Taylor Swift scores first Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with Look What You Made Me Do

Plus there are new Top 40 entries this week from Avicii ft Rita Ora, and J Hus.
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Over eight years since she made her UK chart debut back in 2009, Taylor Swift has finally scored her very first Number 1 single on this week’s Official Singles Chart.

The singer’s huge comeback single Look What You Made Me Do – which has smashed global Spotify and YouTube records - has charged straight in at the top in the UK, accumulating 30,000 downloads and 5.3 million streams in its opening week.

LWYMMD is Taylor’s eighth UK Top 5 single, three of which had previously peaked at Number 2 (Love Story, I Knew You Were Trouble and Shake it Off). View her full Official UK Chart history here.

MORE: View this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Dua Lipa’s two week reign at Number 1 with New Rules has come to an end, slipping to 2, while P!nk’s What About Us climbs one spot to Number 3. This marks the first all-female Top 3 on the Official Singles Chart since October 2014, when Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass was at the helm, followed by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj’s Bang Bang at Number 2 and Taylor’s Shake It Off at Number 3.

Rounding out this week’s Top 5 are Feels by Calvin Harris, Pharrell, Katy Perry and Big Sean at Number 4, and Justin Bieber and BloodPop®’s Friends falls three to this week’s Number 5.

MORE: The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2017 so far

New entries and high climbers 

James Hype and Kelli Leigh's More Than Friends jumps two rungs to a new peak of Number 8, while Demi Lovato's Sorry Not Sorry also advances a couple of slots to reach Number 12, a new high for the track.

Macklemore's Glorious ft. Skylar Grey and Camila Cabello's Havana with Young Thug made their Top 40 debuts last week, and both leap 13 spots to Number 23 and 24 respectively. Lil Uzi Vert's XO TOUR Llif3 also makes gains following the release of his debut album, hopping five to Number 25.

MORE: Look back at every UK Number 1 single ever

Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj’s Swish Swish rockets 29 places to reach new heights at Number 29 following the release of its music video and their MTV VMAs performance, and Avicii and Rita Ora’s Lonely Together makes its Top 40 debut at Number 37. The song is Avicii’s 12th and Rita’s 15th Top 40 hit.

Finally, J Hus’ Spirit springs into the Top 40 for the first time, rising six to Number 39.

View this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

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Robert Lewis

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Can't win really, it's either self indulgent rap about wealth, lifestyle and riches, but equally being lonely and not being able to trust anyone or it's self indulgent pop where the singer doesn't ever take any responsibility for anything that reflects badly on her. Someone else is always to blame yah yah yah.. yawn. She may not have signed up for Kanye's lyric about making her famous, but she signed off on enough of it to give him license to be creative with that. It's not her best work and it won't be the end of Kanye vs Taylor either sadly for us all who would rather see something more genuine enter the high end of the charts. They play off each other and their "feud" makes money for both sides, so the end is nowhere in sight.

At least Queens of the Stone age scored a well deserved number one in the album charts and the new LCD Soundsystem album by all accounts sounds excellent.

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Oivind

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I'm sorry, you present a false dichotomy there. There are other possibilities, which IMO are far more likely. The whole thing could be irony, and you're actually part of the joke.

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Oivind

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Well deserved. I like the song and absolutely love the video. It's probably not my favorite song of hers, but it is my favorite video.

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MusicStan_1997

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This has been long overdue but I'm so happy Taylor has finally got her first no.1 single here. Look What You Made Me Do is a great song, I haven't stopped listening to it since it came out.

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Piran

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I can’t even describe how happy I am that Taylor finally has a #1 single! :D

I’m definitely a big fan of hers, so I had high expectations about her return & unsurprisingly, I love her new single! I like how she’s gone for a darker & more intense sound in the production, especially the beat that kicks in half way through the first verse & the piano notes that build even more suspense in the pre-chorus. Also, her vocal range is much greater in this compared to most of her other lead singles, which is why she can really pull off a song like this well. I actually like the build-up to the hook more I than I do the chorus itself; it’s still good (due to being repetitive & catchy), but the drop is a bit basic in my opinion.

The video is even more exciting, especially with all of the different Taylors & the dance break at the end.

I completely understand if you’re not a fan of this (I could even see a few or her country or pop fans being disappointed), but for me, ‘Look’ shows that Taylor can change up her style & still amaze me with it. I certainly wasn’t expecting her to go in this direction though, which is making me even more excited for ‘Reputation’!