{"id":290894,"date":"2026-02-14T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/290894\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:21:12","slug":"taylor-swifts-opalite-shines-at-no-1-on-u-k-singles-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/290894\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Opalite&#8217; Shines at No. 1 on U.K. Singles Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFollowing the release of her star-studded video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> has earned the No. 1 spot on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/charts\/singles-chart\/\">U.K. Singles Chart<\/a> dated Feb. 13 with The Life of a Showgirl single \u201cOpalite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt\u2019s the second track from the LP, first released in October 2025, to reach the summit following \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d which earned a seven-week stay and is her longest ever on the Official Singles Chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOpalite,\u201d which jumps 14 places week-on-week, is now Swift\u2019s sixth U.K. chart-topper from across her career, joining \u201cLook What You Made Me Do\u201d (2017); \u201cAnti-Hero\u201d (2022); \u201cIs It Over Now? (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d (2023); \u201cFortnight\u201d (2024); and \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d (2025).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe No. 1 spot follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/taylor-swift-opalite-video-lewis-capaldi-domhnall-gleeson-1236174586\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a> of an accompanying music video that featured cameos from Lewis Capaldi, Greta Lee, Graham Norton, Cillian Murphy and Domhnall Gleeson. She appeared with the stars on The Graham Norton Show when promoting the album\u2019s release, and was inspired to cast them in the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/dave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tems\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tems<\/a>\u2019 \u201cRaindance\u201d hits No. 2 this week, falling just one spot. The collaborative track has already scored two non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, and recently entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/raye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAYE<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWhere Is My Husband!\u201d lands at No. 3 for a seventh consecutive week inside the top five. The U.K. leg of her upcoming arena tour kicks off Feb. 17 at Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFresh from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/latin\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-review-critic-take-1236176013\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl Halftime Show<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bad-bunny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a> sees his \u201cDtMF\u201d single jump 39 places to close the week at No. 4, his highest ever placing. \u201cNuevayol\u201d and \u201cBaile Inolvidable\u201d both make an impact at No. 15 and No. 20, respectively, while his album Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos also breaks into the top five on the U.K. Albums Chart for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSam Fender\u2019s \u201cRein Me In\u201d hits No. 5 to equal its previous peak, with the song benefitting from Olivia Dean\u2019s guest vocal role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2HpFicp.png\" alt=\"Billboard VIP Pass\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"c-logo lrv-a-unstyle-link u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-width-100p  u-max-width-100 u-height-26 u-max-width-130px@mobile-max u-margin-t-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\" title=\"Billboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-accent-l@desktop u-font-size-1205 a-font-accent-xs@mobile-max u-font-size-15@mobile-max u-line-height-22px@mobile-max lrv-u-text-align-center@mobile-max u-letter-spacing-0030@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-t-025 lrv-u-margin-a-00 u-padding-t-0125@mobile-max u-padding-b-0063@mobile-max\">Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-button lrv-u-cursor-pointer lrv-u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-background-color-brand-primary lrv-u-background-color-black:hover lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover u-padding-lr-0.875 u-padding-tb-10 lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-align-items-center a-font-basic-fancy-xs u-margin-t-0.188 u-margin-b-0188 u-margin-b-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.billboard.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\tSign Up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the release of her star-studded video, Taylor Swift has earned the No. 1 spot on the U.K.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[15626,23324,2645,146,2646,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-290894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billboard-uk","9":"tag-billboard-uk-charts","10":"tag-chart-beat","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-genre-pop","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}