Aitch’s Baby ft. Ashanti grappling for Number 1 with Dave’s reigning hit Starlight
It could be a clash of the UK rap titans on the Official Singles Chart this week as Aitch sits at Number 1 on the Official Chart: First Look with Baby ft. Ashanti.
The Manchester rapper is taking on reigning Number 1, Starlight by Dave – and as things stand the songs are neck-and-neck after 48 hours with just a small handful of chart sales separating the two tracks. If Aitch can hold on to his current position it will mark his first ever UK Number 1, and Ashanti’s second.
Meanwhile, Jax Jones could claim a new peak with Where Did You Go? ft. MNEK, up one place to Number 6 on today’s First Look.
Tiesto & Ava Max are eyeing up the Top 10 with The Motto, up three spots to Number 10 after 48 hours. If they keep this momentum The Motto will mark Tiesto’s 5th Top 10 hit in the UK and Ava Max’s second, following her breakout hit Sweet But Psycho which spent four weeks at Number 1 in January 2019.
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Further down, Joel Corry, David Guetta and Bryson Tiller could rocket into the Top 20 with What Would You Do?, currently up 16 places to Number 15.
Also tracking to enter the Top 20 for the first time is Run by Becky Hill & Galantis, up nine places to 16, and Tate McRae’s She’s All I Wanna Be, up four to Number 17.
The Official Chart: First Look offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead of Friday’s Official Singles Chart Top 100. The chart is based on preliminary sales and early streaming reports.
The Official Singles Chart Top 100 is revealed on OfficialCharts.com every Friday at 5.45pm. Follow the Top 40 countdown live on BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart show with Scott Mills.
Official Chart: First Look Top 20 - 27 March 2022
| LW | CURRENT | TITLE | ARTIST |
| 2 | 1 | BABY | AITCH/ASHANTI |
| 1 | 2 | STARLIGHT | DAVE |
| 3 | 3 | PERU | FIREBOY DML & ED SHEERAN |
| 4 | 4 | WHERE ARE YOU NOW | LOST FREQUENCIES/CALUM SCOTT |
| 5 | 5 | MAKE ME FEEL GOOD | BELTERS ONLY FT JAZZY |
| 7 | 6 | WHERE DID YOU GO | JAX JONES FT MNEK |
| 6 | 7 | DOWN UNDER | LUUDE FT COLIN HAY |
| 8 | 8 | GO | CAT BURNS |
| 9 | 9 | BMW | BAD BOY CHILLER CREW |
| 13 | 10 | THE MOTTO | TIESTO & AVA MAX |
| 10 | 11 | HOUSE ON FIRE | MIMI WEBB |
| 12 | 12 | ANYONE FOR YOU | GEORGE EZRA |
| 16 | 13 | BAM BAM | CAMILA CABELLO FT ED SHEERAN |
| 14 | 14 | NIGHT AWAY (DANCE) | A1 & J1/TION WAYNE |
| 31 | 15 | WHAT WOULD YOU DO | JOEL CORRY/DAVID GUETTA/TILLER |
| 25 | 16 | RUN | BECKY HILL/GALANTIS |
| 21 | 17 | SHE'S ALL I WANNA BE | TATE MCRAE |
| 17 | 18 | GLAD U CAME | LIILZ FT ZIEZIE |
| 19 | 19 | BAD HABITS | ED SHEERAN |
| 18 | 20 | ONE OF A KIND MUSIC PTS REGGAE & CALYPSO | RUSS MILLIONS/BUNI/YV |
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Angry UK Chart Fan
Go away, Bad Habits. I know there was a recent version featuring BMTH but that's 6 weeks old.
thierry henon
Another week for MIMI inside the Top 10...over the moon to hear that..love her, love her...
thierry henon
Another Top 20 for the UK queen of dance: BECKY HILL!! Yippee!!
thierry henon
So happy to see JOEL CORRY having another single charting into the Top 20!! OMG, is it his 6th or 7th Top 20 single in a row? Now please Joel, get your album out!
thierry henon
Extremely happy for JAX JONES ( i am a huge fan!) but even more for AVA MAX!! (OMG: will be so over the moon if she keeps the momentum and makes it to the Top 10!! her first Top 10 in over 3 years....
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
seeing baby at number 1 is refreshing and quite unexpected, but i want dave back at number 1 with starlight and i want that song to become the longest number 1 of the year 🥺
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
why is the motto at number 10 i want that song to die, i hate it so much 🤢🤢🤢
Aaron
it was great when it came out, its too overplayed now :P
Aqua
the motto #10 :D
rayever
hopefully it stays there 😩
C
Conor
can glad u came go away please?!?!?! honestly, its soooo bad!
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
the sun goes down, my zoot comes up 🔥
C
Conor
Tate should've been in the top 10 weeks ago so hope this starts pushing it up the chart!
C
Conor
Hope the Mott can go top 10 for Ava, she deserves so much more success!
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
ava does deserve more success, with songs where she’s not autotuned to the point where she sounds like a robot and where the beat is actually good 💀 the motto is godawful
C
Conor
The motto is in amongst her worst songs, but at least its giving her another hit as she deserves so much more success!
C
Conor
I prefer Baby to Starlight so hope it can get the #1. And Aitch getting his first #1 would be nice to see. Ashanti grtting a 2nd #1 would also make for a very interesting chart!
GS
hope aitch can hold onto the top spot for friday but its gonna be close
rayever
Same here
Piran
'The Motto' seems to be doing what 'Where Are You Now' did a few weeks ago in the sense that it finally takes off in the UK after Europe are done with it, haha. :)
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And then Billboard is gonna get it next 😳
rayever
it’s already heading towards the top 50
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Probably won’t go far though, America usually isn’t really into EDM...
I hope it does though, Billboard deserves the somgs that I hate 😫
rayever
according to predictions it’s expected to be at 49 so it could do well
Piran
I guess you mean ‘Where Are You Now’, since ‘The Motto’s already starting to take off in the US?
If so, then I think & hope it’s going to happen, haha. :)
rayever
Really happy to see Baby leading the race for number 1, I love the song!
Piran
Solid 6/10 for me now. :)
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I prefer Starlight, but Baby is decent too and a new Number 1 would be cool 😫
rayever
fair enough, I like both of them so I don’t mind which one ends up taking the throne on friday
Piran
'She's All I Wanna Be' might finally make the Top 20, as it should! 😍
Piran
Seeing Ashanti with a potential #1 single in 2022 would really be something nobody could've predicted at the start of the year! 😂