Rag'n'Bone Man tops the Official Trending Chart for a second week with Human

The rising star continues to make a big impact with his latest track.

Rag'n'Bone Man's Human is the UK's Number 1 trending track for the second week in a row.

The rising star's breakthrough single has risen from last week's Official Singles Chart placing of Number 11 to Number 6 in yesterday's midweek Update, a surge that keeps him at the summit of the trending Top 20 (full methodology below).

Last week's rise for the song was due to increased airplay and a performance on the X Factor quarter finals by contestant Emily Middlemas. Since then, he's been nominated for the BBC Sound of 2017 and has been shortlisted for the BRITs Critics' Choice Award.

Elsewhere, Charli XCX's After The Afterparty and Zara Larsson's I Would Like impact the Official Trending Chart as both head for this week's Top 40 for the first time.

Finally, Sigala and Digital Farm Animals' brand new single Only One is already impacting following its release last Friday (December 2), and the latest single from Adele's 25 album, Water Under The Bridge, is on the rise.

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

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1		HUMAN	RAG'N'BONE MAN	11	6	5	11
2		SO GOOD	LOUISA JOHNSON	18	14	4	13
3		BY YOUR SIDE	JONAS BLUE FT RAYE	15	15	0	15
4		YOU WANT ME	TOM ZANETTI FT SADIE AMA	25	21	4	25
5		LOVE ME NOW	JOHN LEGEND	33	28	5	33
6	⬆	AFTER THE AFTERPARTY	CHARLI XCX FT LIL YACHTY	41	30	11
7	⬆⬆	I WOULD LIKE	ZARA LARSSON	54	34	20
8		ALARM	ANNE-MARIE	38	36	2	16
9		ONLY ONE	SIGALA & DIGITAL FARM ANIMALS	NEW	40	0
10	⬆	NO LIE	SEAN PAUL FT DUA LIPA	52	41	11
11		CALL ON ME	STARLEY	58	54	4
12		WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE	ADELE	61	55	6
13		LOVESICK	MURA MASA FT ASAP ROCKY	63	59	4
14	⬆⬆	LOVE MY LIFE	ROBBIE WILLIAMS	85	60	25	33
15		BLOW YOUR MIND (MWAH)	DUA LIPA	72	64	8	30
16	⬆⬆	REDBONE	CHILDISH GAMBINO	153	67	86
17	⬆⬆	BREATHING UNDERWATER	EMELI SANDE	150	75	75
18		MILLION REASONS	LADY GAGA	NEW	86	0
19	⬆⬆	NOW AND LATER	SAGE THE GEMINI	108	87	21
20		BLACK BARBIES	NICKI MINAJ/MIKE WILL MADE-IT	NEW	108	0

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).