It's another funky week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. For the third week in a row, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars's infectious Uptown Special single "Uptown Funk" has topped the U.S. Singles Chart, holding off Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift from the chart's summit. And though it's a great week for the British producer, another new debut is coming hard for the charts: Maroon 5's "Sugar."
Yes, it's another week with "Uptown Funk" coming to give it to you, according to Billboard. Thanks to a No. 1 spot on the Digital Downloads chart with 400,000 singles sold, 14.9 million streams and 135 million radio audience impressions, "Uptown Funk" has easily bested other pop singles on the chart, securing the No. 1 slot for the third week in a row.
The chart-topping of "Uptown Funk" comes at the same time of the release of Ronson's new album Uptown Special, which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 77,000 album-equivalent units (and 30,000 records sold).
For the first week since August, Taylor Swift is not in the top two spots of the Hot 100, thanks to her BFF Ed Sheeran. Sheeran's latest x single "Thinking Out Loud" jumped up two spots this week to clinch the No. 2 spot, thanks to solid No. 2 spot on the Digital Downloads chart with 241,000 downloads and gains in streaming and radio.
But, Swift shouldn't feel too bad about her chart prospects. "Blank Space" fell just one spot to No. 3 and her first 1989 single "Shake It Off" jumped up to No. 5 this week thanks to the viral video of cop Jeff Davis singing along to the hit song.
That video, which now has 21.2 million views after just five days online, helped lift "Shake It Off" up four spots this week.
Between Swift singles, Hozier's "Take Me To Church" falls one more spot to No. 4.
Plenty of the top 10 on the Hot 100 feels familiar this week. Beneath "Shake It Off," Meghan Trainor's "Lips Are Movin'" maintains its No. 6 spot. Sam Smith's "I'm Not The Only One" fell two spots to No. 2, Nick Jonas similarly fell two spots to No. 9 and Trainor once again rounds things out with "All About That Bass" at No. 10.
The lone new single in the top 10 is new to the Hot 100 as a whole this week. Maroon 5's latest V single "Sugar" debuted at No. 8 this week. The major launching point for the California rock band is thanks to its own viral video. The clip for "Sugar" features Adam Levine and co. crashing weddings in Los Angeles. Though it's since been revealed that the "Sugar" music video was actually quite staged, the clip has been a huge hit, with 51 million YouTube views since Jan. 14.
