OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY RATES MILEY CYRUS’S FLOWER BIGGEST SINGLE OF THE YEAR.

Official Charts Company says Flowers by Miley Cyrus is the biggest single of the year to date.

The break-up anthem, which spent 10 weeks at number one earlier this year, has achieved 147 million streams and more than 80,000 downloads with Raye’s Escapism coming second, while SZA’S Kill Bill is in third place.

The Weekend’s two-year-old greatest hits collection, The Highlights, is the most popular album so far this year while

Taylor Swift’s Midnights is in second place, followed by Harry Styles Harry’s House.

However, new releases are largely crowded out of the album chart, due to the enduring popularity of classic tracks on streaming services which now account for 86% of music consumption in the UK.