ANALYSIS The Official UK Singles & Albums Charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on a sample of more than 15,000 physical and digital outlets. They count actual sales and audio streams from last Friday to Thursday, based on sales of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other physical formats and weighted audio streams.
Foo do you think you are?: Live Lounge Allstars shoot to No.1
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railing by 6,000 chart sales midweek, the cover of Foo Fighters’ Times Like These by the Live Lounge Allstars enjoyed a late surge to emerge triumphant at the top of the charts, a week after it made No.5 on a single day of sales. Times Like These is the most-purchased song, but only the 31st most-streamed track of the week, although with 14,764 of the track’s total chart sale of 66,164 coming from online plays it has enjoyed a stronger digital presence than any charity chart-topper since the singles chart began to count digital audio in 2014. It is the 20th multi-artist charity single to top the charts, the first since Artists For Grenfell back in 2017. It would have felt wrong for the charity track not to reach No.1, although this denied us the sight of The Weeknd making an almost unprecedented fourth trip to the summit. He instead finishes in second place, 3,542 sales behind on 62,622. The rest of the Top 5 is made up of Roses by Saint Jhn (No.3, 50,524 sales), Toosie Slide by Drake (No.4, 44,143) and Death Bed by Powfu (feat. Beabadoobee) which climbs to a new peak of No.5 (35,829 sales). With a seventh chart single under his belt, we may be at the point where it is appropriate to brand KSI a performer who started on YouTube rather than a YouTuber who raps and boxes. Hot on the heels of 2020 hits Wake Up Call and Poppin’ comes new track Houdini, billed as the fourth chart single from his forthcoming full debut album Dissimulation. With Swarmz and Tion Wayne in tow, the single is unchained as this week’s highest new entry at No.6, clocking up a chart sale of 35,022, of which fewer than 10% are paid. It is KSI's second (and biggest) Top 10 hit, the first for his two collaborators. For those still keeping count, Dua Lipa’s Don’t Start Now spends a 25th week as a Top 10 single, down to No.9 with 29,826 chart sales. It will almost certainly be its last, the track one of no fewer than five in the current Top 10 whose ACR clocks have finally run down meaning a dramatic clear-out is imminent.
The only Top 10 departure this week is – inevitably – last week’s No.1 You'll Never Walk Alone by Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore and The NHS Voices Of Care Choir, which collapses 1-21 (20,478 sales). It is only the sixth single in chart history to plummet straight out of the Top 20 from the top of the charts, although extraordinarily the third to do so this year.
Their name a riff on the alias of one and the real name of the other, The Scotts is a superstar collaboration between Travis Scott and veteran performer Kid Cudi. Their self-titled hit is an exclusive new track which featured in Travis Scott’s recent performance as part of the in-game universe of Fortnite. Commercially released, it rockets to No.11 (27,814 sales) making it Travis Scott’s highest charting hit since No.2 smash Highest In The Room in October last year. It is his sixth Top 20 hit to date. The Scotts also counts as Kid Cudi’s seventh chart single, his first for just over four years and the second biggest hit of his career, second only to his No.2 debut Day‘N’Nite from 2009. Travis Scott also enjoys chart returns for older hits Sicko Mode
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No.1
This week’s sales: 66,164 Downloads: 51,400 | Streams: 14,764 | Total sales to date: 109,876 | Live Lounge Allstars - Times Like These (AtlParWar/Columbia/IslPolVirg)
(No.53, 9,181 sales) and Goosebumps (No.65, 7,722 sales), also as a direct result of the Fortnite gig.
High Times: The Live Lounge Allstars cover includes contributions
from Foo Fighters, Dua Lipa, Biffy Clyro, Chris
Martin, AJ Tracey, Mabel, Sigrid and many more. The track was produced by Fraser T Smith (pictured)
After almost a decade as one of the most successful British bands never to have enjoyed a true hit, The 1975 this week take a giant step towards shedding that tag with If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know). No. 14 (27,006 sales) is, extraordinarily, their highest chart position to date and only the third Top 20 hit of their career, squeezing past the No. 15 peak scaled by The Sound in January 2016. It is the sixth track to date taken from their forthcoming fourth studio album Notes On A Conditional Form, now rescheduled for three weeks’ time. Already the owner of a posthumous No.1 hit thanks to his appearance alongside Eminem on Godzilla at the start of the year, the late Juice Wrld is this week at No.26 (18,824 sales) with Righteous, released by his family from tapes he had produced in his home studio before his death from an overdose at the end of 2019. It is the third Top 30 hit of his career.
Its production had to be finished in isolation, but the entirely apposite Living In A Ghost Town becomes the first chart single for The Rolling Stones in almost seven and a half years, bridging a chart gap stretching back to the No.61 peak of Doom And Gloom in November 2012. The new recording sits at No.63 with 7,998 chart sales to give the veteran group a span of brand-new hits which stretches back almost 57 years.
Singles sales stand at 20,871,089, down just 1.31% week on week. Paid sales slide slightly to 702,166, down 9.2% week on week, but they are still at levels comfortably above the historic lows they hit just a few weeks ago.
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