The duopoly continues: Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved and Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man’s Giant are No.1 and No.2, respectively, in the singles chart for the fifth straight week – the longest such freeze since early 2018 when God’s Plan by Drake and These Days by Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen were No.1 and No.2, respectively, for eight weeks in a row.
The duopoly continues: Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved and Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man’s Giant are No.1 and No.2, respectively, in the singles chart for the fifth straight week – the longest such freeze since early 2018 when God’s Plan by Drake and These Days by Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen were No.1 and No.2, respectively, for eight weeks in a row.
Someone You Loved hit a new high this week, with Capaldi’s song increasing consumption 2.38% week-on-week to 66,725 units – its 12th increase in 13 weeks - surpassing its previous best of 65,216 sales registered three weeks ago. In danger of falling into ACR, after its sales fell two weeks in a row, Giant rallies 5.12% to 55,502 sales. Cumulative consumption of both tracks passed the half million mark in the week, with Someone You Loved ending on 556,623 sales, and Giant on 545,482. Someone You Loved is Capaldi’s first single to pass the mark, while Giant is Harris’ 20th and Rag’n’Bone Man’s third. Overall consumption of Harris tracks since his 2007 debut Acceptable In The 80s stand at 22,544,175. That’s a huge amount but Rihanna - with whom he spent six weeks at No.1 with We Found Love in 2011 – dwarfs that with a to-date tally of 41,073,313 since her 2005 debut.
Steel Banglez, AJ Tracey and MoStack all score their first Top 10 single, with their collaboration Fashion Week becoming the highest of this week’s five new entries to the Top 75 at No.7 (31,270 sales). It is Steel Banglez’ third Top 75 hit as a credited artist – he has many more as a producer - AJ Tracey’s 10th and MoStack’s sixth.
Four weeks after peaking at No.7, Options makes gains for the second week in a row for NSG feat. Tion Wayne, and returns to the Top 10, climbing 11-10 (24,899 sales). And four weeks after debuting and peaking at No.8, Walk Me Home rallies 12-9 (27,350 sales) for Pink, helped by its newly-released promotional video.
There are new peaks inside the Top 10 for Just You And I (4-3, 40,727 sales) by Tom Walker, Sucker (5-4, 36,898 sales) by Jonas Brothers, Location (8-6, 31,564 sales) by Dave feat. Burna Boy and - improving its chart position for the eighth straight week since it debuted at No.43 - I’m So Tired (9-8, 28,138 sales) by Lauv & Troye Sivan.
Completing a rare Top 10 in which eight tracks climb two are static and none fall, Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored surfs 6-5 (32,922 sales) for Ariana Grande.
Don’t Call Me Up has spent the last three weeks at No.3 for Mabel and would be there still but for the fact it has fallen into ACR, and dips to No.16 (21,741 sales). 7 Rings also suffers an ACR-induced dip (7-29, 15,203 sales) for Ariana Grande, while Disaster makes a natural 10-15 fall (21,733 sales) for Dave feat. J Hus.
New to the chart: Keisha & Becky (No.19, 19,789 sales), a collaboration between Russ & Tion Wayne, bringing Russ’ second chart entry, Wayne’s third; Old Town Road (No.67, 7,280 sales), is the debut hit for rapper Lil Nas X; 2All (No.69, 7,171 sales), is the second hit for Catfish & The Bottlemen; and Nobody (77-73, 6,977 sales), a collaboration between Danish DJ Martin Jensen and 2012 X Factor winner James Arthur, brings the former’s third chart entry, and the latter’s 13th.
Boasty leaps 22-11 (24,711 sales) for Wiley, Stefflon Don & Sean Paul. Idris Elba is on the mix that is getting the majority of sales and streams but as he wasn’t on the original, he doesn’t get a credit.
Up for the fourth time in a row since it made its chart debut, Don’t Feel Like Crying is getting ever closer to becoming Sigrid’s second Top 10 hit. It advances 15-13 (22,870 sales) in the latest frame, nearly 14 months after Strangers peaked at No.10. Both songs are on Sigrid’s debut album, Sucker Punch, which falls 12-16 (4,273 sales)
Pretty Shining People (41-38, 12,598 sales) becomes George Ezra’s sixth Top 40 hit, and the fourth from his second album, Staying At Tamara’s, which returns to the top five after a four week absence.
Also progressing onwards and upwards: Here With Me (23-14, 22,446 sales) by Marshmello feat. Chvrches, So Am I (30-18, 20,196 sales) by Ava Max, Piece Of Your Heart (58-32, 13,913 sales) by Meduza feat. Goodboys, Let Me Down Slowly (45-44, 10,040 sales) by Alec Benjamin, Last Hurrah (64-50, 9,037 sales) by Bebe Rexha, My Bad (59-51, 8,883 sales) by Khalid and Only Want You (68-60, 7,792 sales) by Rita Ora.
Overall singles sales are up 4.66% week-on-week at 18,494,978. That is their second highest level to date, and 12.33% above same week 2018 sales of 16,465,382. Paid-for sales are down 0.44% week-on-week at 741,229, and are 28.55% below same week 2018 sales of 1,037,469. They are below same-week, previous-year sales for the 295th week in a row.
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