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Alex Warren gets a fifth Ordinary week at the top of the singles chart. Those Damn Crows have their first number one album.

Alex Warren remains well clear of the opposition at the top of the singles chart. Ordinary’s fifth week at the summit makes it the longest-running number one single of the year so far. The last five-week number one was Gracie Abrams’ That’s So True in November and December of last year. This means that this year’s Easter number one matches the song that was replaced by last year’s Christmas number one. Ordinary heads an unchanged top four. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club remains at number two.
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Alex Warren gets a fourth week at number one with Ordinary. Elton John, in collaboration with Brandi Carlile gets his tenth number one album

Alex Warren still has the number one single. Elton John gets another number one album. Alex Warren’s Ordinary remains at the top of the chart for a fourth week at number one. It is the second song to spend a month at the summit this year after Lola Young’s Messy. Yes, we have had a messy month and now we have an ordinary one. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club spends a third consecutive week at number two, it’s fourth week in the runner-up slot in total. When Ed Sheeran released - in 2023m he
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Alex Warren’s Ordinary gets a third week as the number one single. Mumford and Sons top the albums chart with their first release in over six years.

Alex Warren gets a third week at number one with his Ordinary single. If he loses the top spot next week, Ordinary will be the first single this year to spend an odd number of weeks at the summit. Warren’s Carry You Home climbs one place to a new peak of number nine. Alex Warren heads an unchanged top four. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club remains at number two. Doechii’s Anxiety, which sounds even better each time I hear it, is still at number three. Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things holds on at
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Alex Warren has an Ordinary Week 2 on top and The Lottery Winners number comes up

Alex Warren holds at 1 on the Single Track chart, and The Lottery Winners lucky number comes up in albums. That number is 1. Alex Warren makes it week number 2 at number one for Ordinary, a great ballad with gospel choir touches, making it the first time since Kate Bush was Running back Up That Hill that my personal chart and the Official Chart have the same number one. Alex’s previous good hits also get a boost with Carry You Home at a new peak of 10 (and his second top 10 hit) and Burning Do
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Alex Warren gets his first number one single.

Alex Warren gets his first number one single. Steve Wilson narrowly misses out on a first number one album. Alex Warren climbs to the top of the singles chart to get his first UK number one. Sadly, it is with the aptly-titled Ordinary rather than the significantly better Carry You Home which is back up to number twenty this week. The Californian singer-songwriter released his first music in 2021, but didn’t enter the UK ((or US) top forty until last year. At the beginning of the week, it was
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Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club gets a second week at number one. Lady Gaga has a fifth number one album.

Chappell Roan remains at the top of the singles chart. Lady Gaga gets her fifth number one album. Having climbed to the top of the singles chart last week, Chappell Roan remains at number one with her Pink Pony Club. It therefore avoids becoming the first one-week number one since Gigi Perez’s Sailor Song four months ago. Alex Warren climbs one place to number two with Ordinary. The release of Lady Gaga’s new album helps Abracadabra climb three places to number three, matching its previous
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Chappell Roan gets her first number one single. Sabrina Carpenter returns to the top of the albums chart once again.

Chappell Roan finally gets to the top of the singles chart. Sabrina Carpenter returns to the top of the albums chart. Chappell Roan was one of the biggest new stars of 2024 but still ended the year without a number one single to her name. Her success has continued into the early months of 2025; as of last week’s chart, she had spent a total of 29 weeks in the top ten with Good Luck Babem Hot To Go and, to complete the trio of three-word titles, Pink Pony Club. Still, however, a chart-topping s
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Kendrick Lamar gets a second week at number one. Sam Fender has his third chart-topping album.

Kendrick Lamar holds on for a second week at the top of the singles chart. Sam Fender has the fastest selling album by a British solo artist for a few years. There was a close race at the top of the singles chart this week with last week’s number one from Kendrick Lamar facing stiff competition from Chappell Roan. The Roan song in question, Pink Pony Club, was released five years ago. However, it made no impact on the chart until last year when it reached number thirteen. This followed the suc
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Kendrick Lamar gets his first number one single

Kendrick Lamar tops the UK singles chart for the first time, well into the second decade of his career. Sabrina carpenter returns to the top of the albums chart. Kendrick Lamar gets his first UK number one single. Sabrina Carpenter returns to the top of the albums chart. Kendrick Lamar had his first top forty hit in 2013 when he was the featured artist on Robin Thicke’s Give It 2 U. Since then he has amassed a total of 29 top forty hits with twelve of them reaching the top ten. It is, therefor
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The top of the chart is still Messy

Lola Young's Messy remains at the top of the singles chart for a fourth week. Taylor Swift gets a record-breaking thirteenth number one album. Lola Young stays at the top of the singles chart. Taylor Swift gets another number one album with a late release. Lola Young’s Messy extends its run at the top to four weeks. It is the longest running new song at number one by a British act since Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding spent a total of eight weeks there with Miracle in spring 2023. Her song wi
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Lola Young's Messy is still number one

Lola Young spends a third week at number one with Messy. The weeknd gets a fourth number one album. Lola Young remains at the top of the singles chart. The Weeknd gets the number one album. Lola Young gets a third week at number one in the singles chart with Messy. This means that new songs by British artists have already spent as long at number one in 2025 than in the whole of last year. There is a familiar look to the rest of the top five. It contains the same songs as last week, and the we
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Lola Young stays at number one

Lola Young bags a second week at number one. Central Cee scores a second number one album. Lola Young gets a second week at the top of the singles chart. Central Cee has the number one album. After climbing to the top of the pile last week, Lola Young gets a second week at number one with Messy. It is the first new song by a British act to spend a second week at the top since Chase & Status and Stormzy’s Backbone last August. The rest of the top five is also unchanged (an all too common o
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Lola Young makes it to number one

Lola Young finally makes it to the top of the singles chart with Messy. Robbie Williams has his fifteenth number one album. A close race at the top of the singles chart. Robbie Williams gains a fifteenth number one album. There was a tight contest at the top of the singles chart with Lola Young and Rose & Bruno Mars aiming to replace Gracie Abrams. Abrams herself was also in the running. With Gracie Abrams in third place in Wednesday’s update, she was always likely to miss out on a ninth
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Eight weeks at the top for Gracie Abrams

Gracie Abrams remains at the top of the singles chart for an eighth non-consecutive week. Chappell Roan climbs back to the top of the albums chart. Gracie Abrams remains at number one in the singles chart. Chappell Roan returns to the top of the albums chart. Gracie Abram’s second run at the top of the singles chart enters a third week, giving her a total of eight weeks at the top with That’s So True. The last song to spend exactly eight weeks at the top, again in two separate runs, was Calvin