Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2022 so far
07.04.2022 - 02:03
/ officialcharts.com
Disney Encanto’s We Don’t Talk About Bruno storms straight into the lead as the UK’s biggest single of 2022 so far, according to Official Charts Company data.
The track – performed by Encanto cast members Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero and Stephanie Beatriz – became the first-ever original Disney song to reach Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart in January, where it reigned for seven consecutive weeks.
We Don’t Talk About Bruno boasts 581,000 combined UK chart sales so far in 2022, including a staggering 84 million streams – the most-streamed song of 2022 so far. It’s the most popular music video of the year-to-date also, its official music video has been streamed over 28 million times so far this year, that's three times more plays than any other non-Encanto song has managed in the same period. In total, there are four Encanto tracks in the year-to-date Top 40 - Jessica Darrow provides Encanto’s second entry on the list with Surface Pressure (7), which peaked at Number 3 back in January. with The Family Madrigal at Number 15, and What Else Can I Do at 26.
It's a Disney takeover across the board at the end of the first quarter, the Encanto soundtrack also tops the list of 2022’s official biggest compilation albums so far, with the movie’s companion record shifting 153,000 in total chart sales this year.
Encanto may be a proven streaming powerhouse, but across the rest of the list we see huge streaming volumes too, in fact the UK’s Top 40 songs of the year so far have amassed a staggering 1.3 billion streams in the first quarter of the year alone.
Fireboy DML claims the second-biggest song of 2022 overall with the infectious Peru, featuring Ed Sheeran. The track earned the