‘The Fate Of Ophelia’ Becomes Taylor Swift’s Longest-Running UK Number One Single

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’ has set a new record as her longest-running Number One single in the United Kingdom, topping the Official Singles Chart for a seventh week.

The lead single from Swift’s latest album, The Life Of A Showgirl, was released on 3 October, the same day as the album. It first reached Number One on 16 October, displacing Olivia Dean’s ‘Man I Need’ from the top. The single spent three weeks at the summit before being replaced for two weeks by ‘Golden’ from Netflix’s fictional K-pop group Huntr/x, which Swift then replaced again.

‘The Fate Of Ophelia’ also achieved the largest first-week sales of 2025 and of Swift’s career, with 132,000 units sold. Previously, her longest-running Number One was 2022’s ‘Anti-Hero’, which spent six consecutive weeks at the top.

Overall, Swift has topped the UK chart with five different singles. Her first was ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ in 2017, which spent two weeks at Number One, followed by ‘Anti-Hero’ in 2022, ‘Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version)’ in 2023, ‘Fortnight’ the following year, and then ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’.

Meanwhile, the album The Life Of A Showgirl became Swift’s 14th Number One album in the UK, spending four weeks at the top. She holds the record for the most Number One albums by an international artist, with only The Beatles and Robbie Williams surpassing her with 15.

Additionally, Swift recently shared the official trailer for her new concert film, The Eras Tour: The Final Show, which captures the last stop of her ‘Eras Tour’ at BC Place stadium in Vancouver, Canada, last December.

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