Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero debuts at Number 1 on UK's Official Trending Chart ahead of Midnights chart dominance

The lead cut from Midnights is by and far the biggest commercial breakthrough from Taylor's tenth album.

It's not so exhausting rooting for the anti-hero when the music is this good.

Taylor Swift debuts the Number 1 Trending Song in the UK right now with Anti-Hero, the lead single from her new album Midnights.

Co-written and co-produced by Taylor and frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, Anti-Hero has already been described as one of her favourite songs she's ever made, and its easy to see why.

The flitty synth-pop track sees Tay get deep into self-analysis, especially around the insecurities and anxieties that being one of the most famous women in the world has left her with.

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Anti-Hero is currently leading the race to debut at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart this week, un-seating the position Sam Smith and Kim Petras have held for a month with Unholy.

It would be Taylor's second UK chart-topper, and first in five years, since 2017's burn it all down and start again anthem Look What You Made Me Do.

Yesterday, we also revealed that Midnights is pulling ahead by some distance in the race for the UK's Number 1 album too. Can Tay pull off the double?

Listen to the Official Trending Chart on Spotify below. Also listen on Deezer | Apple Music.

Elsewhere on the Trending Chart, we have another new Taylor entry in the form of Midnights opening track Lavender Haze, two cuts from the Arctics' latest album The Car (I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am and Sculptures Of Anything Goes) and Meghan Trainor returning to the doo-wop pop that engineered her rise to fame in 2014 (Made You Look).

This weeks high riser is Dance All Over Me by George Ezra could rise 27 places this week.

And finally, Living Without You by Sigala, David Guetta and Sam Ryder could make its UK Top 40 debut, rising more than 20 slots up into the upper echelons of the chart. It's just in time for Eurovision hero Sam to release his forthcoming debut album, There's Nothing But Space, Man!

Official Trending Chart Top 20 - October 18 2022

POS	CLIMB	TITLE	ARTIST	LABEL	LW	CURRENT	DIFF	PREV PEAK
1		ANTI-HERO	TAYLOR SWIFT	EMI	NE	1	0
2		LAVENDER HAZE	TAYLOR SWIFT	EMI	NE	2	0
3		I AIN'T QUITE WHERE I THINK I AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS	DOMINO RECORDINGS	NE	16	0
4		SCULPTURES OF ANYTHING GOES	ARCTIC MONKEYS	DOMINO RECORDINGS	NE	17	0
5		HOW DO I SAY GOODBYE	DEAN LEWIS	ISLAND	35	29	6	35
6		KISS ME	DERMOT KENNEDY	ISLAND	33	32	1	33
7		LIONHEART (FEARLESS)	JOEL CORRY & TOM GRENNAN	ATLANTIC	NE	36	0
8		MADE YOU LOOK	MEGHAN TRAINOR	EPIC	NE	37	0
9	⬆️⬆️	LIVING WITHOUT YOU	SIGALA/DAVID GUETTA/SAM RYDER	MINISTRY OF SOUND/PARLOPHONE	64	39	25
10		STAR WALKIN'	LIL NAS X	RCA	44	42	2	40
11		ALL THESE NIGHTS	TOM GRENNAN	INSANITY	58	53	5	37
12	⬆️⬆️	DANCE ALL OVER ME	GEORGE EZRA	COLUMBIA	81	54	27
13		DELILAH (PULL ME OUT OF THIS)	FRED AGAIN	ATLANTIC	NE	65	0
14		SPEED OF PLIGHT	LOYLE CARNER	EMI	NE	72	0
15	⬆️	BONES	IMAGINE DRAGONS	INTERSCOPE	85	74	11
16		GOLDEN HOUR	JVKE	JVKE	RE	78	0
17		JUST WANNA ROCK	LIL UZI VERT	ATLANTIC	NE	80	0
18		NOBODY KNOWS	LOYLE CARNER	EMI	NE	95	0
19		BAD MEMORIES	MEDUZA/JAMES CARTER/DUHE	ISLAND/THE CROSS RECORDS	RE	99	0
20		MOVING ALL AROUND (JUMPIN')	SCHAK/KIM ENGLISH	MINISTRY OF SOUND	NE	105	0

⬆️ - Indicates a climb of 10 places
LW - Last week's Official Singles Chart position
CURRENT - Current position on today's Official Singles Chart sales flash
DIFF - Number of places climbed since the previous week on the Official Singles Chart