07 December 2018

Friday

2018-12-07

Events

 * New releases: Coldplay - Live In Buenos Aires / Live In Sao Paulo / A Head Full Of Dreams (Film) (Double CD and Double DVD),
 * Re-releases: This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears, Blood, Filigree & Shadow, Morrissey - Low In High School (deluxe vinyl)

Charts

 * Singles: NN1/HNE Ariana Grande - Thank U Next (5/ ).
 * Albums: NN1/HNE (Top 100 & vinyl) The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

Ariana Grande remains at no.1 on the Official Singles Chart with Thank u, Next for a fifth week, setting a new streaming record. The single achieved 14.9 million streams during the week, 7.9 million of which were from its music video, released last week. It’s the highest number of plays in a week in UK chart history, overtaking Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You, which reached 14.2 million streams in a single week last year.

Grande’s fifth week at Number 1 gives her the longest-reigning no.1 for a female artist since 2008, when Katy Perry managed a five-week stint with I Kissed A Girl.

Eight Christmas songs feature on the chart this week: Mariah Carey at N6 with All I Want For Christmas Is You, Wham! - Last Christmas (14), The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York (18), Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas (26), Michael Buble - It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (30), Merry Christmas Everyone from Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me (35), Shakin’ Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (36), and Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee (39). 2018 X Factor winner Dalton Harris debuts at N4 with The Power Of Love ft. James Arthur. The song was originally a no.1 hit for Frankie Goes To Hollywood in December 1984, before being sent down to N3 by Band Aid at N1 and Wham! at N2.