DJ Khaled and Rihanna's Wild Thoughts dethrones Despacito from Official Singles Chart top spot
DJ Khaled has ended Despacito’s reign at the top to claim his second Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
Wild Thoughts – featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller - climbs a place to 1 after three weeks at Number 2. It gives the Miami producer his second Number 1 single this year, while Rihanna claims her ninth and first in almost four years, since 2013’s The Monster with Eminem.
Rihanna also matches Abba and Spice Girls’ tally of chart-toppers and becomes only the tenth act to claim nine or more Number 1s on the Official Singles Chart.
Wild Thoughts samples Santana’s Maria Maria, which peaked at Number 6 in 2000.
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Meanwhile, rapper/singer French Montana holds at 3 with Unforgettable ft. Swae Lee, Calvin Harris’ Feels ft. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and Big Sean is at 4, and Jonas’s Blue’s Mama ft. William Singe logs a fourth week in the Top 5 at 5.
New entries and high climbers
Little Mix rebound two spots to 8 with their latest single Power ft. Stormzy, Crying In The Club by former Fifth Harmony singer Camila Cabello reaches a new peak of 13, and Imagine Dragons crack the Top 20 with Thunder, up four places to 20.
This week’s highest new entry comes from The Script – Rain opens at Number 26, their first Top 40 entry since No Good In Goodbye peaked at the same position in November 2014.
Further down, Demi Lovato zooms 42 places to Number 27 with her latest track Sorry Not Sorry, her tenth UK Top 40 hit, while her collaboration with Jax Jones, Instruction, lifts six spots to 32.
Selena Gomez lands at Number 33 with her new single Fetish ft. Gucci Mane, Dua Lipa vaults 39 places to Number 37 with New Rules, and UK rappers Yungen and Yxng Bane make their Top 40 debut with Bestie, up 17 places to Number 38.
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Kirk Bottoms
Just to say though Despacito is not number 1 however when we listen or read chart up date. The moment on itunes top 10 number 1 is despactio as a single and also same song is at number 10 because it has been downloaded from now 97 so i hope chart update dont have the 2 songs. Matt terry got a catch song which could easily be the next despacito
prapo100
Another one
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MendoKS
Love Dua Lipa's New Rules.
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Scott Harris
Thank God! Not a big fan of "Wild Thoughts", but at least it finally put a stop to "Despacito"! Hoping it will do the same in the US, just so the latter doesn't last 16 weeks at #1.
JJ
Jack James
It may last longer than 16 weeks in America it's points are still in the 600s.
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Mick Lynch
Very disappointed with the OCC. You've let yourselves down really badly here. Everybody and everything should be treated equally. Surely you were thought that when you were younger? You've ruined the charts and made it the laughing stock. A sad day.
JJ
Jack James
Bryan Adams record will forever be safe now.
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Mick Lynch
Yeah jack, was thinking that earlier (and Frankie Laines will never be surpassed)
JJ
Jack James
Do you think America needs some kind of rule change as well?
Agenor Mark
So OC gives #1 to "Wild Thoughts" even though "Despacito" had 15k more units last week. They couldn't come up with a more stupid rule than this.
JJ
Jack James
Thank goodness Ed Sheeran released 4 months before this rule change.
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RIME
The chart has two metrics: sales and streaming. Song A leads sales. Song A leads streaming. Song B is number one. Putting aside petty hate towards artists, does no one see the problem here? The numbers were published: Despacito is the number one this week, the new rule is so arbitrary that it does not deserve respect.
Zoltán Oskovits
When did the rules change?
JJ
Jack James
I don't care what song it is as long as it's not Despacito.