No real surprise that Ed has reclaimed the Number 1 spot this week from Harry Styles, as "Sign Of The Times" becomes the first single week chart topper in 62 weeks. The last one - Harry's ex bandmate Zayn, whose "Pillowtalk" spent a single week at Number 1 way back on 5th February 2016.
"Shape Of You" has now totalled 14 weeks atop the Singles chart equalling the total of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", putting it behind only "I Believe" (18 weeks), "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" (16 weeks), "Love Is All Around" (15 weeks) & "One Dance (also 15 weeks).
Here is Mr Sheeran with "Shape Of You".
Moving up one place to 2, is Clean Bandit & Zara Larsson with "Symphony". It equals Ms Larsson's highest chart placing so far, achieved at the start of this year by "I Would Like".
Still at 3, and with 7 weeks in the Top 3 is Ed's "Galway Girl", while dropping to 4 is last week's chart topper from Harry Styles.
Static at 5 is Drake with "Passionfruit", while up 25 places to 6, so becoming this week's highest climber, is US rapper Kendrick Lamar with "Humble". Taken from his album "Damn" which debuts at Number 2 on the Album chart this week, "Humble" gives Lamar his first UK Top 10 hit as a soloist - his previous highest entry was the Number 20 position reached by his track "I" back in November 2014. He has, however, reached the Top 10 as a featured artist on 3 occasions - with Taylor Swift on "Bad Blood" (Number 4 in May 2015), with Sia on "The Greatest" (Number 5 in September 2016) and with Maroon 5 on "Don't Wanna Know" (Number 5 in December 2016).
So here is Kendrick with "Humble".
The next three tracks all drop one place this week - "Something Just Like This" by Chainsmokers & Coldplay drop t0 7, "Solo Dance" by Martin Jensen to 8 & "Stay" by Zedd and Alessia Cara to 9.
We end the Top 10, with a climb of one place for Julia Michaels with "Issues", which returns to the Top 10 for a second week.
Outside the Top 10, climbing another 9 places after 8 weeks on the chart, this is Jason Derulo, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign with "Swalla".
"Shape Of You" has now totalled 14 weeks atop the Singles chart equalling the total of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", putting it behind only "I Believe" (18 weeks), "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" (16 weeks), "Love Is All Around" (15 weeks) & "One Dance (also 15 weeks).
Here is Mr Sheeran with "Shape Of You".
Moving up one place to 2, is Clean Bandit & Zara Larsson with "Symphony". It equals Ms Larsson's highest chart placing so far, achieved at the start of this year by "I Would Like".
Still at 3, and with 7 weeks in the Top 3 is Ed's "Galway Girl", while dropping to 4 is last week's chart topper from Harry Styles.
Static at 5 is Drake with "Passionfruit", while up 25 places to 6, so becoming this week's highest climber, is US rapper Kendrick Lamar with "Humble". Taken from his album "Damn" which debuts at Number 2 on the Album chart this week, "Humble" gives Lamar his first UK Top 10 hit as a soloist - his previous highest entry was the Number 20 position reached by his track "I" back in November 2014. He has, however, reached the Top 10 as a featured artist on 3 occasions - with Taylor Swift on "Bad Blood" (Number 4 in May 2015), with Sia on "The Greatest" (Number 5 in September 2016) and with Maroon 5 on "Don't Wanna Know" (Number 5 in December 2016).
So here is Kendrick with "Humble".
The next three tracks all drop one place this week - "Something Just Like This" by Chainsmokers & Coldplay drop t0 7, "Solo Dance" by Martin Jensen to 8 & "Stay" by Zedd and Alessia Cara to 9.
We end the Top 10, with a climb of one place for Julia Michaels with "Issues", which returns to the Top 10 for a second week.
Outside the Top 10, climbing another 9 places after 8 weeks on the chart, this is Jason Derulo, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign with "Swalla".
Straight in at 18 this week, is the aforementioned Kendrick Lamar, who has 11 tracks on this week's listing from his latest album. He also joins the select club of artists who have spent 100 weeks on the UK Singles chart.
This is the first of the 10 new entries from him, this is "DNA".
Also new in at 23 is the new one from Lady Gaga with her 22nd UK hit single.
This is "The Cure".
New at 27 is another track from the Kendrick Lamar album - "Loyalty" which features Rihanna, while also new at 34, he's there again with "Element".
Up seven places to 34 this week, it's congratulation to Stratford-born rapper Momodou Jallow (AKA J Hus), who gets his first UK Top 40 hit.
This is "Did You See".
Outside the 40, apart from more new entries from Kendrick Lamar, not much is happening, although more congratulations are in order for Demi Lovato, at Number 48 this week with Cheat Codes and "No Promises" as she, like Lamar, hits 100 weeks on the UK Singles chart this week.
Well done to Demi, and so here she is singing on "No Promises".
As usual, I finish with tracks from the US & UK Number 1 albums. No surprise in the UK as Ed Sheeran makes it seven consecutive weeks at the top with "Divide". Ironically, the last album to have a longer unbroken run at the top is Ed's previous album "Multiply", which spent 8 weeks at the top in July/August 2014. He has now spent a total of 24 weeks at Number 1 across his three albums.
From the album, the track which is at Number 3 on the singles chart, this is "Galway Girl".
In the US, Drake gets his fourth week at Number 1 with "More Life". (Un)fortunately he has not released any videos for any of the tracks, so we have to end there.
UK NUMBER 1's/NUMBER 2's ON THIS DAY
1 year ago - One Dance - Drake featuring WizKid & Kyla/Cheap Thrills - Sia
5 years ago - Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen/Can't Say No - Conor Maynard
10 years ago - Beautiful Liar - Beyoncé & Shakira/Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys
20 years ago - I Believe I Can Fly - R Kelly/Old Before I Die - Robbie Williams
30 years ago - La Isla Bonita - Madonna/Can't Be With You Tonight - Judy Boucher
40 years ago - Knowing Me Knowing You - Abba/Red Light Spells Danger - Billy Ocean
50 years ago - Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw/Somethin' Stupid - Nancy & Frank Sinatra
60 years ago - Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan/Young Love - Tab Hunter
US NUMBER 1's ON THIS DAY
1 year ago - Work - Rihanna featuring Drake/Panda - Desiigner
5 years ago - Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra/We Are Young - fun featuring Janelle Monae
10 years ago - Give It To Me - Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake/Don't Matter - Akon
20 years ago - Hypnotize - The Notorious BIG/Can't Nobody Hold Me Down - Puff Daddy featuring Mase
30 years ago - (I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew/Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley
40 years ago - Southern Nights - Glen Campbell/Hotel California - Eagles
50 years ago - Somethin' Stupid - Nancy & Frank Sinatra/A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - The Monkees
1 year ago - Work - Rihanna featuring Drake/Panda - Desiigner
5 years ago - Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra/We Are Young - fun featuring Janelle Monae
10 years ago - Give It To Me - Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake/Don't Matter - Akon
20 years ago - Hypnotize - The Notorious BIG/Can't Nobody Hold Me Down - Puff Daddy featuring Mase
30 years ago - (I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew/Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley
40 years ago - Southern Nights - Glen Campbell/Hotel California - Eagles
50 years ago - Somethin' Stupid - Nancy & Frank Sinatra/A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - The Monkees
Don't forget you can see all the latest UK & US Top 40 videos on my YouTube channel - Chart Blog UK
Tune in next week to see if Ed can make it 15 weeks at the top in total at the top.
Until then, for anyone living in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales, you can here my dulcet tones as guest co-presenter on the Gareth Long show on Bro Radio (98.1 FM), every Tuesday between 7 & 9 pm. For the rest of you, see you next week.
Bye!!
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