Having spent six weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with As It Was, Harry Styles faces tough competition from a similarly-silky-haired singer in this week's race for the top spot.
29.04.2022 - 19:59 / officialcharts.com
Harry Styles’ As It Was secures a month-long stint at Number 1 in the UK.
Today, the track achieves its fourth consecutive week at the top of the Official Singles Chart, where it is once again the most-streamed track in the country with 7.2 million streams. Harry has also just unveiled the full tracklist to upcoming album Harry’s House – check out the full details here.
But are we witnessing the rise of a track that could topple Harry? Cat Burns’ viral breakthrough chart smash Go rises up two places today to a new peak (3), while Bad Boy Chiller Boy rebound four places back into the Top 10 with BMW (7).
Elsewhere, following its inclusion in the new series of Top Boy plus a brand-new remix featuring Albums Chart-topping rapper Nines, Potter Payper’s Gangsteritus is this week’s big climber, vaulting a massive 28 places to Number 12. It’s the first ever Top 20 hit for both Potter and for featured artist Tiggs Da Author.
Ed Sheeran gains his 54th UK Top 40 entry today with 2 Step (13) following a new remix featuring Lil Baby, while Lauren Spencer-Smith’s Flowers continues to rise (17) and The Kid LAROI’s Thousand Miles earns the Australian singer his fourth Top 40 hit (21).
Rising indie pop artist Leah Kate earns her first ever Official UK Top 40 entry this week as 10 Things I Hate About You climbs twelve to Number 30, and Latto’s Big Energy ft. Mariah Carey and DJ Khaled also finally cracks the Top 40, rising eight to Number 33. It’s Latto’s first, Khaled’s eighth and Mariah’s 40th Top 40 single.
Finally, two rising tracks reach further new peaks in the UK: Balling by Vibe Chemistry (35) and Tyga and Doja Cat’s Freaky Deaky (37).
Having spent six weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with As It Was, Harry Styles faces tough competition from a similarly-silky-haired singer in this week's race for the top spot.
UK Eurovision hero Sam Ryder closes the gap on Harry Styles overnight in the race to become this week's Official UK Number 1 single.After placing second to Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra and their winning track Stefania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 last weekend, Essex singer and songwriter Sam Ryder continues to rocket up the midweek Official Singles Chart with SPACE MAN.
Arcade Fire have scored their fourth UK Number One album with their sixth studio album ‘WE’.The Canadian collective shot straight to the top of the album chart and the vinyl albums chart, with their latest record beating Sigrid‘s ‘How To Let Go’ into second place, according to the Official Charts Company.It comes after their previous LPs – 2010’s ‘The Suburbs’, 2013’s ‘Reflektor’ and 2017 album ‘Everything Now’ also went to Number One.Frontman Win Butler recently told the NME Big Read, that the album title was inspired by the 1924 dystopian novel WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which itself inspired George Orwell’s 1984.“The seeds of everything that we’re ever going to do are within us,” he explained. “Reading that Zamyatin novel connected this dot in my childhood, then to Orwell, and then allowed me to be inspired by its own merits.“I didn’t know what ‘WE’ was, but I knew that it was in there and that I’d use it at some point.
Harry Styles makes it to a mammoth six consecutive weeks at Number 1 in the UK with As It Was.
Harry Styles has reflected on going to therapy for five years, admitting that it has made him "more alive" after years of avoiding it.The former One Direction star, who can be seen in the new trailer for his upcoming film, Don't Worry Darling, alongside Florence Pugh, confessed that he had previously had misconceptions about going to therapy. "I thought it meant that you were broken," the 28 year old movie star said.
Blossoms have scored their third UK Number One album with ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’, it has been confirmed.The Stockport band’s latest record follows their previous full-length releases, 2016’s ‘Blossoms’ and 2020’s ‘Foolish Loving Spaces’, in topping the Official UK Album Chart.As well as hitting the top spot on the main album chart, the new album has also claimed the Number One position on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart. Physical formats accounted for 90 per cent of ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’’s total sales, the Official Charts Company has revealed.“It’s happened again! Ribbon Around the Bomb is the Official UK Number 1 album this week – [our] third time,” the band told OfficialCharts.com.
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Harry Styles is on track to be Number 1 for the fifth consecutive week with As It Was this Friday.
Fontaines D.C. have scored their first Number One album in the UK and Ireland with their third record, ‘Skinty Fia’.The album, which was released last week (April 22), follows the Dublin band’s previous two efforts – 2019’s ‘Dogrel’ and 2020’s ‘A Hero’s Death’ – landing in the Top 10.‘Skinty Fia’ outsold the band’s closest competition in the Official UK Albums Chart, Ed Sheeran’s ‘=’, two-to-one.
Harry Styles’ As It Was holds on to earn a fourth week at Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.
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Ed Sheeran and David Guetta are among the new names to join the line-up for the Capital Summertime Ball with Barclaycard 2022.Dubbed “the UK’s biggest summer party”, the concert will take place at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday, June 12. Tickets go on general sale exclusively on Global Player this Thursday (April 28) – buy yours here.Yesterday (April 25) saw organisers announce the first wave of acts, which included Harry Styles, George Ezra and KSI.The line-up was completed during Capital Breakfast With Roman Kemp this morning (April 26), with the news that Sheeran would be returning to the Summertime Ball for the first time since 2014.Other new additions include Guetta, Aitch, Joel Corry and Mimi Webb.
Potter Payper ascends to Number 1 on the UK's Official Trending Chart with Gangsteritus.
AURORA has covered Harry Styles‘ single ‘Golden’ as part of a recent radio appearance – watch below.The Norwegian singer-songwriter recorded a stripped-back version of Styles’ 2019 ‘Fine Line’ track for last night’s edition of BBC Radio 1’s Piano Sessions (April 24).She also performed a new low-key rendition of ‘A Temporary High’, which appears on her third studio album ‘The Gods We Can Touch’.The session sees AURORA sing while playing the piano in the studio, where she’s accompanied by a musician on an acoustic guitar. Tune in here:Earlier this month, AURORA shared a new track called ‘The Woman I Am’ from a special deluxe edition of her latest record.
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Harry Styles makes it a third consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with As It Was.