Drake’s God’s Plan claims a second week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart
Drake notches up a second week at Number 1 on this week’s Official Singles Chart with his latest single God’s Plan.
The track, one of two new songs released by the rapper and singer a fortnight ago, was streamed 7.6 million times (this week’s most streamed song) to bag a second week in pole position.
Drake makes two more appearances in this week’s Official Singles Chart; on Migos’ Walk It Talk It from his new album Culture II, new at Number 31, and at 36 with Diplomatic Immunity, the other new track from his Scary Hours EP.
Drake's music has been streamed over 2.5 billion times in the UK to date - check out his Official Top 40 most streamed songs here.
Meanwhile, rising star Ramz holds firm at Number 2 with his breakthrough hit Barking, and Eminem’s River ft. Ed Sheeran is at 3.
Completing this week’s Top 5 are Dua Lipa’s IDGAF, holding at 4, and Craig David’s I Know You ft. Bastille, up five places to Number 10.
New entries and high climbers
Norwegian singer and winner of BBC’s Sound Of 2018 Sigrid claims her first Top 10 single with Strangers, which rises four places to Number 10 and claims this week’s most purchased single. Close behind at 11 are Rudimental, who zoom 22 places with These Days ft. Jess Glynne and Macklemore.
Also making a big climb this week are US band Portugal. The Man with Feel It Still, which rises seven spots to a new peak at 13, and newcomer Mabel sees a ten-place boost for her new single Fine Line ft. Not3s at 22.
Further down, Liam Payne & Rita Ora’s For You rebounds six places to 23 following the release of the song’s music video, Justin Timberlake earns his 26th UK Top 40 hit with Say Something ft. Chris Stapleton at 32, and Birmingham rapper Mist makes his Top 40 debut with Game Changer, new at 35.
View this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full
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Mark Willmott
So Drake "sells" 60k yet 50k is from streams meaning 10k physical sales. Sigrid has physical sales of 14k but is number 10. Just seems a little unfair.
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RIME
There's always the raw sales rank. Really, it's more of a sign that direct sales are increasingly irrelevant to the current music business landscape: it'd be like getting upset in the US that the #1 selling single on CD doesn't even show up on the Hot 100, because it's a dead market. (ftr, that song this week was So Good by Lexy Panterra, which sold 6.6k copies, while it takes about 25k sales for a song to chart on the Hot 100 on them alone)
Mark Willmott
I see your point though I’m still not convinced about the streaming ratio. For example, Ed Sheeran is 18 based on the 300/1 ratio yet if it was 150/1 ratio like others, it would be number 3 this week. I know they need to get rid of older songs to allow newer ones but just wonder if there’s another way of doing that.
Zoltán Oskovits
Typo: Craig David is up 5 places to Number 5, not 10.
Piran
The #1 is okay, but I love seeing 'Strangers' enter the Top 10 & it's looking very likely that 'These Days' is going to get there next week which I'm looking forward to. :)
Of the three new entries inside the Top 40, 'Say Something' is good, the other two... not so much.