The feat arrives on The Life of a Showgirl’s first anniversary; the record released on October 3 2025. It’s now Taylor’s second album to return to the top spot on its one-year anniversary, following The Tortured Poets Department.
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Patient Zero becomes Taylor’s eighth UK Number 1 single and her third of 2026, following Opalite and Toy Story 5 track I Knew It, I Knew You. It’s her first year scoring three chart-topping singles. It means Taylor is now the only artist to achieve a hat-trick of UK Number 1 singles in 2026 so far.
Fellow Encore tracks Cleveland (3) and Babylon (4) also debut, giving Taylor three of this week’s Top 5.
Patient Zero’s success makes The Life Of A Showgirl her first album to produce three UK Number 1 singles, joining The Fate Of Ophelia and Opalite.
Taylor has now achieved the Official Chart Double with five distinct album-and-single pairings, claiming the feat in every calendar year since 2022.
Achieved
Number 1 album
Number 1 single
October 2022
Midnights
Anti-Hero
November 2023
1989 (Taylor’s Version)
Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version)
April 2024
The Tortured Poets Department
Fortnight ft. Post Malone
October 2025
The Life Of A Showgirl
The Fate Of Ophelia
October 2026
The Life Of A Showgirl
Patient Zero
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Taylor boasts 14 UK Number 1 albums, the most of any female artist in Official Albums Chart history. Her first came with Red in 2012.
Originally released in October 2025, The Life Of A Showgirl became her 14th chart-topper with 423,000 first-week chart units: her strongest opening yet and the biggest for an international album in the UK this century.
That week, Taylor also swept the Singles Chart Top 3 with The Fate Of Ophelia (1), Opalite (2) and Elizabeth Taylor (3).
Taylor Swift’s Official Number 1 albums
Year
Album
2012
Red
2014
1989
2017
reputation
2019
Lover
2020
folklore
2020
evermore
2021
Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
2021
Red (Taylor’s Version)
2022
Midnights
2023
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
2023
1989 (Taylor’s Version)
2024
The Tortured Poets Department
2025
Lover (Live From Paris)
2025
The Life Of A Showgirl
Taylor Swift’s Official Number 1 singles
With Patient Zero joining her seven previous chart-toppers, Taylor now has eight UK Number 1 singles, beginning with Look What You Made Me Do in 2017.
Year
Single
2017
Look What You Made Me Do
2022
Anti-Hero
2023
Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version)
2024
Fortnight ft. Post Malone
2025
The Fate Of Ophelia
2026
Opalite
2026
I Knew It, I Knew You
2026
Patient Zero
Congrats, Taylor!
Official Chart Round-Up
Official Singles Chart
Jamie Miller’s breakthrough keeps gathering pace as Babydoll jumps two places to a new Number 6 peak. The Welsh singer-songwriter’s first Top 40 hit has come a long way since its Number 84 debut last month.
Everybody get up and dance! With 75 UK Top 40 singles under her belt, Madonna still knows how to fill the floor. Danceteria returns at a new peak following her recent MTV VMAs success, also boosted by its new Afterhours remix with Charli xcx (22).
It’s one of three Top 40 hits from CONFESSIONS II, alongside Sabrina Carpenter collaboration Bring Your Love (29) and Kylie team-up Love Sensation (8). That makes it Madonna’s first album to produce a hat-trick of UK Top 40 singles since 2008’s Hard Candy.
Didn’t get an Oasis Live ’27 ticket? Don’t Look Back In Anger! 30 years after its chart-topping debut, the band’s enduring anthem climbs two places this week (29).
Finally, DJ Goja, Jason Derulo and Melody bring the party as Mi Chico breaks the Top 40 for the first time (36). The collaboration delivers a first UK Top 40 hit for both DJ Goja and Melody, and a 23rd for Derulo.
Official Albums Chart
Keo have plenty to smile about as debut album Put A Smile On For Me enters at Number 2.
The album racks up 23,500 chart units in its opening week. According to Official Charts Company data, that makes Keo the first UK male band in over 10 years to surpass 20,000 first-week units with a debut album, since Blossoms achieved the feat with their self-titled record in 2016.
Finn, Conor, Jimmy and Oli also claim Number 1 on both the Official Vinyl Albums Chart and Official Record Store Chart, rounding off a big debut week for the four-piece.
Nothing But Thieves secure their fourth consecutive Top 5 album with Stray Dogs (3). It follows Broken Machine (2017), Moral Panic (2020) and their 2023 Number 1 Dead Club City.
Celebrating the news, Nothing But Thieves tell Official Charts:
“Knew we shouldn’t have bought so many Taylor Swift records this week, haha!
“Seriously, we’re incredibly proud of this record. A huge thank you to everyone who bought and listened to Stray Dogs, now we take it on the road where it’s meant to live.”
Soft Cell claim their 11th Top 40 album with Danceteria (26). The duo’s final studio album was completed by Marc Almond and Dave Ball shortly before Dave’s death in October 2025.
Swedish rockers Europe score their highest-charting album since 1988’s Out Of This World with their 12th studio album, Come This Madness (30).
Tinashe lands her first Official Albums Chart Top 40 entry with POPSTAR (35).
Finally, with their 2027 tour now sold out, Oasis’s Time Flies… (1994-2009) (6), (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (9) and Definitely Maybe (16) all climb.