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

Olivia Dean and Sam Fender have broken chart history with Rein Me In, after19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart It's a song that has become inescapable, whether you're scrolling on TikTok, listening to the radio or even filling up your trolley on the weekly shop. And now Rein Me In, the melodic love song by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, has officially broken the longest standing record in British music history. By spending 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart, it overtakes a record set by American crooner Frankie Laine with his track I Believe, in 1953. But it hasn't been a straightforward ascent to the top for Rein Me In - originally released as a solo Fender track and repurposed as a duet in June 2025, it took eight months to reach number one in February this year. Fender and Dean celebrated winning song of the year at this year's Brit Awards, beating off competition from Lewis Capaldi, Raye and Ed Sheeran The reworking of the track from Fender's third studio album, the Mercury Prize-winning People Watching, features an extra verse about the breakdown of a relationship from a female perspective, from Dean. When the track first got to number one - Fender's first time at the top of the charts - he told BBC Radio 1 it was "all the better" for having Dean's perspective.