UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e May 18th 2017

Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber – knocking himself off the top slot yet again! – climb from No.4 to No.1 with Despacito, in the UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e May 18th 2017, and it’s just auto-tuning with a Spanish flavour. Pass!

As such, DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper and Lil Wayne drop to No.2 with I’m the One, and it’s also auto-tuned tedium.

Out this week is a new track from Prince… kinda. Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden was recorded live on June 7th 1984, on his birthday:

The Top 10 singles are as follows:

• 1 (4) Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee – Despacito (feat. Justin Bieber)
  
• 2 (1) DJ Khaled – I’m the One (feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper and Lil Wayne)
  
• 3 (2) Clean Bandit – Symphony [feat. Zara Larsson]
  
• 4 (3) Ed Sheeran – Shape Of You
  
• 5 (7) Shawn Mendes – There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back
  
• 6 (5) Ed Sheeran – Galway Girl
  
• 7 (6) Jason Derulo – Swalla (feat. Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign)
  
• 8 (12) French Montana – Unforgettable
  
• 9 (10) Martin Jensen – Solo Dance
  
• 10 (8) Harry Styles – Sign of the Times

There are new entries in the Top 40 for:

• 25 Niall Horan – Slow Hands
  
• 29 Jonas Blue – Mama (feat. William Singe)
  
• 40 (41 CH) KYLE – iSpy (feat. Lil Yachty)

Lower entries outside the Top 40 are as follows:

• 52 Kid Ink – F With U (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
  
• 59 HAIM – Want You Back
  
• 74 Harry Styles – Sweet Creature
  
• 79 Post Malone – Congratulations (feat. Quavo)

In the album charts, Kasabian go straight in at No.1 with For Crying Out Loud, knocking Ed Sheeran down to No.2 with ÷. The full Top 10 is as follows:

• 1 (-) Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud
  
• 2 (1) Ed Sheeran – ÷
  
• 3 (3) Rag’N’Bone Man – Human
  
• 4 (-) Blondie – Pollinator
  
• 5 (2) Gorillaz – Humanz
  
• 6 (6) Drake – More Life
  
• 7 (5) Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
  
• 8 (-) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lovely Creatures – The Best Of
  
• 9 (8) Ed Sheeran – ×
  
• 10 (10) Take That – Wonderland

And the new entries are:

• 1 Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud
  
• 4 Blondie – Pollinator
  
• 8 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lovely Creatures – The Best Of
  
• 16 Slowdive – Slowdive
  
• 17 LP – Lost On You
  
• 20 Logic – Everybody
  
• 21 Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog
  
• 22 Chris Stapleton – From A Room: Vol. 1
  
• 30 At The Drive-In – in•ter a•li•a
  
• 32 Diana Krall – Turn Up The Quiet
  
• 34 Hawkwind – Into The Woods
  
• 55 Afghan Whigs – In Spades
  
• 62 The Rifles – Unplugged Album – Recorded At Abbey Road
  
• 72 Motionless In White – Graveyard Shift
  
• 75 Lethal Bizzle – You’ll Never Make A Million From Grime
  
• 78 Clean Cut Kid – Felt
  
• 90 Carly Simon – No Secrets
  
• 96 Perfume Genius – No Shape

The new release dates for singles and albums can be found HERE.