Meghan Trainor tops UK music charts for fourth week

Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass secured a fourth week at number one in the British singles music chart on Sunday, the Official Charts Company said, equalling Clean Bandit’s record as the longest-running chart-topper of the year.

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran climbed two places from last week to take the second spot with his single Thinking Out Loud, its 18th week in the chart, while his album X dropped one spot to third.

House duo Waze & Odyssey’s Bump & Grind 2014 was the highest new singles chart entry at number three, their remix of R Kelly’s single outperforming the original, which peaked at number eight in 1994.

UKIP Calypso, a song promoting the anti-EU UK Independence Party that was withdrawn from sale earlier last week after accusations of racism, charted just outside the UK Top 40 at number 44, the Official Charts Company said.

London-born singer-songwriter Ben Howard topped the album chart for the first time with I Forget Where We Were, beating his 2012 debut album Every Kingdom, which reached number four.

Heavy metal band Slipknot were also a new entry, charting in second place with their fifth album 5: The Gray Chapter, their first record in six years, since before their bassist Paul Gray died in 2010.