YE JOLLY OLDE
iTUNES U.K. CHARTS

Republic’s debuting James Bay and Warner perennial Ed Sheeran have 40% of the album leaderboard heading into the weekend, and Kendrick Lamar is hanging tough in week two. So is the latest single from Polydor’s Years & Years, which holds the second slot behind Warner’s Jess Glynne, on her own after helping Clean Bandit score one of the U.K.’s biggest singles last year. But “King” may not be able to hold off the brand new Rihanna record on Roc Nation… In fact, as soon as we finalized our graphic that “Bitch” jumped Years & Years to snag #2.