‘Anti-Hero’ by Taylor Swift Continues to Top The U.K. Charts

With a market-leading 5.2 million streams, ‘Anti-Hero,’ the first track from Taylor Swift’s top-charting tenth studio album, ‘Midnights’, rules the most recent Official U.K. Singles Chart.

It is among the biggest No. 1 successes of 2022 and becomes the longest-reigning single by a solo female singer since Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Good 4 U’ lasted five weeks at No. 1 in 2021.

Only three songs have spent the most time at the top of the U.K. chart this year: Encanto’s ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ (seven weeks), LF SYSTEM’s ‘Afraid To Feel’ (eight weeks) and Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ (10 weeks). Meghan Trainor is moving up the chart with ‘Made You Look,’ which reaches its highest rank of No. 3.

Clavish, a rapper from London, has this week’s highest-charting new song with ‘Rocket Science’ (Polydor), which features D-Block Europe. With ‘Rocket Science,’ soaring to a No.9 debut, Clavish makes his first appearance in the U.K. top 40 and D-Block Europe makes their 27th appearance (including two top 10s).

The Christmas songs are approaching. Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ (Columbia) is moving along, up 36-18, just one week after making its earliest ever comeback to the top 40. 

Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ (RCA), up 42-23, and Ed Sheeran and Elton John’s ‘Merry Christmas’ (Atlantic), which re-enters at No. 40, are two holiday-themed chart-toppers that are close behind.

Sikha Sohan