Sabrina Carpenter becomes woman with most weeks at Number 1 ever in a single year

Sabrina Carpenter makes history as the woman with the most weeks at Number 1 in a single year ever on the Official Singles Chart. 

As Taste reaches its seventh consecutive week at Number 1, combined with the Number 1 runs of Espresso (seven non-consecutive weeks at Number 1) and Please Please Please (five non-consecutive weeks at Number 1), Sabrina has now logged 19 total weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart in 2024. 

This marks an all-time Official Chart record for a female artist, with Olivia Newton-John in second place with 16 weeks in 1978, while Sabrina also draws level with Ed Sheeran for the most weeks at Number 1 in a calendar year this century, Ed achieved 19 weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart in 2021, with Bad Habits, Shivers, Merry Christmas with Elton John and Sausage Rolls For Everyone with LadBaby and Elton John, which was 2021's Official Christmas Number 1.

Taste, once again the most-streamed track in the country this week (6 million streams), also matches Noah Kahan’s Stick Season for the longest-running Number 1 of the year. 

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’s Die With A Smile proves to be a resilient mid-career hit for both artists, rising to a brand-new peak of Number 3. 

Congratulations are in order for US singer-songwriter Gigi Perez, who earns her first-ever UK Top 10 single today with Sailor Song jumping five to Number 6. 

Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D also have some celebrating to do, with late-summer anthem Somedays climbing two to Number 8, a new peak. 

Gracie Abrams is up eight (and very close to her first UK Top 10 single) with I love you, I’m sorry (11), while Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club vaults four (13). 

KSI and Trippie Redd secure this week’s highest new entry with Thick Of It debuting at Number 14. It becomes KSI’s 19th Top 40 single and Trippie Redd’s second. 

Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, KSI says: 

“Shout out to all the fans who love the song, you can kiss my arse if you hate the song!” 

Trippie Redd adds: 

“I just wanna say shout out to all the haters. The haters still love us, you gotta know that!” 

Continuing to gather momentum, Addison Rae claims her first ever UK Top 20 single with Diet Pepsi cruising up seven to Number 15 today.  

Reacting to the news, Addison Rae tells Official Charts: 

“Thank you guys so much for all the love and support, it really means the world to me. I hope, if you can take anything away from me and my career thus far, it’s that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.

“If you’re truly passionate about it, anything can happen.” 

Following the release of Moon Music, Coldplay see feelslikeimfallinginlove re-enter the Top 20 for the first time in 13 weeks (18), while WE PRAY hits a brand-new peak (20). 

Jimin’s WHO bounces up ten, back into the Top 40 (31), while cassö, RAYE and D-Block Europe’s former Number 2 smash hit Prada re-enters the Top 40 for the first time in five months (34). 

Finally,  Netflix’s latest true-crime sensation from Ryan Murphy, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story sees two tracks from its ‘80s-centric soundtrack re-enter the Top 40 today; Crowded House’s 1987 single Don’t Dream It’s Over (37) which previously peaked at Number 25, and controversial duo Milli Vanilli’s former 1989 Number 2 hit I’m Gonna Miss You (40).