Ed Sheeran denies Drake this week’s Number 1 single as Bad Habits claims 11th week at Official Singles Chart top spot
Ed Sheeran claims an 11th consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with Bad Habits.
Bad Habits scores 8.4 million streams to land its latest week at the top, denying Drake his seventh Number 1 single in the UK following the release of new album Certified Lover Boy.
With 11 weeks at Number 1 in the UK, Bad Habits now stands in line with Tones and I’s Dance Monkey (2019), Despacito by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber (2017), and Rose Marie by Slim Whitman (1955) who all managed the same feat.
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Drake may not have quite managed to topple Bad Habits, but has earned three spots in the Top 5 in this week’s chart with Girls Want Girls (2), Fair Trade (3) and Champagne Poetry (5) – bringing his total number of Top 10 singles to 30.
This is the second time Drake has managed three simultaneous Top 5 singles in the UK – previously he managed the feat in 2018 following the release of his Scorpion album.
ABBA score two brand new entries in this week's Top 20, including their first Top 10 single in nearly 40 years - read more about ABBA's comeback here.
Elsewhere in the Official Singles Chart, Glass Animals leap eight places to earn their first Top 10 single with Heat Waves (10), and Elton John & Dua Lipa fly 12 places with Cold Heart, the most downloaded song of the week (11).
Becky Hill & Topic’s My Heart Goes (La Di Da) climbs five to Number 31, and Little Mix score their 31st Top 40 single with Love (Sweet Love), which debuts at Number 33.
Finally, David Guetta, Mistajam & James Newman rise one place to Number 39 with If You Really Love Me (How Will I Know).
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BleeUK
congratulations on ABBA Getting #1 in the UK Sales and Physicals Charts this week with I Still Have Faith In You and Abba Checks in #2 with Don't Shut Me Down, Ed Sheeran Bad Habits has claimed being Top again For Streaming Charts and Singles For Radio 1 as All Versions and Remixes combined to stay the same position and sticking to SCR!
Joshua Sombra
Definitely the last week on No.1 for Bad Habits.
de Sascha
It seems to become a bad habit on the charts....
JS
john snow
Having #2 spot is amazing,but seeing the abba fans crying should be more amazing:)
Jason blur
Glad Drake not number one .💩.ABBA should be number one if there is proper music fans out there !.
thierry henon
I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU only at 14!! Amazing comeback single that should have made the Top 3 easily
Kasper Elbjørn
I agree but with Drake at no. 2 solely based on streams not surprising. Something is surely very wrong with the chart
thierry henon
DON'T SHUT ME DOWN should have been our new number 1 single!! Only at 9 this week!! I love the single.
Mark Wislen
Thierry -- as you know it is very hard, for 'Old' Acts to have big Hit Singles, these days - due to Streaming being the biggest component of the Singles Chart. Madonna has not had a UK Top 10 Single since 2009, and she had 63 up to that point! Kylie Minogue was last in the Singles Chart Top 10 in 2011, despite having over 30 Top 10 Hits before then! The Rolling Stones insist on Releasing UK Singles, even though hardly any of them get near the Top 10. Incredibly, their last UK Top 10 Hit was 'Start Me Up, which was No.7, in 1981. Since then they've Released over 50 UK Singles, and none got anywhere near the Top 10. Only 6, of those Post-1981 UK Singles, reached the Top 20. Their last New Single was 'Living In A Ghost Town', (April 2020). It Peaked at No.61! So ABBA have done very well, to reach No.9 and No.14, with their 2 New Singles. Despite this, some People are making out that ABBA's popularity is exaggerated, due to neither Single reaching No.1 or No.2. That is just not fair. The UK Singles Chart is actually 'Rigged' against 'Old' Acts doing well. Once their 'Voyage' Album is out, (November), we will see just how popular ABBA really are.
thierry henon
hi Mark! Thank you so much for your comment. i do agree with you re ABBA and some"old acts"...I am so looking forward to the 5 th November when their new album is out..a week after ED sheeran's! Have a great evening...
Piran
Amazing to see ABBA & Glass Animals in the Top 10 here. :)
Rob Parkinson
I know, wow if Drake hadn't of released his album they would have both been 3 places higher! Glass animals is already one of the years biggest sellers and now it's finally getting a proper lift, I hope it can keep rising. Pretty sure Drake will probably only have 1 track left in top 10 next week.
Piran
I think he’ll still have all three in the Top 10, looking at today’s Spotify numbers! :P