The Weeknd's Starboy is this week's Official Trending Chart Number 1

Plus listen to a playlist of the Top 20 trending songs in the UK this week.

The Weeknd lands straight in at Number 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart with his new single Starboy.

The Canadian singer-songwriter's collaboration with Daft Punk enters straight at the top of the list of the songs trending in the UK this week, based on movement up the Official Singles Chart (see below for full methordology).

Starboy, which trails his new album of the same name out in November, arrives after both acts teased the possibility of a duet earlier this year. The track is on course to make a big splash on the Official Singles Chart, currently at Number 3 in the latest sales flash.

MORE: Check out The Weeknd's complete Official UK Chart history here

Also making a big impact this week is Teddy Mac aka The Songaminute Man. The 80-year-old former Butlin's Redcoat rose to internet fame recently as the Alzheimer's sufferer who had landed a record deal after his son Simon posted videos of his father singing during their very own Carpool Karaoke on YouTube.

His single, You Make Me Feel So Young, was released last week and is heading for this week’s Top 20 on the Official Chart, currently at 14. Royalties from the track, which was recorded at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios in London, will go to the Alzheimer’s Society and the McDermott family.

Elsewhere, Shawn Mendes' Mercy makes a big entry this week following the release of his second album Illuminate this week, Rag'n'Bone Man makes an appearance with Human after his show-stopping performance on BBC's Later With Jools Holland, and the return of Aston Merrygold is making waves; his latest track I Ain't Missing You completes this week's Official Trending Chart Top 20.

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

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1		STARBOY	WEEKND FT DAFT PUNK	NEW	3	0
2		STILL FALLING FOR YOU	ELLIE GOULDING	12	11	1	12
3		YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG	TEDDY MAC THE SONGAMINUTE MAN	NEW	14	0
4		ALARM	ANNE-MARIE	19	19	0	16
5		HURTS	EMELI SANDE	22	20	2	22
6		IS THIS LOVE (REMIX)	BOB MARLEY FT LVNDSCAPE/BOLIER	24	22	2	16
7		AIN'T MY FAULT	ZARA LARSSON	26	25	1	26
8		TROUBLE	OFFAIAH	36	29	7	29
9		FALSE ALARM	MATOMA & BECKY HILL	33	30	3	33
10		AIN'T GIVING UP	CRAIG DAVID & SIGALA	42	40	2	29
11		BLOW YOUR MIND (MWAH)	DUA LIPA	46	42	4
12		SEXUAL	NEIKED	49	46	3
13		FADE	KANYE WEST/POST MALONE/TY	50	50	0
14	⬆⬆	MERCY	SHAWN MENDES	74	51	23
15		ALL GOES WRONG	CHASE & STATUS FT TOM GRENNAN	NEW	57	0
16	⬆⬆	HOUSE WORK	JAX JONES FT MNEK & MIKE DUNN	112	76	36
17		WALLS	KINGS OF LEON	NEW	77	0
18	⬆⬆	CRANK IT (WOAH)	KIDEKO/GEORGE KWALI/ROSE/IRIE	125	89	36
19	⬆⬆	HUMAN	RAG'N'BONE MAN	153	91	62
20		I AIN'T MISSING YOU	ASTON MERRYGOLD	NEW	97	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).