Alex Warren’s Peculiar turns into longest-running UK primary this decade

US singer Alex Warren’s smash hit Peculiar has notched up its twelfth week at primary within the UK – the longest chart reign since Ed Sheeran’s Form of You in 2017.

Peculiar, which the 24-year-old wrote for his spouse after their wedding ceremony final yr, has been streamed 107 million instances within the UK, in response to the Official Charts Firm.

It has damaged the 70-year-old file for essentially the most consecutive weeks at primary by a US artist – surpassing Slim Whitman’s Rose Marie, which spent 11 weeks on the high in 1955.

Peculiar exhibits no signal of going away – it stays by far the most important track on Spotify within the UK, with 33% extra streams than its nearest rival within the service’s newest day by day rankings.

Nevertheless it has some option to go earlier than it catches the longest-running quantity ones of all time.

Longest-running quantity ones in historical past:

• Frankie Laine, I Consider – 18 weeks, 1953
• Bryan Adams, (All the things I Do) I Do It For You – 16 weeks, 1991
• Moist Moist Moist, Love Is All Round – 15 weeks, 1994
• Drake ft Wizkid & Kyla, One Dance – 15 weeks, 2016
• Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody – 14 weeks, 1975/6 & 1991/2
• Ed Sheeran, Form of You -14 weeks, 2017
• Alex Warren, Peculiar – 12 weeks, 2025

Warren discovered fame as one of many founders of the Hype Home, a TikTok collective who lived collectively in Los Angeles and entertained hundreds of thousands of youngsters through the pandemic.

He first reached the highest 10 with Carry You Residence final yr, then his profession as heartfelt folk-pop singer-songwriter exploded with Peculiar, which is at present additionally primary within the US.

“It has been huge,” mentioned James Masterton, who writes the Chart Watch UK weblog. “It is a crossover hit single in an excellent old school sense, and in a approach we’ve not seen for fairly some appreciable time.

“It is the form of file that sat comfortably on the playlists of each Radio 1 and Radio 2, however sarcastically it is dropped off each of these now they usually’ve each moved on to taking part in his new single. However that is an instance of the way it has real pan-generational enchantment.”

Peculiar has additionally turn into a well-liked wedding ceremony track, and Warren’s label has even launched a Marriage ceremony Model.

“In that sense it is bought a lot in widespread with a number of the different well-known long-running tracks of the previous, akin to (All the things I Do) I Do It For You, Love Is All Round and I Will At all times Love You. They’re all very deeply felt romantic songs.”

However regardless of being such a mammoth hit, altering media and music habits imply Peculiar hasn’t turn into a ubiquitous phenomenon of the type Bryan Adams and Moist Moist Moist had after they had been showing on BBC TV chart present High of the Pops week after week.

“The fragmentation of the media means the power for data to seize the eye of huge teams of individuals has diminished quickly,” Masterton mentioned.

“In instances passed by when a file was primary for so long as 12 weeks, everyone would know who the celebrity was.”

Longest-running quantity ones of the 2020s:

• Alex Warren, Peculiar – 12 weeks, 2025
• Ed Sheeran, Unhealthy Habits – 11 weeks, 2021
• Harry Types, As It Was – 10 weeks, 2022
• Miley Cyrus, Flowers – 10 weeks, 2023
• Dave & Central Cee, Sprinter – 10 weeks, 2023

Peculiar can also be the longest-running primary since chart guidelines had been modified in 2017 to cease the highest 40 getting clogged up by songs which have handed their peak of recognition.

The chart system robotically demotes songs which have had three consecutive weeks of declining streaming figures, in comparison with the remainder of the market. However Peculiar has held sufficiently regular to keep away from that destiny thus far.