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. Beautiful world: Ed Sheeran regains top spot with seventh No.1 Q BY ALAN JONES week after his sixth No.1, I Don’t Care (with Justin Bieber) completed an eight-week run at the summit, A Ed Sheeran racks up his seventh No.1 with Beautiful People (feat. Khalid, 3-1, 73,397 sales), has the week’s two highest new entries with Take Me Back To London (feat. Stormzy, No.3, 55,609 sales) and sees a return to peak for Cross Me (feat. Chance The Rapper & PNB Rock, 8-4, 54,554 sales). All three tracks are from Sheeran’s new album No.6 Collaborations Project. You may recall that when his last album, ÷, came out in 2017, it provided nine of the week’s Top 10 singles – five more than any artist had ever had in one week – and 16 of the Top 20. To ensure that no artist dominates to the same No.1 extent again, there is a cap of three set on the number of concurrent hits for a primary artist. Had it not been in force, all 15 tracks from No.6 Collaborations Project – which itself Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid - Beautiful People (Asylum) debuts at No.1 this week – would occupy positions in this This week’s sales: 73,397 | Downloads: 5,302 | week’s Top 30, eight of them in the Top 10.
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