Initially self-released, the track’s success has since seen him sign a deal with Capitol Records.Ĭalum told Official Charts: “I'm sat in a studio in Dublin with half of Kodaline helping me write my debut album and I receive an email from my manager to say I have the biggest sales-based song of the summer. The former Britain’s Got Talent contestant has been in the upper echelons of the Top 40 for the last eight weeks with his cover, which was originally a Top 10 hit for Robyn in 2010.
When it comes to sales alone, Calum Scott’s Dancing On My Own proved popular across download stores, notching up 271,000 downloads between June and August. See all of Drake's biggest songs and albums on his Official UK Chart history. What’s more, this week sees Drake become only the second act in UK chart history to cross the 100 million streams milestone with a track One Dance follows in the recent footsteps of Justin Bieber’s trio of record-breaking singles Sorry, What Do You Mean and Love Yourself that crossed the 100 million streams barrier earlier this year. One Dance was also the biggest track of the summer based on streams alone, a streaming phenomenon logging 51 million plays during the period – 12 million more than the second most-streamed song, his Rihanna collaboration Too Good. MORE: Get more Official Charts news and features straight to your inbox with The Official Word newsletter The song logged a mammoth 15 weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart (eight of which fell in the June to August ‘Songs of the Summer’ period) and notched up 654,000 combined chart sales. Topping the overall list, based on combined sales and streams between June and August, is Drake’s One Dance. As the summer months draw to a close, Official Charts can reveal what songs have been sound-tracking the season with the UK’s Official Top 40 Biggest Songs Of Summer 2016.
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