The music video – which premiered exclusively on Spotify and Apple Music last Friday (February 6) ahead of a wider release on YouTube two days later – features Taylor’s fellow couch mates from an October episode of The Graham Norton Show, including the host himself, Domhnall Gleeson, Lewis Capaldi and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Opalite’s previous peak came back in October, when it entered the Official Singles Chart at Number 2 in the week that parent album The Life of a Showgirl debuted at Number 1.
This marks yet another milestone for the pop colossus: the first time any Taylor Swift album has produced two UK Number 1 singles. The Life of a Showgirl’s lead single The Fate of Ophelia spent seven non-consecutive weeks atop the Official Chart in 2025.
Taylor’s previous UK Number 1 singles came with Look What You Made Me Do (2017),
Anti-Hero (2022), Is It Over Now (Taylor’s Version) (2023) and Fortnight featuring Post Malone (2024).
Last week’s Number 1 single, Dave and Tems’s Raindance, drops to Number 2, while RAYE’s former chart-topper WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! slips a place to Number 3.
Meanwhile, Bad Bunny is bounding forwards on the UK charts like never before. With his highly acclaimed Super Bowl halftime performance becoming the most watched of all time, he bags his first UK Top 10 album and lands his highest-charting UK single to date, as DtMF rises 39 places to Number 4.
And that’s not all. Two other Bad Bunny tracks, NUEVAYoL (15) and BAILE INoLVIDABLE (20), burrow into the Top 20.
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s dreamy team-up Rein Me In, which has been nominated for Song of the Year at this year’s BRIT Awards, leaps two places to equal its previous peak (5).
PinkPantheress scores the second Top 10 hit of her career as Stateside, which features one of the pop stars of the moment, Zara Larsson, breaks new ground.
Sombr claims this week’s highest new entry with Homewrecker (14), which becomes the US rising star’s fifth UK Top 40 hit.
After re-entering the Top 40 last week for the first time since 2002, Milky’s Just The Way You Are climbs even higher – 12 places to Number 23 thanks to the recent Mall Grab remix.
And speaking of former tracks re-entering the chart, Tame Impala’s Dracula makes a comeback appearance after BLACKPINK’s JENNIE jumped on a new version of the song (25). That’s only four spots behind its peak to date of Number 21, achieved back in October.
American rapper-singer Dominic Fike wrangles a third Top 40 single with Babydoll (30) following a resurgence in the song’s popularity online. Originally released in 2018 and peaking at Number 63 in 2023, it now becomes his highest-charting track since 3 Nights almost seven years ago.
Elsewhere, 2025 BRIT Rising Star Myles Smith and Niall Horan’s duet Drive Safe debuts at Number 27 to become a fifth Top 40 single for Myles and a ninth for Niall.
Ella Langley‘s Choosin’ Texas rises three places (35), while Calvin Harris and Kasabian enter the Top 40 with their explosive collab Release The Pressure (37).
