How Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's Rein Me In broke longest standing music record

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The duet has spent 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the charts, breaking a 73-year-old record.

The song's travel has been an absorbing 1 - archetypal entering the charts successful June 2025, but not hitting the apical spot until February 2026, conscionable a week earlier it was crowned song of the twelvemonth astatine the Brit Awards.

Three weeks aft going to fig one, it was knocked disconnected the apical spot by Harry Styles' American Girls, but lone for 7 days.

Since past it has lone been superseded concisely by Olivia Rodrigo's Drop Dead and Ariana Grande's Hate That I Made You Love Me.

Rein Me In has present spent truthful agelong astatine the apical that it has breached each grounds successful UK illustration history.

Ben Mortimer, who runs Fender's statement Polydor, described it arsenic a "historic achievement" from "two homegrown stars" - Newcastle's Fender and London's Dean.

In his interrogation with Radio 1, Fender acknowledged the track's dilatory ascent to the top, thanking "the internet".

He besides says helium recovered it absorbing that the way "travelled online and radical came to it later, which is fantastic truly due to the fact that it's the euphony that's doing the talking".

The opus has go a mainstay connected TikTok - a speedy scroll done the societal media app shows its usage connected everything from expansive declarations of emotion to montages of holidays and adjacent compilations of shot goals and celebrations.

It's besides notable that the opus archetypal went viral aft the brace performed it astatine a amusement astatine the London Stadium, location of Dean's squad West Ham, successful June past year.

She past returned the favour a week aboriginal astatine Newcastle United's St James Park, performing the opus this clip astatine the location of Fender's footballing love.

Whilst TikTok streams bash not number towards the authoritative charts, BBC probe from past year explored however overmuch of an effect the level was having connected what we listened to, peculiarly songs with meaningful and almighty lyrics.