Chart News: UK Charts: BBHMM #29; Jess Glynne and James Bay #1
Hold My Hand is Jess Glynnes third chart-topping single, following her previous Number 1s with features on Clean Bandits million-selling Rather Be, the most streamed track of 2014, and Route 94s My Love.
With chart sales of over 97,000, Jess finished over 40,000 ahead of nearest rival James Bay, whose Hold Back The River climbs to a new peak of Number 2.
Former Number 1 from Years & Years, King, falls a place to Number 3, while at Number 4, Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney spend a ninth consecutive week in the Top 5. FourFive Seconds is also the most streamed track of the week, notching up over 1.8 million listens.
Another former chart-topper is at Number 5, with Ellie Gouldings Love Me Like You Do, from the Fifty Shades Of Grey, spending an eighth week in The Top 5.
Last weeks Number 1, Lay Me Down from Sam Smith and John Legend, is at Number 6 this week.
Its a third UK Top 40 for Sigma and a seventh for Labrinth the pair team up for Higher, new at Number 12.
Rihannas new single already makes an impact. Bitch Better Have My Money is new at Number 29 after just two days on sale.
British rapper and YouTuber KSI makes his Top 40 with Lamborghini FT P Money at Number 30.
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James Bay will be celebrating today as his debut album release goes straight in at Number 1 on this weeks Official Albums Chart.
The Hertfordshire singer-songwriter, named Critics Choice at this years BRIT Awards, racked up combined sales of over 64,000 to take the top spot. Chaos And The Calm was streamed almost 2,500 times over the past seven days.
Staying at Number 2 was the most-streamed album of the week, Sam Smiths In The Lonely Hour, with 3,300 plays. Ed Sheerans x, which recently passed the two-million sales mark, is at Number 3, spending its 40th consecutive week in the Top 10. While last weeks Number 1 from Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly, falls four places to round off our Top 5.
Folk singer Laura Marling lands her fourth Top 10 album, with Short Movie new at Number 7, and Wakefield trio The Cribs celebrate a third Top 10 album as For All My Sisters goes in at Number 9.
Siblings The Staves achieve their first ever Top 40 album, with If I Was going in at Number 14, and Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett also makes her Top 40 debut Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit is in at Number 16.
Its a 23rd Top 40 entry on the Official Albums Chart for Kylie Minogue; Kiss Me Once Live At The SSE Hydro is new at Number 26.