ANALYSIS the Official UK Singles & Albums Charts Are Compiled by the Official Charts Company, Based on a Sample of More Than 15,000 Physical and Digital Outlets
ANALYSIS The Official UK Singles & Albums Charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on a sample of more than 15,000 physical and digital outlets. They count actual sales and audio streams from last Friday to Thursday, based on sales of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other physical formats and weighted audio streams. Unfinished monkey business: Tones And I extends chart reign Q BY ALAN JONES ones And I’s Dance Monkey is king of the jungle again, spending its ninth straight week atop the singles chart Ton consumption of 80,230 copies (including 72,393 from sales equivalent streams). It is the seventh week in a row that its consumption has exceeded 80,000 units, but the lowest tally it has returned in that run. Tones And I’s reign is the longest by a chart act on debut since 1957, when Paul Anka’s Diana also spent nine weeks at the summit. On its first full week of availability, Before You Go catapults 19-2 (66,539 sales) for Lewis Capaldi, becoming the fifth Top 10 single from his newly expanded debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent. Own It is the fourth single from Stormzy’s eagerly-awaited No.1 second album, and the highest new entry of the week, dashing to a No.3 debut (55,771 sales). Featuring Ed Sheeran and rising talent Burna Boy, it is Stormzy’s seventh Top 10 hit and 27th Tones And I - Dance Monkey (Parlophone) Top 75 entry, Sheeran’s 27th Top 10 hit and 52nd chart entry, This week’s sales: 80,230 | Downloads: 7,837 | and Burna Boy’s fourth hit and third Top 10 entry.
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