Olivia Rodrigo has earned her career-best opening week as You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love soars to No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart (June 19).
You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love flies straight to No. 1 to give the 23-year-old her third consecutive No. 1 album following Sour (2021) and Guts (2023). This week’s 103,000 chart units doubles Sour’s 51,000 units and Guts’ 60,000 units in their respective opening weeks. It is also the U.K.’s biggest opening week for an international album release in 2026.
Speaking on her accomplishments to the Official Charts Company, Rodrigo said: “Thank you so much for this Number 1 album award! It means so much to me. I wrote so many of these songs in the U.K., so it makes it extra special. Thank you all for listening, I appreciate it so much. I can’t wait to put this on my mantle!”
Michael Jackson’s The Essential collection holds its position at No. 2, while Harry Styles’ Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally is up nine places on last week to No. 12. Styles kicked off his 12-night residency run at London’s Wembley Stadium on Friday (June 12) and performed at Meltdown Festival on Tuesday (June 16) with a set of covers and deep cuts. 2022’s Harry’s House (30) and 2019 LP Fine Line (34) also see bumps on the charts as a result.
Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving holds its position at No. 4 while Embrace’s Avalanche closes at No. 5, their highest position since 2018’s Love Is A Basic Need. Sonny Fodera scores a maiden top 20 placement with Can We Do It All Again? At No. 20 and Zac Byran’s With Heaven on Top re-enters the top 40 (No. 40) following the U.K. leg of his stadium tour.
“When you write a song, you want it to apply to as many people as possible.”
Alex Warren marveled to Billboard in 2025 about the mass appeal of “Ordinary.” As of June 2026, the song’s reach has led to another Billboard record: It now has the most weeks — 107 — at No. 1 among all the radio airplay charts that it’s topped.
The ballad’s haul encompasses 34 weeks and counting atop Adult Contemporary, along with record reigns on Adult Pop Airplay (30 weeks), the all-format Radio Songs chart (27 weeks) and Pop Airplay (16 weeks). It’s also the only song to be No. 1 for six months or more on as many as three airplay lists.
“I think every single year there’s always that wedding song or love song,” Warren told Billboard in 2025, when the singer-songwriter’s smash crowned the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and wrapped at No. 1 on the annual Songs of the Summer chart. “I think ‘Ordinary,’ sonically, has been this exciting storytelling record. It’s a song about love, and love is killing it right now.”
“Ordinary” wrested the record from Miley Cyrus‘ “Flowers,” which ran up 106 weeks atop all the Billboard radio charts that it led. It and “Ordinary” are the only songs with triple-digit weeks totals at No. 1 counting all airplay surveys.
The two hits are among 22 select songs that have spent at least 52 weeks, or a full year, combined at No. 1 on Billboard airplay charts. Billboard publishes 25 radio airplay charts, dating to the Adult Contemporary tally’s July 17, 1961, launch. Country Airplay became the first airplay chart ranked by electronically monitored data as of the list dated Jan. 20, 1990; all current airplay charts (more than half of which began in the ‘90s) are based on data monitored by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate. Meanwhile, despite increased audio competition from streaming and other platforms, radio remains a valuable and coveted outlet for exposure, with the No. 1 hit on Radio Songs each week drawing upwards of 80 million audience impressions.
The 25 such surveys: Adult Alternative Airplay, Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Airplay, Adult R&B Airplay, Alternative Airplay, Christian AC Airplay, Christian Airplay, Country Airplay, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Gospel Airplay, (the seasonal-only) Holiday Airplay chart, Latin Airplay, Latin Pop Airplay, Latin Rhythm Airplay, Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Mainstream Rock Airplay, Pop Airplay, R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Radio Songs, Rap Airplay, Regional Mexican Airplay, Rhythmic Airplay, Rock & Alternative Airplay, Smooth Jazz Airplay and Tropical Airplay.
Below browse the earworms — with a leading three by Mariah Carey, followed by two by Adele — that have infused radio and spent the most cumulative weeks atop Billboard’s airplay charts (through rankings dated June 27, 2026). They’re some of the most familiar hits still prominent on airwaves: As Cyrus playfully asked the 2024 Grammys crowd when she performed “Flowers,” “Why are you acting like you don’t know this song?!”
Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” has earned 2026’s biggest sales week in the U.K. as it enjoys a second week at the summit (June 19).
The song debuted at No. 1 in its opening week last Friday (June 12) to give Swift her seventh chart-topper on the Official Singles Chart. Now following the release of limited-edition CD and vinyl editions, the song has surpassed that debut to 71,000 chart units and is now the biggest sales week of 2026, overtaking overtakes Harry Styles’ “Aperture” which scored 70,000 back in January.
The Official Charts Company reports that the song is the biggest week in pure sales (excluding streams) since November 2023 when the Beatles released their final song “Now and Then.”
As she earns a career-best opening week on the Albums Chart, Olivia Rodrigo occupies three of the top five positions on the U.K.’s Official Singles Charts with You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love highlights. “Stupid Song” debuts at No. 2, while “The Cure” and “Drop Dead” place at No. 3 and No. 5, respectively. The latter hit No. 1 earlier this year to give Rodrigo her fourth U.K. chart-topper.
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s “Rein Me In” is down two places to No. 4, having previously enjoyed a 13-week stay at the summit this year.
As the FIFA World Cup kicks off, Shakira and Burna Boy’s “Dai Dai” breaks the top 40 for the first time (No. 28) and the former’s 2010 track “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” also sees a boost (No. 35).
Following the start of his 12-night run at London’s Wembley Stadium, Harry Styles sees Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally tracks “American Girls” (No. 12) and “Aperture” (No. 25) enjoy lifts.
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