Meghan Trainor storms ahead in singles race

Meghan Trainor has stormed ahead on today’s Official Chart Update with All About That Bass.
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The 20-year-old American singer’s infectious “body-positive” anthem leads the way to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart at the mid-week stage following its full download release this week. Last week, All About That Bass made chart history after becoming the first act to enter the UK Top 40 on streams alone, debuting at Number 33.

All About That Bass has already racked up a chart sales tally of almost 77,000 in the first three days of the week alone, outselling its nearest competitor, Bang Bang by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj, by three to one, and putting the pop newcomer well on the way to breaking 100,000 sales before the week is out.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift continues her reign inside the Top 10 with Shake It Off, which is at Number 4, and Belgian producer The Magician, previously one half of duo Aeroplane, is this week’s highest new entry at Number 5 with Sunlight. The Balearic disco track, which is set to be the DJ Stephen Fasano’s breakthrough hit, features vocals of Years & Years singer Olly Alexander.

New entries

Further down the chart, Labrinth starts at Number 8 with Let It Be. The song serves as the lead single from the singer and producer’s second album Take Me To The Truth, which is slated for release later this year.

New at Number 10 is Ella Eyre’s Comeback, the follow-up to her Top 20 solo debut, If I Go, earlier this year. Ella previously topped the Official Singles Chart in 2013 as a guest feature on Rudimental’s Waiting All Night, as well as co-writing Sigma and Paloma Faith’s recent Number 1 hit Changing which is still riding high at Number 3 midweek.

London production duo Gorgon City are at 15 with Unmissable, the fourth single from their debut album Sirens, and Jessie Ware is on track for a personal best on the Official Singles Chart, Say You Love Me enters the chart at Number 17 midweek. The song, which was co-written with Ed Sheeran, features on her upcoming album Tough Love.

The Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 is as follows. The Official Singles Chart Top 100 will be posted in full, here, on Sunday at 7pm.

1 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS MEGHAN TRAINOR
2 BANG BANG JESSIE J/GRANDE/MINAJ
3 CHANGING SIGMA FT PALOMA FAITH
4 SHAKE IT OFF TAYLOR SWIFT
5 SUNLIGHT MAGICIAN FT YEARS & YEARS
6 BLAME CALVIN HARRIS FT JOHN NEWMAN
7 BLAME IT ON ME GEORGE EZRA
8 LET IT BE LABRINTH
9 PRAYER IN C LILLY WOOD & ROBIN SCHULZ
10 COMEBACK ELLA EYRE
11 I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE SAM SMITH
12 LULLABY PROFESSOR GREEN FT TORI KELLY
13 SUPERHEROES SCRIPT
14 BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA
15 UNMISSABLE GORGON CITY FT ZAK ABEL
16 BLACK WIDOW IGGY AZALEA FT RITA ORA
17 SAY YOU LOVE ME JESSIE WARE
18 RUDE MAGIC
19 UGLY HEART GRL
20 THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN
21 AM I WRONG NICO & VINZ
22 GHOST ELLA HENDERSON
23 MAPS MAROON 5
24 STAY WITH ME SAM SMITH
25 DON'T ED SHEERAN
26 MY HEAD IS A JUNGLE WANKELMUT & EMMA LOUISE
27 CHANDELIER SIA
28 BREAK FREE ARIANA GRANDE FT ZEDD
29 TAKE ME TO CHURCH HOZIER
30 ALL OF ME JOHN LEGEND
31 LOVERS ON THE SUN DAVID GUETTA FT SAM MARTIN
32 WAVES MR PROBZ
33 AMNESIA 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
34 SING ED SHEERAN
35 I KNOW SHIFT K3Y
36 ZOMBIE JAMIE T
37 RATHER BE CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE
38 WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS TEN WALLS
39 LOVE RUNS OUT ONEREPUBLIC
40 HAPPY PHARRELL WILLIAMS

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