{"id":685201,"date":"2026-07-11T00:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685201\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:57:14","slug":"take-that-marti-pellow-sam-fender-and-olivia-deans-rein-me-in-beats-wet-wet-wets-uk-chart-record-uk-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685201\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Take that, Marti Pellow!\u2019 Sam Fender and Olivia Dean\u2019s Rein Me In beats Wet Wet Wet\u2019s UK chart record | UK charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Fender and Olivia Dean<\/a> have broken Wet Wet Wet\u2019s 32-year record for a British act\u2019s run at No 1 in the UK singles chart.<\/p>\n

Fender and Dean\u2019s duet Rein Me In has racked up its 16th week at No 1, beating Wet Wet Wet\u2019s Love is All Around, which spent 15 weeks at No 1 in the summer of 1994 after it appeared on the Four Weddings and a Funeral soundtrack. Unlike Wet Wet Wet\u2019s consecutive run, though, Fender and Dean\u2019s song has dropped in and out of the top spot since February.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake that, Marti Pellow!\u201d Fender told the Official Charts Company as the news was announced. He added that the success of Rein Me In has been \u201cridiculous \u2013 every Friday, it\u2019s been an excuse to party\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rein Me In also scores the longest consecutive run for a song in the Top 40, with 55 weeks, beating Ed Sheeran\u2019s record for his ballad Thinking Out Loud.<\/p>\n

But Fender and Dean are yet to beat two non-UK acts who have an equal or greater run at No 1 in the UK. They draw level with Canada\u2019s Bryan Adams, whose (Everything I Do) I Do It For You spent 16 weeks in a row at the top in 1991 \u2013 like Wet Wet Wet, Adams\u2019 song was a determinedly corny power ballad aided by a prominent film placing, in Adams\u2019 case Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.<\/p>\n

US crooner Frankie Laine has the longest run at No 1, with 18 non-consecutive weeks in 1953 for his epic ballad I Believe (\u201cfor every drop of rain that falls \/ a flower grows \u2026\u201d), back when the UK chart featured just 12 songs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sam Fender, Olivia Dean \u2013 Rein Me In<\/p>\n

Rein Me In started life as an album track on Fender\u2019s chart-topping, Mercury prize-winning<\/a> 2025 release People Watching<\/a>. A wracked mid-tempo number about self-sabotaging a romantic relationship, it shows off Fender\u2019s knack for kitchen-sink poetry: \u201cEvery flagstone of this town bears our prints \/ And all the bars round here serve my ghosts and carcasses \u2026 I\u2019m working myself up to a nice, warm bliss \/ All my memories of you ring like tinnitus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dean added her own verse, voicing the other figure in the relationship, and the duet was released as a single in June 2025. \u201cOlivia putting the alternative narrative on it made the song really universal \u2013 that opened the floodgates,\u201d Fender told the Official Charts Company. \u201cThere\u2019s two sides to the story.\u201d The pair have also performed it together at Fender stadium concerts in Newcastle and London, and it won them song of the year at the Brit awards in February.<\/p>\n

Dean has enjoyed considerable chart success of her own in tandem with Rein Me In: her single Man I Need topped the chart in October 2025 and its parent album The Art of Loving<\/a> has had an astonishing run, not leaving the top five since its release the same month, including eight weeks at No 1. This year she won three other Brit awards, plus three Mobos and the Grammy for best new artist.<\/p>\n

The long-running success of Rein Me In is all the more impressive given that the Official Charts Company introduced a rule in 2017 to prevent songs from hanging around too long and making the charts feel stale.<\/p>\n

After a song has been in the Top 100 for 10 weeks, if it has three weeks of declining streaming numbers in a row, the value the Official Charts Company ascribes to the streams is halved \u2013 so the song essentially requires twice as many streams to keep the same level of chart success. It is a somewhat controversial metric, as a song can remain massively popular in real terms, but be beaten in the Top 40 by songs with lower streaming numbers.<\/p>\n

Since the introduction of the rule, only four songs have been able to make it past 10 weeks at No 1: Ed Sheeran\u2019s Bad Habits, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee\u2019s Despacito featuring Justin Bieber, and Tones & I\u2019s Dance Monkey all managed 11 weeks, while Alex Warren\u2019s Ordinary achieved a 13-week run last year.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in this week\u2019s singles charts, Oasis\u2019s Wonderwall reaches No 11 after being aired at the close of England\u2019s victorious World Cup matches, while this year\u2019s official World Cup song, Dai Dai by Shakira and Burna Boy, is at No 13 and Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds\u2019 Three Lions is at No 21. US country singer Ella Langley gets her first UK top five single with Choosin\u2019 Texas, and Journey\u2019s 1981 hit Don\u2019t Stop Believin\u2019 is unexpectedly back in the charts at No 27 thanks to a wave of online virality.<\/p>\n

Madonna is No 1 in the album chart with Confessions II<\/a>, her sequel to 2005\u2019s Confessions on a Dance Floor, bringing her back to the top after her previous two albums could only reach No 2. She becomes the first US female artist to earn UK No 1 albums across five decades.<\/p>\n

She prevailed in a chart battle with Sienna Spiro, the trad-styled British pop singer whose debut album Visitor<\/a> scores the biggest UK debut of the year, but could only reach No 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have broken Wet Wet Wet\u2019s 32-year record for a British act\u2019s run at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}