Out of the Ordinary! Alex Warren makes it seven consecutive weeks atop the Official Singles Chart summit.
The Californian singer-songwriter also claims the most-streamed song of the week, amassing 6.7 million UK streams over the past seven days.
Illinois export Ravyn Lenae bags a personal best with Love Me Not, up four to break into the Top 5 for the first time (5).
It’s tasty as hell! Jack Black’s record-breaking A Minecraft Movie hit Steve’s Lava Chicken also boasts a new best, lifting two to make its Top 10 debut (9).
Coming in?at a total duration of 34 seconds, Steve’s Lava Chicken recently became the shortest Top 40 hit in UK Official Chart history, surpassing Jonny Trunk and Wisbey’s previous record holder The Ladies’ Bras, by just two seconds.
Reacting to the news, Jack Black told Official Charts:
“I want to send big love to all the Minecraft fans for getting us up there – it’s insane! Love you!”
Steve’s Lava Chicken broke the same record Stateside this week, becoming the shortest-ever song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 (77).
This week’s highest new entry comes courtesy of Lorde; her comeback track What Was That landing at Number 11. The first single lifted from her upcoming fourth studio album Virgin, What Was That earns the New Zealand native a fifth UK Top 40 single.
It’s a fifth Top 40 for Benson Boone, too, as latest cut Mystical Magical makes its Singles Chart debut (17).
Sleep Token secure a third Top 40 single in under two months with Damocles (25). The rock outfit previously saw success with Emergence (17) and Caramel (10).
Charli xcx scores a 22nd Top 40 single, with party 4 u vaulting 35 to a brand-new peak as it goes viral on social media (34). In doing so, it becomes the highest-charting track from Charli’s 2020 album how i’m feeling now.
Finally, congratulations are in order for Skye Newman. The rising South London-born singer-songwriter celebrates her first-ever UK Top 40 single, with soulful smash Hairdresser up 13 this week (38).
