Drake edges closer to achieving an Official Chart record with 'One Dance'

Drake has done it again: One Dance is once again the UK’s Number 1 song on the Official Singles Chart, logging a staggering 14th week at the top.

The rapper is fast approaching a chart record with the song; the longest consecutive stint at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart is 16 weeks, a record held by Bryan Adams’ 1991 hit Everything I Do (I Do It For You). The longest non-consecutive run is held by Frankie Laine’s I Believe at 18 weeks. Will Drake hold on long enough to match or surpass him?

He faces strong competition from two songs that make big gains on the chart this week; Chainsmokers’ Don’t Let Me Down shoots from 7 to Number 2, and Jonas Blue’s Perfect Strangers up 13 places to Number 3 today. Both are now in a strong position to potentially snatch the title from Drake next week.

Making up the rest of this week’s Top 5 are Calum Scott’s Dancing On My Own, up from 10 to 4 and surpassing Robyn’s Number 8 peak with the original song in 2010, and Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl slips from 2 to 5.

Miami rapper Kent Jones climbs two places to crack to the Top 10 at 10 with Don’t Mind, and Shawn Mendes’ Treat You Better leaps 7 spots to Number 13.

This week’s highest new entry comes from Olly Murs’ You Don’t Know Love at 23, and three songs hit the Top 40 for the first time: Mo’s Final Song at 28 (up 25 places), Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez’s We Don’t Talk Anymore at 30 (up 19 spots), and Selena’s Kill Em With Kindness at 35 (up 22).

Watch Drake in action below: