Justin Bieber dominates singles’ chart

Justin Bieber has claimed the top two spots in the UK singles chart for the seventh time in a year.

Cold Water, his collaboration with Major Lazer, is at number one for a third week while Let Me Love You, with DJ Snake, is a new entry at two, BBC News reports.

Before Bieber did so last year, no artist had held the chart's top two positions since Madonna did so in 1985 with Into The Groove and Holiday.

Indie group Blossoms topped the albums chart with their self-titled debut.

The band, who formed in 2013 and who came fourth in the BBC's Sound of 2016, were all born in the same Stockport hospital and honed their sound by rehearsing in their bassist's granddad's scaffolding yard.

"We're absolutely made up that album has gone to number one," they said.

"From the scaffolding yard to the top of the charts, who'd have thought it? Up Stockport!"

The five-piece sold 9,500 more albums than their nearest rival, grime star Giggs, to secure the number one slot despite never having had a hit single - an indication of the increasing split between the singles and albums charts.

Last week's number one album, a posthumous release by Blossoms' former support act Viola Beach, drops to number five.