Sprinter turned each the longest-running UK Rap observe to hit #1, and the primary to ever attain 10 consecutive weeks on the prime of the Official Singles Chart, which it serendipitously achieved on the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of hip-hop.
In accordance with Official Charts Firm information, from the primary week of June till the final week of August, Sprinter (which was, serendipitously, launched on 1st June) collected 812,000 UK chart models in whole, together with 105 million UK streams, additionally making it the most-streamed music of the summer time.
Taken from the duo’s collaborative EP Break up Choice, Sprinter turned Dave’s third UK #1 in June, following 2018’s Funky Friday with Fredo and 2022’s Starlight, whereas it notably marked Central Cee’s first chart-topper.
In the meantime, in second place is trance banger Miracle by Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding, which topped the Official Singles Chart for eight non-consecutive weeks.
Earlier this summer time, the Official Chart went by one thing of a Padamic, because of Kylie Minogue’s viral hit Padam Padam changing into her first UK Prime 10 single in over 10 years. Padam Padam (19) ends the summer time because the UK’s most-downloaded observe.
Different big tracks to make the Prime 10 embrace; Dua Lipa’s chart-topping Barbie anthem Dance The Night time (3), J Hus’ Who Informed You? ft. Drake (4) and Giving Me by Jazzy (5).
Olivia Rodrigo’s maudlin ballad vampire, which reached #1 on the Official Singles Chart in September, is available in at Quantity 6, however is called the most-purchased single of the summer time on bodily codecs.
Following a record-setting all-solo feminine Prime 6 in August, we’re comfortable to announce that the Summer time of Woman Energy continues, with feminine acts holding a majority of locations within the Prime 10; seven out of the Prime 10 tracks are led by, or function, a feminine artist. With entries from the likes of Taylor Swift’s Merciless Summer time (7), Miley Cyrus’ Flowers (8) and Dancing is Therapeutic by Charlotte Plank, Rudimental and Vibe Chemistry (9) proving that sisters have been positively doing it for themselves this 12 months.
Rounding out the Prime 10 is David Kushner’s Quantity 2-peaking single Daylight. Spending 5 weeks at its highest putting, it was held again solely by the seemingly unstoppable Miracle.
The dominance of dance music in summer time 2023 is there for all to see within the Songs Of Summer time checklist too, with Prime 10 hits reminiscent of; Swap Disco & Ella Henderson’s React (11), Hannah Laing & RoRo’s Good Love (12), Peggy Gou’s (It Goes Like) Nanana (14) and Nathan Dawe, Joel Corry & Ella Henderson’s 0800 Heaven (22) taking the great vibes from the golf equipment to the charts.
A stack of former #1 hits function all through the Prime 40, together with Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For? (18), Lewis Capaldi’s Want You The Finest (26), and Ed Sheeran’s emotional Eyes Closed (27).
Additional Prime 10 hits showing embrace Gunna’s F*kumean (22), Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua’s Barbie World (23), Loreen’s Eurovision 2023 winner Tattoo (25) and Fifty Fifty’s record-setting Cupid (29), the primary single by a Ok-pop woman group to hit the UK Prime 10.
Afrobeats additionally proves to be some of the in-demand and fastest-growing genres within the UK business market proper now, with quite a lot of tracks making this wider Prime 40 checklist, like Rema’s Calm Down, which hit its chart peak of Quantity 3 this 12 months and locations within the Prime 20 songs of the summer time at 13, alongside Libianca’s Quantity 2 hit Folks (17), which additionally topped the UK’s Official Afrobeats Chart for 12 weeks and Dancehall musician Byron Messia’s Talibans (32).
