The highly anticipated finale of Stranger Things has upended the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart as cast member Djo (actor Joe Keery) scores his first No. 1 single with “End of Beginning” on the tally dated Jan. 9.

Alongside his acting role as fan favorite Steve Harrington in the Netflix show, Keery has embarked on a musical career as Djo. He has released three LPs under the moniker: Twenty Twenty (2019), Decide (2022) and The Crux (2025).

His 2022 song “End of Beginning” leaps from No. 7 to No. 1 to better its previous peak of No. 4 from 2024 (the track is up to No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100). Djo follows Kate Bush, who benefitted from a needle-drop in the show’s fourth season in 2022, with her 1985 track with “Running Up That Hill” hitting the No. 1 spot on the U.K. Singles Chart for three weeks. 

A number of songs that received placements in Stranger Things — which concluded its fifth and final season on Dec. 31 — see major chart gains this week: Prince’s “Purple Reign” soars from outside the top 100 up to No. 12; Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” lifts to No. 14; The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” rises 41 spots to No. 17 (its highest placing in 43 years); Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” is up to No. 20; Diana Ross’ “Upside Down” rises 60 spots to No. 26; and Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now” improves to No. 27.

The finale’s closing track, “Heroes” by David Bowie, also benefits with a placing at No. 34 —  172% week-on-week uplift, as per the Official Charts Company — and The Clash’s former chart-topper “Should I Stay or Go” sneaks into the top 40 at No. 40.

Elsewhere on the charts, Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” holds its spot at No. 2, while RAYE’s “Where Is My Husband!” spends just one week at the summit, falling to No. 3. Dave and Tems‘ “Rain Dance” closes at No. 4, and Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (to Fall in Love)” rounds out the top five at No. 5.

Zara Larsson continues to reap rewards of a viral dance trend as her 2016 track “Lush Life” lifts one spot to No. 8, closing in on its previous high of No. 3. HAVEN’s “I Run” also rises one place to No. 9, and KATSEYE’s “Internet Girl” debuts at No. 24, the group’s highest spot on the U.K. Singles Chart so far.

Zach Bryan‘s first album since his split from Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia and getting married to Samantha Leonard, With Heaven on Top, has arrived — and it looks like the country singer has quite a few things to say about both relationships.

Arriving Friday (Jan. 9), the LP’s most pointed song is arguably “Skin,” which finds Bryan referencing an ex with meaningful ink. LaPaglia notably has a “How lucky are we?” tattoo, the same phrase Bryan included in his song “28” in 2024. He also reportedly got a similar tattoo to match LaPaglia.

“I’m taking a blade to my old tattoos/ I’m draining the blood between me and you … And I ain’t never touching yours again,” he sings on the chorus, and in one of the verses: “Do you love people just to win when it’s over? … Do you still talk s–t on all your friends?”

Bryan also asks in the lyrics, “Are you walking ’round Tribeca with him?” — possibly referencing LaPaglia moving to New York City in late 2024 after their breakup.

Billboard has reached out to Bryan and LaPaglia’s reps for comment.

LaPaglia — who is a social media influencer and podcaster — dated Bryan from 2023 to 2024. After they split, she accused him of emotional abuse and alleged that his team had offered her millions of dollars to stay quiet about their relationship, which she says she declined.

On the last day of 2025, Bryan married Leonard, who is an artist. On another With Heaven on Top song, “Slicked Back,” the Grammy winner croons, “Used to know some folks who put it all online, but you paint landscapes in the evening time.”

LaPaglia hasn’t commented on her ex-boyfriend getting married, although she did post a TikTok shortly after Bryan’s wedding in which she mouths along to Taylor Swift’s “Mastermind.” Many of the commenters on the post interpreted it as shade toward Bryan, with one person writing, “Said a lot without saying nothing my queen.”

And while Bryan sings about taking his tattoo removal into his own hands, LaPaglia has said that she has no plans of parting with hers. In November 2024, she posted a TikTok explaining, “I see a lot of people being like, ‘Well, now I have to get my ‘How lucky are we?’ tattoo removed.’ That was my thing. That is my tattoo.”

“Now we’re matching. OK? Don’t get it removed,” she added in the clip. “This is mine. ‘How lucky are we?’ That was me.”

Listen to With Heaven on Top below.

It has been more than seven years since Britney Spears wrapped her global Piece of Me tour. And while fans of the 44-year-old “Toxic” pop star who has effectively retired from the music world are always eager to get any hint that she is considering a return to the stage, on Thursday night (Jan. 8) Britney seemed to put a stop to all that talk.

As far as the the United States is concerned, anyway.

In a sweet Instagram post featuring a throwback picture from her glory days of the singer seated on the bench of a white grand piano next to her keyboard player, Spears revealed that she is planning to offer the instrument to her youngest son, 19-year-old Jayden James Federline, while revealing that she will never, ever tickle those ivories herself in America. “Sending this piano to my son this year!!!,” she wrote, explaining that her signature, frequent dancing videos are sometimes “embarrassing,” but that she “walked through fire to save my life.”

She then dropped a bombshell: “I will never perform in the U.S. again because of extremely sensitive reasons,” Spears said without specifically explaining what those reasons are while also creaking the door open a crack on possibly performing elsewhere in the future. “But I hope to be sitting on a stool with a red rose in my hair, in a bun, performing with my son… in the UK and AUSTRALIA very soon. He’s a huge star and I’m so humbled to be in his presence!!! God speed, little man!!!”

At press time a spokesperson for Spears had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment on the singer’s pledge not to perform in the U.S. again.

Spears was referring to her Jayden, who she has referred to as a “genius” in a December 2024 post after an emotional Christmastime reunion in which she crowed about how they were “like twins.” In March of last year Spears posted a pair of Insta clips of Jayden showing off his piano-playing and rapping skills, dubbing his talents “sick!” and captioning the clip “WOW WOW WOW !!!“

Spears has not released an album of new material since 2016’s Glory and her last live show was on Oct. 21, 2018 in Austin, Texas and has repeatedly said in the past that she is done with the music industry.