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Earlier this year, he enjoyed a lengthy run atop the chart with &#8220;Shape Of You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is his fourth career chart-topper; earlier singles &#8220;Thinking Out Loud&#8221; and &#8220;Sing&#8221; also reached #1.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s runner-up spot belongs to a new entry, as Rak-Su&#8217;s &#8220;Dimelo (featuring Wyclef Jean &#038; Naughty Boy)&#8221; grabs #2.  Rak-Su won this season of &#8220;The X Factor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rita Ora&#8217;s &#8220;Anywhere,&#8221; which claimed the runner-up spot last week, dips to #3 this week.<\/p>\n<p>Up seventeen places in conjunction with the holiday season, Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want For Christmas&#8221; takes #5 on this week&#8217;s chart.<\/p>\n<p>Other notables in this week&#8217;s Top 40:<br \/>\n&#8212; Wham&#8217;s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; rockets twenty-three places to #6.<br \/>\n&#8212; The Pogues&#8217; &#8220;Fairytale Of New York (featuring Kirsty MacColl)&#8221; jumps forty-five spots to #10.<br \/>\n&#8212; NF&#8217;s &#8220;Let You Down&#8221; climbs three spots to #13.<br \/>\n&#8212; Band Aid&#8217;s &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?&#8221; soars sixty-nine spots to #16.<br \/>\n&#8212; Shakin&#8217; Stevens&#8217; &#8220;Merry Christmas Everyone&#8221; jumps sixty-six spots to #21.<br \/>\n&#8212; Wizzard&#8217;s &#8220;I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday&#8221; advances seventy-four places to #24.<br \/>\n&#8212; RAYE &#038; Mr Eazi&#8217;s &#8220;Decline&#8221; ascends six places to #28.<br \/>\n&#8212; P!nk&#8217;s &#8220;Beautiful Trauma&#8221; soars twenty-five places to #29.<br \/>\n&#8212; Louis Tomlinson&#8217;s &#8220;Miss You&#8221; enters at #39.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran scores his second UK #1 this year.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[1397,314,5175],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ed Sheeran&#039;s &quot;Perfect&quot; Reaches #1 In United Kingdom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following the release of the Beyonce remix, Ed Sheeran&#039;s &quot;Perfect&quot; soars to #1 on this week&#039;s edition of the Official UK Singles Chart. 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