Taylor Swift’s comeback single shakes off chart competition for top spot
She snatched the number one position from Dua Lipa.
Taylor Swift’s feisty new song has landed the US singer her first number one on the UK singles chart.
She unveiled the video, in which she appears to kill off her previous incarnations as a country star and pop princess, at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, and it has since been viewed more than 111 million times on YouTube.
Three of those singles – Love Story, I Knew You Were Trouble and Shake It Off – only made it to number two in the UK charts.
Swift has previously had two albums clinch the top spot on the UK albums chart though, namely 2012’s Red and 1989, which was released two years later.
Pink’s What About Us is at number three, giving the singles charts the first all-female top-three since October 2014.
I’ll be ready. Are you ready? #WhatAboutUs video premiere now on @Vevo ✊ pic.twitter.com/g8EmGVofa6
— P!nk (@Pink) August 16, 2017
Feels by Calvin Harris, Pharrell, Katy Perry and Big Sean is at number four, while Justin Bieber and BloodPop’s Friends falls to fifth position.
On the album charts, Queens Of The Stone Age went straight in at number one with their record Villains.
War On Drugs’s album A Deeper Understanding entered the charts at number three, while PVRIS took number four with All We Know Of Heaven, All We Know Of Hell.
Former Westlife singer Shane Filan rounded out the top-five with his album Love Always, his highest charting solo offering to date.
Lower down the album charts, Swift’s 2014 record 1989 returned to the Top 40 at number 32, in anticipation of the release of Reputation, which is out in November.