Drake Scores 9th Week At UK Singles No 1

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) God's Plan by Drake has secured a ninth week at No 1 on the UK Singles Chart. The Canadian's latest single joins 20 other songs in the UK Chart's 66-year history to have logged nine or more weeks at the top. God's Plan is the star's second hit to achieve this after his 2016 summer smash One Dance spent 15 weeks at the summit.

Rudimental's These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen put up another good fight this week, finishing just 3,200 combined sales behind Drake at No 2. In turn, the song has now matched an UK Chart record for the most weeks spent at No 2; These Days shares this feat with All-4-One's 1994 hit I Swear, and the 2011 single Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera.

Elsewhere in this week's Top 5, George Ezra's Paradise climbs seven places to No 5, earning his third Top 10 hit.

New entries and high climbers:
Bebe Rexha's country crossover hit Meant To Be ft. Florida Georgia Line continues to climb, up eight places to No 12 this week. One slot behind are Sigala & Paloma Faith with Lullaby, up six to 13.

US rapper and comedian Lil Dicky and Chris Brown score this week's highest new entry with Freaky Friday at No 16, plus XXXTentacion makes two appearances in the Top 40 this week, at No 20 with Sad! (up eight places) and No 31 with Moonlight (new).

Finally, girl group M.O vault four places with Bad Vibe ft. Lotto Boyz and Mr. Eazi (23), while Love Lies by Khalid and Normani, taken from the upcoming Love, Simon film, climbs six rungs to No 24.