Little Mix's fourth No.1, Shout Out To My Ex, moves further ahead at the top of the singles chart, with sales of 111,816 (including 50,357 from streams) - the highest for any track since Drake's One Dance sold 123,519 copies 24 weeks ago on its fifth week at No.1 - giving it a significant 49.20% lead over James Arthur's Say You Won't Let Go (2-2, 74,945 sales).
It is, of course, the first full week of sales for Shout Out To My Ex which topped the chart last week less than five days after release. It is the seventh single in a row to spend more than one week at No.1 - a run that extends back to February. It is the longest sequence of No.1 hits to spend more than a week at No.1 since 1994/95 when eight straight No.1 hits turned the trick, starting with Manchester United FC's Come On You Reds in May 1994 and ending with Celine Dion's Think Twice in March 1995.
OVERALL UNITS SALES STREAMING POINTS
1 Little Mix 111,816 61,459 50,357
2 James Arthur 74,945
3 The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey 53,562
4 The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk 51,339
5 Hailee Steinfeld & Grey feat. Zedd 38,710 ??
6 NEIKED feat. Dyo 38,710 ??
7 Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne Marie 37,948
8 Sia feat. Kendrick Lamar 36,669
9 Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj 35,962
10 Calvin Harris 35,101
Albums
25 Melanie C 4,084
26 Tom Chaplin 3,903
28 Little Mix Get Weird
30 Agnes Obel 3,540
36 Rebecca Ferguson 2,825
Huge streaming for LM! Quite a surge in sales for Get Weird too, up from the 2000s. BTW next week will be its 52nd week in the charts, and it looks like it will still be Top 40.