Rihanna's 'Diamonds' Is Number One!

Rihanna has beaten One Direction to the singles chart top spot with her latest release ‘Diamonds’.

1D’s ‘Live While We’re Young’ was initially ahead of ‘Diamonds’ in the chart battle but on Wednesday the Bajan star edged ahead by 250 copies.

By the end of the week Rihanna notched up a 19,000 copy lead with last week’s number one, PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’, sneaking ahead of One Direction into second place.

Released on Friday, Adele’s James Bond theme ‘Skyfall’ impressively entered at number four despite only being on sale for two days while Ellie Goulding’s ‘Anything Could Happen’ completed the top five.

Over on the album chart, Muse triumphed with their sixth studio album ‘The 2nd Law’ knocking Mumford & Sons’ ‘Babel’ from the summit.

The Official Singles Chart top ten is as follows:

1. Rihanna ‘Diamonds’ 2. PSY ‘Gangnam Style’ 3. One Direction ‘Live While We’re Young’ 4. Adele ‘Skyfall’ 5. Ellie Goulding ‘Anything Could Happen’ 6. The Script ft. will.i.am ‘Hall of Fame’ 7. Flo Rida ‘I Cry’ 8. David Guetta ft. Sia ‘She Wolf (Falling To Pieces)’ 9. Conor Maynard ft. Ne Yo ‘Turn Around’ 10. Taylor Swift ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’