Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have made history, as the duo has set the new U.K. record for longest run atop the U.K.’s singles chart with their song “Rein Me In,” which has now spent 19 weeks at No. 1, the U.K.’s Official Charts Company announced on Friday.
Fender and Dean took the throne from the late Frankie Laine, who’d held the record for over 70 years as his 1953 hit “I Believe” spent 18 weeks atop the chart.
“Completely lost for words, thank you so much to Olivia Dean and the fans for making this song the juggernaut that it is,” Fender told the Official Charts company on Friday. “Can’t believe we broke the U.K. record!”
But this isn’t the first record the duet has broken. Released over a year ago on June 20, 2025, “Rein Me In” took 35 weeks from its first entry onto the chart to reach No. 1, making it the song with the longest climb to the top. Since it hit that spot in February, “Rein Me In” has also become Fender’s first U.K. No. 1 single and the only single in U.K. chart history that has bumped back to No. 1 four times in the same run.
Over the weekend Olivia Dean surprised the Lollapalooza crowd by bringing out Sam Fender for ‘Rein Me In’
Dean headlined the third night of Lollapalooza at the T-Mobile stage on Saturday (August 1), drawing a large crowd who she often paused to address throughout the set, reflecting on the impact of her latest album, ‘The Art of Loving’.
Before introducing Fender, Dean also told the Chicago crowd about the recent success of ‘Rein Me In’, which just days before, had broken the record for the longest-running UK Number One single of all time.
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