Charli xcx challenges for Number 1 with sympathy is a knife - thanks to Ariana Grande remix

Plus possible new Top 10 entries from Gracie Abrams, KSI ft. Trippie Redd and Teddy Swims.

Charli xcx is currently battling Sabrina Carpenter for this week’s Number 1 single – Sympathy is a knife (2) is little over 1,000 chart units from unseating Taste (1) from the top of the Official Singles Chart.

Following the release of Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, Charli’s 365 could make its chart debut (11) following its remix featuring Shygirl finally being released.

Sabrina could also claim a fourth Top 10 hit from Short n’ Sweet with the flirty Bed Chem due to debut at Number 10 mid-week.

Gracie Abrams is predicted to gain her first Top 10 single this Friday with i love you, i’m sorry (3) expected to vault eight places week-on-week.

Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D’s Somedays could break into the Top 5 for the first time (5).

KSI and Trippie Redd’s Thick Of It is up for a Top 10 breakthrough on Friday (8), as is Teddy Swims’s long-gestating hit The Door (9).

Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club is due to sachet to a new peak (11), as is Billie Eilish’s featherlight BIRDS OF A FEATHER (13).

Finally, BLACKPINK member JENNIE’s latest solo single MANTRA could be her first to enter the UK Top 20 (18).