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YUNGBLUD lands Number 1 album hat-trick with 'Idols'
28 June 2025
YUNGBLUD lands his third consecutive Official Number 1 album with Idols this week.
The Doncaster-born rocker’s critcally-acclaimed fourth studio release joins 2020’s weird! and self-titled 2023 release YUNGBLUD to complete a chart-topping hat-trick. 2019 EP the underrated youth peaked at Number 6 here in the UK.
It comes after YUNGBLUD hosted his second BLUDFEST at The National Bowl, Milton Keynes last weekend. At the festival, YUNGBLUD told fans: “I was so f**king nervous to release this album. It's been four years in the making, but to see the amount of love that you are giving it… I love you all so much.”
It’s a career-best for Loyle Carner this week, courtesy of his fourth studio LP hopefully ! (2). Previously, Benjamin Gerard Coyle-Larner enjoyed Albums Chart success with 2017’s?Yesterday’s Gone?(14), 2019 record?Not Waving, But Drowning?(3) and 2022’s?hugo?(3).
HAIM?earn a fourth Top 5 record with?I quit?(3). LA sisters Alana, Danielle and Este Haim have previously charted with 2013 debut?Days Are Gone?(1), 2017’s?Something To Tell You?(2) and 2020 album?Women In Music Pt III?(1).
Benson Boone banks a personal best with second LP American Heart, straight in at Number 4 today. Benson’s debut, 2024’s Fireworks & Rollerblades, has so far scored a Number 16 peak in the UK.
Manchester’s finest Aitch bags a fourth Top 10 record with sixth full-length work 4 (7). The rapper, born Harrison Armstrong, has previously seen success with 2019’s?AitcH20?(3), 2020’s Polaris?(7) and 2022 LP?Close To Home?(2).
With seven days to go until their hotly anticipated Live ’25 reunion tour, Oasis’s enduring hits compilation Time Flies… 1994-2009 holds strong inside the Top 10 (9). It’s the first of three Oasis records in the wider Top 40, joined by (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, up 10 (18), and Definitely Maybe, which lifts eight places (37).
Ahead of their London Wembley Stadium show this weekend, Linkin Park’s hits collection Papercuts jumps three spots in a return to the Top 20 (19).
Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming BST Hyde Park and Glastonbury Pyramid Stage headline slots spark a surge in her catalogue. 2023’s GUTS rockets 10 rungs (24), while 2021 debut SOUR lifts five (25).
Sheffield heavy metal outfit Malevolence – comprising Alex Taylor, Josh Baines, Konan Hall, Wilkie Robinson and Charlie Thorpe - score their first-ever Official Albums Chart Top 40 entry with fourth set Where Only The Truth Is Spoken (32).
As she takes her Radical Optimism stadium tour around the UK, Dua Lipa’s self-titled 2017 debut Dua Lipa returns to the Top 40, up 16 (34). It comes after Dua surprised London concertgoers with performances of fan favourites Hotter Than Hell and IDGAF, both housed on the record, last week.
Lucy Spraggan lands an eighth Top 40 with Other Sides Of The Moon (36) and, finally, Lana Del Rey’s UK and Ireland stadium tour sees her 2012 debut Born To Die scale the Albums Chart, jumping 21 places this week (38).
The Doncaster-born rocker’s critcally-acclaimed fourth studio release joins 2020’s weird! and self-titled 2023 release YUNGBLUD to complete a chart-topping hat-trick. 2019 EP the underrated youth peaked at Number 6 here in the UK.
It comes after YUNGBLUD hosted his second BLUDFEST at The National Bowl, Milton Keynes last weekend. At the festival, YUNGBLUD told fans: “I was so f**king nervous to release this album. It's been four years in the making, but to see the amount of love that you are giving it… I love you all so much.”
It’s a career-best for Loyle Carner this week, courtesy of his fourth studio LP hopefully ! (2). Previously, Benjamin Gerard Coyle-Larner enjoyed Albums Chart success with 2017’s?Yesterday’s Gone?(14), 2019 record?Not Waving, But Drowning?(3) and 2022’s?hugo?(3).
HAIM?earn a fourth Top 5 record with?I quit?(3). LA sisters Alana, Danielle and Este Haim have previously charted with 2013 debut?Days Are Gone?(1), 2017’s?Something To Tell You?(2) and 2020 album?Women In Music Pt III?(1).
Benson Boone banks a personal best with second LP American Heart, straight in at Number 4 today. Benson’s debut, 2024’s Fireworks & Rollerblades, has so far scored a Number 16 peak in the UK.
Manchester’s finest Aitch bags a fourth Top 10 record with sixth full-length work 4 (7). The rapper, born Harrison Armstrong, has previously seen success with 2019’s?AitcH20?(3), 2020’s Polaris?(7) and 2022 LP?Close To Home?(2).
With seven days to go until their hotly anticipated Live ’25 reunion tour, Oasis’s enduring hits compilation Time Flies… 1994-2009 holds strong inside the Top 10 (9). It’s the first of three Oasis records in the wider Top 40, joined by (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, up 10 (18), and Definitely Maybe, which lifts eight places (37).
Ahead of their London Wembley Stadium show this weekend, Linkin Park’s hits collection Papercuts jumps three spots in a return to the Top 20 (19).
Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming BST Hyde Park and Glastonbury Pyramid Stage headline slots spark a surge in her catalogue. 2023’s GUTS rockets 10 rungs (24), while 2021 debut SOUR lifts five (25).
Sheffield heavy metal outfit Malevolence – comprising Alex Taylor, Josh Baines, Konan Hall, Wilkie Robinson and Charlie Thorpe - score their first-ever Official Albums Chart Top 40 entry with fourth set Where Only The Truth Is Spoken (32).
As she takes her Radical Optimism stadium tour around the UK, Dua Lipa’s self-titled 2017 debut Dua Lipa returns to the Top 40, up 16 (34). It comes after Dua surprised London concertgoers with performances of fan favourites Hotter Than Hell and IDGAF, both housed on the record, last week.
Lucy Spraggan lands an eighth Top 40 with Other Sides Of The Moon (36) and, finally, Lana Del Rey’s UK and Ireland stadium tour sees her 2012 debut Born To Die scale the Albums Chart, jumping 21 places this week (38).