Unlucky for Kungs! Drake lands a 13th week at Number 1 with One Dance
Drake has done it yet again - he's still at Number 1 with his Wizkid and Kyla collab One Dance.
The most streamed track of the week, One Dance has now notched up 13 consecutive weeks at the top, the third longest consecutive Number 1 of all time, behind Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around (15 weeks) and fellow Canadian Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. Click here to read up on the longest consecutive and non-consecutive reigns at Number 1.
Despite being the biggest sellers of the week, Kungs vs Cookin' On 3 Burners' This Girl settles for Number 2 for the fourth week in a row, and Drake and Rihanna's Too Good holds firm at 3 for the second straight week. Calvin Harris and Rihanna's This Is What You Came For is static at 4, while Adele's Send My Love (To Your New Lover) climbs one place to a new peak of Number 5.
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New Entries and High Climbers
The Chainsmokers crash the Top 10 for the first time in their careers with their Daya collaboration Don't Let Me Down, up nine places to Number 7 and Calum Scott hits Number 10 (up two) with Dancing On My Own, his first UK Top 10 single.
Leaping 14 places to this week's Number 12 is Kent Jones with Don't Mind and also on the up is Ariana Grande; Into You ascends eight to 14, the highest charting so far from her Dangerous Woman album.
This week's highest climber is Jonas Blue with his track Perfect Strangers, which climbs 22 rungs to Number 16. Also on the rise is Shawn Mendes' latest single Treat You Better, his second Top 20 single bounces nine places to Number 20.
Finally, two new tracks enter the Top 40 for the very first time. Rihanna scoops her 45th Top 40 single with Needed Me, up three to 38. The second newbie this week is from MK & Becky Hill; Piece of Me is MK's first and Becky's second (not including her uncredited vocals on Wilkinson's Afterglow) Top 40 single.
Click here to see this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full
See all the Number 1 singles of 2016 so far in our gallery below:
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de Sascha
By The Power of Grayskull!
EH
Edward Howard
Sign my petition (https://www.change.org/p/british-public-get-we-are-the-champions-to-number-1), go to my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/5we4are3the2championsnumber1/notifications/) and buy We Are The Champions by Queen in order to stop this!
EH
Edward Howard
Great. A really bland & mediocre song has set this record. If this tops the charts for another week, it will equal the amount of weeks Bohemian Rhapsody has topped the charts. That's terrifying. And I really hate how streaming gives such songs artificial monopolies to do such things. If people haven't bought the single, it shouldn't be topping the charts like this.
Mrs. Brooks
This is probably the lowest-selling song with the most weeks at number 1. #Shame
Brian Quinn
Streaming is ruining the pop charts. All done to make new artists look as though they are beating the established ones when in reality they are not.
Mick Ward
I agree. I wouldn't mind but it's such a dreary song!
I.B.
There is a chance that Drake will spend 10000 weeks at number one according to the bookies.
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Adam
How much longer is this going to go on for? I'm fully aware that streaming is the future before I get told that, but I think it's grossly unfair that a song that is at #9 on pure sales is STILL #1 based solely on streams. The charts are becoming more and more of a joke.
mudursun
I am also annoyed by Drake's reign, but to be fair charts measure public consumption and popularity, and people continue streaming/requesting the songs at radio even after purchasing, let alone without purchase.
JT
John T
They've just put the new sales chart up. One Dance is now down to no.11 based on sales.
Jamie Crampton
What's radio plays got to do with the charts? Counting Spotify and other streams is a joke, I have songs on my Spotify I've probably played hundreds of times, which according to the OCC means I've "bought" them multiple times. Absolute joke. And if they do count radio plays, which they shouldn't, then it's even worse than I thought.
I Am A Stegosaurus
If radio plays were counted Cheerleader would have been at #1 last year as long as One Dance is at #1 for right now
Brian Quinn
One must consider ageism here. It is a well known fact that older people do not request songs on the radio, download or stream. It is not class anymore which rules British society but what clothes and shoes you wear. Big business knows this and keep on introducing new ideas/items to tempt teenagers (or their parents) into buying them. Older people are too busy taking out insurance.
mudursun
Whoops sorry I thought by Nielsen and Billboard's rules regarding US charts, UK charts are different. I like the idea of songs having longevity on charts for as long as they actually are popular amongst humans. Plus I think 100 streams equal a single download so it is almost fair, a person who downloaded the song plays it 100 times on their device, whilst the person with a subscription service streams it a hundred times. The only problem in this equation to me is the streaming value: I would say 300 streams or so should equal a download. That would especially come in handy in US because YouTube is also in the mix. Yet in US the chart components are balanced: Sales (~40%), Airplay (~30%), Streams (~30%). The precise percentages differ weekly.
Radio airplay is a whole different topic. In US radio is still a mass media device people use -especially while driving. Airplay therefore is another way of controlling the public consumption.