Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP claims Number 1 on Official Singles Chart
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion each celebrate their first UK Number 1 today as WAP takes the top spot on this week’s Official Singles Chart (Sept. 4).
After two weeks in the runner-up slot, WAP lifts from 2 to 1, notching up 65,000 charts sales – including 8.5 million streams – to take the crown. The track also marks the first ever female rap collaboration to go to Number 1 in the UK.
Cardi’s previous best on the UK chart was with Bruno Mars collaboration Finesse, which landed at Number 5 in 2018. For Megan, she tops the success of Savage, which peaked at Number 3 back in May.
WAP is only the second female-led single to reach Number 1 in the UK this year, following Lady Gaga’s Rain On Me ft. Ariana Grande in May. Before that, the last all-female collaboration to reach the summit with Jessie J, Ariana and Nicki Minaj’s Bang Bang in September 2014.
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US rapper and singer 24kGoldn makes a big climb with Mood ft. Iann Dior this week; the popular TikTok track leaps seven places to Number 4, marking the 19-year-old’s first UK Top 10 single. Another new track he features on, Clean Bandit & Mabel’s Tick Tock, zooms 16 spots to Number 20.
Elsewhere, rising star Tate McRae continues to climb with You Broke Me First, up nine places to 22, and Nines’ Airplane Mode ft. NSG vaults 19 rungs to 25 following the release of his newly-crowned Number 1 album Crabs In A Bucket, marking his highest charting single to date.
Further down, Calvin Harris & The Weeknd score the week’s highest new entry at Number 33 with Over Now, marking Calvin’s 35th Top 40 entry as a named artist and The Weeknd’s 23rd, and new Blackpink & Selena Gomez collaboration Ice Cream lands at Number 39.
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Augustus Doministrix
A true chart fan would agree streaming does not work being compiled in the main chart, end of. There should be 2 charts, one for sales (the way it used to be, the ACTUAL singles chart) and one for streaming. Then you wouldn’t get all this throwaway TikTok garbage coming in and polluting it for a start. Ever since Drake got 15 weeks at number 1 with that boring rubbish, Ed Sheeran had his whole album in the singles top 20 and among other ways it’s ruined the charts like making it stagnant and boring with songs staying in the same positions for weeks on end and it turning into a Spotify playlist instead of an actual singles chart and the OCC trying to rectify it and failing then being in denial, by changing the rules constantly to the charts to fit streaming into it and to try and adjust it but it has never worked.
They should be separated. Then this WAP wouldn’t be anywhere near the top spot I can assure you, especially after looking at the real sales chart. 👍
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Streaming does work but i think we shouldve abandoned it this week
Alfred Lock
To put it bluntly it's became the US Billboard Chart in the UK.Just add up the total of 40 tracks that are rap or grime for starters..very few pop ones like Harry Styles successful solo effort but rock is sadly dead right now and proper songwriting stars.
Augustus Doministrix
Alfred Lock Yeah exactly and no Justice streaming doesn’t work in the main chart at all, evidence is the number one :/
Augustus Doministrix
Joseph and that Most of the top 40 is bad now with the rap but nowhere near as bad as this, and no, it can’t be! ‘Cause guess what? Some of those people will just be listening to it to see what it’s like when they’ve never heard it before but that apparently counts as a sale towards the chart! Rather than real sales which meant if you bought a song it would actually mean you liked it! Know what I mean Joseph!!?? Not exactly fair is it?
Also all the hollow listens which are streams of this sh**e are mostly just teenagers in their bedrooms that lap up this degrading nonsense, it’s not even a song never mind anything else
The ageist OCC should realise teens aren’t the only demographic for the charts and the fact I have more downvotes proves that, more than likely from the insufferable teenager TikTok crowd which is where they get all this utter tuneless and tone deaf garbage.
It’s not even original, people do have their own opinions on music but this I don’t understand, it is just rancid.
They’re also both horrible people as well.
Also na, the sales chart is better, streaming means absolutely nothing. It’s just annoying and frustrating, from the day they first introduced it in.
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Zach
Do you really think all the numbers on ANY given track's streams is from people that enjoy the song? I've streamed so many songs that I end up not liking or caring for, and don't listen to later on. That can be said for any song controversial or not, so how would it not compare to anything else on the charts?
Augustus Doministrix
Zack Because they’re not real sales, that’s why. Someone can just stream a song over and over again, and it apparently breaks records set by songs which actually worked hard to sell units over the years, it just doesn’t compare. Hollow records. Listens shouldn’t be added to the singles chart, it’s not even a singles chart anymore. And millions of people streaming a song just to hear it for the first time shouldn’t be counted either. It’s not even for the fact this, thing is controversial, it’s just because it’s BAD.
Alfred Lock
Streaming summed up in one description......💩💩💩
Augustus Doministrix
Alfred Lock Exactly mate 😂😂😂👍
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
well done, cardi & megan. you both deserve it.
Piran
I really wish 'Head & Heart' stayed at #1, but congratulations to Cardi & Megan! :)
Augustus Doministrix
Absolute streamed in . Wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near the top spot with sales seeing as no one is buying this rubbish. Garbage.
NUFCMonk
Yup, Same goes for most of the Top40 these days..
Yolanda Merkel
Lmao, suffer!
JosephStyles11
Because people listening to a song absolutely CANNOT be a measure of its popularity!!! :o
JH
John Hawkins
Some people might listen to it once to hear what the 'controversy' is about.
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Zach
I've listened to *so* many songs once to only be like "nah I don't like this," and never stream it again. I imagine repeat streamers would generate more numbers for a track than the people that listen to it once and move on/don't add it to any playlists or anything.