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As the longest-running British music column online, we bring you the ultimate guide to this week's Top 40, unraveling the stories behind the biggest new singles and chart-topping hits. Plus, explore our extensive archives, a treasure trove of nearly 1800 articles documenting three and a half decades of popular music history and expert analysis.
Exceeding all out greatest expectations, less than a year on from her chart debut the magnificent Sienna Spiro is - magnificently - this week's No.1 star. We have a new British heroine on our hands. And it is a big week for women of any nationality as well.
In the end it was no choice at all it appears. What better song to replace a long-running epic at No.1 than one which has enjoyed an epic journey of its own.
Remember her this way. The midweek death of Dolly Parton means she enjoys a quite startlingly rapid set of tribute hits. But this week also marks the final hurrah of a certain long-running No.1 single. I'm sure you can guess which.
This isn't a random flex for a photoshoot; poor Phoebe Bridgers celebrates her No.1 album by being laid low with appendicitis. That's not a spoiler though, and neither is the news that Rein Me In is still No.1. Come inside, there's a table.
