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 12th March 2021, 04:03 PM
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this is such a bop...surprised didn't blow up bigger!!!
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12th March 2021, 04:04 PM
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 30 | 4th weekDua Lipa We're Good  6th single from Future Nostalgia Released: 12th February 2021 Label: Dua Lipa Chart Statistics NE (25/02/2021) | 25-27-30-39 Sales: 30k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 23 Sales 42 Audio Streaming 63 Video Streaming Video Biography There’s purpose in Dua Lipa’s euphoric pop. “For me, it’s about championing women and putting ourselves in the position of power,” the singer told Apple Music in 2020, ahead of the release of her second album, Future Nostalgia. “I have been inspired by the female alphas that have shown me that we can do it. And that we can wear the pants, you know? We need more of that in music.” Forcing the world to get a little more comfortable with female alphas has been a mission statement for Lipa (born in London to Kosovar Albanian parents in 1995) since her 2017 self-titled debut. It housed the triumphant breakup smash “New Rules”, the self-love anthem “IDGAF” and the assured “Hotter Than Hell”—songs which made it clear that this was no ingénue, but rather an outspoken, effortlessly cool face of pop’s future. Indeed, that status was cemented a year later when Lipa made history as the first female solo artist to receive five BRIT Award nominations. She won two and, in 2019, added two Grammys to her mantelpiece. Despite the success of her debut, Lipa wasn’t interested in recreating its hits. “People always say, ‘The second album is really scary,’ but for me, it’s more scary to go back into the studio and try to create something like ‘New Rules’ or ‘IDGAF’ over and over again,” she said. “I feel like I’d end up in a vicious cycle of trying to get somewhere but never being able to mature as an artist.” And so, to move forward, she pivoted to the past, drawing on disco and funk—and filtering it through her ahead-of-its-time pop—to arrive at Future Nostalgia. Decadent and every bit as empowering as those early hits, it brought Lipa her first Mercury Prize nod, multiple Grammy nominations and a rightful place in pop’s upper echelons. And with it, too, came Lipa’s new purpose. Released just as the world went into lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis, Future Nostalgia became an urgent tonic for tough times—danced to in living rooms across the world. Yet Lipa wasn’t done there: Five months later, she unveiled Club Future Nostalgia, a thrilling remixed version on which the singer teamed up with club queen The Blessed Madonna, and guests including Madonna, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani and Mark Ronson, to bring lockdown-fatigued listeners another dose of escapism. “I didn’t think I’d be putting albums out during a global pandemic,” added Lipa. “But it’s just about creating experiences for everyone at home. That’s the most important thing for me now.” All of this, of course, is only just the beginning. “I really feel like I’m finding my feet,” said Lipa. “I feel so proud of Future Nostalgia as a whole and the most confident and the most myself making it. But I’m already planning the next move.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2016 15 Hotter Than Hell -2- 2016 30 Blow Your Mind (Mwah) -3- 2016 10 No Lie (Sean Paul feat. Dua Lipa) 2017 09 Be The One -1/4- MILLIONAIRE 2017 14 Scared To Be Lonely (Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa) MILLIONAIRE 2017 86 Lost In Your Light (feat. Miguel) -5- 2017 01 New Rules -6- MILLIONAIRE 2018 03 IDGAF -7- MILLIONAIRE 2018 01 One Kiss (Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa) MILLIONAIRE 2018 04 Electricity (Silk City & Dua Lipa feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson) 2018 36 Kiss And Make Up (Dua Lipa & BLACKPINK) -AT- 2019 24 Swan Song -OST- 2019 02 Don't Start Now -1- MILLIONAIRE 2020 03 Physical -2- 2020 06 Break My Heart -3- 2020 31 Hallucinate -4- 2020 72 UN DIA (ONE DAY) (J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny & Tainy) 2020 05 Levitating (feat. DaBaby) -5- 2020 79 Fever (Dua Lipa & Angèle) -PS- 2020 08 Prisoner (Miley Cyrus feat. Dua Lipa) 2021 95 Real Groove (Kylie Minogue & Dua Lipa) 2021 25 We're Good -6- 2 x #1 | 7 x Top 5 | 11 x Top 10 | 13 x Top 20 | 18 x Top 40 | 22 x Top 100 Social Media     Dua Lipa 
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12th March 2021, 04:04 PM
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Break the tension
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Any guesses where 'Back To You' has ended up?
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12th March 2021, 04:04 PM
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you never forget your first time...
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28 | 6th weekFredo featuring Dave Money Talks  3rd single from Money Can't Buy Happiness Released: 29th January 2021 Label: Since 93 Chart Statistics NE (11/02/2021) | 3-11-19-22-28-38 Sales: 90k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 44 Sales 02 Audio Streaming 02 Video Streaming Video Biography London-based MC Fredo focuses his lyrics on his drug-dealing lifestyle, the streets that he calls home, and all the money he's made. Hailing from London's infamously tough Mozart Estate, Fredo was considered one of the leading figures in the notorious London gang Harrow Road Boys. He practiced his craft as an MC for years before emerging in 2016 with the single "They Ain't 100." The track immediately gained attention, including a small co-sign when Drake featured the song in his 30th birthday mix on OVO Sound Radio. The same year, he released two further singles, "Trapspot" and "Pattern Gang," before appearing on Kojo Funds and Abra Cadabra's hit single "Dun Talkin (Remix)" alongside Yxng Bane, Frisco, and JME. In 2017 Fredo elevated the hype he had already received, releasing his third single, "Get the Pot," early in the year, quickly followed by his debut appearance on Charlie Sloth's Fire in the Booth. Both were in preparation for his debut mixtape, Get Rich or Get Recalled, which was released independently in March of that year. Fredo returned the following year with his second mixtape, Tables Turn, which featured collaborations with Not3s, Asco, and Kaos. That same year he also teamed up with South London's Dave for the single "Funky Friday." Hitting the top spot of the U.K. charts, the single propelled both MCs into the spotlight. At the beginning of 2019, Fredo delivered his proper debut album, Third Avenue. The Universal release saw him working once again with Dave, as well as Lil Dotz, on a collection of deftly produced trap cuts. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Fredo 2017 63 Change -1- 2018 83 YRF (GRM Daily feat. Fredo & Not3s) 2018 70 Rappin' & Trappin' -2- 2018 77 Playin' For Keeps (feat. Asco) -3- 2018 90 Haters (feat. Not3s) -4- 2018 32 Ay Caramba (Stay Flee Get Lizzy presents Fredo & Young T & Bugsey) -NAS- 2018 01 Funky Friday (Dave & Fredo) MILLIONAIRE 2018 25 BMT -1- 2018 75 Problem (Yxng Bane feat. Fredo) 2019 58 Survival Of The Fittest -IG- 2019 15 All I Ever Wanted (feat. Dave) -2- 2019 60 Mmhm -AT- 2019 39 I'm The One (MoStack & Fredo) 2019 07 So High (MIST feat. Fredo) 2019 53 Freddy -OST- 2019 55 2 Cups (Stay Flee Get Lizzy presents Popcaan, Fredo & Tory Lanez) -NAS- 2019 13 Netflix & Chill -NAS- 2020 48 Bully Beef (Young T & Bugsey feat. Fredo) 2020 37 Scorpion -NAS- 2020 42 House Party (MIST feat. Fredo) 2020 72 Hickory Dickory Dock -NAS- 2020 46 Daily Duppy (feat. GRM Daily) -NAS- 2021 20 Back To Basics -1- 2021 03 Money Talks (feat. Dave) -2- 2021 18 Burner On Deck (feat. Pop Smoke & Young Adz) -AT- 2021 21 Ready (feat. Summer Walker) -AT- 1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 3 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 12 x Top 40 | 26 x Top 100 Dave 2017 51 Wanna Know (feat. Drake) -NAS- 2017 63 Samantha (Dave & J Hus) -NAS- 2017 86 Tequila -NAS- 2017 53 Peligro (Giggs feat. Dave) 2017 17 No Words (feat. MoStack) -1- 2017 32 How I Met My Ex -AT- 2017 55 My 19th Birthday -AT- 2018 30 Hangman -NAS- 2018 01 Funky Friday (Dave & Fredo) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 2019 06 18HUNNA (Headie One feat. Dave) 2019 15 All I Ever Wanted (Fredo feat. Dave) 2019 40 Black -1- 2019 08 Disaster (feat. J Hus) -3- 2019 09 Streatham -AT- 2019 06 Location (feat. Burna Boy) -2- MILLIONAIRE 2019 19 Stinking Rich (MoStack & J Hus feat. Dave) 2019 36 Thiago Silva (Dave & AJ Tracey) -NAS- 2019 12 Professor X -OST- 2019 90 God's Eye -OST- 2019 21 Playing For Keeps (D-Block Europe feat. Dave) 2019 15 Paper Cuts -NAS- 2020 35 Straight Murder (Giggs & David) (Giggs feat. Dave) 2021 03 Money Talks (Fredo feat. Dave) 1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 6 x Top 10 | 10 x Top 20 | 17 x Top 40 | 23 x Top 100 Social Media Fredo Dave
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12th March 2021, 04:04 PM
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 It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
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Funky Friday Pt 2 disappoints me.
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12th March 2021, 04:05 PM
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Two bops in a row with Money Talks
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12th March 2021, 04:06 PM
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Break the tension
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'We're Good' has been a monumental flop hasn't it?
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12th March 2021, 04:06 PM
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I would love to see Wellerman at No.1 this week.
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12th March 2021, 04:06 PM
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Yay for Money Talks getting another play before it leaves, it's no Funky Friday but still sounding good!
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12th March 2021, 04:08 PM
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you never forget your first time...
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31 | 10th weekDuncan Laurence Arcade  1st single from Small Town Boy Released: 7th March 2019 Label: Spark Records Chart Statistics NE (30/05/2019) | 67-x RE (14/01/2021) | 90-x RE (28/01/2021) | 95-98-78-39-33-29-31-37 Sales: 100k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 19 Sales 37 Audio Streaming __ Video Streaming Video Biography Dutch singer/songwriter Duncan Laurence is a pop artist through and through, most notably for his multiple television appearances.Born in Spijkenisse but raised in Hellevoetsluis, he first appeared in 2013 when he formed a pop group called the Slick and Suited. Not long afterward, in 2014, he kickstarted a solo career by reaching the semi-finals in the fifth season of The Voice Holland, which ultimately caused him to quit the Slick and Suited in 2016. He was chosen to represent the Netherlands in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, going on to win the competition. The following year he put out his debut solo EP, Worlds on Fire. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2019 29 Arcade -1- 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100 Social Media Duncan Laurence-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 | 29 | 36th weekJoel Corry featuring MNEK Head & Heart  Non-album single Released: 3rd July 2020 Label: Perfect Havoc Chart Statistics NE (16/07/2020) | 15-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-6-7-9-12-14-16-11-15-18-15-15-19-29-40-48-60-41-19-20-25-27-27-26-28-26-29-36 Sales: 1,400k+ Certification: 2x Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 01 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 01 Video Streaming Video Biography “Back Again” might seem like a strange title for a debut single, but not for Joel Corry: When the British DJ/producer dropped his first record in 2015, he was already well known to UK audiences from his appearances on the MTV reality show Geordie Shore. While that program captured its cast members’ romantic misadventures with tongue firmly in cheek, Corry has treated his musical career with far more seriousness, faithfully updating the sounds of classic house with a sleek contemporary touch. Born in London in 1989, Corry was just a boy when the slinky sounds of UK garage catapulted underground dance music into British pop around the turn of the millennium, but he brings the same crossover spirit to his own productions. While 2015’s “Back Again” and “Light It Up” flirted with big-room EDM, Corry looked to the past for his breakout hit, a 2019 cover of Monsta Boy’s 2000 UK garage classic “Sorry” that paired soulful vocals with crisp, jittery drum programming. He’s pursued a similar approach on subsequent singles like “Lonely” and “Head & Heart”, updating the piano chords and organ stabs of ’90s dance pop with 21st-century production values. While Corry’s timeless hooks are perfect for radio, he’s careful to always have something special for the dance floor. As he told Apple Music: “With all my records I like to do my own VIP mix”—that is, a club-ready version that’s a little tougher and heavier. With reality TV in the rearview, these days Corry’s simply keeping it real. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Joel Corry 2019 06 Sorry -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 2020 04 Lonely -NAS- 2020 01 Head & Heart (feat. MNEK) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 2021 20 BED (Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta) -NAS- 1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 3 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 4 x Top 100 MNEK 2014 04 Ready For Your Love (Gorgon City feat. MNEK) 2014 66 Wrote A Song About You -1- 2015 38 The Rhythm -2- 2015 05 Never Forget You (MNEK & Zara Larsson) MILLIONAIRE 2016 80 Freak Like Me (Lee Walker & DJ Deeon feat. Katy B & MNEK) 2016 87 At Night (I Think About You) -NAS- 2016 85 House Work (Jax Jones feat. MNEK & Mike Dunn) 2017 07 Blinded By Your Grace, Pt. 2 (Stormzy feat. MNEK) MILLIONAIRE 2018 92 Colour (feat. Hailee Steinfeld) -1- 2020 01 Head & Heart (Joel Corry feat. MNEK) MILLIONAIRE 1 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 5 x Top 40 | 10 x Top 100 Social Media Joel Corry MNEK
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you never forget your first time...
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33 | 5th weekRag'n'Bone Man All You Ever Wanted  1st single from Life By Misadventure Released: 29th January 2021 Label: Sony Music Entertainment UK Chart Statistics NE (11/02/2021) | 80-x RE (25/02/2021) | 94-75-33-35 Sales: 20k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 01 Sales __ Audio Streaming __ Video Streaming Video Biography As a bearded bloke with a great big voice trading under the unabashedly old-fashioned name of Rag’n’Bone Man, Rory Graham shattered the mould for music stars who broke out of in the 2010s. Then again, he was bound to break something given the power that pours out of him on “Human”, his debut single in 2016. The fusion of blues and hip-hop established the singer/songwriter—born in 1985 in the town of Uckfield—as one of the decade’s most unique new arrivals. It’s also an arresting showcase for the booming baritone that Graham himself was surprised to discover when he tried singing a Muddy Waters song at an open mic in the mid-2000s. Until then, he’d spent his teenage years rapping for hip-hop and drum ‘n’ bass crews in his hometown. His take on vintage blues—as well as soul and funk, two words he has tattooed on knuckles—still reflects his love of the more modern sounds and sensibilities provided by collaborators like producer Two Inch Punch a.k.a. Ben Ash on Rag’n’Bone’s 2017 debut album Human. With “Giant”—a 2019 match-up with Calvin Harris—Graham got another chance to show how his old-school gusto and soulful delivery can heighten a song’s intensity without overwhelming it or blunting its pop appeal. Even with all of Graham’s potential force, he knows the value of restraint, too. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2016 02 Human -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 13 Skin -2- MILLIONAIRE 2018 83 Grace (We All Try) -3- 2018 55 Run (Bugzy Malone feat. Rag'n'Bone Man) 2018 79 Photographs (Professor Green & Rag'n'Bone Man) 2019 02 Giant (Calvin Harris & Rag'n'Bone Man) MILLIONAIRE 2021 33 All You Ever Wanted -1- 0 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 3 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 7 x Top 100 Social Media Rag'n'Bone Man
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12th March 2021, 04:09 PM
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go Rag n Bone Man!!! finally a decent song
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12th March 2021, 04:10 PM
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I've been looking for a Lasting Lover
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This should have climbed.
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12th March 2021, 04:11 PM
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Got shout out
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12th March 2021, 04:11 PM
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It's a shame they skipped Head & Heart, I just added it to my Spotify play queue though so I'll listen to it later
 I'm enjoying this new single from Rag'n'Bone Man too
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12th March 2021, 04:12 PM
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you never forget your first time...
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12th March 2021, 04:13 PM
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I've been looking for a Lasting Lover
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I wonder if James Arthur is still to come. I hope so.
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12th March 2021, 04:14 PM
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I enjoyed Dinner Guest from AJ Tracey but this is not it for me!!!
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12th March 2021, 04:14 PM
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you never forget your first time...
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26 | 67th weekThe Weeknd Blinding Lights  2nd single from After Hours Released: 30th November 2019 Label: The Weeknd XO Chart Statistics NE (12/12/2019) | 12-17-20-41-11-10-8-4-2-1-1-2-1-1-1-2-2-1-1-1-2-2-5-7-7-9-11-10-13-14-12-16-16-16-22-20-21-26-33-29-21-26-26-25-31-33-32-31-36-38-39-36-46-39-50-66-44-13-18-23-23-26-20-24-24-26-33 Sales: 2,500k+ Certification: 4x Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 01 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 04 Video Streaming Video Biography Nobody makes feeling bad sound as good as The Weeknd. Even the singer’s sunniest tracks (“Can’t Feel My Face,” “Starboy”) feel anchored by darkness—the sense that pleasure is pain and beauty decays and you can’t have the night without the morning after. The brainchild of Toronto singer Abel Tesfaye, the project took off in 2011 with a string of mixtapes (later collected as 2012’s Trilogy) that forged cavernous, falsetto-driven R&B with narratives drenched in drugs, sex, and other regrettable decisions—a sound both sensuous and detached, featherlight and dead heavy. One of the earliest musicians to find his footing on the internet, Tesfaye originally offered his music through YouTube and free downloads, a move that felt radical then but is common now. Ethiopian by heritage (his parents immigrated to Canada in the late ’80s, just before he was born), Tesfaye—out from behind the mask of making art online—has since come to represent the changing face of Toronto, rooting himself not just in an international musical community but in a specific diasporic experience. Like the work of collaborator Lana Del Rey or early booster (and fellow Toronto native) Drake, Tesfaye’s music has become a symbol of hedonism pushed to bleak excess, with a series of albums—including 2015’s Grammy-winning Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s multiplatinum Starboy, and 2020’s dense and atmospheric After Hours—whose narrators can’t seem to say no even if they hate themselves for it later. And though his music has gotten a little brighter over time, the prevailing mood remains heavy, even unsettling—the ride you want more of even when you’ve had too much. Speaking to Apple Music about the persona behind his songs, Tesfaye said, “I’m a chill person. That guy is who I am, but it is who I am to myself and in my writing. Sometimes you take him and then you create more, and then it becomes this beast. You add more to him, and then it’s uncontrollable—its own character. It’s like Scarface, the villain: It’s horrible, but you can’t stop looking at it.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2012 37 Crew Love (Drake feat. The Weeknd) 2014 48 Love Me Harder (Ariana Grande & The Weeknd) 2015 04 Earned It -OST/2- MILLIONAIRE 2015 64 Where You Belong -OST- 2015 03 The Hills -4- MILLIONAIRE 2015 03 Can't Feel My Face -3- MILLIONAIRE 2015 65 Often -1/6- 2015 72 Real Life -AT- 2015 74 Tell Your Friends -AT- 2015 78 Prisoner (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2015 90 Acquainted -AT- 2015 91 Losers (feat. Labrinth) -AT- 2015 92 Dark Times (feat. Ed Sheeran) -AT- 2015 48 In The Night -5- 2016 84 FML (Kanye West feat. The Weeknd) 2016 35 6 Inch (Beyoncé feat. The Weeknd) 2016 02 Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2016 51 False Alarm -IG- 2016 09 I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk) -2- MILLIONAIRE 2016 17 Party Monster -3- 2016 26 Rockin' -4- 2016 30 Sidewalks (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -AT- 2016 39 Reminder -AT- 2016 43 Six Feet Under -AT- 2016 47 Secrets -AT- 2016 53 A Lonely Night -AT- 2016 55 True Colours -AT- 2016 68 Love To Lay -AT- 2016 73 Stargirl Interlude (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2016 74 Die For You -AT- 2016 76 All I Know (feat. Future) -AT- 2016 78 Attention -AT- 2016 79 Ordinary Life -AT- 2016 81 Nothing Without You -AT- 2017 83 Comin Out Strong (Future feat. The Weeknd) 2017 38 Lust For Life (Lana Del Rey feat. The Weeknd) 2017 51 A Lie (French Montana feat. The Weeknd & Max B) 2017 78 Curve (Gucci Mane feat. The Weeknd) 2018 11 Pray For Me (The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar) -OST- 2018 07 Call Out My Name -1- 2018 17 Try Me -AT- 2018 18 Wasted Times -AT- 2019 09 Lost In The Fire (Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd) 2019 91 Price On My Head (NAV feat. The Weeknd) 2019 45 Power Is Power (SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott) -OST- 2019 10 Heartless -1- 2019 01 Blinding Lights -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 20 After Hours -IG- 2020 17 In Your Eyes -3- 2020 23 Smile (Juice WRLD & The Weeknd) 2020 33 Over Now (Calvin Harris & The Weeknd) 2021 11 Save Your Tears -4- 1 x #1 | 5 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 16 x Top 20 | 24 x Top 40 | 52 x Top 100 Social Media The Weeknd
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12th March 2021, 04:15 PM
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BL should’ve been skipped
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