One Direction’s Drag Me Down lands at Number 1 and breaks Official Charts record
One Direction make a glorious return to the Official Singles Chart today as Drag Me Down not only enters straight in at Number 1, but sets a new streaming record.
The group’s first single as a quartet, following the departure of Zayn Malik in March, debuts at the top of this week’s tally and earns the highest first-week streams for a single ever in the UK, racking up 2.03 million plays in its opening week across chart-reporting streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music and more.
Drag Me Down is One Direction’s fourth Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart; following What Makes You Beautiful (2011), Little Things (2012) and One Way Or Another (2013).
MORE: See One Direction's full Official Chart history
Meanwhile, Calvin Harris and Disciples’ How Deep Is Your Love reaches a new peak on this week’s tally, leaping 6 to 2, and last week’s Number 1 Black Magic by Little Mix is at 3.
Rounding off the Top 5 are Lost Frequencies’ Are You With Me (4) and Years & Years’ Shine (5).
New entries and high climbers
The Weeknd earns his second Top 10 today with Can’t Feel My Face, which jumps from 17 to 8, and Disclosure’s Omen ft Sam Smith zooms 29 to 13.
This week’s biggest climber goes to producer Joe Stone, who vaults 172 places to Number 17 with his house re-working of Montell Jordan’s This Is House We Do It. Jordan’s original peaked at Number 11 in 1995.
Rapper Silento enters this week’s Top 40 at 19 with his viral hit Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), YouTube star Joe Weller debuts at 28 with Wanna Do ft Emil, and Shaggy scores his first UK Top 40 hit in 13 years today with I Need Your Love, climbing nine places to Number 36.
Finally, following her death last Sunday, Cilla Black’s former Number 1 Anyone Who Had A Heart re-enters the tally at Number 41, giving the track its highest chart placing in 51 years.
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Victorianight12
I love their new single. Good for them they've been to "Bleep" and back
with Zayn, trolls, management. And so for their new single to flay to
number 1 without any fan fair or notice or the support of You Tube is
amazing. They earned it and deserve it.
Marky Rainbow
Sorry to be pedantic: but Cilla died last Saturday not last Sunday (which is when we all heard about it)
Her “single” was never ever going to be a #1 again (in the posthumous bygone era style of Elvis and John Lennon etc) despite all the hype at start of the week that it would be competing with 1D etc...
But that does not take away from the fact that 51 (?) yrs ago “Anyone who had a heart” was a well-deserved break-through #1 and Cilla gave a fantastic interpretation and performance.
I’m old enough to remember first time around... and young enough still to listen to and enjoy almost every Top 40 countdown ever since...
1D finally getting some decent songs it seems.. only previous stand-outs (for me) were their last one about the night! (Sorry I've forgotten the name.. I'm old: so forgive me) and the brilliant "Story of my Life"
Maybe 50 years from now “Story of my life” could re-enter chart @ #41 if - like Cilla - one of the last four 1D’s dies suddenly and fans wish to pay tribute... Just think about that! How likely?
So well done Cilla but also well done 1D (or ONE DIZZLE as R1 chart run down has now named them!!)
Brian Quinn
Streaming doesn't mean much to me.
alwaystheindian
It's the new radio.