LadBaby's We Built This City is Number 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart

The Christmas Number 1 contenders lands straight at the top of the latest Official Trending Chart.

YouTube sensation LadBaby leads this week's Official Trending Chart as his track We Built This City is firmly in the race for 2018's Official Christmas Number 1.

LadBaby, aka 'dad blogger' Mark Hoyle, has recorded his own version of Starship's 1985 hit as an ode to sausage rolls - rather than rock and roll.

We Built This City is locked in a close battle for the festive top spot with Ava Max and Ariana Grande, currently at Number 2 in the latest chart update. Proceeds from sales of the song go to food bank charity The Trussell Trust.

Celebrating his midweek chart position, LadBaby told OfficialCharts.com: "Yes maaaaate! Who would have thought it? A sausage roll song being sung by a Nottingham lad would be sitting at Number 2 in the Official midweek Singles Chart?! What a fantastic achievement and great START… but let’s not stop there!!

"Let’s pinch that Number 1 spot from the global mega stars, eat our own body weight in sausage rolls AND most importantly raise even more money to support the amazing UK food banks charity Trussell Trust this Christmas!

UK…I BELIEVE IN YOU, WE CAN DO THIS!!!! #LadBabyForNumberOne".

More songs in the running for the festive crown feature in this week's trending Top 20: Ariana Grande's brand new track imagine, Light Up by Flakefleet Primary School, recorded in support of The Alzheimers Society, and a cover of Do They Know It's Christmas by a group of fire service people called The Fire Tones. Read more on this year's Christmas Number 1 contenders here.

The Official Trending Chart Top 20

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1		WE BUILT THIS CITY	LADBABY	NE	2	0
2		IMAGINE	ARIANA GRANDE	NE	4	0
3		LIGHT UP	FLAKEFLEET PRIMARY SCHOOL	NE	15	0
4		A MILLION DREAMS	PINK	27	27	0	11
5		EMPTY SPACE	JAMES ARTHUR	32	31	1	22
6	⬆️	SANTA'S COMING FOR US	SIA	66	51	15	39
7		PLAY	JAX JONES/YEARS & YEARS	61	52	9
8	⬆️⬆️	COZY LITTLE CHRISTMAS	KATY PERRY	85	58	27
9		DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS	FIRE TONES	NE	67	0
10		YOU MAKE IT FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS	GWEN STEFANI FT BLAKE SHELTON	RE	88	0
11		TELL THE TRUTH	PLUG	NE	90	0
12		PROBLEM	YXNG BANE FT FREDO	NE	93	0
13		LEAVE ME ALONE	FLIPP DINERO	NE	117	0
14		LOSING IT	FISHER	NE	120	0
15		SATURDAY NIGHTS	KHALID	NE	122	0
16		LOVE MADE ME DO IT	CHERYL	RE	123	0	19
17		TIGHTROPE	MICHELLE WILLIAMS	NE		0
18		CANDY CANE LANE	SIA	NE	126	0
19		NASSTY	D-BLOCK EUROPE/ADZ/LIL PINO/LB	RE	127	0	35
20		BROKEN HOMES	PLUG/NAFE SMALLZ/M HUNCHO	RE	128	0	38

Key

⬆️ - Indicates a climb of 10 places
LW - Last week's Official Singles Chart position
CURRENT - Current position on today's Official Singles Chart sales flash
DIFF - Number of places climbed since the previous week on the Official Singles Chart

Listen to a playlist of this week's Official Trending Chart Top 20 on Spotify below. Click here to listen on Deezer.

About the Official Trending Chart

The Official Trending Chart highlights the hottest new tracks beginning to make an impact in the UK every week.

The Top 20 rundown, published on OfficialCharts.com every Tuesday, based on the first four days’ sales of each chart week, is designed to highlight emerging hits as they begin to scale the Official Charts and build buzz.

The Official Trending Chart ranks titles which are showing week-on-week chart growth, and is the only “new music” chart to reflect audio track sales and streams comprehensively across all services.

Devised by the Official Charts Company in close consultation with labels, retailers and media, since launching in 2016, the chart has already highlighted future Number 1 singles including Rudimental's These Days, Shotgun by George Ezra, and Jess Glynne's I'll Be There.