Charli missing out on the top 40?

40 | 46 | 78th week

Natasha Bedingfield

Unwritten

3rd single from Unwritten

Released: 29th November 2004

Label: Sony Music Entertainment UK

Chart Statistics

NE (11/12/2004) | 6-9-11-10-10-21-34-37-47-55-58-70-x

RE (12/03/2005) | 99-95-x

RE (03/02/2007) | 98-86-x

RE (14/07/2007) | 97-x

RE (18/01/2024) | 24-18-13-13-14-14-14-12-12-15-12-17-16-15-18-23-21-29-29-26-68-74-80-87-93-89-80-80-84-90-83-85-75-82-94-87-89-84-83-98-94-98-x

RE (20/03/2025) | 94-91-84-81-83-84-92-89-83-97-x

RE (05/06/2025) | 99-99-99-100-x

RE (17/07/2025) | 100-x

RE (14/05/2026) | 42-52-46-40

Sales: 2,400,000+

Certification: 4x Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

06 Sales

15 Audio Streaming

55 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

Looking back at her breakthrough successes in the early 2000s, pop singer Natasha Bedingfield knows exactly why her music connected on such a massive scale. As she tells Apple Music, “It had this innocent positivity that comes from real-life situations and sometimes a lot of pain—but going through that and being uplifted.” Born in 1981, the West Sussex native comes by that inspirational power honestly: Among her pre-fame pursuits was writing and singing for the London branch of the Hillsong contemporary-worship empire. But with its shimmering fusion of Alanis’ edgy alt-pop and Lauryn Hill’s empowering R&B, Bedingfield’s 2004 solo debut, Unwritten, refashioned her as secular crossover star, albeit one whose catwalk-ready swagger was undercut by a self-effacing relatability. On her first UK No. 1 hit, “These Words,” she demystifies her own songwriting process in a manner that suggests you should try it too, while the album's dew-sparkled titled track is a rapturous ode to tapping your inner creativity (a message that got somewhat clouded when it became the theme song to MTV’s posh-kid hate-watch The Hills). Bedingfield continued to radiate positivity throughout the decade, via upbeat funky bops like “I Wanna Have Your Babies” and 2008’s self-explanatory “Pocketful of Sunshine.” After taking an extended hiatus—marked by one-off collaborations, TV gigs, and new motherhood—Bedingfield resurfaced with 2019’s Linda Perry-produced Roll With Me, which saw the singer coloring her motivational stories with an expanded musical palette of Caribbean rhythms and old-school ‘60s soul. “When you write a hit song, you can easily get caught in a trap where you’re trying to write songs that everyone will like,” Bedingfield tells Apple Music. “But we’re all in our own lane and we all have to evolve and grow.” - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2004 03 Single -1-

2004 01 These Words -2-

2004 06 Unwritten -3- MILLIONAIRE

2005 12 I Bruise Easily -4-

2007 07 I Wanna Have Your Babies -1-

2007 07 Soulmate -2-

2008 20 Love Like This (feat. Sean Kingston) -1-

2008 42 Bruised Water (Chicane vs Natasha Bedingfield)

2024 22 These Words (Badger & Natasha Bedingfield)

1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 5 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 8 x Top 40 | 9 x Top 100

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Unwritten back in the top 40

yes please !!!

Should've left this on ACR ffs. If Charli has missed out for this...

Welcome back to a classic

Fresh hit at #40

Fresh new music to kick things off

Let me guess, TikTok?

Thanks to Off Campus... Last time, it was reactivated thanks to Anyone But You, a rather forgotten Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell film - and remember when in early 2024, Jack called it "the national anthem of the Official Chart"?

Chemical Brothers a contender let's go!
Also funny to see unwritten back again. still timeless in my eyes.

Yeah this had more than long enough on SCR last time, it didn't need to be reset again.

39 | 35 | 35th week

Harry Styles

Sign Of The Times

1st single from Harry Styles

Released: 7th April 2017

Label: Erskine Records

Chart Statistics

NE (20/04/2017) | 1-4-4-8-10-6-10-19-26-30-43-62-77-86-91-79-84-95-x

RE (31/08/2017) | 88-x

RE (16/11/2017) | 99-x

RE (01/02/2018) | 75-80-87-100-86-76-98-x

RE (16/04/2026) | 28-31-35-43-45-40-35-39

Sales: 2,300,000+

Certification: 3x Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

01 Sales

06 Audio Streaming

04 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

Not everyone gets famous as a teenager—and even fewer escape the experience intact. So congratulations to Harry Styles, who would’ve been fine had he retired after One Direction but instead went on to become one of the more interesting and adventurous pop stars of his era. “I think there’s a lot of things that used to feel like, Okay, there’s a part of your life, then there’s a hard stop, then there’s a next part of your life,” he told Apple Music around the release of 2022’s Grammy-winning Harry’s House. “Things that used to feel so unbelievably foreign to me, sort of terrifying—like, I’m not 19 anymore, so I’m less terrified. And realising [life’s] just one thing, and not chapter over, bye-bye.” Perspective: It helps, whether you’re out there in front of 50,000 people or performing the very first Apple Music Live session. Part of what made One Direction great was that they never shied away from the pleasures of boy-band pop but never patronised their audiences, either: Never mind the no-dancing policy; they wrote their own songs and cultivated their own musical perspectives. Beyond his precision-tooled indie-curious pastiche of classic pop, soft-rock, psychedelia and soul, Styles’ lyrics capture a playfulness and emotional specificity that feels unusual for pop so big, whether it’s the flirtation of “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” (“Green eyes/Fried rice/I could cook an egg on you”) or the image of a kid outrunning an unhappy home on “Matilda” (“You were riding your bike to the sound of ‘It’s No Big Deal’”). That life he’s pontificating about? Listen to the music and you can almost hear him living it. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2017 01 Sign Of The Times -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 46 Sweet Creature -IG-

2017 51 Carolina -AT-

2017 58 Two Ghosts -2-

2017 64 Meet Me In The Hallway -AT-

2017 66 Kiwi -3-

2017 80 Only Angel -AT-

2017 87 Ever Since New York -AT-

2017 99 Woman -AT-

2019 03 Lights Up -1-

2019 04 Watermelon Sugar -4- MILLIONAIRE

2019 07 Adore You -2- MILLIONAIRE

2019 15 Falling -3- MILLIONAIRE

2020 26 Golden -5- MILLIONAIRE

2022 01 As It Was -1- MILLIONAIRE

2022 02 Late Night Talking -2- MILLIONAIRE

2022 03 Music For A Sushi Restaurant -3-

2022 37 Matilda -AT-

2023 18 Satellite -4-

2026 01 Aperture -1-

2026 01 American Girls -2-

2026 05 Ready, Steady, Go! -AT-

2026 55 Dance No More -3-

4 x #1 | 9 x Top 5 | 10 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 14 x Top 40 | 23 x Top 100

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38 | 41 | 28th week

PinkPantheress

Stateside

2nd and 4th single from Fancy That

Released: 25th April 2025

Label: Warner Records UK

Chart Statistics

NE (08/05/2025) | 66-x

RE (22/05/2025) | 79-x

RE (23/10/2025) | 45-55-85-x

RE (11/12/2025) | 100-x

RE (25/12/2025) | 99-x

RE (08/01/2026) | 40-35-23-12-12-13-10-9-3-4-6-4-5-20-19-22-26-33-34-38-41-38

Sales: 600,000+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

55 Sales

04 Audio Streaming

11 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

PinkPantheress is reviving Y2K for a new generation. Her sugary yet wistful pop ripples with old-school samples and styles ranging from UK dance to R&B to pop-punk, making her a versatile artist who already counts Ice Spice, Troye Sivan, Skrillex, Mura Masa, and Kaytranada among her collaborators. Before she became a pop phenomenon, the London-based singer-songwriter and producer (born in 2001 in Bath, England) spent her free time sharing on social media the songs she’d made while studying at university. Clips of early singles like 2021’s “Pain,” “Break It Off,” and “Just for me” went viral and hit the UK Singles Chart in the lead-up to her debut mixtape, to hell with it, later that year. Her 2023 single with Ice Spice, “Boy’s a liar, Pt. 2,” exploded internationally, marking her first Top 10 hit. PinkPantheress followed it with a feature on the Barbie soundtrack and her official debut LP, Heaven Knows. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2021 35 Pain -2-

2021 73 Passion -3-

2021 74 Break It Off -1-

2021 27 Just for me -4-

2021 85 I must apologise -5-

2022 71 bbycakes (Mura Masa, Lil Uzi Vert & PinkPantheress feat. Shygirl)

2022 58 Where you are (feat. WILLOW) -NAS-

2022 02 Boy's a liar -1- MILLIONAIRE

2023 74 Mosquito -1-

2023 20 Nice to meet you (feat. Central Cee) -2-

2024 94 Turn it up -NAS-

2025 35 Tonight -1-

2025 03 Stateside -2/4-

2025 22 Illegal -3-

2026 77 Girl Like Me -5-

0 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 3 x Top 20 | 7 x Top 40 | 15 x Top 100

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Just now, Dark73 said:

Chemical Brothers a contender let's go!
Also funny to see unwritten back again. still timeless in my eyes.

Course they didn't want to acknowledge Billie Jean or others...

For the latter, memories of Wes' second to last month on the Radio 1 chart show (December 2004)...

1 minute ago, Stephen Emmett said:

Thanks to Off Campus... Last time, it was reactivated thanks to Anyone But You, a rather forgotten Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell film - and remember when in early 2024, Jack called it "the national anthem of the Official Chart"?

It wasn't used in Off Campus...

I'll always associate Unwritten with Pretty Little Liars

Just now, JosephStyles said:

It wasn't used in Off Campus...

Oh silly me!

2004 and 2017 singles to kick the charts off - I’m surprised record companies want this when it’s blocking newer acts making the charts.

Just now, Stephen Emmett said:

Course they didn't want to acknowledge Billie Jean or others...

For the latter, memories of Wes' second to last month on the Radio 1 chart show (December 2004)...

yeaaaah I've noticed that for the last few weeks. One can hope at least.

Gawd almighty hearing “Unwritten” first just makes me want to turn the whole thing off.