UK Top 100 Music chart summary & my views w/e March 21st 2015

Sam Smith and John Legend go straight in at No.1, in the UK Top 100 Music Chart w/e March 21st 2015, 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.

As such, Years & Years drop to No.2, with King, and it’s all a bit ‘Olly Murs meets dance music’. I’ll pass.

The other new entries in the Top 10 are: Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas at No.3 with G.D.F.R., plus a No.8 for Usher Feat. Juicy J with I Don’t Mind.

Check out the video for SOAK‘s Sea Creatures, a great new track, taken from their forthcoming album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and they got their name by blending the words ‘soul’ and ‘funk’ together. See? Sunday Brunch is useful for something.

The Top 10 singles are as follows:

• 1 (-) Sam Smith Feat. John Legend – Lay Me Down
  
• 2 (1) Years & Years – King
  
• 3 (-) Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas – G.D.F.R.
  
• 4 (2) Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
  
• 5 (3) Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds
  
• 6 (4) Hozier – Take Me To Church
  
• 7 (5) The Weeknd – Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)
  
• 8 (-) Usher Feat. Juicy J – I Don’t Mind
  
• 9 (6) Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
  
• 10 (8) James Bay – Hold Back The River

There are new entries in the Top 40 for:

• 1 Sam Smith Feat. John Legend – Lay Me Down
  
• 3 Flo Rida Feat. Sage The Gemini & Lookas – G.D.F.R.
  
• 8 Usher Feat. Juicy J – I Don’t Mind
  
• 20 Mumford & Sons – Believe
  
• 35 (46 CH) Calvin Harris Feat. Haim – Pray To God
  
• 39 (45 RE) Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynne – Rather Be
  
• 40 (43 RE) John Legend – All Of Me

Lower entries outside the Top 40 are as follows:

• 49 Stormzy – Know Me From
  
• 55 G.R.L. – Lighthouse
  
• 60 The Avener & Phoebe Killdeer – Fade Out Lines
  
• 65 Muse – Psycho
  
• 74 The Vaccines – Handsome
  
• 94 Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell & The Cast Of Frozen – Making Today A Perfect Day

In the album charts, Sam Smith climbs back up to No.1 with In The Lonely Hour, knocking Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds down to No.4 with Chasing Yesterday. The full Top 10 is as follows:

• 1 (2) Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
  
• 2 (-) Madonna – Rebel Heart
  
• 3 (3) Ed Sheeran – x
  
• 4 (1) Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
  
• 5 (4) George Ezra – Wanted On Voyage
  
• 6 (9) Paloma Faith – A Perfect Contradiction
  
• 7 (-) Rebecca Ferguson – Lady Sings The Blues
  
• 8 (7) Taylor Swift – 1989
  
• 9 (5) Royal Blood – Royal Blood
  
• 10 (8) The Overtones – Sweet Soul Music

And the new entries are below:

• 2 Madonna – Rebel Heart
  
• 7 Rebecca Ferguson – Lady Sings The Blues
  
• 13 Blue – Colours
  
• 41 Matthew E White – Fresh Blood
  
• 44 Answer – Raise a Little Hell
  
• 51 Skints – FM
  
• 60 Cancer Bats – Searching For Zero
  
• 62 Marc Almond – The Velvet Trail

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