Gayle and Adele battling for Number 1 this Friday with abcdefu and Easy On Me
17 year old rising pop star Gayle is currently battling with Adele for dominance on the Official Singles Chart this Friday, as abcdefu and Easy On Me enter a two-way race for Number 1. Currently, less than 1,000 chart sales separate the tracks in our First Look Update, with Gayle leading the pack.
Abcdefu would be Gayle’s first-ever UK Number 1 single, while Easy On Me is challenging for a ninth non-consecutive week at Number 1, which would extend its record as Adele’s longest-running UK Number 1 single. Find out more about Gayle and her viral hit here.
Meanwhile, you may not recognise the name Lauren Spencer-Smith, but the 18 year old former American Idol contestant has set TikTok and social media alight with her new breakup anthem. Fingers Crossed is currently tracking to rise to Number 3 this Friday, it would be Lauren Spencer-Smith’s first-ever UK Top 10 chart entry.
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Last week saw The Weeknd unveil his new album Dawn FM in a semi-surprise drop, and three of its tracks are eyeing up entries in the Top 20 following its release. Leading the charge is new single Sacrifice, which looks set to be the chart’s highest new entry at Number 6, while lead single Take My Breath could break back into the Top 10 at Number 7 and Swedish House Mafia collaboration How Do I Make You Love Me? Could debut at Number 15.
Finally, Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott’s slow-burning hit Where Are You Now? Continues its recent upwards trajectory in the Top 40 - it’s currently set to vault up four places to a new peak of Number 19 and break into the Top 20 for the first time since its release last year.
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 - January 9, 2022
| LW | POS | TITLE | ARTIST |
| 2 | 1 | ABCDEFU | GAYLE |
| 1 | 2 | EASY ON ME | ADELE |
| 90 | 3 | FINGERS CROSSED | LAUREN SPENCER-SMITH |
| 4 | 4 | WE DON'T TALK ABOUT BRUNO | GAITAN/CASTILLO/ADASSA/FELIZ |
| 3 | 5 | SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER | SAM FENDER |
| NEW | 6 | SACRIFICE | WEEKND |
| 57 | 7 | TAKE MY BREATH | WEEKND |
| 6 | 8 | PERU | FIREBOY DML & ED SHEERAN |
| 5 | 9 | COMING FOR YOU | SWITCHOTR FT A1 & J1 |
| 9 | 10 | DO IT TO IT | ACRAZE FT CHERISH |
| 11 | 11 | OVERPASS GRAFFITI | ED SHEERAN |
| 10 | 12 | SHIVERS | ED SHEERAN |
| 7 | 13 | FLOWERS (SAY MY NAME) | ARRDEE |
| 8 | 14 | OVERSEAS | D-BLOCK EUROPE FT CENTRAL CEE |
| NEW | 15 | HOW DO I MAKE YOU LOVE ME | WEEKND |
| 14 | 16 | SURFACE PRESSURE | JESSICA DARROW |
| 13 | 17 | COLD HEART | ELTON JOHN & DUA LIPA |
| 17 | 18 | I WISH | JOEL CORRY FT MABEL |
| 23 | 19 | WHERE ARE YOU NOW | LOST FREQUENCIES/CALUM SCOTT |
| 12 | 20 | BAD HABITS | ED SHEERAN |
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BleeUK
10 ways to improve Radio 1 Charts from 2022
there is a few ways to improve the Radio 1 Singles Charts
1) Better Time Broadcast - Prime Time From 6am to 10am rather than 4pm to boast more million listeners
2) Repeat show/eposide on other date too
3) Connect/Eposide share with Radio 2 - the UK most listen to station
4) advertise more on tv and radio with a highlight
5) show charts on bbc tv on evening on a mainstream channel like bbc 1 or bbc 2 From 19:00 - 22:00
6) Bring back the Top 10 live section watch online at the same as radio. like it did like 9 years ago
7) Charts needs to be around 90mins, maybe 40-31 Highlights and Top 20 complete, with Top 20 Albums reading not Just Top 5.
8) Scrap ACR Ratio, Scrap Week Ending Dates to fit better for real
results and date by sales and units than week tracking
9) Promo new songs, new christmas songs, and indie artist and small label new releases weekly to try and chart
10) only one version of song applys, mainly clean edit, for Charts for
Singles (Just keep one version), scrap adds-ons, or other versions, for
fareness for songs and artist who only have one version only (dont add!
versions together)
C
Conor
I feel like Lauren may fall a bit by friday, I'm guessing she'll land between #4-#7!
C
Conor
I hope GAYLE can hold at #1 because we need something new, other than Adele, Ed or Elton at #1!
afrog
1. abcdefu 2.5/10
2. Easy On Me 5/10
3. Fingers Crossed idk
4. We Don't Talk About Bruno 4/10
5. Seventeen Going Under 7.5/10
6. Sacrifice idk
7. Take My Breath 6/10
8. Peru 4/10
9. Coming For You 4/10
10. Do It To It 3/10
11. Overpass Graffiti 5/10
12. Shivers 3.5/10
13. Flowers 5/10
14. Overseas 8/10
15. How Do I Make You Love Me idk
16. Surface Pressure 3/10
17. Cold Heart 5.5/10
18. I Wish 8.5/10
19. Where Are You Now 7.5/10
20. Bad Habits 3/10
Piran
I honestly think ‘Fingers Crossed’ is going to #1 on Friday given how well it’s performing on streaming. :)
Rob Parkinson
I think you may be right Piran!
Piran
We’ll see if that’s the case on tonight’s update in just under 45 minutes from now! :P
Rob Parkinson
Dropped a touch but think anything is possible this week again as it did last week.
H
husk
Adele's track is very boring, but Gayle's song is even worse. Not a great time for music.
afrog
100%
Piran
Happy that ‘Sacrifice’ is the biggest song from The Weeknd’s new album so far. :)
afrog
I haven't heard it yet, looking fwd to the one with Tyler tho :)
Piran
‘I Heard You’re Married’? That’s actually my third favourite track from ‘Dawn FM’. :)
C
Conor
I'm glad my fave from the album (How Do I Make You Love Me?) Is charting too, but I feel it could get pushed out by the Lil Wayne track since that is gonna be pushed as a single from the 11th of January!
Piran
‘How Do I Make You Love Me?’ & ‘Less Than Zero’ are both huge growers for me, although ‘I Heard You’re Married’ wouldn’t be a bad single choice either, haha. :)
GS
1. abcdefu (7/10)
2. easy on me (1/10)
3. fingers crossed (0/10)
4. Bruno (5/10)
5. seventeen going under (9/10)
6. sacrifice (2/10)
7. take my breath (0/10)
8. Peru (4/10)
9. coming for you (9/10)
10. do it to it (0/10)
Piran
Absolutely chuffed seeing ‘Where Are You Now’ in this new Top 20! 😍
afrog
Hope it can stay there by Friday and retail therapy can join it 😍
Piran
I think ‘Retail Therapy’ will be Top 40, although I haven’t even checked out the song yet! :P
afrog
I think it will go top 20, look at what obsessed with you did, wasn't even here on Sunday and top 10 on monday
Piran
‘Obsessed With You’ probably got an ACR reset with all the other songs last week, hence the unexpected climb for it, but ‘Retail Therapy’ is obviously a new song & the same thing won’t happen this time!
That being said, given that it’s a UK rap song, its chart position could be boosted as we get more streaming data. :)
Rob Parkinson
Hoping it can get higher, just one of those tracks that I haven't tired of yet and that takes some doing!
Ian Robert Herechuk
Me too, I was going on about it at the beginning of November!
Piran
I’ve been a fan of that song since last September when it started climbing the European charts, haha. :)
Piran
I could see it having a similar chart run to what ‘My Heart Goes [La Di Da]’ did. :)
afrog
"The same thing won't happen this time" Travis Scott got 3 #1s in a year Central cee can get 3 top 20 singles
Piran
I didn’t say that ‘Retail Therapy’ wouldn’t go Top 20 this week, I said that it wouldn’t climb massively from where it tonight, that’s all. :)