Sam Fender and Olivia Dean break record with 11 weeks at No. 1

sam fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In spent an 11th week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, setting a new record for a male-female duet. The song moved past a benchmark that had stood since 2007, and the gap is now a full week.

Umbrella’s 10-week run

Rein Me In reached 11 weeks at Number 1 after surpassing Rihanna and Jay-Z’s Umbrella, which held the previous mark with 10 weeks at the summit in 2007. For the chart, that is a clean break rather than a tie: one more week at the top and a new record attached to Fender and Dean’s name.

That matters because the record is narrow and specific. It is not the longest run overall, but it is the most weeks at Number 1 for a male-female duet on the Official Singles Chart, which is the metric that counts here.

Michael Jackson at Number 3

Michael Jackson placed three songs in the Top 10 in the same week, a rare level of catalogue strength for any artist. Billie Jean sat at Number 3, Beat It climbed five places to Number 5, and Human Nature reached Number 6 on its first-ever Top 40 appearance.

Human Nature also gave Jackson his 45th Top 10 single. Elsewhere in the chart, the Jackson 5’s I Want You Back rose six places to Number 27, a sign that older recordings can still move when the wider market shifts.

The Chemical Brothers at Number 7

The Chemical Brothers earned their first Top 10 hit in over 20 years with Go, which climbed 15 places to Number 7. Released in 2015, the track entered the Top 40 for the first time the previous week after gaining attention through its inclusion in the Netflix action-thriller film Apex.

That kind of jump is the chart’s other story: legacy records can re-enter the market with fresh life when film placement or another new use pushes listeners back to them. Go is now a Top 10 hit again without being a new release.

Top 40 movement beyond the leaders

Prospa and Cloonee’s Free Your Mind reached the Top 20 for the first time at Number 20, while SIENNA SPIRO’s Material Lover jumped 44 places to Number 23 and gave her a fourth Top 40 accolade. Katy Perry’s The One That Got Away re-entered the Top 40 at Number 30 for the first time in over 14 years, and Harry Styles’ Sign of the Times reached Number 40 because of its inclusion in the Project Hail Mary movie.

Charli xcx also extended her run with her 26th Top 40 single at Number 36, this time with a rock-music pivot. The week’s message is blunt: the top of the chart still belongs to new milestones, but older songs can surge fast when a film, a re-entry, or a renewed audience gives them a second life.