She Can't Stop: Miley Cyrus gets her first UK Number 1

 
Jubilant: Miley Cyrus wins the Choice Style Icon award
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Pa12 August 2013
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Party tune We Can't Stop has shot straight to the top of the charts, giving Miley Cyrus her first UK number one single.

The 20-year-old singer and actress sold 128,000 copies of her new track, knocking off Swedish DJ Avicii's Wake Me Up after three weeks in the top spot.

Miley, whose father is country star Billy Ray Cyrus, first rose to fame as the lead in Disney children's show Hannah Montana, reaching three number 11 UK chart positions with See You Again (2008), The Climb, and Party In The USA (2009).

Party girl: Miley Cyrus has rebranded herself a good girl gone bad
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Miley has now rebranded hersellf as a good girl gone bad, with the video for We Can't Stop featuring hip hop poses such as "twerking" and wild party scenes.

The rest of the top five included Avicii on number two, grime superstar Tinie Tempah's Trampoline FT 2 Chainz at number three, then Cedric Gervais' house remix of Lana Del Rey, Robin Thicke, and Pharrell Williams.

This week, the chart also includes Justine Timberlake's Take Back The Night at number 29 and American rockers Kings of Leon at number 31 with Wait For Me.

In the albums chart, Welsh brothers Richard and Adam Johnson retained the top slot for a second week with The Impossible Dream.

The Britain's Got Talent pair outsold their closest competitors - Grammy award-winning US duo The Civil Wars' self-titled new entry - by 15,000 copies.

The albums top five was completed by Imagine Dragons' Night Visions, Passenger's All The Little Lights and Jahmene Douglas' covers album Love Never Fails.

Further down the list, rapper Example's first Best Of collection, £Hits, went straight in at number 11.

Other new entries were Birmingham indie rockers Swim Deep at number 20 with first album Where The Heaven Are We, and York metalheads Asking Alexandria at number 28 with From Death To Destiny.

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