UK Chart Check: Beyonce & Wretch 32 Rock Top 40

The ‘X Factor UK’ have gifted Pop Queen Beyonce a fresh chart run of sorts this week, following the arrival of its 10th season over the weekend.

This, as Brit-Rap Royal Wretch soars to similar heights on the very same tally!

Good news below…

After the song was covered by contestant Sam Bailey during her audition , Beyonce‘s 2006 number ‘Listen‘ soared a sweet 146 spots in the last week, earning the #14 spot on this week’s Urban Top 40- after enjoying a peak position of #8 in 2008.

Meanwhile, Wretch 32 eyes a fresh hit with his new single ‘Doing OK‘, watching it take flight on August 23rd and land at #12 on the very same chart, three months after watching its predecessor ‘Blackout’ peak at #6 on the main tally, pulled from the Rapper’s hotly anticipated third studio album.

Meanwhile, Katy Perry readies to welcome fresh sales of half a million units this week, afforded to her new single ‘Roar’, set to push its combined sales over the 1 million mark in the US alone if its succeeds in exceeding the sales prediction below.

US chart preview: #1 @KatyPerry, Roar 450-475,000 downloads.

— Chart News (@chartnews) August 30, 2013

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