UK Top 100 Music chart summary & my views w/e April 4th 2015

Jess Glynne goes straight in at No.1 with Hold My Hand, in the UK Top 100 Music Chart w/e April 4th 2015, and it’s another engaging slice of dance pop. Groovy!

As such, Sam Smith and John Legend drop to No.6 with Lay Me Down, and if one vomit-inducing song from the pair of them didn’t make you hurl lung butter, then two surely will… Oh, but it’s all for charideeee as it’s for Comic Relief 2015.

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

The Top 10 singles are as follows:

• 1 (-) Jess Glynne – Hold My Hand
  
• 2 (4) James Bay – Hold Back The River
  
• 3 (2) Years & Years – King
  
• 4 (3) Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds
  
• 5 (5) Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
  
• 6 (1) Sam Smith Feat. John Legend – Lay Me Down
  
• 7 (6) Hozier – Take Me To Church
  
• 8 (8) Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
  
• 9 (10) Maroon 5 – Sugar
  
• 10 (9) The Weeknd – Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)

There are new entries in the Top 40 for:

• 1 Jess Glynne – Hold My Hand
  
• 12 Sigma Feat. Labrinth – Higher
  
• 29 Rihanna – Bitch Better Have My Money
  
• 30 KSI Feat. P Money – Lamborghini

Lower entries outside the Top 40 are as follows:

• 71 Muse – Dead Inside
  
• 93 Kygo Feat. Parson James – Stole The Show

In the album charts, James Bay goes straight in at No.1 with Chaos And The Calm, knocking Kendrick Lamar down to No.5 with To Pimp A Butterfly. The full Top 10 is as follows:

• 1 (-) James Bay – Chaos And The Calm
  
• 2 (2) Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
  
• 3 (4) Ed Sheeran – x
  
• 4 (-) Seasick Steve – Sonic Soul Surfer
  
• 5 (1) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
  
• 6 (8) George Ezra – Wanted On Voyage
  
• 7 (-) Laura Marling – Short Movie
  
• 8 (9) Taylor Swift – 1989
  
• 9 (-) The Cribs – For All My Sisters
  
• 10 (6) Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday

And the new entries are below:

• 1 James Bay – Chaos And The Calm
  
• 4 Seasick Steve – Sonic Soul Surfer
  
• 7 Laura Marling – Short Movie
  
• 9 The Cribs – For All My Sisters
  
• 14 The Staves – If I Was
  
• 16 Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
  
• 26 Kylie Minogue – Kiss Me Once – Live At The SSE Hydro
  
• 27 Joe Bonamassa – Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks
  
• 29 While She Sleeps – Brainwashed
  
• 35 Action Bronson – Mr. Wonderful
  
• 42 Jermain Jackman – Jermain Jackman
  
• 43 Toto – Toto XIV
  
• 50 Gun – Frantic
  
• 53 Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
  
• 72 LoneLady – Hinterland
  
• 79 Therapy? – Disquiet
  
• 86 Buena Vista Social Club – Lost & Found
  
• 96 Striking Matches – Nothing But The Silence

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