[3] The song is Stormzy's first new music as a lead artist since 2017, when he released his UK number-one album Gang Signs & Prayer.

[4] The song features an explicit indignant statement towards Boris Johnson, then Foreign Secretary and eventual British Prime Minister at the time of its production and release which goes: “I could never die, I’m Chuck Norris / fuck the government, fuck Boris”.

by Taylor Swift featuring Brendon Urie by some 500 combined sales.

[7] Several media outlets, including the BBC and Noisey, made note that it could be Stormzy's first UK number-one single.

[9] "Vossi Bop" also received 12.7 million streams in its debut week on sale, the highest ever by a rapper and the fifth-highest of all time.