Ed Sheeran claims the highest new entry on this week’s Official Singles Chart with The Joker and the Queen at Number 2.
01.02.2022 - 11:52 / officialcharts.com
The Family Madrigal lead an interesting and diverse Official Trending Chart, which also sees high new entries from Charli XCX & Rina Sawayama, George Ezra and big gains for tracks from Ella Henderson and Katy Perry & Alesso.
Currently the Number 1 Trending Song in the UK, Encanto's The Family Madrigal is looking to break into the UK Top 10 for the first time this Friday, meaning it would potentially be the third Encanto song in the UK Top 10.
The soundtrack's breakthrough hit is, of course, We Don't Talk About Bruno, which recently became the first original Disney song to reach Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
Meanwhile, this week's highest new entry on the Trending Chart comes courtesy of Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama, whose collaboration Beg For You is right now heading towards a debut in the Top 20. It would be Charli's 12th Top 40 hit in the UK, and Rina's first.
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This week, there are further new entries from Central Cee, who returns with new tune Cold Shoulder and George Ezra, who begins the launch of his third album Gold Rush Kid with its perky lead single, Anyone For You.
We also have to big risers this week. Ella Henderson's Brave - the launch single to her upcoming second studio album Everything I Didn't Say - is the biggest jumper, while Alesso & Katy Perry are also on the rise once more with their dance-pop bop When I'm Gone, following the duo's performance of the song on Saturday Night Live this weekend.
Official Trending Chart - January 31, 2022©2022
⬆️ - Indicates a climb of 10 placesLW - Last week's Official Singles Chart positionCURRENT - Current position on today's Official Singles Chart sales flashDIFF - Number of
Ed Sheeran claims the highest new entry on this week’s Official Singles Chart with The Joker and the Queen at Number 2.
Disney's Encanto soundtrack continues its massive chart success in the UK, netting a seventh consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Compilations chart.
X Factor star Ella Henderson has opened up about how Rylan Clark helped her through dark times after struggling with her mental health.The singer, 26, explained on Rylan’s podcast how she can relate to the presenter, who’s also a former X Factor contestant, and the struggle to appear “bubbly” in the public eye. Speaking about the process of making her second album, Ella said that it took her a “long time” to feel comfortable expressing how she really feels.
Disney’s Encanto soars to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart following its long-awaited release on DVD, Blu-ray & 4K UHD.
Charli XCX has been under fire from her generally worshipful fanbase for the past 24 hours, since Afterparty — a March music and art festival in Las Vegas that requires all its attendees own one of 1,500 "Utopian" NFTs — announced her as a scheduled performer alongside The Chainsmokers, The Kid LAROI, and others. This morning, Charli responded to the criticisms by tweeting a statement in two screenshots.
Yesterday, an hour after announcing she'd be taking a mental health break from Twitter, Charli XCX posted a teaser of a new music video for a previously released track to Instagram. The track in question was her January Rina Sawayama collab, "Beg For You" — the third single from CRASH, coming March 18 — and the video dropped today, as promised.
Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama have shared a video for their new collaboration, ‘Beg For You’ – you can watch it below.Released last month, the pair’s new track – which samples September’s 2006 dance-floor filler ‘Cry For You’ – is the latest preview from Charli’s upcoming studio album ‘CRASH’, due out March 18.According to a press release, the accompany video “encapsulates cult theology within popular culture; worship of an image, obsession of a higher power, ritualistic and superstitious practices and the sacrifice for perfection”.In the Nick Harwood-directed clip, Charli and Sawayama lead a cult through the lonely plains of Lancaster, California, accompanied by two characters depicting Jesus and Satan.Towards the end of the video, the two pop stars perform a joint ritual on a raised platform as the cult dances around them in a circle. Charli then cuts her hand and squeezes the blood into a pool, which Jesus drinks from using a ladle.
Encanto’s We Don’t Talk About Bruno marks one month at the top of the Official Singles Chart.
Charli XCX says she is struggling with the toxicity of social media in the lead-up to her fifth studio album, Crash. The English singer-songwriter, 29, has received criticism for the song rollout supporting her impending project.
ArrDee and Aitch's War for domination on the Official Singles Chart begins in earnest, as today they top the UK's Official Trending Chart.
Charli XCX has reached out to K-pop idol and SEVENTEEN member Vernon about a possible collaboration.Over the weekend on February 6, the British singer took to Twitter to ask fans who they would like to see her collaborate with on a remix of her recent single ‘Beg For You’, featuring London-based Japanese singer Rina Sawayama. Soon after, fans of Venon, who has been a long-time fan of the pop star, began suggesting that the pair work together.Charli XCX soon took notice, tweeting earlier today (February 8) to ask fans how she could contact the K-pop idol.
ArrDee and Aitch's War for domination on the Official Singles Chart begins in earnest, as today they top the UK's Official Trending Chart.
ArrDee and Aitch are well and truly heading for War as their dramatic collaboration enters the battle to become the highest new entry on next week’s Official Singles Chart. Currently, the track is expected to debut at Number 3 – becoming ArrDe’s 4th UK Top 10 single and Aitch’s 6th.
We Don’t Talk About Bruno continues its domination of the UK’s Official Singles Chart, settling in for a third consecutive week at Number 1.
We Don’t Talk About Bruno continues its domination of the UK’s Official Singles Chart, settling in for a third consecutive week at Number 1.
We Don’t Talk About Bruno from Encanto climbs to Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife scores a third week as the UK’s Number 1 film.
Reigning Number 1 We Don’t Talk About Bruno by the Encanto cast is currently leading the race for Number 1 on this week’s Official Singles Chart. If it holds its position, it will mark its third consecutive week at the top, after becoming the first original Disney song to ever reach Number 1 in the UK.
We Don’t Talk About Bruno from Encanto holds at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, denying Peru by Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran this week’s place at the top.