Tones and I's Dance Monkey is now the longest running Number 1 of the year

Plus, new entries including Stormzy, Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy; Digdat feat D-Block Europe; and a big climber from Lewis Capaldi.
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Everyone is still going ape for Dance Monkey – Tones and I claims another week at Number 1, and a chart record into the bargain.

Dance Monkey's ninth week at the top of the Official Singles Chart means it's the longest running Number 1 of 2019, overtaking Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber's I Don't Care, which spent eight weeks at the summit this summer. See the longest-running Number 1s in Official Chart history.

Tones and I now has the third longest-running Number 1 single ever by a female artist in the UK. The feat is jointly held by Rihanna’s Umbrella ft. Jay-Z and Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You, both of which logged ten weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart.

The Australian singer-songwriter notched up 9.58 million streams and was the biggest selling download of the week too – but there are a couple of big songs right behind her aiming to take Tones and I's crown.

Lewis Capaldi rockets 17 slots this week to claim his fifth consecutive Top 10 with Before You Go, at 2, and the highest new entry this week comes from Stormzy, Ed Sheeran, and Burna Boy – Own It is new at 3.

Arizona Vervas' Roxanne continues its ascent, rising to a new peak of 7, while KSI, Rick Ross, Lil Baby, and S-X leap 22 places to 10 with their collab Down Like That.

Lewisham rapper DigDat's New Dior, featuring D-Block Europe, goes straight in at 16, while Brighton DJ Endor rises eight slots to 21 with Pump it Up.

Coldplay's Orphans returns to the Top 40, rebounding to its original peak of 27 following the release of new album Everyday Life; Harry Styles' Watermelon Sugar is up seven places to 28; and Loyal, from PARTYNEXTDOOR feat Drake, is in at 31.

It's official, Christmas has kicked off: Mariah Carey's festive classic All I Want For Christmas is You leaps 25 places to make its thirteenth consecutive return to the Top 40.

Ziezie and Aitch score their second Top 40 together with French Kisses, in at Number 35; Frozen 2 track Into the Unknown, from Idina Menzel and Aurora, is new at Number 36; and this year's John Lewis Christmas ad theme, a cover of REO Speedwagon's Can't Fight This Feeling by Bastille, zooms 55 slots to Number 39.

 

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Courtney Puzzo

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Tones & I may get dethroned in England but in her Native Australia Dance Monkey isn't budging and it appears as though It may earn at least as many weeks at #1 as Old Town Road did in the US 19 or roughly 4 1/2 months

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Tom Hutchcraft

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KSI W

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thierry henon

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I was expecting LEWIS to claim this week number 1 single...next week i guess!! Am just glad ED isn't getting another number 1 single...So having TONES AND I at number 1 this week doesn't bother me much....

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nick oleary

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https://youtu.be/crgFPl2eaPE

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nick oleary

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I think you will enjoy this video , the song took her 30 minutes to write in backpackers hostel . I love that something so simplistic can dominate right across the world .

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Piran

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You know 'Dance Monkey' is a powerhouse when not even Lewis Capaldi, Ed Sheeran nor Stormzy can dethrone it, haha! :)

Seriously though, outside of 'Before You Go' skyrocketing to the runner-up position, as well as the lower Top 40 becoming festive, not a good week for new music sadly.

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Rob Parkinson

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Is always great for a track that has climbed the charts weekly and even once it was no.1 still improved in performance. Is far better than a song entering at no.1 or really high solely on the artists name or hype for it to then drop out of the charts rapidly as not as many people liked the actual song.
The Ellie goulding track surprised me it entered even higher at 57 (I think) was at 19 last time I checked on Amazon so it is actually increasing in streams.

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Alfred Lock

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She won't be there come Xmas..The different musical mindset of Radio 1 and their arch enemy chart Hit 40UK ON Capital and HEART FM shows with this monkey track no longer at 1 and LEWIS CAPALDI now at the top..Never say never yet..It's a pity ADELE or even it pains me to say this DRAKE are not around right now..The only two acts who could end this nothing special track once and for all..There hasn't been that much from this year to grab my attention other than the CALVIN HARRIS/RAG AND BONE MAN effort Giant.

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Piran

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Radio doesn't really influence the Official Chart.

It all depends on whether its streams will decline enough to put it on ACR before the Christmas chart is revealed, which seems fairly likely at the moment.

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Piran

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You're right about the debut for 'River' at #57! :)

I remember you saying it was somewhere in the 70's on last week's Monday update, so Amazon might have even more of a presence that we initially thought.

Do you know if it's staying as an exclusive there, or will it be released to other formats?