The Scott Music Report: April 14, 2017

Drake does the three-peat as "Passionfruit" logs a third week at #1 at top of the charts. The song fends off tough competition from the rest of the top five which is on the rise this week in the hope of dethroning Drake. Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson's "Symphony" rises one place to the runner up position, while Lorde's "Green Light" also rises one to a new peak of number three after staying put at number four in its first two weeks on the chart. At number four is last week's number two, Jax Jones and Raye's "You Don't Know Me", while Little Mix and Machine Gun Kelly's "No More Sad Songs" reaches a brand new peak of number five, climbing five places within the top ten in the process. At number six, Bruno Mars is also reaching a new peak with "That's What I Like", as it climbs another two positions up the ranks this week. At number seven, Kygo and Selena Gomez's "It Ain't Me" descends one position, while last week's highest new entry from Kendrick Lamar with "HUMBLE." drops three places to this week's number eight. Closing out this week's top ten is Calvin Harris' "Slide" with Frank Ocean and Migos, which holds at number nine for a second week, while Anne-Marie drops three places to number ten with "Ciao Adios". This means that this week's top ten is entirely stationary with no further new entries penetrating the top of the charts. 

Elsewhere on the chart, ex-One Direction member Harry Styles registers the week's highest new entry with "Sign of the Times" at this week's number thirteen. He bests only two of his ex-band mates in terms of first week entries, as Louis Tomlinson debuted in December 2016 with "Just Hold On" at number sixty six, while Niall Horan debuted in October 2016 with "This Town" at number eighty. Quite a separation, but Zayn Malik's debut, "Pillowtalk", entered the charts in February 2016 at number three. Harry registers the highest new entry of a total of ten new entries this week, but what about the others? Halsey falls far behind as the week's second highest new entry with "Now Or Never" which enters at number fifty, while Melanie C registers a third single from her 2016 album, "Version of Me", with "Hold On" featuring Alex Francis entering at number fifty eight. Where did the previous singles peak? Both "Anymore" and "Dear Life" peaked at number seven in October 2016 and January 2017 respectively. Can "Hold On" follow suit and make seven Mel's lucky number? Further down the charts, there are new entries from Beyonce, Bleachers, The Big Moon, Kyle featuring Lil Yachty, Machine Gun Kelly featuring Hailee Steinfeld, Thundercat featuring Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins, and blink-182. 

FALL OFFS:

LW  PK  WK  TITLE

77   61   02    Milky Chance - Cocoon

82   68   02    Blossoms - Blown Rose

86   71   02    Bonobo featuring Nick Murphy - No Reason

87   87   02    Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl

90   69   02    Christina Aguilera featuring Nile Rodgers - Telepathy

92   66   02    Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You

93   67   02    Declan McKenna - The Kids Don't Wanna Come Home

95   80   02    Mariah Carey featuring YG - I Don't

97   82   02    Robbie Williams - Mixed Signals

98   94   02    The Weeknd - Party Monster