{"id":458214,"date":"2026-02-09T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:13:11","slug":"taylor-swift-on-course-for-sixth-uk-number-1-single-with-opalite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458214\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift on course for sixth UK Number 1 single with Opalite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should Opalite hold on, it will mark the first time any of Taylor Swift\u2019s albums have produced two UK Number 1 singles. The Life of a Showgirl\u2019s lead single The Fate of Ophelia spent seven non-consecutive weeks atop the Official Chart in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/sam-fender-rein-me-in\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rein Me In<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/54705\/sam-fender\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Fender<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/61513\/olivia-dean\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Dean<\/a> is tracking towards a new peak of Number 4, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/48368\/zara-larsson\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Zara Larsson<\/a>\u2019s viral hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/zara-larsson-lush-life\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lush Life<\/a> could ascend to Number 5, its highest placement since 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/sombr\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sombr<\/a> could claim this week\u2019s highest new entry with Homewrecker (11), which would mark the US rising star\u2019s fifth UK Top 40 hit.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from dominating the GRAMMYs and ahead of his Superbowl half time show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/53380\/bad-bunny\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/bad-bunny-dtmf\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">DTMF<\/a> is on course to climb 29 places to Number 14; the track previously peaked at Number 26 last January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/myles-smith\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Myles Smith<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/50313\/niall-horan\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Niall Horan<\/a>\u2019s new team-up Drive Safe is eyeing a Top 20 debut (20), while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/50684\/j--cole\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">J.Cole<\/a> has a trio of midweek entries following the release of his new album The Fall-Off: Two Six (23); Safety (27); Poor Thang (32).<\/p>\n<p>There could be further Top 40 debuts this week for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/2141\/calvin-harris\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Harris<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/7107\/kasabian\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kasabian<\/a>\u2019s Release The Pressure (24), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/11718\/shakira\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Shakira<\/a>\u2019s Zootropolis 2 track <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/shakira-zoo\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Zoo<\/a> (35), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/49002\/zayn\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Zayn<\/a>\u2019s Die For Me, the lead single from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/zayn-konnakol-album\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming fifth album Konnakol<\/a> (39).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should Opalite hold on, it will mark the first time any of Taylor Swift\u2019s albums have produced two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,214080,3,43170,4915],"class_list":{"0":"post-458214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-myles-smith","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sombr","13":"tag-taylor-swift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}