Stormzy And Chase & Status Ahead In Race For UK No 1
Stormzy and Chase & Status are currently in the lead in the race for this weeks UK No 1 on the Official Singles Chart with their new collaboration Backbone.
If the track stays in front of the competition, it will be Chase & Status’ first No 1 and Stormzy’s fourth UK chart-topper. The London rapper first hit No 1 in 2019 with Vossi Bop and later that year with Own It, featuring Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy, and Take Me Back to London, also with Sheeran.
The trio are currently ahead of Chappel Roan’s Good Luck, Babe!, which is currently No 2, and Charli XCX and Billie Eilish’s collaboration on the remix of brat track Guess, which is in the No 3 slot at the moment.
Backbone has been highly anticipated since Stormzy made a surprise appearance to perform the track with Chase & Status during their recent Ushuaïa Ibiza takeover. It was first debuted live during the band’s Coachella set earlier this year.
“We are so gassed to work with the legend that is Stormzy,” says Chase & Status. “We’ve always wanted to bring his energy into our world and are so excited for the fans to hear this collaboration.”
Back in June, Stormzy revealed to US rapper Vince Staples that he’s working on new material. “Since the last album [2022’s This Is What I Mean’,” Stormzy said, “this has been the first time in my whole career where I’ve just made music without thinking, ‘Oh, I’m making an album’. For the past three albums, and even before that, music was a very clinical thing for me.
“You know when artists say, ‘I gotta go studio and get this off my chest’? I never related to that. I thought: ‘I’m alright – I talk to one of the mandem [laughs].’ Studio, for me, and making music was extremely intentional. It was always very album-focused. For the past two years, I’ve just been creating.”