He’ll Survive! Lewis Capaldi marks a phenomenal comeback, securing this week’s Official Number 1 single with the biggest opening week of his career so far.
Shifting 68,500 chart units in its opening week, including over 4 million streams, Survive surpasses Lewis’s previous 56,000-unit best, earned with 2022’s Forget Me, to secure the feat.
And what’s more, Survive secures the biggest opening week of any Number 1 single in 2025 so far, one-upping Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild, which managed 62,400 chart units in its opening week.
Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, Lewis Capaldi says:
“Survive is this week’s UK Number 1, and I want to say a massive thank you to everybody who’s been streaming it, downloading it – it really means the world.
“I’ve been away for a little while, and to come back to this outpouring of love and support has been absolutely incredible. I can’t thank everybody enough for all the kind words since Glastonbury – and now this! It’s been the best week of my life.
“I hope you all continue to enjoy the song, it means a lot to me.”
Capaldi’s signature track Someone You Loved – the UK’s most streamed song of all time - also rockets 115% week-on-week, returning to the Official Singles Chart Top 100 (51), while sales and streams of his 2019 chart-topping debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent surge 198%, sending the record all the way back into the Official Albums Chart Top 20 (15).
Soundtracking the UK’s heatwave, Michigan DJ and producer MK, also known as Marc Kinchen, holds strong at Number 2 with Chrystal collab Dior (2).
Olivia Dean’s highest-charting single to date, breezy bop Nice To Each Other, lifts three to a brand new best today (15).
As it sparks a viral social media trend, Glastonbury performer PinkPantheress’s Illegal reaches new heights, surging 58% week on week, and up 14 places on the Official Chart (22). It’s a new peak for Disco Lines and Tinashe’s No Broke Boys, too, as it jumps three (23).
Song of the summer contender? Rossi. and Jazzy team-up High On Me is on the ascent, lifting five to claim a new Number 28 best.
It’s a KPop Demon Hunters takeover! Three tracks from the Netflix animated musical fantasy film land inside this week’s Top 40: HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA and REI AMI’s Golden is this week’s highest climber, rocketing 62 places (31), as we see new entries from Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, KEVIN WOO and samUIL Lee’s Your Idol (34) and HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA and REI AMI’s How It’s Done (40).
As she secures her first Official Number 1 album with Virgin, Lorde’s What Was That springs 21 back into the Top 40 (35).
And finally, Alex Warren’s latest cut On My Mind ft. BLACKPINK idol ROSÉ is new in at Number 37, earning Alex a fifth and ROSÉ a second solo Top 40. This week, Alex’s record-breaking smash Ordinary was this week named the UK’s Official biggest song of 2025.
