Lil Dicky and Chris Brown's Freaky Friday claims Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart
Congratulations to Lil Dicky, who scores his first Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart today with Freaky Friday (April 6).
The comic rapper’s track, which features Chris Brown, climbs from 5 to 1, overtaking mid-week leader This Is Me by Keala Settle/Greatest Showman Cast to take the top spot, with 4.6 million streams logged this week.
Freaky Friday first entered at Number 16 three weeks ago and has zoomed up the Official Singles Chart thanks in part to its viral music video, which sees the pair trading lives like the coming of age cult classic film of the same name.
Lil Dicky is the first comedian to top the Official Singles Chart in almost nine years; the last was Peter Kay and his animated All Star Band for Children In Need in 2009 - read more on chart-topping comedians here. Meanwhile, Chris Brown claims his second UK Number 1 single, after Turn Up The Music reached the top spot in 2012. Look at Chris Brown’s complete Official UK Chart history here.
Freaky Friday pushes last week’s Number 1, Rudimental’s These Days, down to Number 2 after one week at the top, and This Is Me rebounds five places to Number 3.
New entries and high climbers
This week’s highest new entry goes to The Weeknd who, following the surprise release of his new album My Dear Melancholy, sees three of its tracks land inside the Top 40: Call Out My Name at Number 7, Try Me at 17 and Wasted Times at 18.
Further down, Yxng Bane’s Vroom lifts four places to 36, and two songs return to the Top 40: Dua Lipa’s New Rules 37, and Jason Derulo’s Tip Toes ft. French Montana at 40.
Look back at every Official UK Number 1 single here. You can also listen to every chart-topper in our playlist on Spotify and Deezer.
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MAG
Drake just released a song let's see what will be the charts next week
I.B.
Why does our chart swiftly move on with number one singles while most other countries are stuck with Drake? Other countries need to adopt our chart rules and be more firm with the streaming trend.
Jason B
What, include streaming figures to bump up the sales figures due to embarrassingly low paid for downloads? pffff!!!, makes a farcity of it all.
Piran
I'm surprised that Chris Brown has only had two #1 singles, but anyway, it's awesome to finally see a comedy song at #1 in the charts again! :D
Marcothedonjuan
This is Me went form no. 8 to no. 3 this week like it just came out...lol.
Alfred Lock
Didn't expect this to top the charts.must hear it as it is something you won't hear on Radio2
Piran
I don't think many people did to be honest, but the video definitely helped it get there too!
Capital seems to be the station that's playing it the most at the moment.
Piran
I think it rebounded thanks to being played on "The Real Full Monty" last week, which is a charity show that features female celebrities.