UK Top 100 Music chart summary & my views w/e April 11th 2015

Jess Glynne stays at No.1 with Hold My Hand, in the UK Top 100 Music Chart w/e April 11th 2015, and it’s another engaging slice of dance pop. Groovy!

And there are no new entries in the Top 10 this week.

Highlight of this week is The Specials – Too Much Too Young, and their new collection has gone into the charts at the rather lowly No.94

The Top 10 singles are as follows:

• 1 (1) Jess Glynne – Hold My Hand
  
• 2 (26) Ed Sheeran & Rudimental – Bloodstream
  
• 3 (2) James Bay – Hold Back The River
  
• 4 (3) Years & Years – King
  
• 5 (8) Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
  
• 6 (4) Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds
  
• 7 (9) Maroon 5 – Sugar
  
• 8 (7) Hozier – Take Me To Church
  
• 9 (5) Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
  
• 10 (23) Sia Feat. The Weeknd & Diplo – Elastic Heart

There are new entries in the Top 40 for:

• 19 Dappy – Beautiful Me
  
• 34 (41 CH) Olly Murs – Seasons
  
• 37 (47 RE) OMI – Cheerleader
  
• 38 (48 CH) Major Lazer x DJ Snake Feat. MØ – Lean On
  
• 39 (43 RE) Alesso Feat. Tove Lo – Heroes (We Could Be)
  
• 40 Luke Friend – Hole In My Heart

Lower entries outside the Top 40 are as follows:

• 69 Ed Sheeran – I Will Take You Home

In the album charts, The Prodigy go straight in at No.1 with The Day Is My Enemy, knocking James Bay down to No.2 with Chaos And The Calm. The full Top 10 is as follows:

• 1 (-) The Prodigy – The Day Is My Enemy
  
• 2 (1) James Bay – Chaos And The Calm
  
• 3 (2) Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
  
• 4 (3) Ed Sheeran – x
  
• 5 (24) Sia – 1000 Forms Of Fear
  
• 6 (-) Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
  
• 7 (6) George Ezra – Wanted On Voyage
  
• 8 (8) Taylor Swift – 1989
  
• 9 (15) Meghan Trainor – Title
  
• 10 (-) Circa Waves – Young Chasers

And the new entries are below:

• 1 The Prodigy – The Day Is My Enemy
  
• 6 Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
  
• 10 Circa Waves – Young Chasers
  
• 12 Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  
• 24 Hudson Taylor – Singing For Strangers
  
• 28 Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
  
• 30 Madeon – Adventure
  
• 31 Steve Hackett – Wolflight
  
• 34 Hollywood Undead – Day Of The Dead
  
• 37 Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
  
• 58 We Are Harlot – We Are Harlot
  
• 72 8:58 – 8:58
  
• 74 Van Halen – Tokyo Dome In Concert
  
• 86 Ludacris – Ludaversal
  
• 91 The Go! Team – The Scene Between
  
• 94 The Specials – Specials Deluxe Edition
  
• 100 Ron Sexsmith – Carousel One

The new release dates for singles and albums can be found HERE and they go up to May 2015.