American Brown appears on course for his first ever UK number one with his newly-issued RCA single Turn Up The Music around 24,000 sales ahead of closest rival She Doesn't Mind by Atlantic-signed Jamaican Paul up to the end of business on Thursday, according to the Official Charts Company.

With Virgin's US act Katy Perry currently at three with Part Of Me, Cash Money/Island's Trinidadian-born Nicki Minaj occupying fourth place with Starships and the Island single Somebody That I Used ...