Lil Tecca's Ransom is Number 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart

Plus new tracks from Taylor Swift, Jorja Smith and Normani feature in this week's Top 20 trending songs.

Lil Tecca takes the Number 1 spot on the Official Trending Chart as his breakthrough track Ransom is set to reach new heights in the UK this week.

The 16-year-old New York rapper is currently scaling charts across the world with the song, which was given a new remix featuring Juice WRLD last week. Ransom was produced by Taz Taylor, whose credits include Drake, Chris Brown and Trippie Red.

The new version is set to boost the song into this week's Official UK Singles Chart Top 10, currently up five places to Number 8 in the latest sales flash. In his homeland, Ransom has so far peaked at Number 10.

Meanwhile, Sorry by DJ/producer Joel Corry continues to grow, eyeing a climb into the singles chart Top 10 for its seventh week in the Top 100. Read more about the rising star here.

Taylor Swift sees her latest track Lover making waves this week, set to be the highest new entry on Friday's Official Singles Chart (Aug 23). Her album of the same name is released that same day.

Other brand new tracks making a big impact in the UK this week are Jorja Smith's Be Honest ft. Burna Boy, Miley Cyrus' surprise single Slide Away, and Motivation by former Fifth Harmony singer Normani.

The Official Trending Chart Top 20

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1		RANSOM	LIL TECCA	13	8	5	13
2		SORRY	JOEL CORRY	16	10	6	16
3		LOVER	TAYLOR SWIFT	NE	13	0
4		STRIKE A POSE	YOUNG T & BUGSEY FT AITCH	15	15	0	15
5		CASTLES	FREYA RIDINGS	18	16	2	18
6		GOODBYES	POST MALONE FT YOUNG THUG	19	18	1	19
7		RITUAL	TIESTO/JONAS BLUE/RITA ORA	26	22	4	26
8		BE HONEST	JORJA SMITH FT BURNA BOY	NE	23	0
9		HARDER	JAX JONES & BEBE REXHA	30	24	6	30
10		BOTH	HEADIE ONE	NE	28	0
11		OUTNUMBERED	DERMOT KENNEDY	34	30	4	34
12		MOTIVATION	NORMANI	NE	31	0
13		POST MALONE	SAM FELDT FT RANI	42	34	8
14		SLIDE AWAY	MILEY CYRUS	NE	37	0
15		ONE OF US	LIAM GALLAGHER	NE	38	0
16		WON'T BE LATE	SWAE LEE FT DRAKE	NE	44	0
17		MY ONE	WILEY/TORY LANEZ/KRANIUM/DAPPY	48	45	3
18		DANCE MONKEY	TONES & I	60	54	6
19		BE SOMEONE	CAMELPHAT & JAKE BUGG	58	56	2
20	⬆️	XTC	SOLARDO & ELI BROWN	73	61	12

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.