One contender down - the number 3 single being RAYE... stand by for a recap of 20-3 then the Top 2..

Maybe Taylor could release a vinyl variant of TFOO on 12th December to contend for Christmas number 1

Edited yesterday at 17:351 day by Hadji

The Archies and Shakespear's Sister on the verge of losing their respective (joint) records perhaps...

02 | 01 | 4th week

Taylor Swift

The Fate Of Ophelia

1st single from The Life of a Showgirl

Released: 3rd October 2025

Label: Taylor Swift

Chart Statistics

NE (16/10/2025) | 1-1-1-2

Sales: 200,000+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

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Biography

The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s Red. But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville for her career clearly has ambition to burn. And the thrill of following Swift’s rise has been watching her execute it flawlessly, largely because her melodic intelligence is equal to that ambition. Her early, youthful love songs heralded 2010's newly self-possessed Speak Now—which showed off her scathing wit—and evolved into knowing, ironclad pop fare that held its own against boisterous Max Martin production on 1989, her fifth album, titled after her birth year. Throughout, her songwriting has blurred the lines between the public and private, burying enough real-life clues (about, say, scarves and Starbucks) to make clear that only Swift can own her narrative, thank you very much, while still retaining a lyrical elegance. Though 2017’s reputation might have been perceived as a gorgeously constructed piece of dramatic theater—its attendant heroes and villains all real-life characters from Swift's public feuds—all that spectacle proved an attention-grabbing cover for her most romantic album yet. She turned up the romance even more on 2019’s Lover, but it was 2020’s folklore and its companion, evermore—ruminative, relatively lo-fi albums written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic—that earned her the Apple Music Award for Songwriter of the Year. She followed those up in 2022 with Midnights, which she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff, and described as "the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life." In 2023, Swift undertook one of the most ambitious road shows of all time: the multi-year Eras Tour, which saw her presenting new and classic material across more than 100 locales worldwide. It was just one of many reasons she was named Apple Music's Artist of the Year for 2023. Swift returned to the soft, comfortable, bed-like sonics of Midnights for her 11th album, 2024’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. A study in extremes and heightened emotions, the record—which features guest turns from Post Malone and Florence + the Machine—is her most specific, candid, and unsparing work to date. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2009 02 Love Story -1- MILLIONAIRE

2009 60 White Horse -AT-

2009 51 Teardrops On My Guitar -2-

2009 100 Crazier -OST-

2009 30 You Belong With Me -3- MILLIONAIRE

2010 57 Today Was A Fairytale -OST-

2010 30 Mine -1-

2012 67 Safe & Sound (feat. The Civil Wars) -OST-

2012 70 Eyes Open -OST-

2012 22 Both Of Us (B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift)

2012 04 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together -1- MILLIONAIRE

2012 30 Begin Again -PS-

2012 26 Red -PS-

2012 02 I Knew You Were Trouble. -2- MILLIONAIRE

2012 36 State Of Grace -PS-

2012 07 Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) -4-

2013 09 22 -3-

2013 45 Sweeter Than Fiction -OST-

2013 25 The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody) -5-

2014 02 Shake It Off -1- MILLION SELLER

2014 39 Welcome To New York -IG-

2014 04 Blank Space -2- MILLIONAIRE

2015 21 Style -3- MILLIONAIRE

2015 04 Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2015 40 Wildest Dreams -5- MILLIONAIRE

2016 05 I Don't Wanna Live Forever (ZAYN & Taylor Swift) -OST- MILLIONAIRE

2017 01 Look What You Made Me Do -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 07 ...Ready For It? -2-

2017 15 Gorgeous -3-

2017 29 Call It What You Want -IG-

2017 49 End Game (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) -4-

2018 45 Delicate -5-

2019 03 ME! (feat. Brendon Urie) -1-

2019 05 You Need To Calm Down -2- MILLIONAIRE

2019 43 The Archer -IG-

2019 14 Lover -3- MILLIONAIRE

2019 21 The Man -4-

2019 02 Cruel Summer -5- MILLIONAIRE

2019 44 Christmas Tree Farm -NAS-

2020 57 Only The Young -NAS-

2020 06 cardigan -1- MILLIONAIRE

2020 08 exile (feat. Bon Iver) -AT-

2020 10 the 1 -AT-

2020 03 willow -1-

2020 15 champagne problems -AT-

2020 19 no body, no crime (feat. HAIM) -AT-

2021 12 Love Story (Taylor's Version) -1-

2021 52 You All Over Me (Taylor's Version) (feat. Maren Morris) -2-

2021 30 Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) -3-

2021 52 You Belong With Me (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2021 73 Renegade (Big Red Machine feat. Taylor Swift)

2021 25 Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version) -PS-

2021 03 All Too Well (Taylor's Version) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 18 State Of Grace (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2021 22 Red (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2022 02 The Joker And The Queen (Ed Sheeran feat. Taylor Swift)

2022 88 the lakes -AT-

2022 42 This Love (Taylor's Version) -PS-

2022 77 Don't Blame Me -AT- MILLIONAIRE

2022 63 Carolina -OST-

2022 78 august -AT-

2022 01 Anti-Hero -1- MILLIONAIRE

2022 03 Lavender Haze -2-

2022 04 Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT-

2023 63 Bejeweled -AT-

2023 65 You're On Your Own, Kid -AT-

2023 11 All Of The Girls You Loved Before -NAS-

2023 12 Karma -3-

2023 90 The Alcott (The National feat. Taylor Swift)

2023 18 Hits Different -AT-

2023 06 I Can See You (Taylor's Version) -1-

2023 15 Enchanted (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2023 01 Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) -1-

2023 02 Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2023 05 "Slut!" (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2023 20 You're Losing Me -PS-

2024 01 Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) -1-

2024 03 The Tortured Poets Department -AT-

2024 04 Down Bad -AT-

2024 08 I Can Do It With A Broken Heart -2-

2024 37 us. (Gracie Abrams feat. Taylor Swift)

2024 85 Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me? -AT-

2025 01 The Fate Of Ophelia -1-

2025 02 Opalite -AT-

2025 03 Elizabeth Taylor -AT-

5 x #1 | 26 x Top 5 | 35 x Top 10 | 46 x Top 20 | 60 x Top 40 | 85 x Top 100

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Taylor Swift

01 | 03 | 19th week

HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI and KPop Demon Hunters Cast

Golden

Soundtrack single from KPop Demon Hunters

Released: 20th June 2025

Label: Republic Records

Chart Statistics

NE (03/07/2025) | 93-31-20-9-4-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-5-3-3-1

Sales: 800,000+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

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Biography

KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and released by Netflix. It was directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, from a screenplay by Kang, Appelhans, and Hannah McMechan and Danya Jimenez, based on a story conceived by Kang. The film stars the voices of Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Lee Byung-hun. It follows a fictional K-pop girl group, Huntr/x, who lead double lives as demon hunters; they face off against a rival boy band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons. KPop Demon Hunters originated from Kang's desire to create a story inspired by her Korean heritage, drawing on elements of mythology, demonology, and K-pop to craft a visually distinct and culturally rooted film. The film was reported to be in production at Sony Pictures Animation by March 2021, with the full creative team attached. The film was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks and was stylistically influenced by concert lighting, editorial photography, and music videos as well as anime and Korean dramas. The soundtrack features original songs by several talents, and a score composed by Marcelo Zarvos. KPop Demon Hunters was released on June 20, 2025, on Netflix, to positive reviews, with praise for its animation, visual style, voice acting, humor, and music. - Wikipedia

Top 100 Chart History

2025 01 Golden (HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast) -OST-

2025 05 Your Idol (Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast) -OST-

2025 09 How It's Done (HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast) -OST-

2025 03 Soda Pop (Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast) -OST-

2025 24 TAKEDOWN (TWICE) -OST-

2025 32 Strategy (TWICE) -OST-

2025 13 What It Sounds Like (HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast) -OST-

1 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 5 x Top 20 | 7 x Top 40 | 7 x Top 100

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2 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Maybe Taylor could release a vinyl variant of TFOO on 12th December to contend for Christmas number 1

I saw she's released CD singles for it today but annoyingly they are U.S. only

Dog poo back 1

Just now, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

Dog poo back 1

Is this your official nickname successor to Pineapple now he's dropped out?

Shame for Ophelia, would’ve preferred that to stay at the top. I do like golden though but it’s had its time for sure

Come through Golden!! Nine weeks at #1 is great!

Great for Huntr/x! Now I'm gonna celebrate like I did when it first hit number one by watching the movie tonight.

4 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Maybe Taylor could release a vinyl variant of TFOO on 12th December to contend for Christmas number 1

She just released cds buts thats america only atm , seems she was trying harder to block golden there than here

Happy with both these songs anyway

Just now, IdentFan101 said:

Better than Taylor Shit.

No Taylor did like golden at first gone very stale like Joseph mouldy cheese

Future chart hit?

Florence + The Machine

Sympathy Magic

2nd single from Everybody Scream

Released: 27th October 2025

Label: Polydor Records / Republic Records

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Biography

Florence + the Machine’s grand art pop cuts straight to the essence of raw emotion—no matter how bruised and bloody the result. London artist Florence Welch’s 2009 debut album, Lungs, came stacked with rousing anthems like “Kiss With a Fist” and “Dog Days Are Over”, all propelled by pounding rhythms and orchestral strings. Welch possesses a bewitching voice akin to a powerful siren wail that’s fuelled by a deep desire for catharsis. “With songwriting, I really like to embody the things I was afraid of as a child. I like to kind of embody that voice,” she explained to Apple Music. “It’s like an exorcism almost.” That passion for delving into the darker outskirts of the mind infuses everything the group does, including the 2016 short film The Odyssey, whose Dante-inspired scenes are strung together with heartache-drenched songs from 2015’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. Braveness dictates not only Welch’s lyrics—which hit on topics as taboo as suicide and self-destruction (“The End of Love”) and as profound as simply letting go (the Grammy-nominated “Shake It Out”)—but also her willingness to evolve. The 2022 full-length Dance Fever dabbles in ecstatic electro and Kate Bush-calibre gothic grandeur, while a 2024 cover of Vera Lynn’s 1941 song “White Cliffs Of Dover” exudes genteel throwback glam. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2008 51 Kiss With A Fist -1-

2008 21 Dog Days Are Over -2/8- MILLIONAIRE

2009 12 Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) -3-

2009 05 You've Got The Love -5- MILLIONAIRE

2009 54 Drumming Song -4-

2010 02 You've Got The Dirtee Love (feat. Dizzee Rascal) -6-

2010 51 Cosmic Love -7-

2010 53 Heavy In Your Arms -OST/9-

2011 24 What The Water Gave Me -PS-

2011 12 Shake It Out -1- MILLIONAIRE

2012 50 No Light, No Light -2-

2012 82 Never Let Me Go -3-

2012 87 Breath Of Life -OST-

2012 01 Spectrum (Say My Name) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2015 37 What Kind Of Man -1-

2015 27 Ship To Wreck -2-

2018 81 Sky Full Of Song -PS-

2018 41 Hunger -1-

2018 97 Big God -IG-

2018 98 Patricia -2-

2019 71 Jenny Of Oldstones -OST-

2022 54 King -PS-

2022 51 My Love -1-

2023 95 Mermaids -2-

2025 25 Say My Name (Morgan Seatree & Florence + The Machine)

2025 57 Everybody Scream -1-

2025 xx Sympathy Magic -2-

1 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 3 x Top 10 | 5 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 26 x Top 100

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Florence + The Machine

Future chart hit?

Freya Ridings

Wicker Woman

1st single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 31st October 2025

Label: BMG

Video

Biography

When chatting with Apple Music in 2019, Freya Ridings humorously described her then newly released single “Unconditional” as “the closest thing I have to a happy song.” While there’s no doubt a dash of hyperbole in the London singer/songwriter’s comment, it accurately reflects the fact that she has largely devoted her art to probing the emotional fallout that ensues when love and passion have soured. It makes for a deeply emotional sound, one the talented pianist (born in 1994 to bohemian parents steeped in the arts) cultivated while splitting time between composing at home and playing pubs in and around her hometown. At the same time, it’s not solely the heartache coursing through the breakout hits “Lost Without You” and “Castles” that transformed Ridings from a local talent into an international star. These songs, as well as the entirety of her self-titled 2019 debut, are imbued with a stark, autobiographical realism. Like Adele and Hozier, two of her biggest inspirations, Ridings creates slowly burning anthems—comprising equal parts folk, pop and soul—that feel as if they were forged in cauldrons tucked deep inside the corridors of her heart. Topping it off is a voice that is beautiful not just for its smouldering intensity but also because it feels shaped by the very real-world pain upon which it meditates. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2018 09 Lost Without You -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 57 You Mean The World To Me -2-

2019 16 Castles -3-

2023 31 Weekends -1-

2025 xx Wicker Woman -1-

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 3 x Top 40 | 4 x Top 100

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Freya Ridings

1 minute ago, Sour Candy said:

Come through Golden!! Nine weeks at #1 is great!

Eclipsing Shakespeare's Sister and The Archies for both most weeks at number one for a girl group and a fictional act.

Just now, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

No Taylor did like golden at first gone very stale like Joseph mouldy cheese

Why am I in this

Oh and @Hadji golden had vinyls this week themselves (probably most got disqualified though usually do 🤣)

1 minute ago, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

No Taylor did like golden at first gone very stale like Joseph mouldy cheese

I was the same with Taylor.

I'm so over this it's unreal