Huge congratulations go to Pulp, who celebrate their first Official Number 1 album in 27 years with More.
The Sheffield rockers’ eighth studio LP becomes their first chart-topper since 1998’s This Is Hardcore, and their sixth UK Top 40 overall, alongside 1994’s His ‘N’ Hers (9), 1995 Number 1 Different Class, 1996 hits collection Countdown: 1992-1983 (10) and 2001’s We Love Life (6).
More is also named the biggest record of the week on wax, topping the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
Louisiana-born multihypenate Addison Rae nets her first-ever Top 5 album with self-titled debut Addison this week, straight in at Number 2. The record already houses four UK Top 40 singles: Diet Pepsi, Aquamarine, Headphones On and Fame is a Gun.
Not so Short N’ Sweet! Sabrina Carpenter is today named the female solo artist to have banked the most consecutive weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 5 ever with her sixth studio record.
Now boasting 42 weeks inside the Top 5, Short N’ Sweet surpasses Shania Twain’s Come On Over, which managed 41 weeks across 1999-2000. Sabrina now draws level with Ed Sheeran’s 2021 LP =, which also racked up a total of 42 weeks in the Top 5.
Little Simz lands a career-best with sixth studio release Lotus (3). The London-born multihyphenate previously enjoyed Official Albums Chart success with 2019’s Grey Area (87), 2021’s Mercury Prize-winning work Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (4) and 2023’s NO THANK YOU (40).
Lotus also debuts at Number 1 on the Official Record Store Chart, the most popular LP of the week in UK independent record shops.
MARINA, aka Marina Diamandis, earns her highest-charting album in 13 years with sixth record PRINCESS OF POWER (7). The LP joins 2010 debut The Family Jewels (5), 2012 chart-topper Electra Heart, 2015’s Froot (10), 2019’s Love + Fear (5) and 2012’s Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land (17) to land MARINA a sixth Top 40.
My Chemical Romance’s Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge breaks into the Top 10 for the first time thanks to a 20th anniversary Deluxe Edition, at Number 9 this week. The emo icons’ second studio record previously peaked at Number 34 back in 2005.
Fresh from their set at last weekend’s Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, American punk outfit Turnstile bag a personal best, with fourth long player NEVER ENOUGH becoming the group’s first-ever Top 40 album (11).
Sam Fender’s UK stadium shows see his former chart-topper People Watching scale the Official Albums Chart once again, up 23 (12).
Danish rock outfit Volbeat secure a fourth Top 40 with ninth collection God of Angels Trust (24). The band – currently comprising Michael Poulsen, Jon Larsen and Kaspar Boye Larsen – previously saw success with 2013’s Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies (78), 2016’s Seal The Deal & Let’s Boogie (16), 2019 release Rewind, Replay, Rebound (7) and 2021’s Servant of the Mind (31).
And finally, with its namesake tour’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium residency well underway, Beyoncé’s 2024 record-breaker COWBOY CARTER returns to the Top 40, rocketing 51 places with 81% week-on-week uplift (34).
