An undramatic week in the charts has seen Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk stay at No 1 in the singles, its fourth week at the top, and Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour has taken the top spot in the albums for the fifth time, displacing George Ezra’s Wanted on Voyage. Ezra supports Smith at Madison Square Garden in New York next week, so they’ll have something to talk about, at least.
Philip George and Ed Sheeran hold steady at Nos 2 and 3 in the singles chart, with top five completed by Up, by Olly Murs featuring Demi Lovato, and Take Me To Church by Hozier, which rose five places from No 10 following his appearance on The Graham Norton Show. The highest climber is James Bay’s Hold Back the River, up 44 places to No 36.
In the albums chart, Ed Sheeran remains at No 2 with X, Ezra drops to No 3, with Taylor Swift’s 1989 and Olly Murs’s Never Been Better completing the top five.
