5 random chart facts of the week that will blow your mind

Never finish last in a pop quiz again, with our roundup of weird, wonderful and statty facts from this week's Official Chart

1. Ooh, look what she made you do.

Taylor Swift is Number 1. Look What You Made Me Do's success means Dua Lipa's reign is over – the first time a female solo artist has deposed another female solo artist from the top spot in two years, almost EXACTLY two years in fact. In the chart for the week of 3 September 2015, Rachel Platten’s Fight Song knocked Jess Glynne’s Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself off Number 1.

MORE: We reveal Taylor Swift's biggest songs of all time

2. Camila the climber

Two songs share the honour of highest climber this week. Camila Cabello might have watched her former bandmates Fifth Harmony drop a likeness of her from their stage at the MTV VMAs, but the only way is up for Havana feat Young Thug, rising 13 spots to 24. But one place ahead at 23 is Macklemore and Skylar Grey’s Glorious, also making a 13-space leap.

3. The long and the short of it

On a related note, here’s a slightly weird fact: 15 songs in this week’s Top 40 have one-word titles, which is ironic given this week’s chart-topper from Tay-Tay has quite a few words in its title – six, to be exact. It’s the most words in a Number 1 song title in over a year, since Mike Posner’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza. Last time a Number 1 had more than six words in the title, which is pretty unusual, was Ne-Yo’s Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself), back in September 2012. If you don’t think the brackets count – and that is totally up to you, we’re not judging – then the most recent longest title of a Number 1 was The Official BBC Children In Need Medley, from Peter Kay’s Animated All Stars, back in December 2009.

MORE: Look back at every Official Singles Chart Number 1 ever

4. Holding out for a hero

Congrats to Queens Of The Stone Age for landing their first ever Number 1 album with Villains. It’s a great title, but not a word you often hear in the chart – only one Top 40 album has featured it, Marilyn Manson’s Born Villain in 2012, and just one single, Beach Boys’ Number 8 hit Heroes and Villains from exactly 50 years ago this week! What a coincidence! Heroes, of course, are much better represented in the chart, as nobody wants to look like a baddie. 31 songs featuring “hero” or “heroes” have made the Top 40, with three making the top spot. Enrique Iglesias’s Hero was first, in 2002, followed by the X Factor Finalists cover of Mariah Carey’s Hero in 2008 (Eoghan Quigg! Diana Vickers! Rachel Hylton! Laura White! Alexandra!), and then a whole other bunch of X Factor hopefuls plundering the hero archive again, covering David Bowie’s Heroes and occupying Number 1 for two weeks in December 2012. 18 heroic albums have made the Top 40, but never hit Number 1 – so that's a decisive win for the villains.

MORE: See every single occurrence of the word "hero" in the Official Chart's history

5. Oh baby baby, how were you supposed to know?

Our Twitter buddy @BritneyMakesMe wanted to know a couple of stats about – you’ve guessed it – Britney Spears, namely her most streamed and her biggest selling songs. Her most streamed? This might surprise you, but it’s not one of her old-school classics but actually her most recent Number 1, Scream and Shout, which she released with will.i.am in 2012. The song has notched up 9.88 million plays. Her biggest selling single, however, is probably the most iconic Britney single of them all. Her debut hit …Baby One More Time, which topped the chart in 1999, is her top scorer here – 1.55 million copies sold. She’s still got it!

MORE: See all Britney Spears' UK hit singles and albums in her archive

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Take a look at this week's full Official Singles Chart Top 100