Driving instructor: Olivia Rodrigo
ANALYSIS AT THE DRIVE-IN
Music Week digs into the month’s top chart stories...
Olivia Rodrigo DRIVERS LICENSE (GEFFEN/POLYDOR) SALES: 226,582
When Polydor told Music Week that January’s blockbuster performance was just the beginning for Olivia Rodrigo and Drivers License, they weren’t wrong. With 226,582 February sales to add to its 297,751 in January, the Disney star’s debut single has now sold 524,333 copies in total. Its seventh first place finish in February’s final frame meant that Drivers License had the longest uninterrupted run at the top of the charts since Tones & I’s 11-week spell at the end of 2019 with Dance Monkey. To date, Drivers License has 62,132,337 streams across audio and video in the UK. Chart week six brought a brief wobble, when the song briefly lost its lead to Little Tjay and 6lack’s Calling My Phone, but order was quickly restored.
SEA CHANGE SALES: 146,121
The hit that emerged from the TikTok sea shanty trend is showing staying power. Nathan Evans’ debut single is No.2 overall for February with 146,121 sales for the remix version by 220 Kid and Billen Ted. Wellerman’s total sales so far since debuting on the weekly singles chart at No.3 in January are 175,370. The former postman from Airdrie is now making big plans after signing to UTA, including a UK and Irish tour in December. With consumption still growing as February came to a close, it’s still a contender for the monthly No.1 in March.
CALLING THE SHOTS
LIL TJAY & 6LACK CALLING MY PHONE (COLUMBIA/INTERSCOPE)
SALES: 88,323 10
While far from the only TikTok-powered single to shoot up the charts in February, Calling My Phone came closest to debuting at No.1, landing in week seven with 50,617 sales, the highest of any No.2 single this year as Music Week went to press. The collab between New York rapper Lil Tjay and Baltimore singer/rapper 6lack went on to rack up 12,578,637 audio and video streams to go with more than 138,000 videos on TikTok. This one will stick around.
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NATHAN EVANS, 220 KID & BILLEN TED WELLERMAN (POLYDOR)
PLAY TIME
ANNE-MARIE, KSI & DIGITAL FARM ANIMALS DON’T PLAY (ATLANTIC)
SALES: 120,494 04 Pressing play: Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie’s second album is coming, and the runaway success of her collaboration with KSI and Digital Farm Animals is laying strong foundations indeed. With 120,494 sales for the month of February, the track now boasts 186,756 in total, and would have hit No.1 were it not for the might of Olivia Rodrigo and Drivers License. Its No.2 peak represents a career high for the Atlantic singer, whose previous highest placing came with 2002 (1,734,049), which hit No.3 in 2018.
GOOSE CHASE
TRAVIS SCOTT & HVME GOOSEBUMPS (B1/MINISTRY OF SOUND)
SALES: 87,688 11
Phone home: Lil Tjay (left) and 6lack
Spanish producer Hvme’s remix of Travis Scott’s Goosebumps surfaced last summer and has been rising up the singles chart in 2021. Peaking at No.9 so far, it sold 87,688 copies in February and now has 200,212 sales in total. Attributed solely to Hvme until February’s final chart week, it is now officially a co-credit after the OCC acknowledged Scott’s original, making it the rapper’s fourth Top 10 single.
FRIDAY FEELING
RITON X NIGHTCRAWLERS (FEAT. MUFASA & HYPEMAN) FRIDAY (MINSTRY OF SOUND) SALES: 79,105
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Dance bangers are enjoying a purple patch, with Friday – by DJ Riton, the Nightcrawlers and viral dancers Mufasa and Hypeman – leading the way. A total of 79,105 sales make it No.18 for the month, and there’s another ’90s clubland staple in its wake. ATB’s 9pm Til I Come is at the heart of Your Love (No.33), which is also credited to Topic and A7s and sold 54,163 copies in February.
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