Alex Warren’s Ordinary becomes joint longest-running Number 1 single of 2020s

It’s an Alex Warren takeover on this week’s Official Singles Chart, as the Cali-born breakout star takes Ordinary to an unprecedented 11th consecutive week at Number 1.

In doing so, Ordinary matches Ed Sheeran’s 2021 smash Bad Habits as the UK’s longest-running chart-topper of the 2020s; each racking up 11 weeks at the top.

Only six songs in Official Chart history boast longer stints at the summit; Sheeran’s Shape Of You (14 weeks), Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody (14 weeks), Drake’s One Dance (15 weeks), Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around (15 weeks), Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (16 weeks) and Frankie Laine’s overall frontrunner I Believe (18 weeks).

See the songs that’ve spent the most weeks at Number 1 in the UK.

What’s more, Alex now draws level with Slim Whitman to become the US male solo artist to have spent the most consecutive weeks at Number 1 in UK chart history. Whitman’s single Rose Marie also managed 11 weeks on the bounce back in 1955.

Can Alex go one further next week to become an Official Chart Record Breaker? Watch this space.

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Elsewhere, Alex’s momentum continues further still, securing this week’s highest new entry with Jelly Roll team-up Bloodline; his highest-placing debut so far on the UK Official Chart at Number 9. Carry You Home serves as Alex’s third entry inside this week’s wider Top 20, sitting at Number 12.

As she announces new UK shows this September, South-East London singer-songwriter Skye Newman celebrates a personal best with second single Family Matters, up two to a new peak in its second week on chart (6). Debut track Hairdresser also holds strong inside the Top 20 (16).

Already boasting nine weeks atop the Official Afrobeats Chart, MOLIY and Silent Addy’s summer-ready smash Shake It To The Max (FLY) lifts one as it edges ever-closer to the Top 10 this week (13).

Max Dean, Locky and Luke Dean bank their first Official Top 40, with Can’t Decide straight in at Number 19. Their strongest debut yet also secures them a personal best, outperforming previous single Curveball’s Number 35 peak on the Official Singles Sales Chart.

Lola Young’s latest One Thing is on the ascent, up three in its second week (22).

It’s a fifth UK Top 40 single for mgk (Machine Gun Kelly), as the Texan multihyphenate’s cliché makes its debut (31).

And, finally, following his show-stopping set at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Liverpool last weekend, Myles Smith nets a third Top 40 track with Gold, straight in at Number 32.  

See the full Official Singles Chart Top 100 here from 5.45pm.