Little Mix and Nicki Minaj’s Woman Like Me leads incredibly close Top 3 on this week's Official Singles Chart

Dave ft. Fredo and Calvin Harris ft. Sam Smith aren't far behind in the race for Number 1.
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The battle for this week’s Number 1 is set to be a photo finish with less than 2,000 combined sales currently separating the Top 3.

Leading the way at Number 1 in today’s Official Chart Update are Little Mix with their new single Woman Like Me ft. Nicki Minaj. If they can keep this momentum up, they could land their fifth UK Number 1 single on this Friday’s Official Singles Chart.

The group’s last chart-topper, Shout Out To My Ex, debuted at Number 1 in October 2016 and spent three weeks at the summit.

 

However, it’s a close battle for the top: Calvin Harris and Sam Smith’s Promises and Dave and Fredo’s Funky Friday (last week’s Number 1) are not far behind at 2 and 3 respectively. With four days to go, there’s a chance either of them could pull back and reclaim the Number 1.

Elsewhere in the Top 5, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Shallow from A Star Is Born is set for another climb up the Top 10 this week, so far up one place to Number 5.

New entries and high climbers

Sigala’s Just Got Paid ft. Ella Eyre, Meghan Trainor and French Montana continues to scale the chart after being featured on Strictly Come Dancing over the weekend – YouTuber Joe Sugg performed a Cha Cha to the hit with partner Dianne Buswell. The track is currently up three places to Number 12, a potential new peak.

Bad Bunny’s MIA ft. Drake is new at Number 13, while MK’s Back & Forth (16) and French Montana’s No Stylist ft. Drake (18) are on course to enter the Top 20 this Friday.

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Further down, three new songs could debut inside this week’s Top 40: Zeze by US rapper Kodak Black at Number 21, Jess Glynne’s Thursday – taken from her new album Always In Between – at 26, and Quavo’s Flip The Switch at 40; Drake’s third feature in the mid-week Top 40.

View this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart Update in full

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Sunnyskies73

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I think Little Mix will be able to secure the #1 spot if they release their new music video this week.

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Isaac Ladron de Guevara Morale

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I want Just Got Paid to get to top 10.

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Piran

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It's nice to see 'Woman Like Me' at #1 on the update, although I think 'Promises' will overtake it again by Friday.
I love seeing 'Shallow' enter the Top 5 for the first time, as well as the debut for 'Thursday' lower down! :)

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Zoltán Oskovits

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How are youtube views calculated and weighted?

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Piran

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So subscription based streaming services have a 100:1 sales ratio, but free ones have a 600:1 streaming to sales ratio.
To put it another way, 600 views for a song on YouTube that were from the UK are equivalent to one "sale".

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Zoltán Oskovits

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What confuses me is that on Radio 1 they always talk about total youtube views, and when you check it, it’s always correct, but it is never UK only views. It’s misleading.

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Piran

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Well this is the website I use to find out the UK YouTube numbers for each song every week: https://charts.youtube.com/charts/TopSongs/gb?hl=en-GB