Chappell Roan pulls straight in at Number 1 with “The Subway”

She’s got, she’s got a way! Chappell Roan secures her second UK Number 1 single of the year with The Subway.

The regretful dream-pop ballad – a fan favourite since Chappell first performed it live in June 2024 – storms straight to the top this week. In the process, it dethrones last week’s Number 1, Golden by HUNTR/X, the fictional girl-group from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters (2).

Chappell previously reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart for the first time in March with her sleeper smash Pink Pony Club and is the only artist this year to secure two Number 1 singles.

Meanwhile, summer earworm No Broke Boys by Disco Lines and Tinashe climbs three to break into the Top 5 this week (5).

Climbing five spots is Soda Pop by Saja Boys, the fictional boyband from KPop Demon Hunters, which enters the Top 10 for the first time (6).

12 to 12, the latest smash from indie-pop artist Sombr, jumps 12 to make the Top 20 for the first time (19). Justin Bieber’s YUKON also makes major gains, climbing 13 to a new peak (24).

And as the Oasis reunion tour rolls into Edinburgh, the band register their 28th UK Top 40 song. Slide Away, a fan favourite from their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, makes its first-ever appearance on the Official Singles Chart this week (31). It joins two other Oasis classics in the Top 40: Don’t Look Back in Anger (23) and Live Forever (27).

Elsewhere just outside the Top 40, Rudimental & Jess Glynne scoop this week’s highest climber, Back To Me ascends 51 places to Number 43.

K-pop summer heats up

For the first time in Official Singles Chart history, a record-breaking three K-pop songs are taking pride of place in the Top 10.

Golden by HUNTR/X sits at Number 2 this week, joined by two Saja Boys songs: Soda Pop (6) and Your Idol (8).

All three songs are taken from the chart-topping soundtrack to hit Netflix musical movie Kpop Demon Hunters, which has become a global phenomenon since it debuted in June.

When HUNTR/X’s Golden hit the top spot last week, it became the first K-pop Number 1 in 13 years since PSY’s Gangnam Style back in 2012.