Chart Listings: UK : Shawn Mendes #1 with Stitches, Tinashe top10 | Bowie #1
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The death David Bowie is still having a massive impact on the chart, with the late legend holding nine spots on this weeks Official Albums Chart.
His latest album Blackstar holds for a second week at Number 1, logging just over 80,000 combined sales, while his 2002 retrospective Best Of Bowie leaps from 18 to Number 3. His recent best of, 2014s Nothing Has Changed, gives Bowie his third Top 10 entry this week at Number 6.
Bowies other entries in the Top 40 are: Hunky Dory (up 2 places to 12), The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (down 2 to 19), Aladdin Sane (down 1 to 22), The Next Day (up 1 to 24), Low (unmoved at 31), and Lets Dance (up 7 to 35).
Elsewhere in this weeks Top 5, Adeles 25 rebounds from 3 to 2, Panic! At The Disco score their third Top 10 album with Death Of A Bachelor, entering at Number 4, and Justin Biebers Purpose is down a place at 5.
Congratulations to Shawn Mendes, who claims this weeks Official Singles Chart Number 1 with Stitches.
After a very close race with Justin Biebers Love Yourself all week separated by 621 chart sales at the mid-week stage – Mendes takes the top spot with the track, finishing just over 1,500 combined chart sales ahead of his fellow Canadian singer.
Stitches has enjoyed a slow but steady climb up the Official Chart, first entering the Top 100 at 97 17 weeks ago in October last year, eventually hitting the Top 40 six weeks ago in December.
