Sam Smith and John Legend have remained at the top of the singles chart this week.

Their track Lay Me Down, this year’s Comic Relief song, is at the summit for a second week.

It had a lead of 9,000 combined chart sales over its closest competitor, Years & Years’ King, the Official Charts Company said.

Sam Smith and John Legend
Sam Smith and John Legend in the studio together (Comic Relief/PA)

FourFiveSeconds, by Rihanna, Kanye West and Sir Paul McCartney climbed two places to number three and claims the title of this week’s most-streamed track with 1.98 million plays.

James Bay’s Hold Back The River jumped six places to number four, and Ellie Goulding completes the top five with Love Me Like You Do.

The week’s highest new entry went to Tough Love’s So Freakin’ Tight at number 11.

Kendrick Lamar is number one in the album charts (Arthur Mola/Invision)
Kendrick Lamar is number one in the album charts (Arthur Mola/Invision)

In the albums chart Kendrick Lamar scored a first number one with To Pimp A Butterfly. The rapper’s second record held off Smith’s In The Lonely Hour, which slipped to second place.

Meanwhile, Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler earned the highest-charting album of his career with his eighth studio opus Tracker coming in at number three, while Ed Sheeran’s x was at four.

Rounding off the top five was Van Morrison’s Duets – Re-working The Catalogue. The singer-songwriter’s 35th studio album is his highest-charting collection since 2005′s Magic Time, which peaked at three.

Meanwhile Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds, who provided the music for ITV series Broadchurch, topped the Official UK Classical Chart for the first time with The Chopin Project.