Ireland's Official Top 40 biggest singles of 2018 so far

Find out which tracks are leading the way as we enter the final stretch of 2018.

As we begin the final quarter of 2018, OfficialCharts.com have revealed the Official Top 40 biggest singles in Ireland so far this year.

Drake is out in front on the year-to-date chart, which combines sales, audio streams and, for the first time, video streams, which have counted toward the Official Irish Chart since July. The Canadian rapper's track God’s Plan chalke up a mammoth ten weeks at Number 1 between February and April.

The song, lead single from Drake's chart-topping album Scorpion so far has a combined sales' tally of just over 90,000, including 9.02 million streams – the most streamed track in the YTD Top 40. Drake’s follow-up, the Lauryn Hill-sampling Nice For What, is at 10 in the Top 40 after peaking at Number 2 in May, and most recent hit In My Feelings is at 31.

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Landing in second place is Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa's huge hit of the early summer, One Kiss, which logged nine weeks at the top over two separate stints between April and June. Dua also has another Number 1 in the YTD Top 5 – IDGAF, which hit the top for a week in January, is at 5, on 75,700 – and farther down, her first chart-topper New Rules is 21st.

Image: Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa in the One Kiss video

Rudimental’s These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen (86k combined sales) is in third. The track spent seven non-consecutive weeks at Number 2 this year, denied Number 2 glory by God’s Plan.

George Ezra's Shotgun was the big song of the summer, racking up a nine-week stint at the top across June, July, and August, and is fourth biggest tune of the year so far overall, with combined sales of 84k. Shotgun is also the most downloaded song of the year, and is the most streamed on video – 3.98 million views since we started counting in July. Four slots down, George makes another appearance – Paradise is on 69k, in eighth place for the year so far.

Marshmello & Anne-Marie’s Number 3-peaking collaboration Friends places sixth (72k), ahead of Anne-Marie’s 2002, which reached Number 2, and is on 70,000 combined sales

Ed Sheeran makes three appearances: Perfect (9), his guest appearance on Eminem's River (24), and Shape of You (32).

Finally, US rapper Post Malone lands three entries in the YTD Top 40; the highest is the chart-topping Rockstar ft. 21 Savage at 16, followed by Psycho ft. Ty Dolla $ign at 17 and Better Now at 22.

Ireland's Official Top 40 biggest singles of 2018 so far

POS	TITLE	ARTIST	PEAK
1	GOD'S PLAN	DRAKE	1
2	ONE KISS	CALVIN HARRIS & DUA LIPA	1
3	THESE DAYS	RUDIMENTAL/JESS GLYNNE/MACKLEMORE	2
4	SHOTGUN	GEORGE EZRA	1
5	IDGAF	DUA LIPA	1
6	FRIENDS	MARSHMELLO & ANNE-MARIE	3
7	2002	ANNE-MARIE	2
8	PARADISE	GEORGE EZRA	5
9	PERFECT	ED SHEERAN	1
10	NICE FOR WHAT	DRAKE	2
11	NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY	ARIANA GRANDE	1
12	SOLO	CLEAN BANDIT FT DEMI LOVATO	1
13	THE MIDDLE	ZEDD/MAREN MORRIS/GREY	7
14	ALL THE STARS	KENDRICK LAMAR & SZA	4
15	LULLABY	SIGALA & PALOMA FAITH	8
16	ROCKSTAR	POST MALONE FT 21 SAVAGE	2
17	PSYCHO	POST MALONE FT TY DOLLA SIGN	2
18	HAVANA	CAMILA CABELLO FT YOUNG THUG	1
19	BREATHE	JAX JONES FT INA WROLDSEN	4
20	YOUNGBLOOD	5 SECONDS OF SUMMER	4
21	NEW RULES	DUA LIPA	1
22	BETTER NOW	POST MALONE	4
23	THIS IS ME	KEALA SETTLE/GREATEST SHOWMAN ENS	11
24	RIVER	EMINEM FT ED SHEERAN	2
25	LOVE LIES	KHALID & NORMANI	8
26	FEEL IT STILL	PORTUGAL THE MAN	10
27	NEVERMIND	DENNIS LLOYD	13
28	I LIKE IT	CARDI B/BAD BUNNY/J BALVIN	10
29	FREAKY FRIDAY	LIL DICKY FT CHRIS BROWN	3
30	RISE	JONAS BLUE FT JACK & JACK	3
31	I MISS YOU	CLEAN BANDIT FT JULIA MICHAELS	3
32	SHAPE OF YOU	ED SHEERAN	1
33	GIRLS LIKE YOU	MAROON 5 FT CARDI B	5
34	17	MK	9
35	NEVER BE THE SAME	CAMILA CABELLO	6
36	IN MY FEELINGS	DRAKE	2
37	BODY	LOUD LUXURY FT BRANDO	4
38	STRANGERS	SIGRID	7
39	FINESSE	BRUNO MARS & CARDI B	5
40	ANSWERPHONE	BANX & RANX/ELLA EYRE/BANE	10

Looking at Irish-specific acts, folk-rock quartet Kodaline have the year's biggest track to date with Follow Your Fire, lead single from third album Politics Of Living. Read our interview with the band about the record here.

The Cranberries feature three times in the Top 10 of 2018 so far. Following the death of singer Dolores O'Riordan, the band's music flooded back into the Irish singles chart; early '90s hits Zombie, Linger and Dreams were the most popular.

Pop-rock duo Picture This are also making a big impact this year, after their self-titled debut album stormed to Number 1 in 2017. Four of the band's songs feature in the Irish-only Top 10, led by This Morning, which peaked at Number 6.

Ireland's Official Top 10 biggest singles by Irish acts

	TITLE	ARTIST
1	FOLLOW YOUR FIRE	KODALINE
2	ZOMBIE	CRANBERRIES
3	THIS MORNING	PICTURE THIS
4	TAKE MY HAND	PICTURE THIS
5	LINGER	CRANBERRIES
6	ADDICTED TO YOU	PICTURE THIS
7	SLOW HANDS	NIALL HORAN
8	NEVER CHANGE	PICTURE THIS
9	TOO MUCH TO ASK	NIALL HORAN
10	DREAMS	CRANBERRIES