Michael's Top 40

Samir Hussein/WireImage In the past I've tried to use this blog to write weekly recaps on the action on the current top 40 and ultimately I found it hard to do at all, let alone consistently. Plus it can be hard to keep writing new things about a song for 20-30 weeks in a row. But this week it feels like I need to call out a very rare occurrence on the chart. "Rein Me In", the duet between ascendant English artists Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, is at #1 this week for the tenth

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