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Dave and Fredo Make History As ‘Funky Friday’ Becomes Their First UK Number One

While Rita Ora and Lady Gaga fill out the Top 10...

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Friday, October 12, 2018 - 17:45

Dave and Fredo have knocked Calvin Harris and Sam Smith off the top of the Official UK Singles Chart after five weeks with their massive new single.

The brilliant ‘Freaky Friday’ has debuted at Number 1 on the Top 40, bringing an end to ‘Promises’’ five-week reign and making history while doing so.

The independently-released track lands at the top of chart after racking up a massive 6.7 million streams in the past week, leaving him “speechless”.

OfficialCharts.com

“I’m speechless right now,” he told OfficialCharts.com. “I just want to say thank you to everyone that’s helped us get this Number 1. I can’t even explain to you how grateful I am.”

Dave joins Drake as only the second artist to have a song debut at Number 1 in 2018, something which certainly doesn’t happen to everyone.

Credit: Dave

In addition to being the first number one single for both Dave and Fredo, this is being celebrated as a big moment for UK rap more generally.

SB.TV founder Jamal Edwards told OfficialCharts.com: “It's a very monumental time for British music and this is definitely one of these moments that we will remember for a very long time. I've seen Dave and Fredo's rise from the ground up and I feel like there's so much more to come, very exciting indeed.“

Elsewhere on the chart, Rita Ora’s ‘Let You Love Me’ climbs to Number 5, while Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s epic ‘Shallow’ from A Star Is Born arrives at Number 6.

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One-six
Game

At this age, how are them man still hating?
My young boy in a different country
But he ain't ever been on vacation
One hand on the girl I'm dating
One hand on the cash I'm making
We come through like Funky Friday
And have all of your mandem skating

I came in, 550 on trainers
Island girl amazing, could be Bajan, Trini or Haitian
She got a bag with flowers
If the trainers match I'll take it
Me and bro just shut down Gucci
Had the whole of the shop floor waiting
Who's that girl in the line
With the big behind that's looking all tempting?
If her friend is a dead ting
Take one for the team with a bredrin
Two peng tings at the entrance
Want attention but a man can't let them
She must think I'm a reverend
You ain't coming here getting redemption, no way

At this age, how are them man still hating?
My young boy in a different country
But he ain't ever been on vacation
One hand on the girl I'm dating
One hand on the cash I'm making
We come through like Funky Friday
And have all of your mandem skating

I see dem man skating now, I'm talking about running their legs
My youngens in country plugging the Z
He can't even buck me till nothing is left
I flooded my right, I flooded my left
I'm ducking your wife, I'm ducking the feds
The bell on the trap, it's buzzing again
But still I ain't trying to get busted by feds
Look man I ain't caught the bus in a sec'
It's me and my rambo cutting through West
The way that I went and just flooded my neck
I'm shocked that I ain't gotta struggle for breath
With me and the missus be going on dates
She's holding the dipper, I'm holding her waist
Just see some pigs moving low in the mains
So I phone up my nigga and told him the plate

Tell a peng girl you can HMU
I don't wanna cuddle and H-U-G
And I'm still shopping in HMV
For all of my niggas in HMP
Heard you got a girl going DMU
If I DM'd you would she DM me?
Young black brudda I'm a stylish g
Man I put the IC in IC3

They tell me I'm gifted in rap
Nothing was nice, used to live in the trap
Now if I go ask that chick for her snap
I can bet money she's giving me that
I'm always in Harrods, I'm filling the bag
Them niggas ain't winners, them niggas are mad
Gyal at my vids and them bitches are bad
They get picked in the foreigns and ditched in the cab
Game

At this age, how are them man still hating?
My young boy in a different country
But he ain't ever been on vacation
One hand on the girl I'm dating
One hand on the cash I'm making
We come through like Funky Friday
And have all of your mandem skating
Writer(s): Tyrell Paul, Marvin Bailey, Fraser Thorneycroft Smith, David Omoregie Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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‘Shallow’ is therefore Gaga’s first Top 10 single in five years, making this week even more special as the movie soundtrack has debuted at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart.

Congrats, Dave and Fredo!

Official UK Singles Chart Top 5:

1. Dave Ft. Fredo - 'Funky Friday'
2. Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - 'Promises'
3. Marshmello Ft. Bastille - 'Happier'
4. Kanye West & Lil Pump - 'I Love It'
5. Rita Ora - 'Let You Love Me'

Chart data © Official Charts Company 2018

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