Rae Sremmurd's Black Beatles is this week's top trending song in the UK

Plus listen to a playlist of the Top 20 songs making a big impact this week.
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Rae Sremmurd's Black Beatles claims the Number 1 spot on this week's Official Trending Chart. 

The hip-hop duo's track has taken off across the world, thanks in part to it inspiring millions of videos of people attempting the latest internet craze, the #mannequinchallenge.

Black Beatles is on course to enter this week's Top 10 over on the Official Singles Chart, up 27 places in the latest sales flash, sending it to the top of this week's Official Trending Chart. More information on how the Official Trending Chart is calculated can be found below.

The #MannequinChallenge is the latest viral sensation on social media and follows similar movements such as the Harlem Shake and Silento's Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).

Zara Larsson makes two appearances on this week's trending Top 20. Her new track I Would Like is a huge new entry and her current single Ain't My Fault continues to prove popular.

The release of Emeli Sande's second studio album Long Live The Angels has propelled the album's two singles Hurts and Breathing Underwater up the trending tally. Meanwhile, her rival on this week's Official Albums Chart Olly Murs also has two trending tracks with Grow Up and You Don't Know Love performing well.

Big new entries land in the Top 20 from Vaults, whose track One Day I'll Fly Away accompanies this year's John Lewis Christmas advert, and The xx, whose Hall and Oates-sampling comeback single On Hold is off to a strong start.

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

POS CLIMB TITLE ARTIST LW CURRENT DIFF PREV PEAK
1  ⬆⬆ BLACK BEATLES RAE SREMMURD FT GUCCI MANE 36 9 27 36
2   SO GOOD LOUISA JOHNSON 13 12 1 13
3   BY YOUR SIDE JONAS BLUE FT RAYE 19 19 0 19
4   AIN'T MY FAULT ZARA LARSSON 21 21 0 13
5   ONE DAY I'LL FLY AWAY VAULTS NEW 24 0  
6   THAT'S MY GIRL FIFTH HARMONY 26 25 1 26
7  ⬆⬆ LOVE MY LIFE ROBBIE WILLIAMS 57 26 31  
8  ⬆⬆ FAMOUS NATHAN SYKES 62 27 35  
9  ⬆⬆ GROW UP OLLY MURS 61 29 32  
10  ⬆ HURTS EMELI SANDE 43 31 12 22
11   ON HOLD XX NEW 34 0  
12   THE MACK NEVADA/MARK MORRISON/FETTY WAP 44 36 8  
13   I WOULD LIKE ZARA LARSSON NEW 37 0  
14   FIND ME SIGMA FT BIRDY 46 40 6  
15   LOCK DOH GIGGS FT DONAEO 56 52 4  
16  ⬆ LOVE ME NOW JOHN LEGEND 64 53 11  
17  ⬆⬆ YOU DON'T KNOW LOVE OLLY MURS 91 58 33 15
18  ⬆⬆ BREATHING UNDERWATER EMELI SANDE 114 62 52  
19   NOTHING ELSE MATTERS LITTLE MIX NEW 68 0  
20   EVERGLOW COLDPLAY NEW 69 0  

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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 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 already highlighted emerging hits such as Number 1 singles Mike Posner’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza and Drake's One Dance.

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).

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