The Official Singles Chart published on 23 October 2026 for the week of 23 to 29 October has Babydoll by Jamie Miller at number one, ahead of Tate McRae's Housewife, as BBC News also reported.
Hunch. Patient Zero is only in its third week and Official Charts says it "continues to dominate", while the past hits that lost the top spot had been out for 9 or 10 weeks.
The number one market resolves on the Official Singles Chart Top 100 on officialcharts.com published on 23 October 2026: YES if Babydoll by Jamie Miller, in any version the chart counts as this song, is at number one, and NO if any other song is. If the chart comes out late it resolves on that day, and BBC News and The Guardian settle it if the chart page cannot be read.
We looked for cases where a song called viral on social media climbed week by week to a new high of number two, behind a new hit by an artist who already had a UK number one. We found nine such races from 2016 to 2025. Twice the viral song went to number one the next week: Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush in 2022 and Sailor Song by Gigi Perez in 2024. Seven times it stayed behind.