The Wanted chasing the sun all the way to Number 1!

The Wanted storm ahead of Fun FT Janelle Monae’s We Are Young, and look likely to score their third UK Number 1 single! Plus: See this week's Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 in full!

The Wanted have been super busy in recent months going head to head with fellow UK boy-banders One Direction in cracking the famously tough US market. However, the lads are back in force on home soil with their sights firmly set on breaking this week’s Official Singles Chart with fresh new single Chasing The Sun.

Co-written by Example, the track is already storming ahead of Fun FT Janelle Monae’s We Are Young (2), and looking likely to give The Wanted their third UK Number 1 single.

Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe is still performing strongly in its ninth week on chart, on course for third place again this Sunday, with Alex Clare’s Too Close (4) a fraction behind, and blonde Kosovan bombshell Rita Ora completing the Top 5.

New entries

Hackney-born starlet Paloma Faith makes a return to the forefront of the Official Charts this week as Picking Up The Pieces, the Nellee Hooper-produced first single taken from her forthcoming second studio album,enters at Number 6 on the Official Chart Update. Fall To Grace, the album from which the track is takenis released next week.

Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull have teamed up again after the success of their 2011 chart-topping collaboration On The Floor. Dance Again is one of two new entries today for Pitbull, Dance Again is set for a Top 10 debut this Sunday, currently riding at Number 8.

In other new entries this week, is French DJ/producer Martin Solveig’s Night Out (33), Pitbull solo offering Back In Time (34), and Newton Faulkner’s Write It On Your Skin (38).

The Official Chart Update highest climber comes courtesy of Gavin Degraw’s I Don’t Want To Be up 58 places from 82 to 24.

The Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1	CHASING THE SUN	THE WANTED
2	WE ARE YOUNG	FUN FT JANELLE MONAE
3	CALL ME MAYBE	CARLY RAE JEPSEN
4	TOO CLOSE	ALEX CLARE
5	R.I.P.	RITA ORA FT TINIE TEMPAH
6	PICKING UP THE PIECES	PALOMA FAITH
7	SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW	GOTYE FT KIMBRA
8	DANCE AGAIN	JENNIFER LOPEZ FT PITBULL
9	WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN	RIHANNA
10	DRIVE BY	TRAIN
11	YOUNG	TULISA
12	OLIVER TWIST	D'BANJ
13	STARSHIPS	NICKI MINAJ
14	LET'S GO	CALVIN HARRIS FT NE-YO
15	LASERLIGHT	JESSIE J FT DAVID GUETTA
16	30 DAYS	SATURDAYS
17	LIVE MY LIFE	FAR EAST MOVEMENT/BIEBER
18	MY KIND OF LOVE	EMELI SANDE
19	ONLY THE HORSES	SCISSOR SISTERS
20	REMEDY	PROFESSOR GREEN FT RUTH ANNE
21	EXPRESS YOURSELF	LABRINTH
22	PRIMADONNA	MARINA & THE DIAMONDS
23	SO GOOD	BOB
24	I DON'T WANT TO BE	GAVIN DEGRAW
25	I WON'T GIVE UP	JASON MRAZ
26	PRINCESS OF CHINA	COLDPLAY & RIHANNA
27	BANGARANG	SKRILLEX FT SIRAH
28	212	AZEALIA BANKS FT LAZY JAY
29	BOYFRIEND	JUSTIN BIEBER
30	PART OF ME	KATY PERRY
31	TITANIUM	DAVID GUETTA FT SIA
32	CAN'T SAY NO	CONOR MAYNARD
33	THE NIGHT OUT	MARTIN SOLVEIG
34	BACK IN TIME	PITBULL
35	SHE DOESN'T MIND	SEAN PAUL
36	N****S IN PARIS	JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
37	ONLY LOVE	BEN HOWARD
38	WRITE IT ON YOUR SKIN	NEWTON FAULKNER
39	TAKE CARE	DRAKE FT RIHANNA
40	SPARKS	COVER DRIVE