It has been #1 Jack...

1 minute ago, mrpopquiz said:

Mariah Carey number 1 in the US this week for the 7th Christmas in a row.

And number 3 in the UK in this chart run though, even if it was a UK number one single in December 2020 and 2022.

Wasn't expecting Raye to retain a top 2 position. Blimey!

3 minutes ago, blackmascara said:

Good to see RAYE just about manage to sneak another week in the top 2 before WIMH! is off on ACR next week. Hopefully it’ll go #1 in January!! I don’t fancy seeing another Prada type run thank you 😂

Both Raye and Sienna Spiro stand a good chance of being No.1 in January and let's not forget Stranger Things when the new series starts

which could send Tiffany back to No.1

02 | 02 | 12th week

RAYE

WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

1st single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 19th September 2025

Label: RAYE

Chart Statistics

NE (02/10/2025) | 4-3-6-5-4-3-3-3-3-2-2-2

Sales: 400,000+

Certification: Gold

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

01 Sales

03 Audio Streaming

09 Video Streaming

Video

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 02 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! -1-

1 x #1 | 5 x Top 5 | 6 x Top 10 | 10 x Top 20 | 19 x Top 40 | 30 x Top 100

Social Media

RAYE

01 | 03 | 136th week

Wham!

Last Christmas

1st single from The Final

Released: 3rd December 1984

Label: Epic Records

Chart Statistics

NE (15/12/1984) | 2-2-2-2-2-3-8-11-21-33-38-51-67-x *

RE (14/12/1985) | 32-10-6-6-14-36-68-x

RE (13/12/1986) | 85-63-47-45-71-x

RE (08/12/2007) | 50-23-14-16-40-x

RE (06/12/2008) | 67-36-26-27-45-x

RE (12/12/2009) | 53-39-41-34-x

RE (11/12/2010) | 57-53-56-61-x

RE (10/12/2011) | 55-26-28-34-x

RE (08/12/2012) | 55-34-41-35-87-x

RE (07/12/2013) | 91-44-40-36-68-x

RE (06/12/2014) | 86-39-36-35-28-x

RE (10/12/2015) | 65-27-24-18-54-x

RE (08/12/2016) | 75-19-20-16-7-x

RE (30/11/2017) | 81-29-6-3-3-2-x

RE (06/12/2018) | 52-14-7-7-3-x

RE (28/11/2019) | 80-43-13-7-5-3-x

RE (19/11/2020) | 76-44-20-3-2-2-3-1-x

RE (18/11/2021) | 85-54-28-4-3-3-3-2-x

RE (17/11/2022) | 71-42-23-9-3-1-2-1-x

RE (16/11/2023) | 37-26-14-5-1-1-1-1-83-x

RE (14/11/2024) | 61-43-16-8-2-1-1-1-42-x

RE (13/11/2025) | 96-50-19-9-3-1

* double A side with Everything She Wants

Sales: 6,300,000+

Certification: 7x Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

02 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

As the energetically punctuated Wham!, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley combined youthful high spirits with a polished union of disco and soul to become one of the defining pop acts of the 1980s. Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Michael) and Andrew John Ridgeley first met in secondary school as 12-year-olds back in 1975. Their 1981 debut as Wham!, the pop-rap snack “Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?),” preached the joy of life on welfare amid rampant British unemployment. As the group’s principal songwriter and frontman, Michael’s exuberant turn on “Young Guns (Go for It!)” precipitated Wham!’s vibrant, post-disco debut, Fantastic, in 1983, which parlayed the duo’s carefree vigor into the glistening hedonism of “Club Tropicana.” Returning in 1984 with the emphatic “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” the group folded Detroit soul into an effervescent pop marvel that sent Wham! to the summit of the U.S. pop charts. Michael took over production on their follow-up album, Make It Big, whose modernized Motown sound on the brooding boogie cut “Everything She Wants” and the resplendent pop-soul of “Careless Whisper” cemented his standing as one of pop’s foremost performer/composers. Ending 1984 with the career-defining synth-pop torch song “Last Christmas,” Wham! harked back to their feel-good beginnings with “I’m Your Man” in 1985 before amicably parting to allow Michael to focus on his solo career. Their final album, 1986’s Music from the Edge of Heaven, featuring their last single “The Edge of Heaven,” wrote the postscript on a prodigious four-year passage that flourished into an indelible pop legacy. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1982 03 Young Guns (Go For It) -1-

1983 08 Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) -2-

1983 02 Bad Boys -3-

1983 04 Club Tropicana -4- MILLIONAIRE

1983 15 Club Fantastic Megamix -NAS-

1984 01 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go -1- MILLIONAIRE

1984 01 Freedom -2-

1984 01 Last Christmas / Everything She Wants -1- MILLION SELLER

1985 01 I'm Your Man -2-

1986 01 The Edge Of Heaven -3-

5 x #1 | 8 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 10 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 10 x Top 100

Social Media

Wham!

No future hits this week, they'll probably resume in the new year at this point x

Just now, jimwatts said:

It has been #1 Jack...

I'm hoping he gets a flurry of messages about that and corrects himself on air 🤣

3 minutes ago, mrpopquiz said:

Mariah Carey number 1 in the US this week for the 7th Christmas in a row.

Its so surprising given it didnt chart there when it first came out in 1994

Next week will mark a whole year in the top 10 for "All I Want For Christmas Is You"

Edited Friday at 17:414 days by DanielCarey

1 minute ago, Big Mistake said:

Its so surprising given it didnt chart there when it first came out in 1994

I think that's only because it wasn't released as a single in a physical format, thus couldn't due to eligibility.

Eleven non-consecutive weeks in total.. for Wham at the top.

Let's hope Jack will have Andrew Ridgeley in the studio next week when Wham ! get the Christmas number 1 !!

11 weeks at #1 in 6 different runs, and a record-equalling 18 in the chart without ACR.

Just tuning in, Ariana out of the top 10 is outrageous. Yes I called it with Kylie nabbing the 1 album. Raye holding out over Mariah, thats big

Edited Friday at 17:444 days by Henessy Lake

2 minutes ago, mrpopquiz said:

Let's hope Jack will have Andrew Ridgeley in the studio next week when Wham ! get the Christmas number 1 !!

IF!

I need to believe my Kylie is in with at least a chance.

Edited Friday at 17:444 days by Jessie Where

4 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

I think that's only because it wasn't released as a single in a physical format, thus couldn't due to eligibility.

That changed in 1998 I believe.

Kelly top 5 is amazing, maybe even top 4 next week ❤️

Poor Raye where the hell is my number 1 😅

New peaks and new entries outside the top 40:

#61 Tyla - CHANEL (+5)

#76 Taylor Swift ft. Sabrina Carpenter - The Life Of A Showgirl (NEW)

#91 Fall Out Boy - It Feels Like Christmas (NEW)

#92 Lizzy McAlpine - Pushing It Down And Praying (NEW)