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Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s ‘Rein Me In’ Hits 10th Week at U.K. No. 1, Closing in on Chart Milestones
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s "Rein Me In" spends a 10th week at U.K. No. 1, tying records and underscoring how remix, awards, and rare live dates fuel chart longevity.
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s duet “Rein Me In” has now spent a remarkable 10 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart dated May 8, reopening conversations about endurance in a singles market that often prizes immediacy over longevity.
Sam Fender at Terminal 5 on Sept. 19, 2025, in New York, New York.
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The track’s trajectory is a study in how an album cut can be reshaped into a cultural lodestar. “Rein Me In” first appeared on Fender’s 2025 album People Watching and was retooled in June last year with a new verse from Dean. It reached the summit in February 2026 and later picked up song of the year at the BRIT Awards, milestones that underline how collaboration and timing can reframe a song’s life cycle.
Last week’s chart news came as the pair gave one of their rarer live performances together. On May 1, Dean brought Fender onstage during two sold-out nights at London’s 20,000-capacity O2 Arena to perform the duet; the pair had only shared a stage once before, at Fender’s London Stadium show in June last year. Those sparse live appearances have paradoxically amplified the single’s mystique, turning each joint outing into an event rather than routine tour fodder.
Context and records
At 10 weeks at No. 1, “Rein Me In” sits alongside some of the U.K.’s most tenacious pop hits. The run ties Rihanna and Jay-Z’s “Umbrella” for the joint longest-running U.K. No. 1 by a male-and-female duo, which also logged 10 weeks in 2007. The tally also lifts Dean past Olivia Newton-John’s long-standing mark for a British female artist: Newton-John, who was born in England and raised in Australia, spent nine weeks at No. 1 in 1978 with the Grease soundtrack single “You’re the One That I Want.”
The single’s tenure also joins a recent list of 10-week runs: HUNTR/X’s “Golden” (2025); Dave and Central Cee’s “Sprinter” (2023); Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” (2023); and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” (2022). For scale, Alex Warren’s 2025 chart-topper “Ordinary” remains the decade’s outlier with 13 weeks at the summit.
How the rest of the chart is shaping up
The broader chart snapshot shows continuing churn. As Tame Impala’s global tour touches the U.K., “Dracula” moves up two places to No. 2, matching its previous peak. Olivia Rodrigo’s “Man I Need” slips one spot to No. 3. Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” enjoys a resurgence, vaulting nine places to No. 4, while Alex Warren’s “Fever Dream” holds at No. 5.
There are interesting one-off effects too: The Chemical Brothers’ 2015 single “Go” earns its first top-40 appearance at No. 22 after a sync placement in the Charlize Theron film Apex, demonstrating how catalog tracks can find new chart life through visual media. Meanwhile, Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter’s collaboration “Bring Your Love,” the second preview of Madonna’s forthcoming Confessions II album, debuts at No. 29.
Whatever else it signals, the longevity of “Rein Me In” is a reminder that in the current climate a single’s cultural currency can be sustained through strategic remixing, awards recognition, and the scarcity of live collaboration. For Fender and Dean, that combination has turned a song from an album cut into a persistent chart presence—one that now sits within touching distance of a small pantheon of long-running U.K. hits.
