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James Marriott secures first Number 1 album with Don’t Tell The Dog: “I’m just mind blown!”
20 June 2025
Congratulations are in order for musician and social media creator James Marriott, who earns his first-ever Official Number 1 album with Don’t Tell The Dog.
The Swiss-born, Brighton-based multihyphenate has amassed a legion of loyal fans across a 17-year career spanning music and social media, previously enjoying Top 20 success with 2023 debut Are We There Yet? (17).
Celebrating the news, James Marriott tells Official Charts:
“Thank you so, so much for my first-ever Official Number 1 album. It’s been such an amazing week travelling up and down the country, doing a little show. I’m just mind blown! Thank you so much for supporting me over the last week, and the last few years. This Number 1 Award goes out to all of you!”
Following an extensive series of instore appearances this week, Don’t Tell The Dog also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the biggest record of the past seven days on wax, and Official Record Store Chart, this week’s most popular LP in UK independent record shops.
It’s still June but we’re mad fer it already! As the country readies itself for their Live ’25 reunion shows which kick off in Cardiff on 4 July, Oasis’s enduring hits collection?Time Flies… 1994-2009? shoots back into the Top 5, up 12 this week (2).
brat forever? Following her headline performance at London’s LIDO Festival last weekend, the Charli xcx’s zeitgeist-capturing collection brat returns to the Top 10, up six places (7).
It’s a 14th Top 10 record for The Cure with Mixes Of A Lost World; a reimagining of their 2024 chart-topper Songs Of A Lost World (9). The likes of Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, Sally C and Four Tet have all contributed to the remix record.
Legendary Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison sinks a 45th Top 40 LP with Remembering Now, his 47th studio work (11).
Lil Tecca’s fifth full-length work DOPAMINE earns the New York rapper, singer and songwriter his second UK Top 40 album (17), joining 2019 release We Love You Tecca (17).
Live and direct! Ladbroke Grove’s finest AJ Tracey earns a fourth Top 40 LP with Don’t Die Before You’re Dead (37). The record joins 2017’s Secure The Bag (13), 2019 self-titled LP AJ Tracey (3) and 2021’s Flu Game (2) in AJ’s Top 40 tally. Catch up on AJ Tracy’s episode of The Record Club with Bowers & Wilkins here.
The highest-climbing albums of the week come courtesy of The Beach Boys, following the passing of Brian Wilson last week, Beach Boys’ compilation Sounds Of Summer – The Very Best Of leaps 58 places all the way back into the Official Albums Chart Top 40 at Number 32, while their 1966 classic Pet Sounds also makes the Top 100, up 97 places to Number 85.
Sabrina Carpenter sets an all-time Official Chart record!
Sabrina Carpenter secures a record-breaking milestone, with Short N’ Sweet confirmed by the Official Charts Company as the solo studio album with the longest consecutive Top 5 streak in UK Official Albums Chart history.
The chart record was previously 42 weeks and held by Ed Sheeran with 2021’s =, while Short N’ Sweet today surpasses Ed with a staggering 43-week run in the UK Top 5.
The Swiss-born, Brighton-based multihyphenate has amassed a legion of loyal fans across a 17-year career spanning music and social media, previously enjoying Top 20 success with 2023 debut Are We There Yet? (17).
Celebrating the news, James Marriott tells Official Charts:
“Thank you so, so much for my first-ever Official Number 1 album. It’s been such an amazing week travelling up and down the country, doing a little show. I’m just mind blown! Thank you so much for supporting me over the last week, and the last few years. This Number 1 Award goes out to all of you!”
Following an extensive series of instore appearances this week, Don’t Tell The Dog also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the biggest record of the past seven days on wax, and Official Record Store Chart, this week’s most popular LP in UK independent record shops.
It’s still June but we’re mad fer it already! As the country readies itself for their Live ’25 reunion shows which kick off in Cardiff on 4 July, Oasis’s enduring hits collection?Time Flies… 1994-2009? shoots back into the Top 5, up 12 this week (2).
brat forever? Following her headline performance at London’s LIDO Festival last weekend, the Charli xcx’s zeitgeist-capturing collection brat returns to the Top 10, up six places (7).
It’s a 14th Top 10 record for The Cure with Mixes Of A Lost World; a reimagining of their 2024 chart-topper Songs Of A Lost World (9). The likes of Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, Sally C and Four Tet have all contributed to the remix record.
Legendary Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison sinks a 45th Top 40 LP with Remembering Now, his 47th studio work (11).
Lil Tecca’s fifth full-length work DOPAMINE earns the New York rapper, singer and songwriter his second UK Top 40 album (17), joining 2019 release We Love You Tecca (17).
Live and direct! Ladbroke Grove’s finest AJ Tracey earns a fourth Top 40 LP with Don’t Die Before You’re Dead (37). The record joins 2017’s Secure The Bag (13), 2019 self-titled LP AJ Tracey (3) and 2021’s Flu Game (2) in AJ’s Top 40 tally. Catch up on AJ Tracy’s episode of The Record Club with Bowers & Wilkins here.
The highest-climbing albums of the week come courtesy of The Beach Boys, following the passing of Brian Wilson last week, Beach Boys’ compilation Sounds Of Summer – The Very Best Of leaps 58 places all the way back into the Official Albums Chart Top 40 at Number 32, while their 1966 classic Pet Sounds also makes the Top 100, up 97 places to Number 85.
Sabrina Carpenter sets an all-time Official Chart record!
Sabrina Carpenter secures a record-breaking milestone, with Short N’ Sweet confirmed by the Official Charts Company as the solo studio album with the longest consecutive Top 5 streak in UK Official Albums Chart history.
The chart record was previously 42 weeks and held by Ed Sheeran with 2021’s =, while Short N’ Sweet today surpasses Ed with a staggering 43-week run in the UK Top 5.
