Drake holds off Rudimental to claim a ninth week at Number 1

George Ezra hits the Top 5, while there are big climbers from Bebe Rexha and Sigala.
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God’s Plan by Drake has secured a ninth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.

The Canadian’s latest single joins 20 other songs in the Official Chart’s 66-year history to have logged nine or more weeks at the top. God’s Plan is the star’s second hit to achieve this after his 2016 summer smash One Dance spent 15 weeks at the summit. View the longest reigning Official Singles Chart Number 1 hits here.

Rudimental’s These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen put up another good fight this week, finishing just 3,200 combined sales behind Drake at Number 2. In turn, the song has now matched an Official Chart record for the most weeks spent at Number 2; These Days shares this feat with All-4-One’s 1994 hit I Swear, and the 2011 single Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera.

Elsewhere in this week’s Top 5, George Ezra score his highest chart entry since July 2014, as Paradise climbs seven places to Number 5. Lullaby is now Paloma’s highest charting track since Changing with Sigma debuted at Number 1 in September 2014.

New entries and high climbers

Bebe Rexha’s country crossover hit Meant To Be ft. Florida Georgia Line continues to climb, up eight places to Number 12 this week. One slot behind are Sigala & Paloma Faith with Lullaby, up six to 13. Lullaby is now Paloma’s highest charting track since Changing with Sigma debuted at Number 1 in September 2014.

US rapper and comedian Lil Dicky and Chris Brown score this week’s highest new entry with Freaky Friday at Number 16, plus XXXTentacion makes two appearances in the Top 40 this week, at Number 20 with Sad! (up eight places) and Number 31 with Moonlight (new).

Finally, girl group M.O vault four places with Bad Vibe ft. Lotto Boyz and Mr. Eazi (23), while Love Lies by Khalid and Normani, taken from the upcoming Love, Simon film, climbs six rungs to Number 24.

View this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full here

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Asoma Monga Joel

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If you're reading this, it's already too late because Drake has hit it again and this time is under God's Plan. I am here to see him topping for another six weeks atop of the UK Charts to match his 2016' song One Dance

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Piran

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Even though 'These Days' keeps getting denied of #1 on the Official Chart, I think it has a very good chance of being in at least the Top 5 on the chart of the year, maybe even as high as second!
I love those big climbs for 'Meant To Be' & 'Lullaby'! Hopefully they reach the Top 10 next week. :)

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Marcothedonjuan

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The last time Drake did this run was with One Dance (with a massive 15 consecutive weeks). Do you remember who was the only one to stop his run at no. 1? Justin Bieber with my jam Cold Water. Justin interrupted Drake matching Bryan Adam's 16 week record for (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. And it would be kind of hilarious if he does it again. :)

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Ted

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Even though I don't like These Days- it does deserve even just 1 week at #1, it's incredible that it's stayed at #2 for this long! Next week is probably it's last chance at the top spot, as Drake is going to be affected by ACR for sure, and George Ezra's Paradise, while a strong contender for the next #1, doesn't seem to be doing so well in streaming, although the release of his album will help.

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Foxes

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Well Justin is releasing new music soon, so it could definitely be possible!

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Asoma Monga Joel

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I am absolutely agreeing with your views on here. Drake have been unstoppable lately

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Piran

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Yeah, 'These Days' should also get hit by ACR soon too! 'Paradise' is well ahead of it on sales by now (thanks to a discount & album release), but it's struggling to catch up on streaming. 'Feel It Still' probably has a slightly better chance right now.
Speaking of which, I wonder if 'Staying At Tamara's' can dethrone 'The Greatest Showman' over on the albums chart next week...

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Piran

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That would be hilarious, but I don't see JB releasing new music any time soon.
When do you see his next album coming out then, or at least the lead single from it?

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Declan Marr

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Hey I know you said before you liked God's Plan and don't like These Days (and each to their own of course 😋) but I'm the total opposite, I love These Days, the fact it's such a feelgood song with actual instrumental music, whereas I hate God's Plan, I just don't get how anyone could like it :/ it's just not music, it's Drake doing what he always does, mumbling while some computerised beat plays over it 😑 That's of course fine if you do like it though, as I said they're just opinions but you did say you haven't read a bad review of God's Plan when you checked Twitter, well when I've been on I've actually read nothing BUT bad reviews of it on Twitter and Facebook (among other things) and the fact that this streaming nonsense is keeping it there (much like the awful One Dance) when no-one is actually buying it, keeping actual good music from reaching the very top summit of the charts. I just think, is anyone at all going to remember this thing being at number one for 9 (fake) weeks in 10 years time? Will anyone even remember the "song"? No, of course not. I just think it cheapens the chart really with all this. 😔 Especially when I read so many agree on the Facebook comments when this happens week upon week on the OCC's weekly chart articles.

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Ted

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These Days is by no means a bad song- it's just that by Rudimental's standards, it's one of their worst. Feel The Love, Waiting All Night, and Bloodstream are miles ahead of it, and I'm hoping These Days is just a song they specifically made to be a hit. I hope the rest of their next album is mainly comprised of what they're good at, drum and bass + dance music, not the more pop sound that These Days is! And there's nothing wrong with pop songs, but These Days is a pretty average and boring one.

Besides, you'll get the number 1 you want next week... Drake, while still doing much better than Rudimental in streams overall, has been slowly declining over the past few weeks, and as a result is going to be hit by the ACR rule- which will see his sales total halved. He'll probably be at #7 come Friday, and it'll be either Rudimental or George Ezra with Paradise at the top- I'm definitely rooting for Ezra to get his very first #1 as Rudimental have already had 2 anyway, and I do quite like Paradise!