Sixty-three singles have charted in the top 10 so far in 2026 (as of 20 August 2026, week ending) with fifty-five singles reaching their peak this year (including the re-entries "All I Want for Christmas Is You", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", "Jingle Bell Rock", "Fairytale of New York", "Step into Christmas" and "Merry Christmas Everyone", which charted in previous years but reached peaks on their latest chart run).

On 9 January 2026 (15 January 2026, week ending), "End of Beginning", written and recorded by actor Joe Keery under his stage name of Djo, rose to number-one in the UK Singles Chart, one week after re-entering the top-ten following the premiere of the Stranger Things season 5 finale. Originally released in September 2022 as a track on Keery's album Decide, the song was issued as a single in 2024 after gaining popularity on TikTok, and it had originally peaked at number four in the UK in March of that year. When the song finally hit the top spot, it enjoyed its biggest week on streaming in the UK, racking up 5.4 million combined streams.^[6]

On 30 January 2026 (5 February 2026, week ending), Harry Styles's "Aperture" debuted at number-one in the UK Singles Chart becoming his third number-one single as a solo artist, and his first since "As It Was" debuted at the top of the charts in April 2022. Additionally, on the UK Albums Chart, Styles' former One Direction bandmate Louis Tomlinson earned the number one album with How Did I Get Here?. This became the second time One Direction earned the UK Chart Double, the first in November 2012 when the single "Little Things" and the album Take Me Home simultaneously topped the UK Charts.^[7]

On 13 March 2026 (19 March 2026, week ending), Styles claimed the Chart Double for the second time in his career, after his single "American Girls" and the parent album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally simultaneously debuted atop the UK Singles Chart and UK Albums Chart, respectively.^[8]

On 13 February 2026 (19 February 2026, week ending), Taylor Swift secured her sixth number-one single on the UK Singles Chart with "Opalite". The song had originally debuted and peaked at number two in October 2025, following the release of the parent album The Life of a Showgirl, which eventually became the first album by Swift to spawn at least two UK number-one singles after "The Fate of Ophelia" spent seven weeks at number-one.^[9]

On 12 June 2026 (18 June 2026, week ending), Swift earned her seventh number-one single on the UK Singles Chart with "I Knew It, I Knew You", which is also part of the Toy Story 5 soundtrack. This also became the first time in Swift's career where she earned multiple number-one singles in a chart year, and she became the first international artist to secure multiple number-ones in 2026.^[10] On 19 June 2026 (25 June 2026, week ending), during the song's second week at number one, Swift claimed the biggest week of single sales in three years, with 71,000 units being achieved, surpassing the opening week of sales for "Aperture" by Harry Styles.^[11]

On 20 February 2026 (26 February 2026, week ending), Sam Fender achieved his first UK number-one single with "Rein Me In", a duet with Olivia Dean, during the song's 18th week in the top 10. The song also set the new record for the most consecutive weeks in the top 40, with a 35-week climb to the top spot, a record previously held by Ed Sheeran with "Thinking Out Loud" in November 2014, which spent 19 consecutive weeks in the top 40.^[12]

On 26 June 2026 (2 July 2026, week ending), almost exactly a year after it had first debuted in the chart at number six, the single spent a fourteenth non-consecutive week at number-one, surpassing Alex Warren's "Ordinary" as the single with the most weeks at number-one in the UK in the 2020s.^[13]

On 10 July 2026 (16 July 2026, week ending), during its sixteenth non-consecutive week at the top spot, "Rein Me In" became the longest-running UK number-one single of all time by a British act, surpassing Wet Wet Wet's "Love is All Around", which spent fifteen weeks at number-one in 1994.^[14]

On 31 July 2026 (6 August 2026, week ending), "Rein Me In" made history yet again when it overtook Frankie Laine's 1953 hit "I Believe" to become the longest-running UK number-one single of all time, with nineteen non-consecutive weeks at the summit.^[15]

On 24 April 2026 (30 April 2026, week ending), Olivia Rodrigo earned her fourth UK number-one single with "Drop Dead". The song became Rodrigo's first chart topper in three years, when "Vampire" topped the charts in September 2023.^[16]

On 24 April 2026 (30 April 2026, week ending), Justin Bieber entered the top-ten at number 3 with "Beauty and a Beat", a duet with Nicki Minaj, following Bieber's headline performance at Coachella 2026. Upon release, the song originally peaked at number 16 in October 2012 and has since become Bieber's 29th and Minaj's 16th UK top 10 singles, respectively. Bieber's song "Daisies" also returned to the top-ten at number 5, having originally peaked at number one in July 2025.^[16]

In May 2026, almost seventeen years after his death, and following the release of the biopic Michael, the late Michael Jackson returned to the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart with several entries. On 8 May 2026 (14 May 2026, week ending), his 1983 hits "Billie Jean" and "Beat It", which originally peaked at numbers one and three, respectively, upon their initial releases, re-entered the top 10 at numbers four and ten, respectively.^[17] On 15 May 2026 (21 May 2026, week ending), Jackson's song "Human Nature" from the album Thriller, which had never been released as an official single in the UK, entered the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart at number six.^[18]

On 15 May 2026 (21 May 2026, week ending), The Chemical Brothers secured their first UK top-ten single since 2005 when "Go", a song featured on their 2015 chart-topping album Born in the Echoes, rose to number seven in the UK Singles Chart almost 11 years after its initial release, after experiencing a surge in popularity due to its inclusion in the Netflix film Apex. When the song first charted in 2015, it had only peaked at number 46.^[18]

On 5 June 2026 (11 June 2026, week ending), "Hate That I Made You Love Me" by Ariana Grande debuted at the top of the UK Singles Chart, becoming Grande's eighth number-one single. The song went on to become Grande's first number-one single in six years, since "Positions" topped the charts for six consecutive weeks in November 2020.^[19]

On 17 July 2026 (23 July 2026, week ending), following England's humiliating defeat to Argentina in the semi-final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, three singles entered the top-ten amidst the short lived World Cup celebrations. This included "Wonderwall by Oasis (2), "Three Lions" by Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds (3) and "Dai Dai" by Shakira and Burna Boy (5). "Dai Dai", which was the official anthem for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, also became Shakira's first top-ten hit since September 2009, when "She Wolf" peaked at number 4.^[20] The next week, "Dai Dai" rose to a new peak of number 2 after Shakira and Burna Boy performed it alongside the Ghetto Kids during the 2026 FIFA World Cup final halftime show, making it the highest-charting official FIFA World Cup song in the UK.^[21]

On 14 August 2026 (20 August 2026, week ending) Madonna and Kylie Minogue earned another top-ten single with their collaboration "Love Sensation", which debuted at number 8. The song became Madonna's 65th and Minogue's 37th top-ten single, respectively. The collaboration also became Madonna's highest-charting single since the 2009 "Celebration" which peaked at number 3, and became Minogue's second top-ten single in 2026 following "XMAS", which was the Christmas number-one of 2025.^[22]

Original songs from various films entered the top 10 throughout the year. These included "I Knew It, I Knew You" (from Toy Story 5).

Thirteen artists have achieved their first charting top ten single so far in 2026, either as a lead or featured artist.

The following table (collapsed on desktop site) does not include acts who had previously charted as part of a group and secured their first top ten solo single.