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Tones and I's Dance Monkey sets new chart record as longest-running Number 1 single by a female artist
Plus a string of Christmas favourite climb this week's Official Singles Chart Top 40.
By Rob Copsey
Tones and I dances into the record books this week as Dance Monkey scores an 11th week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
The Australian singer-songwriter now claims the longest-running Number 1 single by a female artist in UK chart history. The feat was previously jointly held at 10 weeks by Rihanna’s Umbrella (2007) and Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You (1992).
With just one week to go until this year’s Official Christmas Number 1 is announced, can Tones and I hold on at the top for just one more week? There’s lots of contenders in the running for the festive top spot, which will be revealed by Official Charts on Friday, December 20.
Watch Tones and I celebrate Dance Monkey's huge success below:
MORE: Every Official Number 1 in UK chart history
Meanwhile, Stormzy’s Own It ft. Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy climbs one place to Number 2, and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You – which was beaten to Christmas Number 1 25 years ago this week – advances two spots to Number 6. Last Christmas by Wham! also races into the Top 10 for a fourth consecutive year, up six places to Number 7.
Ellie Goulding’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s Christmas folk song River leaps six rungs to Number 8, earning the singer her 11th UK Top 10, and Harry Styles narrowly misses out on a Top 10 debut with Adore You at Number 11.
11 more Christmas favourites – both old and new – feature in this week’s Top 40, three of which climb into the Top 20: The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York ft. Kirst MacColl (14), Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas (15) and Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (16).
Further down, there’s Elton John’s Step Into Christmas (24); Michael Bublé’s It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (25); Leona Lewis’s One More Sleep (29); Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me (31); Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (32); Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (34); Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody (36); Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree (39).
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Brownie Sims
Tones and I is 19, two years younger than Shawn Mendes, however her music is in the WRONG era unlike Mendes'
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Nick O'leary
Flashback Tones and I , January 2015 https://youtu.be/chhycTbKk8M
Adrian Wayne Reavill
Taylor Swift only reached number 71. I thought Christmas Tree Farm would make the Top 40
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Scott Harris
I fear that next week LadBaby will be coming for the Christmas #1 spot like last year.
Rob Parkinson
I wouldnt be too fearful mate
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Scott Harris
Do you have insights on next week's sales then?
dentboy100
Bookies have Ed and Stormzy second favs , I guess they must be selling lots
thierry henon
I was expecting after the tragic death from Marie: Roxette to see IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE back into the Top 100!!
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Katie Tay
I did not know she had died. I am truly shocked. I loved roxette
jaxxalude
Like I told some people this year, Ariana's "Santa Tell Me" is slowly but surely becoming a holiday standard. And moreso from now on, as since its original release (2014) she's gone from strength to strength.
Piran
Looks like multiple records are being broken on both the singles & albums charts this week!
We don't know if 'Dance Monkey' fell on sales nor streams this week according to OCC, but tracking its performance across the board, I think it probably has declined on overall performance! If that's the case, then it'll go on ACR, which would put 'Own It' as the main Christmas #1 with Stormzy's album coming out today, since I don't see LadBaby getting there again despite huge first day sales.
I'm surprised 'River' (nor all the other Christmas songs for that matter) weren't higher this week, especially given the Spotify & YouTube numbers, but 15 festive hits inside the Top 40 is still a massive impact regardless!
I'm surprised Juice WRLD didn't get any re-entries due to his tragic death on Sunday.
jaxxalude
The onslaught of Xmas. songs probably contributed to the lack of Juice WRLD, methinks.
Piran
True, I guess it could also be that 'Lucid Dreams' is Juice WRLD's only big hit in the UK.