Official Charts Analysis: Despacito still locked at singles chart summit

No.1 for the third week in a row, and ninth week in total - becoming the 20th song in chart history to reach the latter target - Despacito remains well clear of the chasing pack for Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, with sales of 72,617 copies (including 45,041 from sales-equivalent streams). DJ Khaled's Wild Thoughts (feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller) is its runner-up for the third time on sales of 56,065 copies and French Montana's Unforgettable (feat. Swae Lee) is also static at No.3 (42,267 sales). The only new entry to the Top 10 is Sigala & Ella Eyre's Came Here For Love, which climbs 12-6 (32,628 sales). Helped by the track's 59p pricing at iTunes, the track returns East Anglian producer/DJ Sigala to the Top 10 for the first time since his initial flurry of four straight Top 10 entries between September 2015 and July 2016, and earns Eyre her third Top 10 hit, following earlier collaborations with Rudimental and DJ Fresh. Calvin Harris scores his 19th Top 5 hit, 10 years after The Girls became his first, with latest single Feels (feat. Pharrell, Katy Perry & Big Sean) advancing 6-4 (38,300 sales). The track also raises Perry's tally of Top 5 hits to 13. Elsewhere in the Top 10, Maggie Lindemann's debut hit Pretty Girl holds at No.9 (30,504 sales) while there are declines for Mama (4-5, 34,480 sales) by Jonas Blue feat. William Singe, Strip That Down (5-7, 31,780 sales) by Liam Payne feat. Quavo, Your Song (7-8, 30,836 sales) by Rita Ora and Power (8-10, 29,795 sales) by Little Mix. Falling out of the Top 10, 2U slips 10-11 (27,737 sales) for David Guetta feat. Justin Bieber. While Strip You Down (feat. Quavo) spends an eighth straight week in the Top 10, Liam Payne also has a share in the week's highest new entry, providing the vocal assist on European dance producer Zedd's latest single, Get Low, which debuts at No.26 (13,957 sales). After racking up 13 hits between 2009 and 2013 - three of them No.1's - Ke$ha has been noticeably absent from the chart ever since, as her personal and professional dispute with former mentor Dr. Luke has taken its toll. Now free to record again, she returns to the chart with Praying, which contains references to her struggle, and debuts at No.30 (13,074 sales). A collaboration between Swedish production duo Indiia and American singer Whitney Phillips, Out Of Love brings both their chart debut this week, debuting at No.60 (6,170 sales). Sorry Not Sorry is a brand new Demi Lovato recording and delivers her 13th Top 75 entry - just - debuting at No.69 (5,163 sales). While Jay Z's new album 4:44 jumps to No.3, the title track becomes his 48th Top 75 entry, making a modest No.73 debut (4,876 sales). Only one other track on the album - The Story Of OJ - makes the 100 position Official Singles chart, debuting at No.88 (3,975 sales). Under old rules, Dua Lipa's new single would be No.104 on the chart this week but under new rules introduced last week, it becomes her sixth Top 75 entry, debuting at No.75 (4,733 sales). Its title could not, therefore be any more appropriate... New Rules. On the old Top 200 tracks chart, the No.75 title - Kygo's First Time collaboration with Ellie Goulding has 6,194 sales - 30.87% more than New Rules. With the chart's aforesaid new rules still bedding in, there's another abundance of new peaks. Those not referred to elsewhere: Crying In The Club (16-14, 21,726 sales) by Camila Cabello, Sun Comes Up (24-18, 17,569 sales) by Rudimental feat. James Arthur, Know No Better (26-19, 16,129 sales) by Major Lazer feat. Travis Scott, Camila Cabello & Quavo, Chasing Highs (30-28, 13,582 sales) by Alma, Congratulations (39-34, 11,376 sales) by Post Malone & Quavo, Most Girls (40-37, 11,060 sales) by Hailee Steinfeld, Instruction (47-38, 10,866 sales) by Jax Jones feat. Demi Lovato & Stefflon Don, PYT (Pretty Young Thing) (54-51, 7,649 sales) by John Gibbons, More Than You Know (59-52, 7,487 sales) by Axwell ^ Ingrosso, Bestie (67-55, 6,440 sales) by Yungen feat. Yxng Bane, and Real Life (68-64, 5,779 sales) by Duke Dumont x Gorgon City feat. Naations. Overall singles sales are down 1.30% week-on-week at 13,147,787; 35.87% above same week 2016 sales of 9,676,446. Streams accounted for 11,834,749 sales, a record 90.01% of the total. Paid-for sales are down 3.68% week-on-week at 1,313,038 – a mere 808 below their 2017 nadir plumbed four week ago but their lowest level since week ending 16 December 2006 (552 weeks ago) when 1,266,194 singles were sold. They are 24.87% below same week 2016 sales of 1,747,724 and below same-week, previous-year sales for the 206th week in a row.

Official Charts Analysis: Ed Sheeran remains at No.1 and now has more weeks at the top than his previous albums

No.1 for the third week in a row, and 14th time in all, Ed Sheeran's ÷ has now spent longer at the chart summit than either of his previous albums, and is in clear second place for most weeks at No.1 in the 2010s behind Adele's 23 week topper, 21. Adele is also the only artist to spend more weeks at No.1 in the 2010s overall, with Divide's latest victory bringing Sheeran's total number of weeks at No.1 in the decade to 30, six short of Adele's tally. For all its achievements, ÷ turned in the lowest sales tally of its 19 week chart career - and the lowest for a No.1 album since La La Land topped 23 weeks ago with 15,174 sales - with a combined tally of 25,392, including 9,161 from streams. Its career tally of 2,053,639 sales includes a contribution of 433,809 from streams, and compares favourably to every other album in the 2010s aside from Adele's twin behemoths 21, which had a same stage tally of 2,443,114 sales; and 25, with 2,901,792 sales. Both tallies were achieved without the benefit of streaming. The first female group comprising entirely of sisters to have a No.1 album when their debut release Days Are Gone topped the list on sales of 37,005 copies in October 2013, Haim finally released their follow-up, Something To Tell You, and secure a No.2 debut on sales of 18,319 copies. Comprising Alana, Este and Danielle Haim, the Los Angeles trio pulled no fewer than five Top 75 entries off their first album, the most successful of which - The Wire - debuted and peaked at No.16 a week before Days Are Gone made its debut, helping the album to achieve sales-to-date of 300,244 copies, 1,262 of which occur in its latest frame, which see it rise 145-83.. Want You Back is the first single from Something To Tell You, and achieved a modest No.59 peak on the OCC chart in May, while reaching No.33 on the radio airplay chart. It re-enters the Top 75 this week, moving 89-56 (6,381 sales) to achieve a new peak. No.102 last week entirely on the basis of streams from Tidal, 4:44 now jumps to No.3 (12,980 sales) to become Jay-Z's 4th Top 10 album and 15th Top 75 album in the UK. It is the follow-up to Magna Carta...Holy Grail, which gave him his first and thus far only No.1 album here when it opened atop the list on sales of 39,386 copies four years ago this very week. That marked a personal best for Jay-Z, just beating the 38,681 copies that The Blueprint 3 sold when it debuted at number four in 2009. Jay-Z had sold 3,230,812 albums in the UK prior to the release of 4:44. 2004 Linkin Park collaboration Collision Course is the biggest seller, contributing 462,927 of those sales - though some see it as an EP rather than an album because of its short (a tad over 21 minutes) playing time. Jay-Z's biggest selling full length album, and solo album, is The Blueprint 3, with 396,018 sales. 4:44 will become Jay-Z's 14th US number one later this week, a total exceeded only by The Beatles. After reaching No.21 with their 2013 debut album, Inform Educate Entertain, London duo Public Service Broadcasting were just one place but 2,051 sales from making the Top 10 with 2015 follow-up, The Race For Space. Like that album, follow-up Every Valley is a concept album and one that easily secures the pair their initial Top 10 appearance, debuting at No.4 on sales of 11,979 copies. Radiohead's OK Computer (12-7, 7,265 sales) and Little Mix's Glory Days (11-9, 5,827 sales) both return to the Top 10, which is completed by declines for Human (3-5, 9,190 sales) by Rag'n'Bone Man, Funk Wav Bounces Vol.1 (2-6, 8,959 sales) by Calvin Harris, How Did We Get So Dark? (4-8, 6,631 sales) by Royal Blood and the stationary X (5,668 sales) by Ed Sheeran. Five titles are expelled from the Top 10, namely Evolve (7-11, 5,310 sales) by Imagine Dragons, Truth Is A Beautiful Thing (8-12, 5,276 sales) by London Grammar, Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits (6-13, 4,689 sales) by The Bee Gees, Greatest Hits (9-14, 4,255 sales) by Foo Fighters and Hydrograd (5-55, 1,793 sales) by Stone Sour. Singer/songwriter Lucy Rose scored back-to-back Top 15 albums with 2012 debut Like I Used To (No.13) and 2015 follow-up Work It Out (No.9). Her third album, Something's Changing, makes more modest inroads this week, debuting at No.34 (2,512 sales). Rapper 21 Savage's debut release, Issa Album, opens at No.42 (2,247 sales) with 374 paid-for downloads, and the rest of its tally from streaming. Trading under the unusual alias of This Is The Kit. Kate Stables' alt-folk style has slowly been winning over audiences for some time, and although a trio of previous albums failed to make the Top 200, the most recent, 2015's Bashed Up, did manage to sell 7,382 copies setting up new album, Moonshine Freeze, which duly earns Stables her chart debut, entering at No.49 (2,076 sales). UK rapper K Koke's latest mixtape, Pure Koke Volume 4 (PK4),is his first to chart, debuting at No.60 (1,623 sales). The Ministry Of Sound release I Love Reggae is No.1 on the compilation chart for the second week in a row, and fourth week in total, on sales of 12,747 copies. Overall album sales are down 4.50% week-on-week at 1,586,358, 3.76% above same week 2016 sales of 1,528,931. Streaming accounted for 737,041 sales – 46.46% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are down 7.13% week-on-week at 849,317, their second lowest level since 1994 and 17.02% below same week 2016 sales of 1,023,503.

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