How To Select Or View Only The Top Row In Airtable?

Try a record list. You can sort elements there as well as limit how many you want to list.

I guess the other would be scripting and just "limiting" what the query returns when displaying it (which doesn't sound like what you want). I am not sure there is a simple native way.

I guess in the end record list limits are the closest to what you are trying to achieve, especially since your main criterion for a top row is sorting.