Noah Kahan settles in for second week at Number 1 with Stick Season

Noah Kahan’s Stick Season celebrates a second consecutive week at Number 1 in the UK.  

The reflective folk-pop track became the first-ever UK chart-topper for Vermont-born Noah last week and retains its title as the UK’s most-streamed track (7.5 million streams) for a second week in a row.  

Following her extraordinary re-entry into the Top 10 last week, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Murder on the Dancefloor sashays six places up to Number 2, matching the original peak position of the 2001 disco banger. 

This is all thanks to the song’s inclusion in Emerald Fennell-directed film Saltburn, the renewed interest in the song sees Murder On The Dancefloor doubling its highest-ever streaming week in the UK to date, (4.7 million streams over the past seven days). Read more on Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s reclamation of her original Murder on the Dancefloor peak in the UK here. 

Another throwback tune featured on the film’s soundtrack, Mason and Princess Superstar’s Perfect (Exceeder), jumps 14 spots to Number 26. The mashup single originally peaked at Number 3 in 2006.  

Big congratulations are in order for US singer Teddy Swims, whose breakthrough UK chart hit Lose Control lifts into the Top 10 for the first time ever today (6), up eight from last week.  

The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna are on the rebound this week as Popular surges up a massive 37 places, returning to its previous peak of Number 11. Featured on the HBO series The Idol, Popular is Madonna’s highest-charting single in the UK since Celebration hit Number 3 in 2009.  

Liam Gallagher & John Squire’s Just Another Rainbow is today’s highest new entry (16), becoming Liam’s highest-charting solo single yet and his sixth Top 40. The track also marks former Stone Roses guitarist Squire’s first solo Top 40 single. 

Rising US pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter earns her first Top 20 single today with feather, up five to Number 19, while Bring Me The Horizon’s Kool-Aid (21) gives Oli Sykes and co their eighth Top 40 single and highest-charting since 2014's Number 17-peaking Drown. 

Natasha Bedingfield’s sun-drenched Unwritten (24) re-enters the UK Top 40 today for the first time in 19 years. Originally peaking at Number 6 in 2004, the track’s resurgence boosted by its inclusion in rom-com Anyone But You, starring Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney and Top Gun: Maverick actor Glen Powell.  

Drake’s Practice, a track from his 2011 album Take Care, makes its UK chart debut today at Number 27, 13 years after its release, thanks to a new viral trend on TikTok. 

Further down, Eliza Rose & Calvin Harris move up four to a new peak with Body Moving (34) and Lewis Capaldi’s brand-new track Strangers becomes his 11th Top 40 single (37). 

Rounding out the Top 40 is Reading-born rapper Songer, who achieves his first-ever UK Top 40 single today with Toxic (Freestyle) (39), and Nicki Minaj, who sees FTCU (40) become her 46th.