ANALYSIS The Official UK Singles & Charts are compiled by the , 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.

Careful now: Sheeran & Bieber extend reign in static singles Top 10

Q BY ALAN JONES

n an historically logjammed Top 10, Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber just don’t care, because for the fourth week in a Irow their collaboration I Don’t Care is No.1. Leading the way on paid-for sales (10,067), audio streaming (7,189,126) and video streaming (1,778,417), it racked up consumption of a further 78,206 units last week, with Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road in second place for the sixth week in a row, and seventh time in total on consumption of 73,073 units. Everything else in the Top 10 is also frozen for the first time in chart history, and everything suffers a decline in consumption. The rest of that static top tier: Someone You Loved (3-3, 60,042 sales) by Lewis Capaldi, (4-4, 52,651 sales) by , Bad Guy (5-5, 48,030 sales) by Billie No.1 Eilish, Piece Of Your Heart (6-6, 40,700 sales) by Meduza feat. Goodboys, Hold Me While You Wait (7-7, 40,236 sales) by Lewis Capaldi, SOS (8-8, 35,621 sales) by Avicii feat. Aloe Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don’t Care (Asylum/Def Jam) Blacc, Cross Me (9-9, 33,060 sales) by Ed Sheeran feat. This week’s sales: 78,206 | Downloads: 10,067 | Chance The Rapper & PnB Rock and If I Can’t Have You Streams: 68,139 |Total sales to date: 383,779 | (10-10, 29,395 sales) by Shawn Mendes. Jax Jones & Martin Solveig’s All Day And Night (feat. Madison Beer) and ’s Location (feat. Burna Boy), are also unmoved at No.11 (28,178 sales) and No.12 (28,047 sales), respectively. The closest we of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, The Shores Of Normandy have come to a frozen Top 10 hitherto was in the chart dated debuts at No.72 (7,299 sales) for World War II veteran Jim June 27, 2016, when the Top 8 and the No.10 were all static Radford who, at 90, becomes the oldest recording artist to while Sigala’s Give Me Your Love vaulted 91-9. have a hit single. The highest of 12 new entries is Never Really Over (No.13, Also new to the chart: Find U Again (No.41, 13,004 sales), 26,881 sales), Katy Perry’s 19th Top 20 hit. Mark Ronson’s 18th hit (feat. Camila Cabello); Press (No.44, Skepta has his second No.2 in a row with Ignorance 12,368 sales), the 15th hit for Cardi B; Call You Mine (No.56, Is Bliss, streaming of which helps generate big jumps for 8,980 sales), the 14th hit for The Chainsmokers and the previously released cuts from the set, namely Greaze Mode by ninth for Bebe Rexha; Ritual (No.64, 7,980 sales), Dutch Skepta & Nafe Smallz, (47-18, 22,963 sales) and Bullet From DJ Tiesto his 19th hit, Rita Ora’s 23rd and Jonas Blue’s A Gun (68-32, 15,378 sales), which surpass the No.22 and Sheer madness: 10th; Miss Diva (No.66, 7,876 sales), One Acen’s third hit No.42 peaks they achieved respectively on debut three weeks The entire singles Top and ’s fifth; and Speechless (82-73, 7,282 sales), the ago. Skepta’s full allotment of three hits as primary artist is 10 is frozen for the first introductory hit for British actress Naomi Scott. completed by What Do You Mean? (feat. ), which jumps time in chart history With Grace – the third of Lewis Capaldi’s eligible tracks over its album-mates, debuting at No.14 (25,034 sales). as primary artist last week – losing ground while Bruises London rapper MoStack’s debut regular album improves, they swap status: Grace is now ‘starred out’ (23,234 dropped on Friday and was preceded by Stormzy collaboration sales) while Bruises is a re-entry at No.16 (24,430 sales), , which debuts at No.15 (24,842 sales). surpassing the No.49 peak it scaled in May. As Miley Cyrus’ EP She Is Coming debuts at No.18 on the There are also new peaks for: Falling Like Stars (35-25, 18,065 album chart, one of its six tracks, Mother’s Daughter, dents the sales) by James Arthur, Wish You Well (39-24, 18,486 sales) by singles list. Debuting at No.31 (15,657 sales) it is her 20th hit. Sigala & Becky Hill, One Touch (31-30, 17,091 sales) by Jess No.3 on the first sales flash of the week, Let You lost ground Glynne & Jax Jones, Ladbroke Grove (48-43, 12,441 sales) by AJ rapidly and ended up debuting at No.57 (8,930 sales) for the Tracey and Rescue Me (67-65, 7,884 sales) by OneRepublic. mononymously-credited Cheryl. It is the 36th Top 75 entry for Overall singles sales are down 0.97% week-on-week at the singer – including 23 with Girls Aloud – and her follow-up 18,133,368, 8.75% above same week 2018 sales of 16,674,034. to Love Made Me Do It, which reached No.19 last November. Paid-for sales are down 5.44% week-on-week at 723,545, and No.3 on paid-for sales in the wake of the commemoration are 26.23% below same week 2018 sales of 980,813.

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