Owl City's Fireflies tops singles chart
Owl City's Fireflies tops singles chart
Sunday, 24, Jan 2010 07:01
By Richard James.
Fireflies by American synth-pop act Owl City has topped the UK singles chart this week.
The song from Owl City's third album and major label debut Ocean Eyes has already reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and went platinum in America last year.
The single also topped the charts in Australia, Denmark, Holland and Ireland and charted in the Top 20 in nine other countries.
The Official Charts Company confirmed on Sunday there were two new entries in this week's official singles chart with Example's Won't Go Quietly at number six and JLS's One Shot climbing 22 places to number 10.
In the albums chart, Florence And The Machine's Lungs held on to the number one spot for a second consecutive week.
Welsh rock band Lostprophets were a new entry at number three with their fourth studio album The Betrayed. And 15-year-old Canadian Justin Bieber charted at number four with his debut album My World.