British rap star Dave broke the Disney magic on the U.K. singles charts. His surprise single "Starlight," released in honor of his U.K. arena tour, went straight to number one with sales of 63,000. That concludes seven weeks of We Don't Talk About Bruno, Disney's acclaimed animated film.
By jazz standards, Fly Me To The Moon, Starlight was Dave's second number one after Funky Friday in 2018. According to the Official Charts Company, it aired 7.7 million times last week, which helped Dave have the highest first-week sales of any artist this year.
Brit and Mercury's second album, We're All Alone In This Together, also entered the Top 5 at number five. We Don't Talk About Bruno came in at ninth, a victim of the "Accelerated Dropdown" rule, which halves the number of streams of old songs to prevent them from blocking the top 40 indefinitely.
This shift affected the rest of the top 10, with Seventeen Going Under Sam Fender, Mimi Webb's House on Fire, and Overseas D-Block Europe and Central Cee up one place. The Fender hit also went platinum this week, marking a total of 600,000 sales.
Many other upcoming hits have also benefited from the We Don't Talk About Bruno window sill. The club anthem MNEK and Jax Jones Where Did You Go made it back into the top ten for the first time in five weeks. George Ezra's recurring single "Anyone For You" continued its six-week climb, hitting a new record high of 13. And after one Quarter as a mid-range chart hit, "The Motto" by Tiesto & Ava Max hit its previous peak of 17.
Russ Millions, Buni, and Y.V. were the biggest movers, which jumped 34 places to No. 12 with their infectious track Reggae & Calypso. Camilla Cabello also won her 15th British Top 40 hit with Latin America's Bam Bam (alongside Ed Sheeran), debuting at 22.
Stereophonics Welsh rockers celebrate on the album charts with their 25th-anniversary album Oohya! their eighth-place one in Great Britain.
The performance made him one of the most successful chart artists of all time, following Taylor Swift, Oasis, Kylie Minogue, and R.E.M. - which also has eight leaders on the leaderboard. The Beatles have the most at 15, followed by Elvis Presley and Robbie Williams at 13 each.