Man I Need definitely one of the unluckiest number 2s ever!

‘Golden’ has spent as many weeks at #1 as ‘Wannabe’ now then! 😮

The Olivia Dean breakthrough is completely lost on me. Her music is so beige, vanilla and lacking anything remotely standout.

That said, I'd still rather Man I Need at #1 than Golden. Tough times on the charts right now...

Ooooh I never noticed the key change in 'Soda Pop'. I am a sucker for a key change.

I've got to check the amount of tape left in the cassette I'm using now that the number one is getting played...

2 minutes ago, lpat8 said:

Lmao I just can’t get my head around it… dare I say the songs aren’t that good?

That's the beauty of opinions not harm in not liking it but clearly loads of people do

Future chart hit?

RAYE

WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

1st single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 19th September 2025

Label: RAYE

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Biography

When RAYE speaks of her music, she doesn’t just talk of songs but of “stories”. And the South London singer-songwriter (born Rachel Agatha Keen in 1997) has quite the knack for writing them. Nominated for the Songwriter of the Year Ivor Novello Award in 2022, RAYE first broke through in 2014 with her star-signalling self-released debut EP, Welcome to the Winter, followed by the Stormzy-featuring Second EP two years later. A stream of singles and collaborations, including with Stefflon Don, Mr Eazi and Jax Jones, hinted at an artist who could shape-shift between musical spheres—and excel wherever she landed. But despite such successes (her name has also featured on the credits of songs by artists such as Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding, Little Mix and John Legend), RAYE felt trapped behind the scenes. In 2021—just months after the release of her chart-topping dance-pop anthem “BED” alongside Joel Corry and David Guetta—the singer-songwriter wrote on social media that she hadn’t been “allowed” to release her debut album and that she was “sick of being slept on” by her label, an allegation that sent shockwaves through the music industry. And it was then that RAYE returned to those stories, as she came to work on her long-awaited 2023 debut LP, My 21st Century Blues, as an independent artist. On it, she explores being a young woman in music and the trauma of sexual assault and substance abuse, but also the things any woman RAYE’s age might be moved to write about: climate change, relationships ending, falling in love with someone new. “This is about me telling the stories I want to tell, in the order I want to tell them, through the sonic landscape I want to tell them,” RAYE told Apple Music at the time of the album’s release. My 21st Century Blues, she added, wasn’t made with mainstream success in mind, yet that’s exactly what it brought. After the confronting “Hard Out Here.” and the made-for-repeat-listening “Black Mascara.”, she unleashed “Escapism.” featuring 070 Shake, a viral hit on both sides of the Atlantic and the biggest song of RAYE’s up to that point. It signalled, without doubt, that her time had come. “It is just the most beautiful validation,” said RAYE. “To know that you’re right to back yourself when you feel conviction and you feel passionately about something. I made this [album] battling and figuring out freedom, and I’m so excited for the artist I get to become. This has set the tone for me.” - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2016 15 By Your Side (Jonas Blue feat. RAYE)

2016 03 You Don't Know Me (Jax Jones feat. RAYE) MILLIONAIRE

2017 65 The Line -NAS-

2017 15 Decline (RAYE & Mr Eazi) -1-

2018 26 Check (Kojo Funds feat. RAYE)

2018 41 Cigarette (RAYE, Mabel & Stefflon Don) -2-

2018 66 Friends -NAS-

2019 41 Stay (Don't Go Away) (David Guetta feat. RAYE)

2019 55 Love Me Again -1-

2020 21 Tequila (Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with RAYE)

2020 06 Secrets (Regard & RAYE)

2021 37 Regardless (RAYE & Rudimental) -2-

2021 03 BED (Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta) MILLIONAIRE

2021 14 Ferrari Horses (D-Block Europe & RAYE)

2021 64 Call On Me -NAS-

2021 50 I Don't Want You (Riton & RAYE)

2021 50 Money Calling (Da Beatfreakz feat. Russ Millions, RAYE & wewantwraiths)

2022 67 Waterfall (Disclosure & RAYE)

2022 01 Escapism. (RAYE & 070 Shake) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2023 69 Ice Cream Man. -AT-

2023 35 Flip A Switch. -2-

2023 23 The Weekend (Stormzy & RAYE)

2023 02 Prada (cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe) MILLIONAIRE

2024 33 Worth It. -3-

2024 22 Genesis. -NAS-

2024 38 Moi (Central Cee & RAYE)

2024 52 Oscar Winning Tears. -4-

2025 13 Born Again (LISA feat. Doja Cat & RAYE)

2025 34 Suzanne (Mark Ronson & RAYE)

2025 xx WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! -1-

1 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 5 x Top 10 | 9 x Top 20 | 18 x Top 40 | 29 x Top 100

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RAYE

Future chart hit?

Lewis Capaldi

Something In The Heavens

2nd single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 19th September 2025

Label: Vertigo Berlin

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Biography

Lewis Capaldi’s first two albums—2019’s Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent and 2023’s Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent—broadcast their messy emotional content right there in those sprawling titles. “I think we all attempt to be heavenly sent,” the former Up Next artist told Apple Music in 2023, explaining the latter title. “Everyone strives to be good at something, or find some sort of purpose. And sometimes, in the pursuit of that, it can leave you feeling a bit dejected.” And make no mistake: Capaldi has become one of the most popular young artists of his generation by preserving his songs in a raw, unvarnished state, providing the purest representation of the pain and longing coursing through his lyrics. Amidst the hyper-paced, totally wired world of late-2010s pop, this unassuming Scottish singer-songwriter—born in 1996 in Glasgow—stopped the internet dead in its tracks with his DIY 2017 single “Bruises,” a stark, piano-based breakup ballad that introduced a voice imbued with the sort of soulful grit and deeply felt heartache you wouldn’t expect from a baby-faced 21-year-old. That song was Capaldi’s ticket to major-label deals and tours opening for pop A-listers like Sam Smith and Niall Horan, but he would swiftly join their ranks with Divinely Uninspired…, which fleshed out his sound with lush orchestration and gospel gravitas but retained his fearless flair for emotional dredging. Capaldi proved no less forthcoming on Broken By Desire…, counterbalancing all his success with self-deprecating lyrical turns. Though he took a break from touring after releasing the album in order to improve his mental and physical health, that decisive step felt just as real and necessary as the doubt and passion he airs in his songs. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2018 09 Grace -2- MILLIONAIRE

2018 01 Someone You Loved -3- MILLIONAIRE

2019 06 Bruises -1/5- MILLIONAIRE

2019 04 Hold Me While You Wait -4- MILLIONAIRE

2019 01 Before You Go -6- MILLIONAIRE

2022 01 Forget Me -1- MILLIONAIRE

2022 01 Pointless -2-

2023 24 How I'm Feeling Now -PS-

2023 01 Wish You The Best -3-

2023 28 Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before? -AT-

2024 37 Strangers -4-

2024 59 A Cure For Minds Unwell -AT-

2025 01 Survive -1-

2025 xx Something In The Heavens -2-

6 x #1 | 7 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 9 x Top 20 | 12 x Top 40 | 13 x Top 100

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Lewis Capaldi

1 minute ago, Jade said:

‘Golden’ has spent as many weeks at #1 as ‘Wannabe’ now then! 😮

HUNTR/X are gonna have "Stay" by Shakespear's Sister as their next target for most weeks at number one for a girl group - eight is the target to equal Siobhan and Marcella's chart topping run from early 1992.

Olivia Dean is pleasant on the ears though. She has that.

Demon hunters need gone acr

Be interesting to see sales if Golden is on Decline 2 and goes ACR week would it be olivias last chance, , we haven't heard taylors THE FATE OF OPHELIA yet but wonder if it has legs to be a multiweek number 1

Oh yeah then theres Lewis but he'll probably be a 1 week number 1 at best given his track record 😅

"Golden" now tying with "Wannabe" as the second longest-charting song at #1 by a girl group in the UK!

Edited Friday at 16:452 days by DanielCarey

1 minute ago, 777666jason said:

Be interesting to see sales if Golden is on Decline 2 and goes ACR week would it be olivias last chance, , we haven't heard taylors THE FATE OF OPHELIA yet but wonder if it has legs to be a multiweek number 1

Is that the single?

1 minute ago, Jessie Where said:

Is that the single?

Yeah her social media page has posted video released that weekend too

‘The Happy Dictator’ made #73 so at least ‘Sparks’ and Sparks are both in the top 75 😄

New peaks and new entries outside the top 40:

#49 Twenty One Pilots - City Walls (NEW)

#51 JADE - Unconditional (NEW)

#54 Drake, Julia Wolf & Yeat - Dog House (NEW)

#73 Gorillaz ft. Sparks - The Happy Dictator (NEW)

#82 EsDeeKid & Rico Ace - Phantom (NEW)

#86 James Hype ft. Sam Harper & Bobby Harvey - Waterfalls (+11)

#88 Twenty One Pilots - Rawfear (NEW)

#90 Twenty One Pilots - Drum Show (RE)

Edited Friday at 16:512 days by DanielCarey

Unconditional still doing alright for Jade, 7 out of 7 top 100s small victories

If Golden is number one next week it is my birthday number one for this year