Record Breaker! Alex Warren named US artist with longest-running UK Number 1 single ever!

Moreover, Ordinary becomes the longest-running Official Number 1 single of the 2020s, surpassing Ed Sheeran’s 2021 behemoth Bad Habits, which racked up 11 weeks at the top.

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Since it first entered the Official Singles Chart back in February, Ordinary has racked up a total of 920,000 chart sales, including 107m streams, according to Official Charts Company data.

On Alex’s success, Martin Talbot, Chief Executive Officer, Official Charts, comments:

“There’s nothing Ordinary about Alex Warren’s impact on 2025, with his smash hit single setting new records with ease. Usurping Ed Sheeran is one thing, but taking a chart record away from Slim Whitman after 70 years is simply astonishing.”

Only six songs in Official Chart history boast longer stints at the summit; Sheeran’s Shape Of You (14 weeks), Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody (14 weeks), Drake’s One Dance (15 weeks), Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around (15 weeks), Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (16 weeks) and Frankie Laine’s overall frontrunner I Believe (18 weeks).

The longest-running Official Number 1 singles of the 2020s in the UK:

See the full list of songs that’ve spent the most weeks at Number 1 in the UK. 

With nothing to be sombr about, rising New York native Shane Boose lands two singles inside the UK Top 10 simultaneously for the first time. undressed holds steady at Number 4, while back to friends bags a brand-new peak, up two to Number 9.

She’s, like, 5! Breakout South East London singer-songwriter Skye Newman scores a personal best, with second single Family Matters lifting one into the Top 5 for the first time (5). Skye’s soulful debut Hairdresser also clinches a new peak, up one (15).

Tate McRae puts her foot on the gas to secure this week’s highest new single entry, with Just Keep Watching (From F1® The Movie) straight in at Number 6. Her seventh Top 10 track, it earns Tate her strongest Singles Chart debut so far.

Three more tracks celebrate new peaks in this week’s Top 20: MOLIY and Silent Addy’s reigning Official Afrobeats Chart Number 1 Shake It To The Max (FLY) (12), Max Dean, Locky and Luke Dean’s summer-ready dance banger Can’t Decide (13) and Lola Young’s One Thing (19).

It’s a third UK Top 40 single for Louisiana-born multi-hyphenate Addison Rae this week, with Fame is a Gun (27) joining previous hits Diet Pepsi (10) and Headphones On (24).

Olivia Dean sinks her third Top 40 with Nice To Each Other (28), which joins 2021’s The Christmas Song (19) and It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be (36).

The dawn on ‘cèil-tech’! Scottish producer Levi Heron’s unique cèilidh-techno fusion makes its Top 40 debut in the form of The Glen; up 10 to a new peak this week (37).

The track, a remix of Scottish folk group Beluga Lagoon’s 2019 original of the same name, is a social media phenomenon, with its viral dance embraced by Gen Z and OAPs alike.

Reacting to his first-ever Official Top 40 single, Levi Heron tells Official Charts:

“This is unbelievable, it’s bonkers! I was working on a wee fish farm up in Scotland, net washing, until last week, making my music on the boat!

“Thanks so much for all the support, none of this would be possible without you!”

See the full Official Singles Chart Top 100 here from 5.45pm.