Mark Ronson has won his first ever number one single with Uptown Funk featuring Bruno Mars after rush releasing the track five weeks ahead of schedule. The absolute belter of a tune, which has now also become the second favourite to claim this year's Christmas number one, sold 105,000 copies and was streamed 1.35 million times since its surprise release last Monday.
Speaking to the Official Charts Company, Ronson said: "This is my first number one single as an artist or producer so I just want to thank everyone who bought, downloaded or DJed 'Uptown Funk' this past week. It's pretty much the coolest thing ever. I also have to thank Phil Smeeze, Jeff Bhasker and the boy wonder Bruno Mars, without whom there'd be no jam."
Uptown Funk was controversially performed by The X Factor's Fleur East, who subsequently shot to the top of iTunes with her killer rendition of the single from last weekend's semi-final. Ironically, the track which the 26-year-old brought to the public's attention, is keeping last night's winner Ben Haenow from the top of iTunes meaning Simon Cowell may have denied his own X Factor winner Ben Haenow his first number one this Sunday.
Mark Ronson claims first UK number one single (Columbia UK)
Mark and Bruno's collaboration pushes last week's number one, Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud down to number two this week while Band Aid 30 shoot back up the tally with Do They Know It's Christmas? after the single became physically available on CD. Take That drop a place to number four with These Days and Dutch DJ Oliver Heldens completes the top five with Last All Night (Koala).
One Direction score their 11th Top 10 single with Night Changes, the second single to be lifted from their chart-topping album Four. The Pogues begin to climb to number 11 with their Christmas classic Fairytale Of New York ahead of Mariah Carey, who despite being the third most streamed track of the week, follows at number 16 with All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Bring Me To The Horizon have nabbed their first ever UK Top 40 single with Drown arriving at number 17, before X Factor USA girl group Fifth Harmony who enter at 21 with their UK debut Bo$$. The ladies looked set to rightfully dominate the UK coming in at number 10 in the midweek sales chart following their showstopping set on last weekend's The X Factor, but with sales dwindling massively for the girls at the final hurdle, Fifth Harmony miss out on their first UK Top 20.
Check out this week's Top 10 below…
1 (-) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
2 (1) Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
3 (12) Band Aid 30 – Do They Know It's Christmas?
4 (3) Take That – These Days
5 (-) Oliver Heldens – Last All Night (Koala)
6 (4) Taylor Swift – Blank Space
7 (19) One Direction - Night Changes
8 (5) Olly Murs featuring Travie McCoy – Wrapped Up
9 (10) Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding – Outside
10 (6) Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne – Real Love
