Martin Jensen's Solo Dance is Number 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart

Plus listen to the UK's Top 20 new songs making a big impact in the UK this week, including Nicki Minaj, Lorde and Steps.

Martin Jensen is Number 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart with what is shaping up to be his big breakthrough single, Solo Dance.

The DJ and producer, who hails from Denmark, has seen the song steadily climbing the Official Singles Chart Top 100 for the last seven weeks. According to the latest chart update, Solo Dance is on course to enter the Top 10 on the singles tally, a climb of 15 places since last week.

Before Solo Dance, Martin became a viral phenomenon on Facebook because of his videos, which took funny sounds from other viral videos and made them into tropical house mixes.

Steps are also making a big impression on this week's Official Trending Chart with their comeback track Scared Of The Dark, which is set to become their first Top 40 single in 16 years this week, after 2001's Number 5-peaking double A-side Words Are Not Enough/I Know Him So Well.

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Also impacting is Nicki Minaj, who released three brand new tracks last week. Two feature on this week's Official Trending Chart (as two entries per artist are eligible for this chart each week) - No Frauds ft. Drake and Lil Wayne plus Regret In Your Tears.

Elsewhere, X Factor Louisa Johnson lands in this week's trending Top 20 with her brand new single Best Behaviour, while the latest teaser from Lorde's upcoming album, called Liability, also features.

This week's Official Trending Chart Top 20 is...

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1	⬆	SOLO DANCE	MARTIN JENSEN	25	10	15	25
2		SCARED OF THE DARK	STEPS	NEW	11	0
3		CIAO ADIOS	ANNE-MARIE	24	19	5	19
4		SCARED TO BE LONELY	MARTIN GARRIX & DUA LIPA	27	23	4	14
5	⬆	STAY	ZEDD & ALESSIA CARA	38	26	12	33
6		PLAY THAT SONG	TRAIN	36	36	0	21
7		THAT'S WHAT I LIKE	BRUNO MARS	42	37	5
8		NO FRAUDS	NICKI MINAJ/DRAKE/LIL WAYNE	NEW	39	0
9		ISSUES	JULIA MICHAELS	44	40	4
10		BEST BEHAVIOUR	LOUISA JOHNSON	NEW	43	0
11		WATERFALL	STARGATE FT PINK & SIA	NEW	48	0
12		REGRET IN YOUR TEARS	NICKI MINAJ	NEW	50	0
13	⬆⬆	PLACES	MARTIN SOLVEIG & INA WROLDSEN	100	51	49
14	⬆	YOU WANT ME	TOM ZANETTI FT SADIE AMA	75	59	16	22
15	⬆⬆	MASK OFF	FUTURE	83	60	23
16		DID YOU SEE	J HUS	63	61	2
17		LIABILITY	LORDE	NEW	67	0
18	⬆⬆	BEAUTY AND THE BEAST	ARIANA GRANDE & JOHN LEGEND	168	83	85
19	⬆⬆	ISPY	KYLE FT LIL YACHTY	122	101	21
20		SHINING	DJ KHALED FT BEYONCE & JAY Z	103	102	1

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 Apple Music, Spotify, or listen via Deezer or Napster.

About the Official Trending Chart

The Official Trending Chart is a brand new chart launched for 2016 to highlight 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, the chart since launch has highlighted emerging hits such as Number 1 single One Dance by Drake, and The Chainsmokers & Halsey's chart topper Closer.

The chart is designed to help highlight hit singles in their early stages of their growth, in the light of the shift in release strategies of record labels over the past six months. Under “On Air On Sale”, labels have started to release new music for consumers to buy or stream on the same day as those tracks are released to media (including radio stations and TV).