Wet Leg celebrate their second Official Number 1 album with moisturizer.
The Isle of Wight group - comprising Rhian Teasdale, Hester Chambers, Henry Holmes, Josh Mobaraki and Ellis Durand – replicate the chart-topping success of eponymous debut Wet Leg, which topped the Official Albums Chart on its release in 2022.
moisturizer also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the most popular record of the week on wax, and Official Record Store Chart, named the biggest seller of the past seven days in UK independent record shops.
Oasis vibes in the area! As the Gallager brothers play their homecoming shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park, the group’s catalogue holds strong in the Top 5: Time Flies… 1994-2009 (3), (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (4) and Definitely Maybe (5).
It’s a seventh Top 10 album for Justin Bieber, whose surprise seventh studio LP SWAG debuts at Number 4 with its digital release. Previously, Justin enjoyed Official Albums Chart success with 2010 debut My World (3), 2011’s Never Say Never – The Remixes (17), Christmas collection Under The Mistletoe (13), 2012 record Believe (1), 2013’s Believe Acoustic (5), 2014 album Journals (46), 2015’s Purpose (2), 2020’s Changes (1) and 2021 release Justice (2).
Showing No Sign Of Weakness, Burna Boy banks his fifth UK Top 10 album this week (6). The Nigerian multihyphenate, born Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, previously saw success with 2019’s African Giant (16), 2020’s Twice As Tall (11), Love, Damini (2) and 2023 chart-topper I Told Them….
Congratulations to Amy Macdonald, who lands her sixth Top 10 album with Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For? (8). It becomes the Scottish singer-songwriter’s highest-charting LP in eight years, since 2017’s Under Stars (2).
Fellow Scot Barry Can’t Swim bags a career-best – and his first-ever Top 10 – with second studio album Loner (10). The Edinburgh-born DJ and producer, real name Joshua Spence Mainnie, previously enjoyed success with 2023 debut When Will We Land? (12).
He’s still standing! Rocket Man Elton John surpasses 400 weeks on the Official Albums Chart with enduring 2017 hits collection Diamonds (15). The album, which hit Number 1 for the first time in January of this year, has now spent an impressive 401 weeks inside the Top 100.
Let God Sort Em Out earns Clipse, Pusha T and Malice their first collaborative Top 40 record this week (40). Meanwhile, Californian singer-songwriter GIVEON secures his second with BELOVED (38).
And finally, as they play their Stadium Anthems Summer ’25 shows, Stereophonics’ 2008 hits compilation Decade In The Sun – Best Of Stereophonics sees a surge, up 18 to Number 39. The record peaked at Number 2 on its release.
