Sam Smith heading for third Official Singles Chart Number 1!

The 22-year-old singer/songwriter is heading for his third chart topping single this weekend with Stay With Me.

British singer/songwriter, Sam Smith, looks set to score his third Official Singles Chart Number 1 on Sunday with Stay With Me.

The trackis the third single to be lifted from the singer’s upcoming debut album, In The Lonely Hour, which is set to be released next Monday (May 26). According to the Official Chart Company's sales data, is currently outselling its closest rival by two copies to one at this midway stage.

22-year-old Sam first rose to fame in 2012 after featuring on Disclosure’s Latch, which peaked at Number 11 on the Official Singles Chart. The singer went on to hit the Official Singles Chart top spot for the first time in 2013, featuring on Naughty Boy’s La La La before scoring his first solo Number 1 in March of this year with Money On My Mind.

Debuting at Number 2 on today’s Official Singles Chart Update is British/Ghanaian musician, Fuse ODG, with Dangerous Love FT Sean Paul.

Sliding one place to Number 3 is Dutch hip-hop star, Mr Probz, with his debut UK single Waves, followed closely by Rita Ora with current Official Singles Chart Number 1, I Will Never Let You Down, dropping three places to Number 4 today.

Clean Bandit round out today’s Top 5 with their new single, Extraordinary FT Sharna Bass. It is the follow up to the classical-crossover quartet’s single, Rather Be, which spent four weeks at Number 1 back in January.

New Entries and High Climbers

In addition to Sam Smith’s Stay With Me (Number 1), Fuse ODG’s Dangerous Love FT Sean Paul (2) and Clean Bandit’s Extraordinary FT Sharna Bass (5), there are three further new entries on the Official Singles Chart Update today, starting with Dutch producer and DJ, Afrojack, who is in at Number 13 with Ten Feet Tall FT Wrabel.

Following the release of their sixth studio album, Ghost Stories, Coldplay feature on today’s Official Singles Chart Update three times. Two new entries, A Sky Full Of Stars (14) and Midnight (35) join the album’s lead single, Magic, which currently sits at Number 22 on the chart.

The highest climber on today’s Official Singles Chart Update is Ed Sheeran’s One, which is taken from the singer’s upcoming studio album, x. The track debuted at Number 20 last Sunday after just 48 hours on sale. Today it surges a further eight places to Number 12 on today’s Update.

The Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 is as follows. The Official Singles Chart Top 100 will be posted in full, here, on Sunday at 7pm.

1	STAY WITH ME	SAM SMITH
2	DANGEROUS LOVE	FUSE ODG FT SEAN PAUL
3	WAVES	MR PROBZ
4	I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN	RITA ORA
5	EXTRAORDINARY	CLEAN BANDIT FT SHARNA BASS
6	ALL OF ME	JOHN LEGEND
7	SUMMER	CALVIN HARRIS
8	HIDEAWAY	KIESZA
9	ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS	PALOMA FAITH
10	NOBODY TO LOVE	SIGMA
11	LOVE NEVER FELT SO GOOD	MICHAEL JACKSON
12	ONE	ED SHEERAN
13	TEN FEET TALL	AFROJACK FT WRABEL
14	A SKY FULL OF STARS	COLDPLAY
15	LET IT GO	IDINA MENZEL
16	STAY HIGH	TOVE LO
17	FANCY	IGGY AZALEA FT CHARLI XCX
18	WIGGLE	JASON DERULO FT SNOOP DOGG
19	HAPPY	PHARRELL WILLIAMS
20	LOYAL	CHRIS BROWN/LIL WAYNE/TYGA
21	RATHER BE	CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE
22	MAGIC	COLDPLAY
23	WILD WILD LOVE	PITBULL FT GRL
24	BIRTHDAY	KATY PERRY
25	I GOT U	DUKE DUMONT FT JAX JONES
26	NOT A BAD THING	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
27	TAKE ME HOME	CASH CASH FT BEBE REXHA
28	MY LOVE	ROUTE 94 FT JESS GLYNNE
29	MARILYN MONROE	PHARRELL WILLIAMS
30	THE MAN	ALOE BLACC
31	TOUCH	SHIFT K3Y
32	TURN DOWN FOR WHAT	DJ SNAKE & LIL JON
33	HOLDING ONTO HEAVEN	FOXES
34	MONEY ON MY MIND	SAM SMITH
35	MIDNIGHT	COLDPLAY
36	SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT	5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
37	DARK HORSE	KATY PERRY FT JUICY J
38	DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN	KRISTEN BELL/AGATHA LEE MONN
39	GOOD GIRLS	5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
40	IT'S ON AGAIN	ALICIA KEYS FT KENDRICK LAMAR