The pop star’s
record-breaking single spends a third consecutive week at No 1, while Elvis
Presley’s posthumous release with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra spends a
third week atop the album chart
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| Adele |
Adele’s
record-breaking single Hello has spent three consecutive weeks at No 1 on the
UK singles chart. Since its release on 23 October, Hello has become the fastest-selling
single in the UK this year and broken the record for most downloads in a
week in the US.
As well as
topping the singles chart, Hello was certified platinum in the UK this week,
according to the Official Charts Company. It’s the first single to be released
from Adele’s forthcoming third album, 25, and this week outsold its closest
competitor, Justin Bieber’s Sorry, by 34,000 units (including physical sales,
downloads and streams).
Bieber’s Sorry
stayed at No 2 for the third week in a row and was streamed 4.51m times this
week – not far behind the 4.7m streams of Adele’s Hello. Last year’s X Factor
runner-up Fleur East entered the chart at No 3 with debut Sax, followed by
R&B-rap trio WSTRN, who soared 56 places from No 6 to No 4 with single
In2. Never Forget You, a duet between pop-house singer-songwriter MNEK and
Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson, rounded up the top 5, rising two places from
No 7 last week.
On the albums
chart, Elvis Presley stayed at No 1 for the third week in a row, with
If I Can Dream. The posthumous album, made up of his classic hits reworked by
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is Presley’s 12th chart-topper and makes him
the male solo artist with the most UK No 1 albums.
Elsewhere on
the album chart, girl group Little Mix’s Get Weird debuted at No 2,
while electropop artist Ellie Goulding’s Delirium entered the chart
at No 3. Rod Stewart dropped from No 2 to No 4 with Another Country, and
the deluxe reissue of the Beatles’ 1 entered the chart at No 5 – though 1 had
previously spent nine weeks atop the album chart, since its release in 2000.
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