YAY KYLIE!

I genuinely couldn't call it before today. Interested to see the sales gap!

"Are you asking me to STEP IN...?"

5 minutes ago, mrpopquiz said:

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30 years ago (25/12/1995)

17 | 01 | 10th 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) | 1-1-1-2-2-1-1-1-1-17

Sales: 600,000+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

01 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

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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

Social Media

Taylor Swift

At least standard ACR caught The Fate of Ophelia.

Oh, this dropped one place less than 'drivers license' did from #1 in the end!

So she was saved from TFOO and the fate of the biggest acr drop from number 1 🤣

My kink is pretending ACR doesnt exist on the official chart show

Just now, jimwatts said:

Oh, this dropped one place less than 'drivers license' did from #1 in the end!

..but don't rule The Fate of Ophelia out from returning to the top 10 in the New Year as part of the clearout!

G'won Kylie!

Ooh the show's on from 3pm next week (and luckily I have a half day at work so I'll be home to host )

Which of course Jack will have to get the producer to make a new contenders link...

16 | 24 | 3rd week

Kylie Minogue

XMAS

1st single from Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped)

Released: 5th November 2025

Label: Darenote

Chart Statistics

NE (27/11/2025) | 64-24-16

Sales: 20,000+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

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45 Audio Streaming

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Biography

Australia’s biggest pop icon is a master of shape-shifting, with a silvery voice that adapts to spunky novelty dance tracks as well as sleek synth-pop and a theatrical bent that turns her live shows into spectacles. Born in Melbourne in 1968, Kylie Minogue got her start in acting, debuting on the soap opera Neighbours in her teen years and almost immediately becoming one of the nation’s most beloved television actors. A benefit performance led to the release of her first single, a cover of Little Eva’s “The Loco-Motion,” in 1987; it became a hit in Australia, and her 1988 re-recording of it, helmed by the superproducer team Stock Aitken Waterman, was a smash in the rest of the world. The new version was included on her 1988 debut, Kylie, a collection of frothy pop highlighted by the sparkling “I Should Be So Lucky.” Minogue continued her relationship with SAW until the 1993 release of Kylie Minogue, which was recorded with club-oriented producers including M People and Brothers In Rhythm. Her aesthetic matured during the ’90s, both in her solo work and on the Nick Cave duet “Where the Wild Roses Grow.” In 2001, the slick “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” blew up in clubs and on the radio, and its accompanying album, Fever, featuring the buoyant “Love At First Sight” and the sinuous “Come Into My World,” re-established Minogue as a pop force. In the years that followed, she worked with pop gurus like Stuart Price and Greg Kurstin on tracks such as the sumptuous “All the Lovers” and the peppy “Wow,” flirted with country and disco, indulged her art-house side in films like Holy Motors, and embarked on ambitious tours that showcased her flair for the dramatic—and her long-honed ability to captivate audiences. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

Kylie Minogue

1988 01 I Should Be So Lucky -1-

1988 02 Got To Be Certain -2-

1988 02 The Loco-Motion -3-

1988 02 Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi -4-

1988 01 Especially For You (Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan) -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1989 01 Hand On Your Heart -1-

1989 02 Wouldn't Change A Thing -2-

1989 04 Never Too Late -3-

1990 01 Tears On My Pillow -4-

1990 02 Better The Devil You Know -1-

1990 04 Step Back In Time -2-

1991 06 What Do I Have To Do? -3-

1991 06 Shocked -4-

1991 16 Word Is Out -1-

1991 04 If You Were With Me Now (Kylie Minogue & Keith Washington) -2-

1991 49 Keep On Pumpin' It (Visionmasters feat. Tony King & Kylie Minoque)

1992 02 Give Me Just A Little More Time -3-

1992 11 Finer Feelings -4-

1992 14 What Kind Of Fool (Heard All That Before) -1-

1992 20 Celebration -2-

1994 02 Confide In Me -1-

1994 11 Put Yourself In My Place -2-

1995 16 Where Is The Feeling? -3-

1995 11 Where The Wild Roses Grow (Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue)

1997 22 Some Kind Of Bliss -1-

1997 14 Did It Again -2-

1998 14 Breathe -3-

1998 63 GBI (Towa Tei feat. Kylie Minogue)

2000 01 Spinning Around -1-

2000 02 On A Night Like This -2-

2000 02 Kids (Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue)

2000 10 Please Stay -3-

2001 01 Can't Get You Out Of My Head -1- MILLION SELLER

2002 03 In Your Eyes -2-

2002 02 Love At First Sight -3-

2002 08 Come Into My World -4-

2003 01 Slow -1-

2004 05 Red Blooded Woman -2-

2004 06 Chocolate -3-

2004 02 I Believe In You -1-

2005 06 Giving You Up -2-

2007 04 2 Hearts -1-

2007 31 Santa Baby -B-SIDE-

2007 05 Wow -2-

2008 10 In My Arms -3-

2008 36 The One -4-

2010 03 All The Lovers -1-

2010 12 Get Outta My Way -2-

2010 32 Better Than Today -3-

2011 08 Higher (Taio Cruz feat. Travie McCoy & Kylie Minogue)

2011 93 Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) -4-

2012 31 Timebomb -NAS-

2013 96 Flower -1-

2014 12 Into The Blue -1-

2014 59 I Was Gonna Cancel -2-

2014 60 Crystallize -NAS-

2018 38 Dancing -1-

2018 52 Stop Me From Falling -2-

2020 56 Say Something -1-

2020 53 Magic -2-

2021 95 Real Groove (Kylie Minogue & Dua Lipa) -3-

2023 08 Padam Padam -1-

2023 19 Tension -2-

2023 81 Hold On To Now -3-

2024 60 Dance Alone (Sia & Kylie Minogue)

2024 63 My Oh My (Kylie Minogue, Bebe Rexha & Tove Lo) -1-

2024 59 Lights Camera Action -2-

2025 16 XMAS -1-

7 x #1 | 26 x Top 5 | 35 x Top 10 | 48 x Top 20 | 54 x Top 40 | 68 x Top 100

Amazon Originals: Christmas

2018 22 Cozy Little Christmas (Katy Perry)

2019 01 River (Ellie Goulding)

2019 09 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Legend)

2020 03 This Christmas (Jess Glynne)

2020 04 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Justin Bieber)

2020 61 In The Bleak Midwinter (Jamie Cullum)

2020 63 Favorite Time Of Year (Carrie Underwood)

2021 08 Come On Home For Christmas (George Ezra)

2021 19 The Christmas Song (Olivia Dean)

2021 24 I'll Be Home For Christmas (Camila Cabello)

2021 97 I Want To Come Home For Christmas (Summer Walker)

2021 98 Jingle Bell Rock (Alessia Cara)

2022 05 Firebabe (Stormzy feat. Debbie)

2022 08 Someday At Christmas (Lizzo)

2022 41 Jingle Bells (Sam Ryder)

2022 47 Together This Christmas (Maisie Peters)

2022 49 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Priya Ragu)

2022 64 All I Want (For Christmas) (Zoe Wees)

2022 70 Last Christmas (Lauren Spencer Smith)

2023 02 You're Christmas To Me (Sam Ryder)

2023 16 Stay Another Day (Jorja Smith)

2023 48 Jingle Bells (Meghan Trainor)

2024 03 It Can't Be Christmas (Tom Grennan)

2024 13 Christmas Magic (Laufey)

2025 16 XMAS (Kylie Minogue)

2025 40 Shake The Snow Globe (Gwen Stefani)

1 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 13 x Top 20 | 16 x Top 40 | 26 x Top 100

Social Media

Kylie Minogue

Just now, JosephCarey said:

Ooh the show's on from 3pm next week (and luckily I have a half day at work so I'll be home to host )

So I'm gonna have to get an extra tape or CD ready!

Just now, JosephCarey said:

Ooh the show's on from 3pm next week (and luckily I have a half day at work so I'll be home to host )

I presume they'll play all the songs next week.

The week after that will be the chart of the year.

Edited Friday at 17:024 days by IdentFan101

Of all the chart shows to get an extra hour it’s the week with the most ancient music. 😶‍🌫️

Yes! Number 1 next week Kylie cmon 🤞🏼🙏🏼

The Radio 1 website still showing a 4pm start next week so was that a recent decision ?

Thriller for Kylie getting the number one album!

1 minute ago, mrpopquiz said:

The Radio 1 website still showing a 4pm start next week so was that a recent decision ?

It'll be updated soon..