Beyonce claims fifth UK Radio Airplay chart number one
Beyonce's Run The World (Girls) peaked at number 40 on the radio airplay chart, but the follow-up from the 4 album, Best Thing I Never Had, jumps from number three to number one this week. It is the star's fifth number one on the chart, following Destiny’s Child releases Survivor, Bootylicious (both 2001), Lose My Breath (2004) and Crazy In Love – her 2003 collaboration with Jay-Z. Best Thing I Never Had piled on 712 additional plays and nearly 13 million extra listeners last week to top the list with an audience of 71.58 million – the highest of any track for six weeks. Eighteen plays on Radio 1 provided a top contribution of 18.18% to the track’s listenership but its top supporters were five stations in the Capital FM network, each of which provided 62 or 63 plays. The track also rockets 7-1 on the TV airplay chart, with its promotional videoclip logging 634 plays last week, 117 more than the previous week and 71 more than new runner-up, She Makes Me Wanna by JLS feat. Dev. Its biggest supporters: Chart Show TV (80 plays), MTV Hits (73) and MTV Base (61).
