Despite only being available for 24 hours when I typed up last week's chart, Canadian singer Justin Bieber and American producer BloodPop® debuted at #5 with their collaboration Friends. It's no surprise that this week, the duo climb to #1, knocking P!nk down two places to #3 after a single week at the top. Friends is Justin's eighth #1, a tally bettered only by record holders One Direction and The Vamps with 11, with his first being Boyfriend over five years ago. Despite three chart hits in my top 15 earlier this year, none of Justin's 2017 releases managed to go higher than #10, so his most recent #1 before Friends was Let Me Love You a year ago, with Cold Water preceding it just two weeks before. It's BloodPop®'s first #1 in my chart, with his very first appearance.
They put in a strong bid for #1 and would've made it on most weeks, but up against Justin Bieber, Latin boyband CNCO and British girl group Little Mix have to settle for #2. Reggaetón Lento is CNCO's first chart appearance, and therefore their very first top 10 hit. Little Mix however achieve their thirteenth top 10 hit, and their third #2 alongside Hair and Shout Out to My Ex (blocked by comeback singles from Tom Odell and The Vamps). Reggaetón Lento continues the Spanish invasion in the chart, and it's the highest peaking Spanish track so far in my chart this year, ahead of #5 hit SÚBEME LA RADIO by Enrique Iglesias, and #13 hits Despacito by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee and Mi Gente by J Balvin & Willy William (the latter of which is new this week, marking a chart debut for both artists).
From one boyband to another! British four-piece The Shades made their debut earlier this year with #4 hit 24 Hours a Day, released a few weeks after I saw them live supporting The Tide. This week, they return with a second #4 debut, as follow-up hit Trouble follows exactly in its predecessor's footsteps.
Over the past year and a bit, Benjamin Ingrosso has cemented himself as a consistent hitmaker in my chart. His first hit Love You Again only made it as high as #24, but the following week, Fall In Love stormed to become his first #1, knocking off Shawn Mendes' Treat You Better. Since then, he's achieved two more top 10 hits, including Melodifestivalen track Good Lovin', and this week racks up his fourth top 10 hit overall with One More Time.
Fun fact: this week, we have two relatives in my top 10. Benjamin Ingrosso's cousin is Sebastian Ingrosso, who makes his chart debut this week alongside fellow Swedish House Mafia member Axwell. Neither Axwell nor Ingrosso have made my chart before, as part of their duo (Axwell Λ Ingrosso), as part of SHM, or solo, meaning that the #5 debut of More Than You Know is their very first appearance in my chart. It's also only the second time two relatives have been in my top 10 together, after siblings Grace and Conrad Sewell in 2015 (and together they locked up the entire top 4 in fact).
Aside from those already mentioned, we have chart debuts from James Hype, Kelli-Leigh and Aly & AJ, although Kelli-Leigh achieved an uncredited #22 hit in 2014 as the vocalist on Duke Dumont's I Got U. Betty Who receives her first hit as a lead artist, as Human Touch debuts at #31. She's previously only charted as a featured artist on Troye Sivan's #7 hit HEAVEN.
Next week, it's all eyes on the battle between Taylor Swift and Ryan Lawrie. Both debuted in the top 20 this week with their singles Look What You Made Me Do and Perfect Picture respectively, with the latter higher (due to an extra day), but who will take the top spot next week, if either? Keep an eye out for new American boyband In Real Life's debut single Eyes Closed too.
- Number 1 Up by 4Peak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks2
- Number 2 Up by 20Peak2Weeks2
- Number 3 Down by 2Peak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks3
- Number 4 DebutPeak4Weeks1
- Number 5 DebutPeak5Weeks1
- Number 6 Down by 4Peak2Weeks2
- Number 7 Down by 4
Back to You
Louis Tomlinson ft. featuring Bebe Rexha & Digital Farm Animals
Peak1 (for 3 weeks)Weeks6 - Number 8 DebutPeak8Weeks1
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- Number 10 Down by 4Peak2Weeks5
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- Number 12 DebutPeak12Weeks1
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- Number 14 Down by 5Peak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks6
- Number 15 DebutPeak15Weeks1
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- Number 17 DebutPeak17Weeks1
- Number 18 Down by 8Peak2Weeks7
- Number 19 Down by 7Peak9Weeks5
- Number 20 Down by 6Peak12Weeks5
- Number 21 Down by 5Peak13Weeks3
- Number 22 Down by 11Peak3Weeks4
- Number 23 Down by 5
SÚBEME LA RADIO (Remix)
Enrique Iglesias ft. featuring Sean Paul & Matt Terry
From the album: Trouble
Peak5Weeks5 - Number 24 Down by 3Peak20Weeks3
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- Number 26 Down by 11Peak2Weeks7
- Number 27 Down by 14
Ego
Ella Eyre ft. featuring Ty Dolla $ign
Peak13Weeks2 - Number 28 Down by 9
OMG
Camila Cabello ft. featuring Quavo
Peak15Weeks3 - Number 29 Down by 9Peak5Weeks7
- Number 30 Down by 13Peak8Weeks6
- Number 31 DebutPeak31Weeks1
- Number 32 DebutPeak32Weeks1
- Number 33 Down by 10
Out Of Love
INDIIA ft. featuring Whitney Phillips
Peak20Weeks7 - Number 34 Down by 9Peak25Weeks2
- Number 35 DebutPeak35Weeks1
- Number 36 Down by 1
Instruction
Jax Jones ft. featuring Demi Lovato & Stefflon Don
From the album: Snacks, Tell Me You Love Me
Peak2Weeks10 - Number 37 Down by 11Peak10Weeks13
- Number 38 Down by 8Peak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks14
- Number 39 Down by 8Peak1 (for 3 weeks)Weeks21
- Number 40 Debut
More Than Friends
James Hype ft. featuring Kelli-Leigh
Peak40Weeks1 - Number 27 Dropout
Either Way
Snakehips & Anne-Marie ft. featuring Joey Bada$$
Peak18Weeks2 - Number 28 DropoutPeak28Weeks1
- Number 29 DropoutPeak6Weeks7
- Number 32 DropoutPeak20Weeks5
- Number 33 DropoutPeak13Weeks6
- Number 34 DropoutPeak30Weeks2
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- Number 37 DropoutPeak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks14
- Number 38 Dropout
Trust
HNNBL ft. featuring Miles Wesley
Peak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks7 - Number 39 DropoutPeak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks8
- Number 40 DropoutPeak40Weeks1