UK Top 100 Music chart summary & my views w/e March 28th 2015

Sam Smith and John Legend stay at No.1, in the UK Top 100 Music Chart w/e March 28th 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.

And there are no new entries in the Top 10 this week, but there’s a few in the album charts and the former Dire Straits frontman has a new album out…

Check out the video for Mark Knopfler singing Beryl below:

The Top 10 singles are as follows:

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

There are new entries in the Top 40 for:

• 11 Tough Love – So Freakin’ Tight
  
• 28 (51 RE) Pitbull & Ne-Yo – Time Of Our Lives
  
• 37 (53 RE) Kygo Feat. Conrad Sewell – Firestone
  
• 38 MNEK – The Rhythm

Lower entries outside the Top 40 are as follows:

• 56 Kendrick Lamar – King Kunta
  
• 76 Kendrick Lamar Feat. Clinton – Wesley’s Theory
  
• 77 Kendrick Lamar Feat. Bilal – These Walls
  
• 79 Chic & Nile Rodgers – I’ll Be There
  
• 80 (RE) Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
  
• 83 (RE) Kendrick Lamar – The Blacker The Berry
  
• 88 (RE) Kendrick Lamar – i
  
• 92 Kendrick Lamar Feat. Bilal – Institutionalized

In the album charts, Kendrick Lamar goes straight in at No.1 with To Pimp A Butterfly, knocking Sam Smith down to No.1 with In The Lonely Hour. The full Top 10 is as follows:

• 1 (-) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
  
• 2 (1) Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
  
• 3 (-) Mark Knopfler – Tracker
  
• 4 (3) Ed Sheeran – x
  
• 5 (-) Van Morrison – Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue
  
• 6 (4) Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
  
• 7 (2) Madonna – Rebel Heart
  
• 8 (5) George Ezra – Wanted On Voyage
  
• 9 (8) Taylor Swift – 1989
  
• 10 (-) Marina And The Diamonds – Froot

And the new entries are below:

• 1 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
  
• 3 Mark Knopfler – Tracker
  
• 5 Van Morrison – Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue
  
• 10 Marina And The Diamonds – Froot
  
• 26 Sleeping With Sirens – Madness
  
• 28 Modest Mouse – Strangers To Ourselves
  
• 45 Tobias Jesso Jr – Goon
  
• 70 Elvis Presley – Return To Sender
  
• 93 Will Butler – Policy
  
• 98 Bananarama – Megarama: The Mixes

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