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Alex Warren Beats Ed Sheeran's Historic Record
Alex Warren has scored perhaps the biggest breakout hit of 2025. "Ordinary" is a global sensation and has now led the charge on tallies around the world for several weeks, but fans in the United Kingdom got a head start and turned it into a smash months ago.
As the singer-songwriter's introductory tune leads once again in the U.K., he breaks out of a tie with one of the biggest pop stars of the past several decades and shows just how huge his composition really is in that country.
"Ordinary" leads the Official Singles chart for a twelfth consecutive frame. The tune has only spent 17 weeks on the list of the most consumed songs in the U.K., and it needed just about a month before it started running the show. Since rising to the top spot, it has yet to relent.
Now that it's reached a dozen total frames at No. 1, "Ordinary" stands as the longest-running No. 1 on the Official Singles chart this decade, according to the Official Charts Company. That honor had been held by "Bad Habits" by Ed Sheeran, which ruled for 11 frames earlier in the 2020s. Three other cuts — "As It Was" by Harry Styles, "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus, and "Sprinter" by Dave and Central Cee — all lived on the throne for 10 weeks.
Warren may be just getting started in several countries, but in the U.K., he's already scored half a dozen hits on the Official Singles chart. "Ordinary" is far and away his most successful, but it's not even his sole top 10.
He reached the region with "Carry You Home," which debuted in June 2024. A year later, earlier this month, he joined with Jelly Roll on "Bloodline," which launched in the same position, at No. 9. He's also cracked the top 40 with "Burning Down," a fall 2024 cut that climbed to No. 23.
