Daft Punk’s Get Lucky breaks half a million sales

Daft Punk look set to spend a fourth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart as Get Lucky passes half a million sales.
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Daft Punk look set to spend a fourth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart as Get Lucky passes half a million sales.

The unstoppable Daft Punk have stormed through the half a million sales barrier.

The French robots look set to spend a fourth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart this weekend with Get Lucky after clocking up an additional 49,000 sales already this week, according to today’s Official Chart Update. This puts Gets Lucky now comfortably past the 500,000 sales mark since its release just a little over three weeks ago.

Get Lucky, which also features N.E.R.D main man Pharrell Williams and Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers, is taken from Daft Punk’s upcoming fourth studio album, Random Access Memories, which will be released in the UK next Monday (May 20).

Brighton singer/songwriter Mike Rosenberg’s alter-ego, Passenger, looks set to climb for the seventh week in a row with Let Her Go.The track is up one place to Number 2 today. Meanwhile former Disney star and current X Factor US judge Demi Lovato is on course for her highest charting UK single to date. Heart Attack, which is the first track to be released from her upcoming fourth album, Demi, is on track to enter at Number 3.

This week’s Official Singles Chart Update Top 5 is completed by Wretch 32, who is poised to notch up his fourth Top 5 single with Blackout FT Shakka (4), and New York producer Chris Malinchak , who falls from Number 2 to Number 5 today with So Good To Me.

New entries and re-entries

In addition to Demi Lovato’s Heart Attack (3) and Wretch 32’s Blackout FT Shakka (4), there are three other new entries on today’s Official Singles Chart Update.

Sub Focus, AKA British producer Nick Douwma, looks set to score his highest charting single to date this weekend. Endorphins FT Alex Clare is riding at Number 9 midweek; his last single, Tidal Wave, peaked at Number 12 last November.

Meanwhile, Stooshe are set for their fourth Top 40 hit in a row with Slip (9), while 19-year-old singer/songwriter Tich is on track to score an Official Singles Chart Top 20 debut with Dumb (15).

There are four midweek re-entries - Birdy’s cover of Cherry Ghost’s People Help The People looks set to be back in the Top 40 at 24 this Sunday after Alice Barlow and Andrea  Begley performed it on The Voice over the weekend, while Britain’s Got Talent’s 13-year-old Jack and 14-year-old Cormac’s cover of Little Talks by Of Monsters And Men’s puts the original at 31 on today’s Update.

The re-entries are completed by James Morrison’s I Won’t Let You Go (39) and Jordin SparksNo Air FT Chris Brown (40), which were performed on The Voice by Ash Morgan and Adam Barron, and Nate James and Lovelle Hill, respectively.

The Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1 GET LUCKY DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS
2 LET HER GO PASSENGER
3 HEART ATTACK DEMI LOVATO
4 BLACKOUT WRETCH 32 FT SHAKKA
5 SO GOOD TO ME CHRIS MALINCHAK
6 WAITING ALL NIGHT RUDIMENTAL FT ELLA EYRE
7 CAN'T HOLD US MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/DALTON
8 THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE ARMIN VAN BUUREN FT T GUTHRIE
9 ENDORPHINS SUB FOCUS FT ALEX CLARE
10 PLAY HARD DAVID GUETTA FT NE-YO/AKON
11 SLIP STOOSHE
12 POMPEII BASTILLE
13 I NEED YOUR LOVE CALVIN HARRIS/ELLIE GOULDING
14 JUST GIVE ME A REASON PINK FT NATE RUESS
15 DUMB TICH
16 THATPOWER WILL I AM FT JUSTIN BIEBER
17 RADIOACTIVE IMAGINE DRAGONS
18 YOU & ME DISCLOSURE FT ELIZA DOOLITTLE
19 NEED U (100 PERCENT) DUKE DUMONT FT AME
20 HEY PORSCHE NELLY
21 WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN BRUNO MARS
22 FEEL THIS MOMENT PITBULL FT CHRISTINA AGUILERA
23 HOW YA DOIN' LITTLE MIX FT MISSY ELLIOTT
24 PEOPLE HELP THE PEOPLE BIRDY
25 PANIC CORD GABRIELLE APLIN
26 ORDINARY PEOPLE JOHN LEGEND
27 STILL INTO YOU PARAMORE
28 MIRRORS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
29 ATTRACTING FLIES ALUNAGEORGE
30 THRIFT SHOP MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/WANZ
31 LITTLE TALKS OF MONSTERS & MEN
32 WHITE NOISE DISCLOSURE FT ALUNAGEORGE
33 BEAUTIFUL MARIAH CAREY FT MIGUEL
34 WORK IGGY AZALEA
35 WHERE IS THE LOVE BLACK EYED PEAS
36 SOME NIGHTS FUN
37 GENTLEMAN PSY
38 PLEASE DON'T SAY YOU LOVE ME GABRIELLE APLIN
39 I WON'T LET YOU GO JAMES MORRISON
40 NO AIR JORDIN SPARKS FT CHRIS BROWN

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