Leona, Ellie and Avicii challenge Lily for Number 1

Leona Lewis, Ellie Goulding and Avicii battle it out with Lily Allen to claim this week’s Official Number 1 single!

Reigning Official Singles Chart queen Lily Allen faces tough competition from Avicii, Ellie Goulding and Leona Lewis in this week’s race to Number 1.

Lily’s cover of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know, which is featured in John Lewis’s Christmas TV ad campaign, returned to the chart summit last Sunday to spend a second non-consecutive week at the top spot. Yet, while it remains in pole-position on today’s Official Singles Chart Update, with less than 7,000 copies currently separating the Top 4, it could all change come Sunday.

Avicii climbs six places to Number 2 today with his latest single, Hey Brother, while Ellie Goulding is up four to Number 3 with How Long Will I Love You. Ellie’s track is this year’s official Children In Need single.

Meanwhile, after former X Factor winner Leona Lewis performed her new Christmas-themed single, One More Sleep, on Sunday’s X Factor results show, the track has soared a massive 34 places to Number 4 today.

This week’s Top 5 is completed by One Direction’s Story Of My Life, which falls three places to Number 5.

New Entries and High Climbers

Justin Bieber leads this week’s Official Singles Chart Update’s new entries with Confident FT Chance The Rapper, which is new in at Number 17. Should the 19-yrear-old Canadian singer’s momentum continue going into the weekend, it will be his tenth Top 40 single in as many weeks.

Meanwhile, Elvis Presley’s chances of scoring a second Christmas Number 1 some 51 years after he first topped the festive chart with Return To Sender seem to have stalled somewhat; O Come All Ye Faithful, The King’s duet with Susan Boyle, is at Number 40 today. The 2013 Christmas Number 1 race official kicks off on Sunday (December 15) with this year’s winning track being revealed on BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show with Scott Mills and Jameela Jamil , and on www.officialcharts.com on Sunday 22 December, the full Official Christmas Singles Chart Top 100 will be posted from 7pm. Follow Official Charts on Twitter and Facebook throughout next week for the very latest official updates.

Chase And Status climb 14 places to enter the Top 40 at Number 34 with Alive FT Jacob Banks, while Kid Ink is up six places to 39 with Show Me FT Chris Brown.

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	SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW	LILY ALLEN
2	HEY BROTHER	AVICII
3	HOW LONG WILL I LOVE YOU	ELLIE GOULDING
4	ONE MORE SLEEP	LEONA LEWIS
5	STORY OF MY LIFE	ONE DIRECTION
6	LET ME GO	GARY BARLOW
7	OF THE NIGHT	BASTILLE
8	THE MONSTER	EMINEM FT RIHANNA
9	TRUMPETS	JASON DERULO
10	UNDER CONTROL	CALVIN HARRIS/ALESSO/HURTS
11	HAPPY	PHARRELL WILLIAMS
12	ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU	MARIAH CAREY
13	ANIMALS	MARTIN GARRIX
14	DO WHAT U WANT	LADY GAGA & R KELLY
15	FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK	POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL
16	I HOPE	REBECCA FERGUSON
17	CONFIDENT	JUSTIN BIEBER FT CHANCE
18	MOVE	LITTLE MIX
19	COUNTING STARS	ONEREPUBLIC
20	THUNDER	JESSIE J
21	SAIL	AWOLNATION
22	ROYALS	LORDE
23	EVERYTHING YOU NEVER HAD (WE HAD IT ALL)	BREACH FT ANDREYA TRIANA
24	ROAR	KATY PERRY
25	THE SPARK	AFROJACK FT SPREE WILSON
26	LOOK RIGHT THROUGH	STORM QUEEN
27	GO GENTLE	ROBBIE WILLIAMS
28	WHAT NOW	RIHANNA
29	RECOVERY	JAMES ARTHUR
30	WAKE ME UP	AVICII
31	HIGHER (FREE)	ALL ABOUT SHE
32	WRECKING BALL	MILEY CYRUS
33	BONFIRE HEART	JAMES BLUNT
34	ALIVE	CHASE & STATUS FT JACOB BANKS
35	BURN	ELLIE GOULDING
36	I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY	WIZZARD
37	UNCONDITIONALLY	KATY PERRY
38	LOVE ME AGAIN	JOHN NEWMAN
39	SHOW ME	KID INK FT CHRIS BROWN
40	O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL	SUSAN BOYLE & ELVIS PRESLEY