Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In has spent 11 weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, breaking the record for a male-female duet and overtaking Rihanna and Jay-Z’s Umbrella, which held the mark with 10 weeks at the top in 2007.
The Official Charts said: “It’s an incredible 11 weeks at Number 1 for Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In.” It added: “Congratulations to Sam and Olivia on breaking another chart record, but we desperately need a new #1 now.” The new peak means the duet has now outlasted a chart run that stood for 17 years.
The record falls on a week when the chart is crowded with old and new gains. Three Michael Jackson songs are inside the Top 10 at the same time, with Billie Jean at Number 3, Beat It up five places to Number 5, and Human Nature climbing to Number 6 in its first-ever Top 40 appearance. That also gives Jackson his 45th Top 10 single. The Jackson 5’s I Want You Back rose six places to Number 27.
There was also a major return for The Chemical Brothers, whose Go climbed to Number 7 to secure their first Top 10 hit in more than 20 years. The track was released in 2015, entered the Top 40 for the first time last week and then rose 15 places over seven days after gaining new attention through its inclusion in the Netflix action-thriller Apex.
Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart, Prospa and Cloonee’s Free Your Mind reached the Top 20 for the first time at Number 20, while Sienna SpiRO’s Material Lover surged 44 places to Number 23 for her fourth Top 40 entry. Malcolm Todd’s Earrings reached Number 21, Self Aware by Temper City landed at Number 32, and Stella Lefty’s Boston appeared at Number 35.
There were also familiar songs back in the mix. Katy Perry’s The One That Got Away returned to the Top 40 at Number 30 for the first time in more than 14 years, while Harry Styles’ Sign of the Times reached Number 40 after being used in the film Project Hail Mary. Charli xcx also collected her 26th Top 40 single with a rock track at Number 36.
The headline is not just that Rein Me In stayed put. It is that it moved past a record that had survived since 2007, and it did so in a week when streaming, nostalgia and film placements kept reshaping the chart around it. For Fender and Dean, the answer is already in the numbers: the new benchmark is 11 weeks, and it belongs to them.
