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.


Everybody dance now: Tones And I eases to eighth week at summit


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With consumption slipping 0.18% week-on-week to 82,796 units (including 73,897 from sales-equivalent streams), the track is nevertheless still way ahead of Don’t Start Now – No.2 for the third straight week for Dua Lipa (54,604 sales) – and Everything I Wanted, which opens at No.3 (47,488 sales), becoming Billie Eilish’s ninth hit and third Top 10 entry. The Top 3 thus consists entirely of solo female artists for only the fifth time in 1,038 chart weeks in the 21st century. Dance Monkey is now the longest-running No.1 by a solo female since I Will Always Love You lingered for 10 weeks for Whitney Houston in 1992/93 (Rihanna’s Umbrella also did a 10-week stint in 2007, but features Jay-Z). A viral hit on video social media site TikTok, Roxanne continues its rapid growth for Arizona Zervas, surging 24-10 (29,428 sales).


Increasing consumption for the eighth week in a row, Memories reaches a new peak for Maroon 5, and becomes their eighth Top 5 hit, advancing 6-5 (34,942 sales). Bruises bounces 10-6 (34,080 sales), to equal the peak it scaled four weeks ago for Lewis Capaldi, who also scores his fifth hit with Before You Go – one of the new tracks on the extended edition of his album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, which dropped on Friday – opening at No.19 (23,189 sales), less than three days after being released. The rest of the Top 10: Ride It (3-4, 38,540 sales) by


Regard, South Of The Border (4-7, 33,421 sales) by Ed Sheeran feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B, Good As Hell (9-8, 31,121 sales) by Lizzo and Lose You To Love Me (8-9, 30,743 sales) by Selena Gomez. Circles (7-11, 29,365 sales) by Post Malone and Must Be (5-13, 26,002 sales) by J Hus vacate the Top 10. Canadian rapper Tory Lanez’s new album Chixtape 5 is out, and generating enough streams for its most popular track, Jerry Sprunger (feat. T-Pain) to jump 56-32 (15,643 sales), while supplying his seventh and eighth hits, The Take (feat. Chris Brown, No.47, 10,794 sales) and Beauty In The Benz (feat. Snoop Dogg, No.70, 7,417 sales). Brown has now had 60 hits, and Snoop Dogg 39.


Watermelon Sugar debuts at No.35 (15,147 sales). It is Harry


Styles’ eighth solo hit and 37th hit in total, including One Direction tracks. No.14 for Taylor Swift in September, Lover re-enters at No.38 (13,179 sales) following the release of a new mix featuring Shawn Mendes. Also back is the first of the


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Dance Monkey is now the longest-running


No.1 by a female solo artist in over 25 years


ritten about her time as a busker, Dance Monkey spends its eighth consecutive week at No.1 for Tones And I – Australian


No.1 Tones And I - Dance Monkey (Parlophone)


This week’s sales: 82,796 | Downloads: 8,899 | Streams: 73,897 | Total sales to date: 766,182 |


Christmas evergreens to show this year, All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. Despite the burden of ACR – without which it would be No.29 – the track jumps 77-59 on consumption of 8,923 units. Its consumption up for the 12th week in a row, it is back a week earlier than last year to seal its 13th straight year in the chart. Its consumption in the first 46 weeks of 2019, at 55,914 units, is up 36.33% on the same period in 2018, far out-performing a market that has seen consumption increase 14.75%.


The other members of the Christmas Big 3 are likewise engorged: The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl’s The Fairytale Of New York is up 26.75% at 38,474, and Wham!s Last Christmas is up 39.16% at 45,067. Starting in 2012, rapper Blackbear released 75 tracks before Hot Girl Bummer became his first hit in October. It reaches a new peak this week, climbing 19-14 (25,433 sales) while Tongue Tied (No.62, 8,398 sales), his collaboration with Marshmello & Yungblud, opens at No.62 (8,398 sales). There are also new peaks for: Pump It Up (36-29, 17,013 sales) by Endor, Gangsta (34-33, 15,548 sales) by Darkoo & One Acen, Better Half Of Me (40-39, 13,165 sales) by Tom Walker, We Got Love (44-43, 12,280 sales) by Sigala feat. Ella Henderson and Woah (69-66, 7,981 sales) by Lil Baby. Overall singles sales are up 4.58% week-on-week at a record 19,407,290, 18.18% above same week 2018 sales of 16,422,328. Paid-for sales are down 0.83% week-on-week at 561,437 – 29.17% below same week 2018 sales of 792,655.


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