Drake's One Dance beats Justin Timberlake to Number 1 on this week's Official Singles Chart
Drake's One Dance holds on to Number 1 on this week's Official Singles Chart, logging a sixth week at the top.
The rapper/singer sees off strong competition from Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop The Feeling, which after leading the way at the mid-week stage, has to settle for Number 2.
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It was a close race between the two: One Dance finishes the week on 105,000 chart sales (including 7.5 million streams), while Can't Stop The Feeling notched up 99,000.
Drake's sixth week at the top also gives him the longest-leading Official Chart Number 1 of 2016 so far - and the longest since Mark Ronson's seven weeks at the summit with Uptown Funk in 2014/2015.
Calvin Harris and Rihanna's This Is What You Came For dips a place to three this week, while Sia's Cheap Thrills holds at 4, as does Mike Posner's I Took A Pill In Ibiza at 5.
New entries and high climbers
Two songs make sizeable leaps to enter thes Top 10 for the first time this week; Desiigner's Panda, up five spots to Number 7, and Drake and Rihanna's Too Good zooms 15 places to Number 8.
This week's highest new entry goes to The Stone Roses. Their first brand new release in 21 years All For One debuts at Number 17, earning the band a 13th Top 40 hit (view The Stone Roses full Official Chart history here).
Further down this week's Official Singles Chart Top 40, X Factor alumni Reggie 'N' Bollie land at Number 26 with New Girl. The track is the duo's first since finishing second place on last year's series to Louisa Johnson.
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Elsewhere, Gareth Malone's Invictus Games Choir are new at 29 with Flesh And Blood - the theme to this year's games - and US singer/rapper/producer Gnash makes his UK Top 40 debut with I Hate You, I Love You, up 12 places to 33.
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Alfred Lock
Not even Eurovision is enough for JT to do it only losing out on Drakes slightly superior streaming. There's still hope for next Friday .
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Ronnie
GO RIHANNA!
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Southendman
Just don't get the whole Drake thing! Just sounds like a rapper who cant be bothered to rap and just drones on and on! Cant think of another single that spent this much time at the top that sooo doesn't deserve it! Bet in 5 years you never hear it again on the radio!
Norb Peti
U GO DRAKE! Infectiously amazing still
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KMJ1
The ENTIRE top 3 is absolute garbage! lol. Possibly one of the weakest, lazy, most forgettable songs ever or at least in recent memory! It's summer and there really, really should better hotter songs topping the charts than this! :# PLZ bring back Summer 2013 w/ true jams like Get Lucky, Blurred Lines, Treasure etc etc..
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Richard Thomas
This is rubbish! JT's song is a million times better than Drake's. streaming nonsense
Declan Marr
Totally agree and I don't care what anyone says in defence of it, streaming has ruined the singles chart by keeping some songs in for months on end meaning they become impossible to shift out, also meaning that new songs don't get the chance to enter in making it extremely stale. It also distorts the true chart placings, making it mostly unfair for some singles which makes for a very boring read.
They've obviously included it to appeal to a younger demographic, but they still should never have included it as they're not actual sales and should take it out of the equation altogether as it is just annoying.
I for one used to love reading the chart and seeing all the songs battling for number one, as it was fun to read, now it's a chore to read as it has become stagnant, all thanks to beyond-irritating streaming.
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john smith
timberlakes forgettable is a watered down jackson 5 for a movie soundtrack that is overpromoted and has radio deals. one dance represents 2016 quite well.
Norb Peti
ABSOLUTELY TRUE!
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Richard Thomas
Could not agree with you more. It's like you read my mind. As a long term chart fan, it's a pretty sad chart nowadays! The churn rate is pathetically slow, streaming is overweighted to ridiculous proportions and evidently the younger generation only seem to listen to a much narrower range of music. So sad to see the charts become a dull, pale shadow of its former greatness
Declan Marr
Oh, definitely. I've always enjoyed pop music and I won't be the old duffer saying music's not the same blah blah haha no music is just as brilliant as it ever was, especially chart music as it's not the music it's, of course, just the way the actual charts are run now. For example I happen to love that new Shawn Mendes one, "I Know What You Did Last Summer", it's been floating about high up iTunes for weeks but the chart refuse to let it in in favour of all the old stuff, some of which I love, but I don't want to see them stuck in the top 40 for 2 to 3 years on end.
And on top of all that all the fake records they give people with streaming, and all the overblown success some artists like Bieber for example get that they wouldn't have without streaming, if it was with sales, yes, but streaming it's all just hollow records.
Even when they said downloads ruined the charts when they were included, no, they didn't, because at least you were still PAYING for the music, songs actually dropped down the chart, not sticking around for weeks on end and it was an actual sale, unlike a stream which is just a listen and is ludicrous to count. I know this post is long but that's just because of how much is wrong with the chart now.