Ed Sheeran dominates this week's Official Trending Chart with two new singles Shape Of You and Castle on the Hill

Plus listen to a playlist of the UK's Top 20 trending songs this week.
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The Official Trending Chart ranks the songs making the biggest gains in UK music each and every week, highlighting the huge tracks that are getting everyone talking. Ed Sheeran's new material has certainly done just that.

Ed's comeback singles Shape of You and Castle On The Hill are eyeing-up history making Number 1 and Number 2 debuts on the Official Singles Chart this Friday, with that potential success translating to big news on the Official Trending Chart.

Yesterday's mid-week Update revealed that both of Sheeran's singles have logged over 100,000 combined chart sales, and if that's not buzzworthy, we don't know what is.

MORE: Ed Sheeran's Official Top 10 biggest singles revealed

Aside from Ed, another three songs charging towards Top 10 success appear on this week's trending Top 10. JP Cooper's September Song has been a regular on the Official Trending Chart in recent weeks and now reaches new heights, while there are further gains for Starley's Call On Me and Jax Jones' Don't You Want Me, featuring Raye.

Also making waves this week are Snakehips & MØ's brand new song Don't Leave, Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello]'s Bad Things, and Sean Paul, who has collaborated with Dua Lipa on No Lie. Meanwhile, the biggest leap on the rundown comes from London Grammar, whose new single Rooting For You has gained traction since its release last week.

This week's Official Trending Chart Top 20 is...

POS CLIMB TITLE ARTIST LW CURRENT DIFF PREV PEAK
1   SHAPE OF YOU ED SHEERAN NEW 1 0  
2   CASTLE ON THE HILL ED SHEERAN NEW 2 0  
3  ⬆ SEPTEMBER SONG JP COOPER 16 7 9 16
4  ⬆ CALL ON ME STARLEY 26 8 18 26
5  ⬆⬆ YOU DON'T KNOW ME JAX JONES & RAYE 33 9 24 33
6   I DON'T WANNA LIVE FOREVER (FIFTY SHADES ZAYN/TAYLOR SWIFT 23 19 4 16
7   YOU WANT ME TOM ZANETTI FT SADIE AMA 27 22 5 25
8   DON'T LEAVE SNAKEHIPS & MO NEW 23 0  
9   AFTER THE AFTERPARTY CHARLI XCX FT LIL YACHTY 31 25 6 31
10  ⬆⬆ BAD THINGS MACHINE GUN KELLY/CABELLO 52 26 26  
11  ⬆ NO LIE SEAN PAUL FT DUA LIPA 44 31 13  
12  ⬆ SHED A LIGHT SCHULZ/GUETTA/CHEAT CODES 48 34 14  
13   OOPS LITTLE MIX FT CHARLIE PUTH 41 40 1  
14   NOW AND LATER SAGE THE GEMINI 51 47 4  
15   SCARS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL ALESSIA CARA 57 48 9  
16  ⬆⬆ ROOTING FOR YOU LONDON GRAMMAR 130 50 80  
17  ⬆⬆ MILLION REASONS LADY GAGA 85 61 24 39
18   BAD AND BOUJEE MIGOS 67 62 5  
19  ⬆⬆ ONLY ONE SIGALA & DIGITAL FARM ANIMALS 113 66 47  
20   DEJA VU J COLE 69 67 2 30

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Key

⬆ - Indicates a climb of 10 places
LW - Last week's Official Singles Chart position
CURRENT - Current position on today's Official Singles Chart sales flash
DIFF - Number of places climbed since the previous week on the Official Singles Chart

Listen to a playlist of this week's Official Trending Chart Top 20 on Spotify below. Click here to listen on Deezer.

About the Official Trending Chart

The Official Trending Chart is a brand new chart launched for 2016 to highlight the hottest new tracks beginning to make an impact in the UK every week.

The Top 20 rundown, published on OfficialCharts.com every Tuesday, based on the first four days’ sales of each chart week, is designed to highlight emerging hits as they begin to scale the Official Charts and build buzz.

The Official Trending Chart ranks titles which are showing week-on-week chart growth, and is the only “new music” chart to reflect audio track sales and streams comprehensively across all services.

Devised by the Official Charts Company in close consultation with labels, retailers and media, the chart since launch has already highlighted emerging hits such as Number 1 singles Mike Posner’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza and Drake's One Dance.

The chart is designed to help highlight hit singles in their early stages of their growth, in the light of the shift in release strategies of record labels over the past six months. Under “On Air On Sale”, labels have started to release new music for consumers to buy or stream on the same day as those tracks are released to media (including radio stations and TV).

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