She may be working late (because she’s a singer), but we hope Sabrina Carpenter will at least take the night off to celebrate her first UK Number 1 single, Espresso.
The frothy, funk-infused banger completes its climb to the top of the Official Singles Chart today – despite a last-minute photo-finish run to the line with ex-tourmate Taylor Swift, with fewer than 500 chart units separating Espresso from fortnight ft. Post Malone (2). The UK’s most-streamed track of the week, Espresso racked up 8.8 million streams, according to Official Charts Company data.
Now one of the first major contenders to soundtrack this summer, Espresso only debuted on the Official Chart two weeks ago, becoming Sabrina’s first Top 10 single in the process. She’d previously logged three Top 40 entries; Nonsense (32), Skin (28) and feather (19).
Fun chart fact - Espresso is the first caffeine-based UK Number 1 single in 24 years, since All Saints’ Black Coffee topped the charts in 2000.
Huge congratulations are also in order for rising hip hop-country star Shaboozey, who claims his first UK 10 hit today with A Bar Song (Tipsy), which rises ten to Number 6.
Taylor Swift scores a 29th UK Top 10 single, with I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (8), becoming the fourth single from The Tortured Poets Department to reach the Top 10 in two weeks; following former Number 1 fortnight, The Tortured Poets Department (3) and Down Bad (4).
Mark Ambor’s Belong Together is up one to another new peak (11), as Lay Bankz’s Tell Ur Girlfriend rises three (15).
Chappell Roan’s wistful Good Luck, Babe! becomes her first Top 20 single in the UK, up three (18), while David Guetta & OneRepublic’s I Don’t Wanna Wait also enters the Top 20 for the first time, up seven (20).
Natasha Bedingfield’s 2024 remix of These Words with producer Badger jumps 13 to Number 22. The original track memorably reached Number 1 in 2004.
Virginia singer-rapper Tommy Richman claims his first entry into the Official Singles Chart with Million Dollar Baby, debuting straight in at Number 31.
As UK audiences continue to enjoy Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, two classics tracks from the late, great UK legend re-enter the Top 40; Valerie with Mark Ronson (38) and Back to Black (39).
