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Charts analysis: Rein Me In equals No.1 record for a UK act with 15 weeks at the summit

When Sam Fender wrote Rein Me In in 2021, he didn’t think it had the potential to be a single. When a duet between Fender and Olivia Dean was mooted, his label submitted a different song off his People Watching ...

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Charts analysis: Muse make it eight consecutive No.1 albums with The Wow! Signal

Muse become the first group and second act in chart history to debut at No.1 with eight consecutive albums this week, with their 10th studio set, The Wow! Signal opening atop the list on consumption of 34,933 units (14,848 CDs, 15,256 vinyl albums, 563 cassettes, 1,756 digital downloads and 2,510 sales-equivalent streams).  Although it is well clear of the rest of the field – its nearest challenger is former incumbent You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, which dips to No.2 on consumption of 22,072 units, after a fortnight at the summit for Olivia Rodrigo – it is their lowest first week tally since their first album, Showbiz, which ultimately peaked at No.29, debuted at No.69 on consumption of 2,901 units in 1999. Their subsequent studio albums, first week tallies, and year of release: Origin Of Symmetry (45,652 sales, 2001), Absolution (71,597 sales, 2003), Black Holes & Revelations (115,144 sales, 2006), The Resistance (148,161 sales, 2009), The 2nd Law (108,536 sales, 2012), Drones (72,863 sales, 2015), Simulation Theory (44,320 sales, 2018) and Will Of The People (51,510 sales, 2022). All debuted at No.1, except Origin Of Symmetry, which debuted and peaked at No.3.  The band has also charted with compilation Hullabaloo, which debuted and peaked at No.10, with first week sales of 16,384 in 2002; live album, HAARP, which opened and peaked at No.2, on sales of 45,276 copies in 2008; Live At Rome Olympic Stadium, which attracted 10,509 sales to open at No.36 in 2013; and Origin Of Muse, a box set containing remastered expanded versions of their first two albums, which sold 2,688 copies debuting and peaking at No.70 in 2019. Overall sales of Muse albums in the UK now stand at 5,999,273, with top tallies of 1,237,613 for Black Holes & Revelations, 1,023,122 for Absolution and 832,202 for The Resistance. Taylor Swift and Eminem are the only acts to have more consecutive studio albums debut at No.1 than Muse, with her current unbroken string standing at 13, and his at nine – but Muse could be sharing top group honours with Kasabian later this year. Missing out only with their eponymous debut, which reached No.4, the Leicester band has seven consecutive No.1 debuts under its belt, and will try for an eighth when their ninth album, Act III, is released in September.  A trio nominally from Teignmouth in Devon – where they went to school and met, though none of them were born there – Muse have had the same line-up since they adopted the name in the late 1990s, and all of their No.1s have occurred since 2003. The only group with more No.1 albums this century is Coldplay (10) – Westlife also have eight. In the whole of chart history, 21 acts have had more No.1 albums than Muse, nine of them groups. Fronted by the enigmatic Taylor Momsen, New York rock quartet The Pretty Reckless land their fourth Top 10 album with their fifth studio set, Dear God, debuting at No.6 (9,813 sales). It thus equals their highest ever chart placing, as previously achieved by 2010’s Light Me Up (with their best ever first week sale of 11,916 units) and most recent album, Death By Rock And Roll, which had a lesser debut tally of 5,119 units in 2021. The band are considerably more successful here than in their native America, where they have had only one Top 10 album, with Dear God on schedule to fall short of the Top 20. Released last week, Katy Perry’s new single, Watch It Burn falls, well short of becoming her 36th hit, with first week consumption of 3,756 units. Her back catalogue fares better: her first ever compilation, The Ones That Got The Plays, which debuted at No.13 seven weeks ago, and has subsequently spent four weeks at its peak of No.12, becomes her sixth Top 10 album, climbing to No.10 (6,623 sales).  Meanwhile, her most successful album with greater consumption than the rest of her catalogue combined, 2010 No.1 Teenage Dream, went septuple platinum last month. It moves 36-35 on its 331st week in the Top 75 (the last 26 consecutively), its 439th in the Top 100, and its 696th in the Top 200, with consumption of 3,361 units raising its all-time tally to 2,113,617. Both The Ones That Got The Plays and Teenage Dream host Perry’s single The One That Got Away, a 2011 No.18 hit which reverses 28-33 (11,175 sales) on the ninth week of its viral chart resurgence. It remains Perry’s ninth most-consumed track (1,698,970 units).  The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (3-3, 19,536 sales) by Michael Jackson, Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (4-4, 10,346 sales) by Harry Styles, The Art Of Loving (5-5, 9,873 sales) by Olivia Dean, Thriller (7-7, 7,072 sales) by Michael Jackson, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-8, 7,059 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Great Divide (9-9, also 7,059 sales) by Noah Kahan.   Exiting the Top 10 are: The Highlights (10-11, 6,451 sales) by The Weeknd, Iceman (8-12, 6,173 sales) by Drake and My Mess, My Heart, My Life (2-17, 4,882 sales) by Myles Smith. ReLoad Reloaded: The seventh of 11 studio albums thus far released by Metallica, ReLoad debuted and peaked at No.4 in 1997, spending nine weeks in the Top 75. Newly released in CD, vinyl and digitally in much-expanded, remastered ‘super deluxe’ editions and a remastered (but unextended) cassette, it returns for the first time since at No.39 (3,211 sales), raising its all-time tally to 283,669, making it Metallica’s ninth most consumed title. Appearing at sports stadiums seems to work well for Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, whose 2025 No.13 album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, rocketed 43-2 (10,932 sales) after his electrifying half-time performance at The Superbowl in Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara in February. Subsequently retreating from the Top 75, it returns this week, surging 94-27 – its highest position for 18 weeks - with consumption up 93.88% week-on-week to 3,741 units, following his 27 and 28 July performances at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.  BTS will also perform for two nights at the stadium (July 6-7) as part of a whole week of BTS events in London, ahead of which their latest album Arirang climbs 39-37 (3,268 sales). Their third No.1 album, it has spent longer in the chart (15 weeks so far), recently became their ninth album to go gold, and has to-date consumption of 119,194 units. Although it is the only album by a South Korean act in the chart this week, it isn’t the one with the highest consumption. That honour falls to Golden Hour Part 5, the new five-song 14m 48s Latino/K-Pop EP from boy band octet Ateez. Only 733 of its 7,440 sales - which would otherwise earn it a No.7 debut – are chart eligible. It will, however, become their third No.1 and ninth Top 10 album in America, which imposes less strict eligibility rules than the UK. My Chemical Romance’s tour in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their third album, The Black Parade, reached the UK this week. With one date down and four to go, it is enough to trigger an 85.94% increase in consumption of the 2006 No.2 set, which rallies 168-53 (2,550 sales) as a result. That is its highest chart position for just over four years (214 weeks), and tips it into quadruple platinum territory, with to-date consumption of 1,202,340 units.   The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack set is No.1 for the fifth week in a row and 48th time in total on the compilation chart, on consumption of 3,720 units (274 Yoto cards, 25 digital downloads and 3,421 sales-equivalent streams). That is its lowest weekly consumption to date, and the lowest for a No.1 compilation for 54 weeks.  Overall album sales are down 1.26% week-on-week to 2,411,257 units, their lowest level for 25 weeks, and 1.90% below same week 2025 sales of 2,457,919. Physical product accounts for 280,202 sales, 11.62% of the total.    

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Charts analysis: Rein Me In has now spent more weeks at No.1 than any other song in the 2020s

Making chart history has become second nature to Rein Me In, the indefatigable smash hit collaboration between Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, which celebrates the beginning of its second year of unbroken chart presence by rebounding 4-1, to become the first song ever to rise to No.1 four times in the same chart run. Eclipsing triple toppers I Believe by Frankie Laine (1953), Singing The Blues by Guy Mitchell 1957), Happy by Pharrell Williams (2014), What Do You Mean? by Justin Bieber (2015), Despacito by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber (2017) and Blinding Lights by The Weeknd (2020), Rein Me In first topped the chart in February, spending three weeks at the summit. Pushed down to No.2, it returned immediately for a further five weeks, and was then overhauled for a week before spending a further five weeks on top. The song to have most runs at No.1 overall is Last Christmas by Wham!, which has risen to the top seven times in five different chart runs since 2020. Rein Me In’s return to the apex comes with a modest 2.43% increase in consumption to 43,461 units (three 7-inch singles, 398 digital downloads and 43,060 sales-equivalent streams). That’s the lowest tally for a No.1 since its own first week at the summit on consumption of 43,425 units 18 weeks ago.  Back on top after a gap of three weeks, its overall tally of weeks at No.1 to 14 – more than any other song in the 2020s – moving ahead of Ordinary, which spent 13 weeks at No.1 for Alex Warren last year. It moves into joint fifth place for most weeks at No.1 in chart history, alongside Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and Shape Of You by Ed Sheeran. It trails only I Believe (18 weeks) by Frankie Laine, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (17 weeks) by Bryan Adams, Love Is All Around (15 weeks) by Wet Wet Wet and One Dance (15 weeks) by Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla.  It has now completed 53 consecutive weeks in the Top 40, one fewer than the all-time record holder, Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran. It also registers its 36th (non-consecutive) week in the Top 10, moving clear in fourth place on that list. Twenty-six of those weeks have come consecutively this year, placing it ahead of Rema’s Calm Down (25 weeks) in third place for most consecutive weeks in the Top 10, and the longest for 72 years.   Twenty-three weeks after entering the Top 75, Choosin’ Texas finally makes the Top 10 for Ella Langley. The first Top 10 hit for the 27-year-old country star from Alabama, the track spent 10 weeks at No.1 on the US Hot 100, and climbs 14-9 (24,633 sales) here this week. Langley’s Be Her – which peaked at No.50 10 weeks ago – also reaches a new high, climbing 62-43 (9,646 sales).   As phenomenally successful biopic Michael becomes available to stream, Michael Jackson’s 1983 No.1, Billie Jean, rebounds yet again. Climbing 7-3 (29,676 sales), it equals the peak of its current chart run, as previously achieved six weeks ago, and matched four weeks ago. It is, however, the lowest consumption it has achieved in the eight weeks since it returned to the Top 10 in May – a run, incidentally, which surpasses the six weeks it spent in the Top 10 in its initial 1983 chart run. After securing a second week at No.1 with CDs, I Knew It, I Knew You now dips to No.7 (26,220 sales) for Taylor Swift. No.1 on debut 15 weeks ago but absent from the Top 10 for the last nine weeks, American Girls jumps 12-8 (25,553 sales) for Harry Styles, as his Wembley Arena residency continues. Although Aperture drifts 25-27 (12,374 sales), Styles’ chart eligible triumvirate is completed by 2017 No.1 Sign Of The Times, which returns to the Top 20 for the first time in nine years, rising 29-20 (13,701 sales).   The rest of the Top 10: Stupid Song (2-2, 33,035 sales), The Cure (3-4, 29,069 sales) and Drop Dead (5-5, 27,843 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Hate That I Made You Love Me (6-6, 27,151 sales) by Ariana Grande and Beat It (8-10, 22,919 sales) by Michael Jackson.  ACR ends the Top 10 careers of Dracula (9-23, 12,832 sales) by Tame Impala and Midnight Sun (10-24, 12,704 sales) by Zara Larsson. As the sun continues to beat down, playlists of uplifting summery anthems prevail, and it’s appropriate that the only new entry to the Top 75 has a suitably seasonal title. A collaboration between Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté, Movin’ To The Sun explodes 85-59 (8,440 sales). It is the second hit for French producer Hugel, the first for UK-based producer Angel and the 11th hit for 58-year-old Ultra Naté – 37 years after her chart debut, 29 years to the week since her biggest hit, Free, peaked at No.4, and her first chart entry for 21 years. Football focus: Shakira & Burna Boy’s Dai Dai (28-19, 14,053 sales) becomes the first Official FIFA World Cup anthem ever to make the Top 20. It eclipses the previous best of No.21 set in 2010 by another Shakira track, Waka Waka (This Time For Africa), which also featured Freshlyground. A re-entry last week, Waka Waka now falls 37-40 (9,926 sales), retreating alongside other football-related hits Three Lions (35-39, 10,226 sales) by Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds and No Scotland, No Party (74-92, 6,404 sales) by Nick Morgan. However, after being adopted as the unofficial England World Cup anthem, Oasis’ 1995 No.2 hit Wonderwall is a re-entry at No.33 (11,225 sales).  With two of last week’s Top 10 and nine of last week’s Top 40 moving to ACR, there’s a lot more room for in-chart climbs to new peaks this week, not all of them necessarily coinciding with increased consumption.  Aside from those already mentioned, they are: Free Your Mind (18-12, 22,157 sales) by Prospa & Cloonee, On 2Nite (30-14, 17,512 sales) by Silva Bumpa, Material Lover (20-15, 17,261 sales) by Sienna Spiro, Talk To You (23-16, 16,996 sales) by Anotr & 54 Ultra, Earrings (19-17, 16,126 sales) by Malcolm Todd, Boston (26-18, 14,549 sales) by Stella Lefty, Cinderella (27-21, 13,437 sales) by Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Baby (63-52, 9,235 sales) by Prospa & Murda Beatz and Like A Prayer (72-63, 8,026 sales) by Josh Fawaz. Helped by its inclusion in what is apparently the hottest new video game of the year – Forza Horizon 6 – Blessings surges 44-25 (12,632 sales) for Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas. That is the highest placing for 45 weeks for the track, which peaked at No.3 last July. Harris’ latest single, Jazzy collaboration Satisfy, which peaked four weeks ago at No.46, also registers a double-digit climb, rebounding 71-56 (8,988 sales),  Overall singles consumption is up 0.18% week-on-week to 31,571,265 units, 2.16% above same week 2025 sales of 30,902,628 units. Paid-for sales are down 16.89% week-on-week at 252,085, 13.18% below same week 2025 sales of 290,343.  

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