Are we witnessing the return of rock music to the Official Singles Chart?

The people in this thread arguing about what’s rock or not really need to go outside...

Honestly, if anyone thinks Busted, McFly or Olivia Rodrigo are rock need to listen to some real rock music.

I blame music companies and mainstream radio stations for not promoting rock music. There are plenty of good new bands not being played. I believe the music industry is dictating what we listen to.

I think in the future trap pop, future pop and bass will take over the world I guess.

Rock is boring

This is a good example of how you write a real bad article.
This could be a good article only if more research was made and if "Good 4 U" was really a rock inspired song just like Oliva Rodrigo label is trying to marketing it to be. But Olivia voice and attitude say this is really a pop/dance song where guitars are used.

Also not to mention that last year Miley Cyrus "Midnight Sky" was the real return of Rock to charts it's probably because the song peaked at #05 on the official charts (despite being #01 on the Singles Sales Chart for multiple non-consecutive weeks and it peaked #09 on Streaming long after it's sales peak 13 weeks after the song release).

Oliva is #01 due to high streams (also called by many the modern payola to get #01's on the charts as playlists represent over 80% of streams and Record Labels pay for songs to be on playlists) and peaked only at #05 on the Single Sales Chart (the old official chart).

I will stop listening to the charts if rock takes over

And as others have already alluded, what's the definition of "rock" here? Considering there's a few things in this list you'd have to stretch to include – which frankly the likes of Sound Of The Underground or I Kissed A Girl rock harder than – then how come three Number Ones by one of the biggest ever rock bands on the planet, U2, were missed out? Or Elvis's Jailhouse Rock reissue? Why did the Kaiser Chiefs make the cut but not Scouting For Girls, say? Or Fun's We Are Young? Is Five & Queen's version of We Will Rock You disqualified because it features a 'pop' act? Bit peculiar.

There's a pretty reliable rule of thumb regarding journalistic articles that seem to pose a question, especially one no-one else seemed to be asking. If a headline ends with a question mark ("Did aliens abduct woman's hamster?"; "Can putting broccoli up your nose cure insomnia?"; "Will Turkish solar eclipse affect house prices?"; "Are we witnessing the return of rock music to the Official UK Singles Chart?") then the answer will almost certainly be "No".

And that would be my assumption here, alas. Good 4 U might owe a certain debt to rock music, somewhere in its DNA, but one swallow does not make a summer and a couple of nods towards 'rock' in the current charts don't mean a return of guitars and drums to the Top 40 mainstream is particularly imminent, I fear.

All we need now is Black Country New Road, Black Midi, Dry Cleaning, Shame and the Idles to invade and bring real rock to the singles charts

Pretty boring nowadays, sorry.

not really, olivia is pop, maneskin is from eurovision and BMTH and Yungblud do better with albums than singles.

until more modern bands like Halestorm, seether, The Pretty Reckless, & more older well established rock bands enter the charts again i'll take the return of rock into the charts claim with a very large pinch of salt. none mentioned in this article resemble rock in my opinion.

It's a real stretch to call quite a few of these "rock", so I think that pretty much negates your whole point.