UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e February 25th 2016

Lukas Graham stays at No.1, in the UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e February 25th 2016, and I’ve heard this a zillion times in the gym. It sounds a lot like the opening to Michael Jackson‘s Earth Song with its plinky plonky crap, and I hate it.

There are no new entries in the Top 10, including the one track I thought would go in – Swings & Waterslides by the band Viola Beach, who tragically died in a car accident recently in Sweden along with their manager, Craig Tarry. The track went in at No.11.

I have to confess that I hadn’t heard any Viola Beach before, but this really is an incredibly brilliant track:

The Top 10 singles are as follows:

• 1 (1) Lukas Graham – 7 Years
  
• 2 (2) Zayn Malik – Pilowtalk
  
• 3 (4) Rihanna Feat. Drake – Work
  
• 4 (3) Jonas Blue & Dakota – Fast Car
  
• 5 (5) Shawn Mendes – Stitches
  
• 6 (7) Little Mix Feat. Jason Derulo – Secret Love Song
  
• 7 (6) Justin Bieber – Love Yourself
  
• 8 (8) Justin Bieber – Sorry
  
• 9 (16) Zara Larsson – Lush Life
  
• 10 (9) Snakehips Feat. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper – All My Friends

There are new entries in the Top 40 for:

• 11 Viola Beach – Swings & Waterslides

Lower entries outside the Top 40 are as follows:

• 65 The 1975 – Somebody Else
  
• 80 Viola Beach – Boys That Sing
  
• 95 Catfish & The Bottlemen – Soundcheck

In the album charts, Adele climbs back up to No.1, knocking Coldplay down to No.5. The full Top 10 is as follows:

• 1 (2) Adele – 25
  
• 2 (3) David Bowie – Best Of Bowie
  
• 3 (4) Justin Bieber – Purpose
  
• 4 (-) Ronan Keating – Time Of My Life
  
• 5 (1) Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams
  
• 6 (10) Jess Glynne – I Cry When I Laugh
  
• 7 (5) David Bowie – Blackstar
  
• 8 (15) Little Mix – Get Weird
  
• 9 (7) Rihanna – ANTI
  
• 10 (13) David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed: The Very Best Of

And the new entries are:

• 4 Ronan Keating – Time Of My Life
  
• 16 Lissie – My Wild West
  
• 32 Kula Shaker – K2.0

The new release dates for singles and albums can be found HERE and they go up to March 2016.