‘The Destiny Of Ophelia’ has turn out to be Taylor Swift’s longest-running Quantity One single within the UK after topping the Official Singles Chart for a seventh week.
The lead single from Swift’s newest album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’, it was launched on October 3, the identical day because the album, and first received to Quantity One on October 16, knocking Olivia Dean’s ‘Man I Want’ off the highest spot. It spent three weeks there earlier than being changed by ‘Golden’ from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters, as carried out by fictional Okay-pop group Huntr/x, which Swift then changed once more after two weeks.
‘The Destiny Of Ophelia’ additionally registered the biggest first-week gross sales of 2025 and of Swift’s profession, with 132,000 items bought.
Beforehand, ‘Anti-Hero’, from Swift’s 2022 album ‘Midnights’, had been her longest-running Quantity One, spending six consecutive weeks on the prime. On the time, she additionally grew to become the primary girl since Miley Cyrus in 2013 to prime the albums and singles charts concurrently, whereas the observe additionally spent 15 non-consecutive weeks within the prime 10.
Altogether, the singer has topped the UK chart with 5 totally different tracks. Her first was ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ in 2017, which spent two weeks at Quantity One, adopted by ‘Anti-Hero’ in 2022 after which ‘Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Model)’ in 2023 and ‘Fortnight’ the next yr, each of which spent every week there, after which ‘The Destiny Of Ophelia’.
‘The Life Of A Showgirl’, in the meantime, grew to become Swift’s 14th Quantity One album within the UK, spending 4 non-consecutive weeks on the prime spot. She has probably the most Quantity One albums for a world artist, and solely The Beatles and Robbie Williams – each with 15 – have extra general. She’s in joint-second place with The Rolling Stones.
NME gave ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ three stars, writing: “To hunt escapism will not be a sin, however the very best pop music makes the non-public really feel like life or demise. ‘Communicate Now’, ‘Popularity’, ‘Folklore’: her best works might be genuinely transformative. For the primary time, ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ sees Swift not catalysed into creative development by love, however merely comfortably secured by it.”
The Official Charts has listed Swift as one of many artists possible in competition for the coveted Christmas Quantity One this yr, with three of her songs – ’The Destiny Of Ophelia’, ‘Opalite’ and ‘Olivia Taylor’ all presently charting.
Additionally anticipated to be within the working are Olivia Dean with ‘The Christmas Music’, Labrinth with ‘The place Love Lives’, which soundtracks this yr’s John Lewis Christmas advert, McFly’s Tom Fletcher with ‘One Of Us’ from Paddington: The Musical, and Raye with ‘The place Is My Husband!’ which presently sits at Quantity Two and has spent 11 weeks within the chart thus far.
Festive classics from Wham! and Mariah Carey is also in competition, with ‘Final Christmas’ and ‘All I Need For Christmas Is You’ presently charting at Quantity Three and 4 respectively. The previous has been Christmas Quantity One for the previous two years.
In the meantime, Swift has lately shared the official trailer for her new live performance movie, The Eras Tour: The Ultimate Present.
The film captures the star’s final ‘Eras Tour’ cease on the BC Place stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, final December. The Ultimate Present options “all the ‘Tortured Poets Division’ set” from her big run of dates.
