The DJ duo achieved the feat with Afraid To Feel, which was streamed 5.5 million times over the last seven days.
Based on a sample of Silk’s 1975 disco cut I Can’t Stop (Turning You On), the song has become a viral TikTok hit.
Fellow Scot Paolo Nutini tops the album chart with his first release in eight years, Last Night in the Bittersweet.
It is the star’s third number one album, following 2009’s Sunny Side Up and 2014’s Caustic Love.
Last Night in the Bittersweet was also the week’s most-purchased physical album, topping the vinyl chart in the process.
Kate Bush made headlines when Running Up That Hill topped the UK charts last month, 37 years after it was first released.
The song was re-popularised by its use in the Netflix sci-fi drama Stranger Things, where it plays a pivotal role in the current fourth series.
- Kate Bush says chart revival is ‘special and mad’
- ‘I pinch myself at my luck being in Stranger Things’
- Kate Bush is number one, thanks to Stranger Things
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