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The UK's Official Songs of the Summer 2021
Olivia Rodrigo's year of chart domination continues as she claims the UK's biggest song of the summer.
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The UK has been rocking out to Olivia Rodrigo this summer, as her Number 1 smash Good 4 U claims the Official Song of Summer 2021, OfficialCharts.com can reveal.
The emo-pop-rock track logged 834,000 chart sales over the summer period, according to Official Charts Company data, tracking from the first week of June to the last week of August.
Olivia narrowly beats another huge summer Number 1 - Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits – which logged 812,000 chart sales across the summer.
Good 4 U became Olivia’s second leader on the Official Singles Chart, hitting the top spot in the first week of June, and notching up a total of five weeks at the summit. Its reign at Number 1 was the longest for a rock-influenced song in 18 years, since Evanescence’s Bring Me To Life.
Olivia Rodrigo in the Good 4 U music video.
Four more tracks from the US star’s chart-topping debut album Sour – a collection about adolescence, failed romance and heartache released in June – dominate the summer Top 40: Traitor (13), Deja Vu (18), Drivers License (27), and Favourite Crime (32). View Olivia Rodrigo's Official UK Chart history so far here.
Also sound-tracking the UK’s sunny(-ish) months is Save Your Tears by The Weeknd, which finishes in third after peaking at Number 2 in June thanks in part to a remix featuring Ariana Grande. Top 3 hits Heartbreak Anthem by Galantis, David Guetta and Little Mix (4), and Kiss Me More by Doja Cat ft. SZA (5) round out the Top 5.
As well as Olivia, pop-punk-rock continued to dominate in summer 2021 thanks to Italian band Måneskin. After winning the Eurovision Song Contest in May, the band went on to land two sizeable summer smashes. I Wanna Be Your Slave (6) and their rendition of Beggin’ (12) both enjoyed Top 10 success across July and August.
Måneskin (credit: Francis Delacroix)
As always, this summer saw plenty of club-friendly bangers flourish on the Official Chart, with a quarter of the summer Top 40 made up of dance-pop. Big hits include Jonasu’s Black Magic (10), Joel Corry, Raye and David Guetta’s Bed (15), Becky Hill and Guetta’s Remember (16), Riton, Nightcrawlers, Mufasa and Hypeman’s Friday (25), and Majestic and Boney M’s Rasputin (37).
Elsewhere, this summer saw several rap artists score big on the Official Chart, including Lil Nas X’s chart-topping Montero (Call Me By Your Name) (7), and Tion Wayne & Russ Million’ Body (8) the UK’s first Number 1 drill single. Other popular tracks were Dave and Stormzy's huge collaboration Clash (20), and Oliver Twist (23), the breakout hit from Brighton rapper ArrDee.
Official Songs of the Summer 2021
Listen to this chart as a playlist on Spotify
| POS | TITLE | ARTIST | PEAK |
| 1 | GOOD 4 U | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 1 |
| 2 | BAD HABITS | ED SHEERAN | 1 |
| 3 | SAVE YOUR TEARS | WEEKND | 2 |
| 4 | HEARTBREAK ANTHEM | GALANTIS/GUETTA/LITTLE MIX | 3 |
| 5 | KISS ME MORE | DOJA CAT FT SZA | 3 |
| 6 | I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE | MANESKIN | 5 |
| 7 | MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) | LIL NAS X | 1 |
| 8 | BODY | TION WAYNE & RUSS MILLIONS | 1 |
| 9 | STAY | KID LAROI & JUSTIN BIEBER | 2 |
| 10 | BLACK MAGIC | JONASU | 3 |
| 11 | LEVITATING | DUA LIPA | 5 |
| 12 | BEGGIN | MANESKIN | 6 |
| 13 | TRAITOR | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 5 |
| 14 | HOLIDAY | KSI | 2 |
| 15 | BED | JOEL CORRY/RAYE/DAVID GUETTA | 3 |
| 16 | REMEMBER | BECKY HILL & DAVID GUETTA | 3 |
| 17 | BY YOUR SIDE | CALVIN HARRIS FT TOM GRENNAN | 9 |
| 18 | DEJA VU | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 4 |
| 19 | 3 LIONS | BADDIEL/SKINNER/LIGHTNING SEED | 1 |
| 20 | CLASH | DAVE FT STORMZY | 2 |
| 21 | LITTLE BIT OF LOVE | TOM GRENNAN | 7 |
| 22 | GOOD WITHOUT | MIMI WEBB | 8 |
| 23 | OLIVER TWIST | ARRDEE | 6 |
| 24 | LET'S GO HOME TOGETHER | ELLA HENDERSON & TOM GRENNAN | 10 |
| 25 | FRIDAY | RITON/NIGHTCRAWLERS/MUFASA | 4 |
| 26 | BLINDING LIGHTS | WEEKND | 1 |
| 27 | DRIVERS LICENSE | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 1 |
| 28 | OUR SONG | ANNE-MARIE & NIALL HORAN | 13 |
| 29 | PEACHES | JUSTIN BIEBER/CAESAR/GIVEON | 2 |
| 30 | DIDN'T KNOW | TOM ZANETTI | 14 |
| 31 | HEAD & HEART | JOEL CORRY FT MNEK | 1 |
| 32 | FAVORITE CRIME | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 17 |
| 33 | HEAT WAVES | GLASS ANIMALS | 19 |
| 34 | CONFETTI | LITTLE MIX | 9 |
| 35 | FLY AWAY | TONES & I | 11 |
| 36 | THE BUSINESS | TIESTO | 3 |
| 37 | RASPUTIN | MAJESTIC & BONEY M | 11 |
| 38 | HIGHER POWER | COLDPLAY | 12 |
| 39 | RAPSTAR | POLO G | 3 |
| 40 | ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN | MASKED WOLF | 12 |
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Saji Balan
bad habits is hot trash honestly. ed sheeran is the definition on an artist that puts out tracks to use as background music for when you are doind something. not good at all , not bad too. just listenable
Piran
Woah, I really expected it to be ‘Bad Habits’ given that it’s spent the past nine weeks at #1, but I’m so happy that ‘Good 4 U’ ended up taking it instead & especially that ‘Heartbreak Anthem’ finished in the Top 5. :)
BleeUK
I'm so pleased Bad Habits was not #1 in the Summer Charts as it very Halloween times Spooky and scary stuff, yes, i know it is a shock as it been 9 weeks at the top Bad Habits and i thought it may of been, but we had Ghost by Ella Henderson a few years ago at #1 at Summer and that was so for Halloween too not Summer,
Piran
Yeah, I think the lyrics aren’t very summery in any of those songs & it’s the same with ‘Good 4 U’ (even if I like that song a lot more than ‘Bad Habits’, haha). :)
AUCF
Angry UK Chart Fan
Very un-summery song to be claiming that honour.
EAKMUSIC
no 3 song rule on this chart? 😂
JeriTroll 5000 ©
So glad she beat that trash fire "Bad Habits", seriously who keeps buying/streaming that rubbish. Fed up of the constant chart fixing going on. Numerous remixes, new features, playlist stuffing and YT counting.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
ikr, i can’t think of one person who likes the song, not one single person. how is it still number 1, i’ll never know. and he’s got a new single coming soon too. joy! 😒
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
SO HAPPY FOR HER!! and so glad she beat ed sheeran to number 1 on this chart! she honestly deserves all this success and i love her so much. plus she also had my song of the summer with that song too! great music wins for a second summer in a row!
elsewhere, happy for: kiss me more, all the other olivia rodrigo songs, i wanna be your slave, body, holiday, remember, clash, heat waves (i just can't get sick of it no matter how many times i play it), higher power and rapstar. :D