Charli XCX gets hat trick of number ones as Sam Fender scores first chart topper

Charli XCX has secured a hat trick of number one albums with her Wuthering Heights companion album, while singer-songwriter Sam Fender has achieved his first number one single, the Official Charts Company has confirmed.

Wuthering Heights, which is a companion album to the Emerald Fennell film of the same name and features appearances from The Velvet Underground’s John Cale and alternative pop star Sky Ferreira, has followed Charli’s Crash (2022) and Brat (2024) in reaching the peak of the UK singles chart.

The singer, whose real name is Charlotte Aitchison, has had now eight top 40 albums in total, with 2015’s Sucker (15), 2017’s Number 1 Angel (37), 2019’s Charli (14), 2020’s How I’m Feeling Now (33), and 2025 remix record Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat (40).

Brat has also jumped up seven places this week to number 38, following the release of The Moment, a fictionalised mockumentary of the Brat album cycle and subsequent tour.

Charli’s album beat out competition from Olivia Dean’s The Art Of Loving (two), Fleetwood Mac compilation 50 Years – Don’t Stop (three), The Weeknd compilation album The Highlights (four), and Bad Bunny’s Debi Tirar Mas Fotos (five) in the album charts.

Elsewhere, North Shields-born Fender topped the UK singles chart for the first time with his collaboration with Olivia Dean, Rein Me In, which takes the record for most consecutive weeks spent in the Top 40 before reaching number one, with a 35-week journey to the summit.

The track first entered the top 40 in June 2025, and has previously peaked at number five on a number of occasions, beating the record previously held by Ed Sheeran’s Perfect, which spent 22 consecutive weeks in the top 40 before eventually claiming number one in 2017.

The song is Dean’s second number one after Man I Need, with her track So Easy (To Fall In Love) reaching number two in this week’s charts.

Zara Larsson’s Lush Life (three), Dean’s Man I Need (four) and Bad Bunny’s DTMF (five) complete the rest of the singles chart top five.

Three tracks from Charli’s Wuthering Heights feature in the top 40 in Chains Of Love (17) which secures a new best, Dying For You (27) and Always Everywhere (33).