Multiple entries Ninety-eight singles charted in the top 10 in 2017, with eighty-two singles reaching their peak this year (including the re-entry "All I Want for Christmas" which charted in previous years but reached a peak on its latest chart run). Twenty-four artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 2017.
Ed Sheeran had the most top ten singles in 2017 with eleven. His comeback single "
Shape of You" was made available for download on 6 January and has spent fourteen non-consecutive weeks at number-one while "
Castle on the Hill", which came out on the same day, peaked at number two. Promotional single "
How Would You Feel (Paean)" also reached a high of second in the chart on 2 March. After Sheeran's third studio album, "
÷" was released, all sixteen tracks were in the top 20 on the week ending 16 March, and he held nine of the top 10, with "
Something Just Like This" by
The Chainsmokers and
Coldplay the only single to break this monopoly. In addition to the singles already in the chart, "
Galway Girl (2), "
Perfect" (4), "
New Man" (5) "
Happier" (6), "
Dive" (8), and "
Supermarket Flowers" (9, rising to 8) and "
What Do I Know?" all reaching the top ten. In response, the Official Charts Company announced plans in June to limit the number of songs by the same artist in the chart at the same time, to reflect popularity of singles rather than album tracks. Chart rules were altered from 7 July to help new artists break through by limiting the number of tracks by the same artist allowed in the chart at the same time to 3. The streaming to sales ratio remained largely unchanged but for songs which have spent a high number of weeks in the chart the ratio was altered to 300:1. This was largely in response to Ed Sheeran's album tracks dominating the chart, with all sixteen tracks from his third studio album
÷, reaching the top twenty in the same week.
Chart debuts Thirty-nine artists achieved their first top 10 single in 2017, either as a lead or featured artist. Of these, six went on to record another hit single that year:
Alessia Cara,
DJ Khaled,
Julia Michaels,
Khalid,
Marshmello and
Raye.
Dua Lipa had three other entries in her breakthrough year. The following table (collapsed on desktop site) does not include acts who had previously charted as part of a group and secured their first top 10 solo single. ;Notes
Harry Styles made his solo debut in 2017, with his first single outside
One Direction, "
Sign of the Times", topping the chart in April. Likewise with
Liam Payne, he made his solo debut in 2017, with his first single outside One Direction, "
Strip That Down" entered the top 10 at number 3.
Quavo is a member of the hip-hop group Migos, who debuted on the
Calvin Harris single in "
Slide" in March 2017, two months before he featured on
DJ Khaled's number-one hit "
I'm the One". He would also appear with
Liam Payne on his solo top three single "
Strip That Down".
Camila Cabello also made her first UK top 10 debut with
Havana. This also became her first top 10 since her departure from US girl group
Fifth Harmony.
Swae Lee had his first chart single under his own name, featuring on
French Montana's "
Unforgettable". He previously charted as part of the duo
Rae Sremmurd with "
Black Beatles" in 2016.
Artists for Grenfell recorded a cover of "
Bridge over Troubled Water" in aid of the
Grenfell Tower fire and featured many artists who had achieved top 10 singles previously in their own right or with a band.
Carl Barat of
The Libertines,
Jon McClure from
Reverend and the Makers,
Matt Goss from
Bros.,
Kelly Jones of
Stereophonics,
The Who's
Pete Townshend and former
Westlife member
Shane Filan all had their first credited top 10 hit independent of their bands with this song.
Songs from films Original song "
I Don't Wanna Live Forever" (from
Fifty Shades Darker) was the only film soundtrack song that entered the top 10 this year.
Charity singles The charity single "Bridge over Troubled Water" was dedicated to the victims and survivors of the
Grenfell Tower fire. The single peaked at number 1 on 29 June 2017, just two days after release, becoming the second fastest selling single of 2017 behind "
Shape of You".
Best-selling singles Ed Sheeran had the best-selling and streamed single of the year with "
Shape of You". The song spent twenty-two weeks in the top 10 (including fourteen weeks at number one), sold over 787,000 copies as well as scoring 248 million streams (3.2 million combined sales) and was certified 5× platinum by the
BPI. "
Despacito" by
Luis Fonsi,
Daddy Yankee &
Justin Bieber came in second place with more than 2.3 million combined sales. Ed Sheeran's "
Castle on the Hill", "
Unforgettable" from
French Montana featuring
Swae Lee and "
Galway Girl" by Ed Sheeran made up the top five. Singles by Ed Sheeran ("
Perfect"),
Clean Bandit featuring
Zara Larsson,
Rag'n'Bone Man,
The Chainsmokers &
Coldplay and
Jax Jones featuring
Raye were also in the
top ten best-selling singles of the year. ==Top-ten singles==