The ballad rises 19-1 on the back of week-on-week sales increasing 191% to 275,000 units in the first full chart week since she performed it at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on August 28. The track's cumulative US sales are now less than 5,000 downloads short of breaking through the 1 million barrier, while its radio audience has grown 59% to 46 million.

Someone Like You's move to the top of the chart comes three-and-a-half months after ...