Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have made UK chart history after their duet Rein Me In became the longest-running British No 1 single of all time.
The BRIT Award-winning track has spent 16 consecutive weeks at the top of the charts, overtaking Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around, which set the previous record during the Four Weddings And A Funeral phenomenon of 1994.
Wet Wet Wet offered Fender and Dean "huge congratulations," telling Sky News: "It's great to see amazing British artists continuing to produce songs that connect with so many people."
Wet Wet Wet is now made up of Graeme Clark, Graeme Duffin and vocalist Kevin Simm, who joined the band in 2018, after former frontman Marti Pellow left the band in 2017.
The band added: "We've always been incredibly proud of what Love Is All Around achieved and to hold that record for more than 30 years is something we never imagined when we first recorded the song.
"It's been a huge part of our story ever since and we have the privilege of performing it to audiences on tour, seeing thousands of people sing every word back to us night after night."
Meanwhile, Rein Me In could yet climb even higher up the all-time rankings.
The song has drawn level with Bryan Adams' 1991 hit (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, from the movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, as the joint second longest-running No 1 single in UK chart history.
Only Frankie Laine's I Believe from 1958 spent longer in the top spot.
The success marks another milestone in an extraordinary chart run for Rein Me In, which was originally released by Fender more than a year ago as part of his third studio album, before being reworked as a duet with Dean.
The song took 35 weeks from its chart debut to reach No 1 - the longest climb to the top in UK chart history - before finally reaching No. 1 in February 2026.
Since then, it has become Fender's first UK No 1 single, the longest-running No 1 of the 2020s, and the only song in UK chart history to return to No 1 on four separate occasions during the same chart run.
It is also only the second single ever to spend a full calendar year inside the UK Top 40.
Earlier this year, Rein Me In was named Song of the Year at the 2026 BRIT Awards.
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