Did you know that King Charles III and the Official Singles Chart share a birthday?
23.04.2023 - 19:17 / officialcharts.com
After being dethroned by Lewis Capaldi’s Wish You The Best last week, Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding are a plotting a return to Number 1 with Miracle on Friday.
This would be third non-consecutive week at Number 1 for the trance banger, which helped Ellie become one of the British female solo artists with the most Number 1 singles in UK chart history.
Their closest competition comes, once again, in the form of Chicago-born singer-songwriter David Kushner and his viral hit Daylight, which could rise one to a new peak this week (2).
After weeks of upward momentum, Switch Disco and Ella Henderson’s React charges up for a potential break into the Top 10 (8).
Social media star HStikkytokky and General G are in front to grab this week’s highest new entry with Twust (11).
Following not far behind are The Weeknd and Future with Double Fantasy, the first song lifted from The Weeknd’s upcoming HBO drama The Idol (12), and Nines’ possible return to the chart with Tony Soprano 2 (13).
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Did you know that King Charles III and the Official Singles Chart share a birthday?
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Calvin Harris has confirmed that he’s collaborated with Lewis Capaldi on a new song, but the track is currently “lost”.Speaking in a new interview with The Sunday Mirror, Harris confirmed that the pair “made a tune together two years ago” but “then something happened to it”.“[Capaldi] put it on his laptop and then lost it or something,” he added.It comes after their ongoing chart rivalry that started when Capaldi beat Harris’ ‘Giant’ to the Number One spot in 2019 with ‘Someone You Loved’. Earlier this month, Capaldi knocked the Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding collab ‘Miracle’ from the Number One spot with ‘Wish You The Best’.However, Harris returned the favour on Friday (April 28) when ‘Miracle’ took the top spot of the UK Singles Chart again.A post shared by Calvin Harris (@calvinharris)“He’s a great lad and even though we’re not best friends or anything like that, it’s always nice to see a Scottish lad doing well,” Harris said of Capaldi.Harris isn’t Capaldi’s only high-profile collaboration.
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Lewis Capaldi has dressed up as iconic wrestler Booker T to celebrate ‘Wish You The Best’ becoming his fifth Number One single.‘Wish You The Best’ was released last week (April 14) and topped the UK Singles Chart yesterday (April 22). “Wish You The Best came from the idea of a person you used to be with, telling you all this amazing stuff about their life, without you in it,” explained Capaldi when the track was released. “It’s a song about what we don’t say to those people.
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For those beady eyed chart fans keeping an eye on the Official Chart First Look - which gives an exclusive glance at how the Official Singles Chart is shaping up at midweek mark - there might have been a bit of surprise yesterday.
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