Mark Ronson’s ‘Uptown Funk’ breaks UK chart record

Missing out on this year’s Christmas No.1, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ ‘Uptown Funk’ still managed to break a chart record this week.

The ‘Uptown Special’ single has become the first single to be streamed 2 million times in a single week, in the UK. It’s the first statistic of this kind, since the Official Charts Company agreed to integrate streaming data from services such as Spotify in the Singles Chart. Figures were included from July 2014 onwards. It was beaten to the #1 spot by this year’s X Factor winner, Ben Haenow.

Alongside ‘Uptown Funk’, several tracks broke the 1 million streams barrier this week, including George Ezra’s ‘Budapest’, Hozier’s ‘Take Me To Church’ and Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’.

‘Uptown Funk’ picked up 2.34 million streams in a week, beating Ed Sheeran’s previous record of 1.86 million for ‘ThinkIng Out Loud’, back in November.

A full tracklist was recently confirmed for the new Mark Ronson album, ‘Uptown Special’. It’s been announced that Stevie Wonder will appear on two tracks, with Kevin Parker from Tame Impala also set to feature. The album’s due out in January next year.

Tracklist:

1. Uptown’s First Finale feat. Stevie Wonder & Andrew Wyatt
2. Summer Breaking feat. Kevin Parker
3. Feel Right feat. Mystikal
4. Uptown Funk feat. Bruno Mars
5. I Can’t Lose feat. Keyonce Starr
6. Daffodils feat. Kevin Parker
7. Crack In The Pearl feat. Andrew Wyatt
8. In Case of Fire feat. Jeff Bhasker
9. Leaving Los Feliz feat. Kevin Parker
10. Heavy and Rolling feat. Andrew Wyatt
11. Crack In The Pearl Pt. II feat. Stevie Wonder & Jeff Bhasker