Rudimental rack up second Number 1 in less than a year

East London’s Rudimental beat global pop megastars Will.I.Am and Justin Bieber to this week’s Official Singles Chart Number 1 with Waiting All Night.

Rudimental bring home their second Official Number 1 single in less than 12 months with Waiting All Night FT Ella Eyre.

East London drum ‘n’ bass four-piece Rudimental, who were behind 2012 signature chart-topping summer anthem Feel The Love FT John Newman, went head to head with global pop megastars Will.I.Am and Justin Bieber in this week’s Official Singles Chart race, emerging victorious with an opening week sale of 107,000 copies.

The soulful, brass-adorned drum & bass track Waiting All Night features the vocal of up and coming singer Ella Eyre, and finishes the week almost 38,000 copies ahead of Will.I.Am’s #ThatPower FTJustin Bieber (Number 2).

“Wow! Thank you to everyone who’s bought Waiting All Night,” a stunned Piers Aggett told OfficialCharts.com. “We do love you, man. We can’t believe we’ve just got another Number 1… It’s unreal.”

Fellow bandmate Amir Amor predicts a bright future ahead, “Just over a year ago, we were walking in normal jobs, we’re so thankful that our career’s taken off like this, and we owe this to you, and you, and you! Watch out for our Number 1 album, coming soon!”  

That’s it then, the challenge has been laid down! The Hackney quartet release their debut album, Home on 29 April.

Daft Punk gate crash this week’s Top 3 after drumming up a staggering 50,000 sales in 48 hours of new single, Get Lucky FT Pharrell Williams (Number 3), more on this below.

Last week’s chart topper, Duke Dumont’s Need U (100%) FT A*M*E, falls three places to Number 4, while P!nk’s Just Give Me A Reason FT Nate Ruess round off this week’s Top 5.

New entries and high climbers

K-pop hero Psy leaps a massive 51 places to enter the Top 10 with Gentleman (10). The follow-up to his worldwide Number 1 smash, Gangnam Style, made its chart debut at 61 last Sunday after being on sale for less than 48 hours. The video has since clocked up a massive 189 million views on YouTube.

Disclosure-endorsed newcomers Clean Bandit ask the question ‘Do you think dance music is boring?’ in new release Mozart’s House (17). The answer is surely ‘no’, as the infectiously bouncy, string-laden dance number secures the London-based outfit their first Top 20 hit.

Little Mix are on the climb, How Ya Doin’ featuring hip hop’s finest, Missy Elliott, leaps 34 places to Number 23 delivering the girls their fifth Top 40 hit, while UK trance DJ and producer Mat Zo and his US counterpart Porter Robinson are new in at Number 28 with Easy. Will.I.Am FT Miley Cyrus’s Fall Down enters at Number 34.

Emeli Sande’s Read All About It Part 3 is this week’s highest climber. The track is up a massive 70 places to Number 26 after Hungarian shadow theatre troupe, Attraction, performed their routine to it on Britain’s Got Talent last weekend.

This week's Official Singles Chart Top 10 is as follows. You can see the Official Singles Chart Top 100 in full, here, after 7pm.

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