J) among its writers, is lifted from the Fifty Shades Of Grey soundtrack and is Ellie’s first solo release since Beating Heart last summer.

The track has a combined chart sales figure over 77,000 at this midweek stage, taking the strongest lead of any single yet over reigning chart-topping juggernaut, Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk FT Bruno Mars by nearly 50,000 copies.

Down one place to 3 today is Hozier’s Take Me To Church, followed by DJ/producer Mike Mago and Canadian synthpop group Dragonette with new entry Outlines at 4.

Rounding out today’s Top 5 is Meghan Trainor with Lips Are Movin (5).

New Entries

Irish rock band Kodaline are new at 34 with Honest. The track is the quartet’s first single from upcoming second studio album Coming Up For Air, which is set for UK release on Monday (February 9).

Elsewhere, following the cancellation of their US tour dates due to frontman Chester Bennington’s leg injury, Linkin Park’s 2004 collaboration with Jay-Z Numb/Encore re-enters the Top 40 at 33 today. The track previously peaked at Number 14 in 2004.

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 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO ELLIE GOULDING
2 UPTOWN FUNK MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS
3 TAKE ME TO CHURCH HOZIER
4 OUTLINES MIKE MAGO & DRAGONETTE
5 LIPS ARE MOVIN MEGHAN TRAINOR
6 FOURFIVE SECONDS RIHANNA/KANYE WEST/MCCARTNEY
7 WISH YOU WERE MINE PHILIP GEORGE
8 THE NIGHTS AVICII
9 L.A.LOVE (LA LA) FERGIE
10 THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN
11 ELASTIC HEART SIA
12 SAY SOMETHING KAREN HARDING
13 UP OLLY MURS FT DEMI LOVATO
14 HEROES (WE COULD BE) ALESSO FT TOVE LO
15 SUGAR MAROON 5
16 HOLD BACK THE RIVER JAMES BAY
17 BLANK SPACE TAYLOR SWIFT
18 LIKE I CAN SAM SMITH
19 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS MEGHAN TRAINOR
20 COOL KIDS ECHOSMITH
21 OUTSIDE CALVIN HARRIS/ELLIE GOULDING
22 REAL LOVE CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE
23 SOMETHING I NEED BEN HAENOW
24 CHANDELIER SIA
25 EARNED IT WEEKND
26 BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA
27 I LOVED YOU BLONDE FT MELISSA STEEL
28 DANGEROUS DAVID GUETTA FT SAM MARTIN
29 RHYMES HANNAH WANTS & CHRIS LORENZO
30 ALL OF ME JOHN LEGEND
31 PROMESSES TCHAMI FT KALEEM TAYLOR
32 I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE SAM SMITH
33 NUMB/ENCORE JAY-Z & LINKIN PARK
34 HONEST KODALINE
35 BANG BANG JESSIE J/GRANDE/MINAJ
36 NIGHT CHANGES ONE DIRECTION
37 SHAKE IT OFF TAYLOR SWIFT
38 STAY WITH ME SAM SMITH
39 WRAPPED UP OLLY MURS FT TRAVIE MCCOY
40 BLAME IT ON ME GEORGE EZRA

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