chartsanalysis week 17 Singles number 1
Clean Bandit Ft. Zara Larsson Symphony
BY ALAN JONES D
ethroned for the second time, Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You slips to No.2 (45,608 sales), as Clean Bandit rack up their third No.1 in total, and second in a row with Symphony. A collaboration with Swedish singer Zara Larsson, for whom it is the first No.1, Symphony looked to be in trouble when it slipped 3-4 a fortnight ago, with its sales in decline but upped its game to climb to No.2 last week, and reaches No.1 with sales up 18.33% week-on-week at 54,223 (including 30,223 from streams). While it is likely that sustained radio support for Symphony - which tops the radio airplay chart for the fourth straight week - has helped, it will certainly have benefitted from being reduced from 99p to 83p on Juno, 79p on Google Play, 69p at Amazon and 59p on iTunes for the last two weeks, although having reached No.1 it returned to full price on Friday. Clean Bandit’s last single Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul and Anne-Marie), which spent nine weeks at No.1 between November last year and January, is a full 99p everywhere and moves 57-59 (9,288 sales) on its 27th week on the chart. Rockabye’s reign was, of course, ended by Shape Of You, so Symphony’s coronation provides sweet revenge over Sheeran. Also sale-priced during the week, Swalla (15-6, 29,167 sales) becomes Jason Derulo’s 12th Top 10 hit, and featured artists Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign’s 11th and second, respectively. A new addition to his Illuminate album - which sprints 92-39 (2,182 sales) this week - There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back leaps 143-7 (28,547 sales) to become the fourth Top 10 hit for Shaun Mendes.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, Galway Girl (3-3, 39,291 sales) by Ed Sheeran, Sign Of The Times (4-4, 34,807 sales) by Harry Styles, Passionfruit (5-5, 29,680 sales) by Drake and Solo Dance (8-8, 28,479) by Martin Jensen are static, while Something Just Like This (7-9, 25,857 sales) by The Chainsmokers & Coldplay and Humble (6- 10, 25,024 sales) by Kendrick Lamar decline. Exiting from the Top 10 are Stay (9-11, 24,599
sales) by Zedd & Alessia Cara and Issues (10-13, 23,568 sales) by Julia Michaels. After Laughter is the forthcoming fifth album by Paramore, and from it first single Hard Times jumps 144-34 (16,231 sales) to become the band’s seventh Top 40 hit but their first in four years.
Also released a little too late to make much MUSIC Week
impact last week, Lust For Life is the title track from Lana Del Rey’s upcoming album and advances 169-38 (14,453 sales) on its first full week of availability. Del Rey’s 14th Top 75 entry, it is her second with The Weeknd, coming five months after Stargirl Interlude (from his Starboy album), reached No.73. It is his 26th chart entry. Charlie Puth is readying his second album for release, and from it first single Attention debuts at No.50 (11,294 sales), while rapper Lil Uzi Vert makes his first Top 75 appearance with his viral US Top 10 single XO Tour Llif3 (95-70, 7,385 sales)
Climbers reaching new peaks: That’s What I Like (13-12, 24,123 sales) by Bruno Mars, No More Sad Songs (16-15, 22,643 sales) by Little Mix, Skin (17-16, 22,598 sales) by Rag’N’Bone Man, The Cure (23-19, 20,978 sales) by Lady Gaga, Did You See (34-20, 19,776 sales) by J Hus, Despacito (70-22, 19,613 sales) by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee and an uncredited (by OCC) Justin Bieber, Unforgettable (63-24, 19,027 sales) by French Montana feat. Swae Lee, On My Mind (31-28, 18,124 sales) by Disciples, No Promises (48-39, 12,947 sales) by Cheat Codes feat. Demi Lovato, iSpy (51-42, 12,422 sales) by Kyle feat. Lil Yachty and Good Life (62-56, 9,780 sales) by G-Eazy & Kehlani.
No.37 on debut in March, Steps’ Scared Of The Dark leaps 140-44 (11,946 sales). It might have improved on its peak had it been released on vinyl - their new album Tears On The Dancefloor, which opens at No.2, surprisingly sold 1,110 copies in the format to debut at No.7 on the vinyl album chart this week. Record Store Day brought an avalanche of new and reissued vinyl, with 39 of the Top 40 titles in the vinyl singles chart being new or re-entries. The top seven titles sold more than 1,000 copies, with David Bowie’s No Plan - the only survivor from last week’s vinyl chart - jumping 8-1 on sales of 5,711 copies. The Smiths’ The Boy With The Thorn In His Side is No.2 with 3,222 sales.
Overall singles sales are up 5.09% week-on-week at 13,061,308, 30.23% above same week 2016 sales of 10,029,790. Streams accounted for 11,702,013 sales, 89.59% of the total. Paid-for sales are up 1.73% week-on-week at 1,359,295 – 36.42% below same week 2016 sales of 2,137,991 and below same-week, previous-year sales for the 195th week in a row. Vinyl sales jumped 2484.85% week-on-week from 2,284 to 59,038, snaring a 4.34% share of the paid-for market, while cassette sales were up from zero to 273.
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