{"id":926922,"date":"2026-10-09T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926922\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:14:10","slug":"taylor-swifts-patient-zero-is-u-k-no-1-single-for-second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926922\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift’s ‘Patient Zero’ Is U.K. No. 1 Single for Second Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s \u201cPatient Zero\u201d has gone back-to-back with a second consecutive week as the U.K.\u2019s No. 1 single on the chart published Friday (Oct. 9).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song appeared on the Encore deluxe edition of her record-breaking album The Life of a Showgirl alongside \u201cCleveland!,\u201d \u201cPink Clouding\u201d and \u201cBabylon.\u201d Swift premiered the music video for \u201cPatient Zero\u201d on Sept. 27 at the 2026 MTV VMAs<\/a>, where she also collected the inaugural artist director prize.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPatient Zero\u201d is Swift\u2019s third U.K. No. 1 of 2026 following \u201cOpalite\u201d and Toy Story 5 track \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSienna Spiro\u2019s \u201cGreat Expectation\u201d is a non-mover at No. 2; the song has spent two weeks at the summit in recent weeks to give Spiro her first U.K. No. 1 single.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo songs storm inside the top five for the first time: Jamie Miller\u2019s \u201cBabydoll\u201d is up three places to No. 3, while Ashe\u2019s \u201cStop the Wedding!\u201d lifts six spots to No. 4. Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d rounds out the top five.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe week\u2019s highest new entry goes to recent Billboard cover star<\/a> Noah Kahan, as his track \u201cDraw You Out\u201d debuts at No. 16. The song appears on the forthcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping soundtrack. Speaking to Billboard, Kahan said it was \u201can insane opportunity\u201d and a longtime goal of his. <\/p>\n

\n\tDrake has three new entries inside the top 40 following the expanded edition of his 2026 album HABIBTI: \u201cSolar Eclipse\u201d (No. 22); \u201cQuebec\u201d (No. 27); and \u201cCold Shoulder\u201d (No. 36).<\/p>\n

\t


\n\tSign Up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2018s \u201cPatient Zero\u201d has gone back-to-back with a second consecutive week as the U.K.\u2019s No. 1 single…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[35979,68516,49,48,22189,75,23827,341,15111],"class_list":["post-926922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-billboard-uk","tag-billboard-uk-charts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chart-beat","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}