James Masterton's Chart Update

Chart history is made - again! - as Justin #Bieber becomes the first living act since 1963 to replace himself at Number One.

So #adele25 week turns out to be all that was expected of it and more, with records tumbling around her. Yet on the singles chart Justin #Bieber continues to impress, doing something nobody has done since the 1980s and it seems about to manage something hitherto only achievable by dead men.

Forget #Adele25, this week it was all about Justin #Bieber as he released new album Purpose and shattered a whole raft of chart records - including one which had stood since 1981.

Bored of Adele and Justin. Marry me Fleur. Plus why AURORA is going to end up with the same problem as Gabrielle Aplin.

Counting down the years to that inevitable Elvis Drum N' Bass set.

More than half a podcast on the Number One single? Well it is a particularly special Number One after all. #adelehello

KDA tops the UK Charts and nobody is paying any attention. Because Adele.

Justin #Bieber continues his run at the top as sales sag but streams hold up. Jamie Lawson generates tear and #Faithless remain the 90s dance act it is OK to like.

Audio streams start to disrupt the sales chart in ways we could not have imagined a year ago. For the first time ever the Number One single is only the seventh biggest selling and the midweek sales leader doesn't even make the Top 10.

There is no definitive article in the title of this week's Number One single. Plus some chart trivia stuff free from linguistic pedantry.

The Septuagenarians dominate the album chart, Bieber remains singles king and Naughty Boy gets off to a slower start than normal. Plus the year's biggest sellers to date, and special guest Ben Fletcher helps dissect the art of the James Bond theme tune.

Justin Bieber returns to Number One in the kind of manner we are all getting used to, but he does so by setting a brand new benchmark, the first ever chart-topper to see over 50% of his "sales" come thanks to streaming plays.

Sigala's procession to the top was very nearly spoiled by Justin Bieber as the Canadian singer set a brand new streaming record. Plus next week's Number One battle could be the tightest we've seen for some time.

Justin Bieber is top of the Official UK Singles chart, but that's cool. Right?

In this week's podcast: Rachel Platten's Number One single and how it isn't written by the person you expect, what links Little Mix and Jason Derulo plus just how long it has taken to reach 1300 chart-topping singles.

Give it 51 years and you can finally have a Number One album - albeit posthumously. Cilla did.

Let's Marvin Gaye this podcast and talk about Charlie and Meghan at Number One, the surprise comeback of Ginuwine and the third of last year's X Factor finalists making the charts in their own right.

One Direction land their fourth Number One single and first as a quartet, setting a new benchmark for first week streams - but at a terrible cost as it turns out.

Little Mix cling on to the top of the singles chart and week by week set themselves new benchmarks. Plus the extraordinary career of the Chemical Brothers and their journey to being the most successful dance act of all time.

Black Magic of all different kinds on the charts this week as Little Mix make Number One and we see the effect of last week's Spotify hole finally being plugged.