After eight weeks and six-figure sales, Ne-Yo finally reaches the top.

Not many singles sell more than 100,000 copies before reaching number one but Ne-Yo's second chart-topper Closer - which reaches the summit at the eighth attempt this week - sold 100,377 copies on its first seven weeks in the chart while moving 22-24-12-7-5-3-2. Despite its second-week wobble, Closer has increased sales every single week since its release and added a further 30,676 copies to its tally last week, enough to push Coldplay's first number one, Viva La Vida, down to second place. Ne-Yo's 2006 debut, So Sick, was a more instant success, moving 18-1 on its second week in the chart and is the biggest seller of his four Top 10 hits to date, though Closer should eventually eclipse its career tally of 191,906 sales.

Slipping to number two on sales of 21,716, Viva La Vida is the only UK song in a top five otherwise dominated by US R&B acts and only the second number one song to spend a single week at number one in 2008, the first being That's Not My Name by The Ting Tings.

Although leapfrogged by his own No Air duet with Jordin Sparks - which vaults 10-3 (18,637 sales) - Chris Brown's latest solo waxing Forever continues to move up the chart. Despite also having to compete with the ...