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

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. Speaking to Jack Saunders on BBC Radio 1's Official Chart show on Friday afternoon, Fender said he was "speechless" when asked how it felt to break the record. By spending 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart, it overtakes the record set by American crooner Frankie Laine with his track I Believe, in 1953. 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 This reworking of Rein Me In, 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. "[It's] very personal and reminded us of home, but when Olivia put her touch on it, it became a much more universal track," he told Radio 1, adding "that's what made it so huge and so beautiful". He said he wanted to "personally thank" Dean, who helped him achieve his first ever number one single, adding: "It wouldn't have happened without Olivia obviously, but now I feel like it belongs to the fans, they've made it what it is".