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. Taking care of business: Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber stay on top Q BY ALAN JONES onsumption is down 20.60% week-on-week to 98,270 units (including 84,576 from sales-equivalent streams), Cbut the combination of Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber is enough for their collaboration, I Don’t Care, to spend a second week at No.1. Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road is runner-up for the fifth time in all, and fourth time in a row, on consumption of 85,244 units, its highest tally to date. Lewis Capaldi’s eagerly-awaited debut full-length album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent makes a big impact, and is generating enough interest to improve fortunes for all three of the concurrently charted singles taken from it, with Someone You Loved, which spent seven weeks at No.1 earlier No.1 this year, rebounding 4-3 (74,247 sales). Elsewhere, Hold Me While You Wait – a No.4 debut a fortnight ago – bounces 8-5 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don’t Care (Asylum/Def Jam) (54,837 sales), and Grace surges into the Top 10 for the first time, jumping 28-9 (34,449 sales). Someone You Loved is the This week’s sales: 98,270 | Downloads: 13,694 | first song to secure consumption of 1m units in 2019, with a Streams: 84,576 |Total sales to date: 222,096 | year-to-date tally of 1,054,161 (its career tally, including eight weeks in 2018, stands at 1,084,530).
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