Shotgun fires Ezra on to top of the charts

George Ezra has topped the singles chart for the first time ever with his latest track Shotgun.

The singer-songwriter, who has two chart-topping albums under his belt, knocked last week’s number one – Solo by Clean Bandit and Demi Lovato – down to second place.

Ezra told Officialcharts. com: “I never thought that this would happen. The thing that’s most amazing about it is the fact that all of you out there are sharing thesongandplayingitloud and enjoying it with your summer, which is exactly what I wanted. I can’t thank you enough.”

He has previously hit the top three twice – with his breakthrough single Budapest in 2013, and with his more recent track Paradise, which peaked at number two.

Shotgun is the third single from his number one album, Staying At Tamara’s, which followed his number one debut record Wanted On Voyage.

Anne-marie is number three this week with 2002, and I’ll Be There by Jess Glynne is at number four.

On the Official Albums Chart, The Greatest Showman soundtrack notched up 21 non-consecutive weeks at the chart summit, 2,000 combined chart sales ahead of much fancied Panic! At The Disco.