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Fender, Dean Smash Chart Record with 16-Week #1

7/11/2026

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Fender & Dean Record-Breaker

Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s duet “Rein Me In” led the UK singles chart for 16 weeks, breaking Wet Wet Wet’s 1994 record and matching Bryan Adams’s 1991 run.
A June remix debuted live at Fender’s London Stadium show, with the performance video going viral.
The track gave Fender his first UK number-one and Dean her second, while setting the longest top 40 run and most top 10 weeks for non-Christmas singles.

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Fender & Dean Dominate

The duet won the 2026 BRIT Song of the Year.
It gave Sam Fender his first US Hot 100 (15 weeks) and Canadian Hot 100 (17 weeks) entries.
In Ireland it topped the chart for ten weeks, lasted 55 weeks, and gave Dean four Top 10 tracks—a decade-first for a female artist.
It topped Australia’s ARIA Singles Chart and held No. 2 in New Zealand for eight weeks.

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Fender & Dean Record-Breaker

Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s duet “Rein Me In” led the UK singles chart for 16 weeks, breaking Wet Wet Wet’s 1994 record and matching Bryan Adams’s 1991 run.
A June remix debuted live at Fender’s London Stadium show, with the performance video going viral.
The track gave Fender his first UK number-one and Dean her second, while setting the longest top 40 run and most top 10 weeks for non-Christmas singles.

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