The Chainsmokers and Halsey scoop their first UK Number 1 single with Closer: "This is an amazing achievement for us"
The Chainsmokers and Halsey have evaporated Major Lazer's Cold Water, securing their first Number 1 single in the UK.
Closer - which is already Number 1 in both Australia and the United States - finished the week on 80,000 combined chart sales and was the most purchased track of the week. The single was also the second most streamed entry on the chart.
The Chainsmokers exclusively told OfficialCharts.com: "Well this is awesome 'cause I (Alex) have a lot of family in the UK that don't have a clue what I have been doing for the last 10 years so this will make waves during the holidays this year.
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"But in all seriousness this is an amazing achievement for us. We are beyond grateful at all the support from our UK fans and radio stations; as a relatively new artist, it means a lot to us and gives us a lot of confidence in the music we have coming up!"
DJ Snake and Justin Bieber's Let Me Love You holds firm at 2 for the fourth straight week and after five weeks at Number 1, Cold Water from Major Lazer ft. Justin Bieber and MØ drops two spots to Number 3, although it remained the most streamed song from the past seven days.
Rounding out the Top 5 is this summer's biggest selling single Dancing On My Own by Calum Scott, and a non-mover at 5 for twenty one pilots' Heathens.
New entries and high climbers
Tieks and Dan Harkna's Sunshine is a high climber of eight places this week, landing at Number 15. Anne-Marie's Alarm rises to a new peak of Number 16, up three places and is closely followed by Martin Garrix and Bebe Rexha's In The Name Of Love, which enjoys a seven place boost to Number 17.
The LVNDSCAPE and Bolier remix of Bob Marley's Is This Love is up a whopping nineteen places to this week's Number 20, while Snakehips and Zayn's Cruel is also the recipient of a big leap - it's up seven spots to 34.
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Kevin
Wow......what tripe, in desperate need of auto tune.
Piran
Congratulations to The Chainsmokers & Halsey as 'Closer' becomes the 1st UK #1 for both artists. There have only been 8 #1s on the singles chart so far in 2016, but this is probably already my favourite & such a fun summer song to end the holiday season with. I've seen it get around twice as many iTunes downloads than 'Cold Water' over the last couple of days (from the latest Kworb updates) & it also overtook 'Cold Water' on Spotify streaming earlier in the week too. 'Closer's lead above 'Let Me Love You' is also likely to increase a lot more next week, so I think 'Closer' may be another hit to have a few consecutive weeks atop the UK charts, unless we get an unexpectedly big debut within the next couple of months.
Not too much to say about the rest of the Top 100, but other than the change between 'Cold Water' & 'Closer', the Top 14 is completely stationary. Great to see: 'In The Name Of Love', 'Is This Love?' & 'Sunshine' climb into the Top 20 though... & I think this is one of my favourite charts of 2016 so far. :D
Also good that Barbra Streisand got her 7th UK #1 album with 'Encore' this week as well.
Marcothedonjuan
Congrats to Halsey!!! I can see this will most likely stay number one until more promotion for Let Me Love You....which has been doing amazing with ZERO promotion..lol. Cold Water hanging in at no. 3 is still good. Question, do streams of youtube count for this chart as well as Spotify?
nico9191
Unfortunately Youtube views doesn't count in the UK Singles Chart, but audio-only streaming figures like the services from Spotify, and Apple Music do count.
Marcothedonjuan
Thank you, all three of this weeks top songs don't have an official youtube video featuring the artists. They will be even more stronger on the Billboard 100 once they all do.