Shawn Mendes rockets to the top spot on the Official Trending Chart

This week's star-studded chart features new tracks from Katy Perry, Britney Spears and Zayn.

Shawn Mendes is Number 1 on this week's star-studded Official Trending Chart.

Despite massive new entries from the likes of 5 Seconds of Summer and Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes' steady week-on-week climb up the Official Singles Chart over the last month, including a midweek jump of 4 places puts him out in front on the trending tally.

5 Seconds of Summer are the highest new entry on the Official Trending Chart, landing at Number 12 as of yesterday's Official Singles Chart Update. Should 5SOS hold on, the Australian four-piece will grab their 6th Top 20 single.

Leading ladies Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, MØ, Britney Spears and Christine & The Queens also translate high up the Trending Chart, with all of their tracks set for this Friday's Official Singles Chart Top 40.

Looking further down the Official Trending Chart is the perfect way to indicate which tracks will be future singles chart contenders, and Snakehips x ZAYN's Cruel, Lukas Graham's Mama Said, M.O's Who Do You Think Of and Anne-Marie's Alarm are prime examples of potential future hits to keep your eyes on.

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

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1		TREAT YOU BETTER	SHAWN MENDES	13	9	4	13
2		GIRLS TALK BOYS	5 SECONDS OF SUMMER	NEW	12	0
3		RISE	KATY PERRY	NEW	13	0
4		INTO YOU	ARIANA GRANDE	16	16	0	14
5		FINAL SONG	MØ	28	20	8	28
6		MAKE ME	BRITNEY SPEARS FT G-EAZY	NEW	22	0
7	⬆	TILTED	CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS	40	29	11	40
8		CRUEL	SNAKEHIPS FT ZAYN	NEW	36	0
9		PIECE OF ME	MK & BECKY HILL	42	40	2	39
10		MAMA SAID	LUKAS GRAHAM	48	43	5
11		WHO DO YOU THINK OF	M.O	47	45	2
12		ALARM	ANNE-MARIE	61	60	1
13		IS THIS LOVE (REMIX)	BOB MARLEY FT LVNDSCAPE/BOLIER	75	66	9
14		M.I.L.F. MONEY	FERGIE	77	74	3
15		FREAK LIKE ME	LEE WALKER/DJDEEON/KATY B/MNEK	83	75	8
16	⬆⬆	CRASH	USHER	105	85	20
17	⬆⬆	SUMMER NIGHTS	TIESTO FT JOHN LEGEND	130	94	36
18	⬆	DO IT RIGHT	MARTIN SOLVEIG FT TKAY MAIDZA	112	97	15
19		WAY DOWN WE GO	KALEO	NEW	102	0
20		BONFIRE	FELIX JAEHN FT ALMA	NEW	106	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).

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