Shawn Mendes has scored his first ever UK number one, ending Justin Bieber’s reign on top of the chart in the process.<br />The 17-year-old won the chart battle this week with ‘Stitches’, taken from his debut album Handwritten.<br />‘Stitches’ first entered the UK chart 17 weeks ago, in October of last year, when it debuted at number 97.<br />It then hit the top 40 in December and began steadily climbing to the top spot.<br />Only one other song in UK chart history has taken longer to reach number one, Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’, which took 19 weeks.<br />The race between Mendes and his fellow Canadian Justin Bieber was extremely close, with ‘Stitches’ winning by just over 1,500 combined chart sales ahead of ‘Love Yourself’.<br />However ‘Love Yourself’ notched up more streams with 3.72 million plays against ‘Stitches’’ 3.05 million.
