07 November 2025
Newsdesk
Everybody Scream! Florence + The Machine celebrate their fifth Official Number 1 album this week.
The group’s sixth studio collection joins 2009 debut LP Lungs, 2011’s Ceremonials, 2015’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful and 2022’s Dance Fever in their tally of chart-toppers.
Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, Florence Welch says: “16 years on from Lungs, I take none of this for granted. I’m so grateful to everyone who took time with this record. It is a scream, but I also wanted it to be a balm to anyone who needed it. Sending love x.”
Shifting the most copies on vinyl this week, Everybody Scream also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
As its candid lyricism gets the whole nation talking, Lily Allen’s West End Girl lifts two to clinch a new peak (2). Despite its digital-only release so far, it’s Lily’s highest-charting album in 11 years, joining 2006 debut Alright, Still (2), 2009’s It’s Not Me, It’s You (1), 2014 record Sheezus (1) and 2018’s No Shame (8) in an unbroken streak of five consecutive Top 10 albums. It comes as Lily adds an extra London Palladium date to her West End Girl UK tour, kicking off next March.
Cat Burns banks personal best with second Top 10 album How To Be Human
Following the TV event of the year (no spoilers!), The Celebrity Traitors’ Cat Burns secures a career best with her second studio album How To Be Human.
How To Be Human earns South London singer-songwriter Cat the biggest opening week of her career. It's also her highest-charting album so far landing straight in at Number 5 on the Official Albums Chart, surpassing the success of her first studio collection Early Twenties, which peaked at Number 7 in July 2024.
With a cheeky nod to The Celebrity Traitors, Cat Burns accepts her Official Top 10 Award, telling Official Charts:
“My album How To Be Human has been, and has always been from the start, a Top 10 album! Thank you guys so much for streaming and listening to the album, it genuinely means the world to me. It’s a body of work that I’m so, so proud of.
“I think it’s important to be vulnerable, it’s important to share your journey and remind people that you’re not alone. Thank you so much, love you all!”
What’s more, How To Be Human also takes the title of this week’s most downloaded album, in at Number 1 on the Official Album Downloads Chart.
Elsewhere, congratulations go to The Charlatans, who claim an 11th Top 10 record, and their highest-charting in eight years. We Are Love is new in at Number 8.
As they kick off their European tour, Radiohead earn an 18th Top 40 album with Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) (12). The record compiles live renditions of tracks from their chart-topping 2003 studio record Hail to the Thief.
The Rock Orchestra make their Official Albums Chart debut with Classics, Vol. 1, a collection of inspired orchestral covers of everyone from Linkin Park to Rage Against The Machine (14).
Celebrating their first-ever Top 20, Nathan Reed, Founder and Creative Director of The Rock Orchestra tells Official Charts:
“It feels so personal to have landed in the Top 20 this way, because we know we did everything from the ground up to get it here. I also really hope it's some kind of inspiration for acts that can't get the support they need to just problem solve their way there and go for it. Our fans are the core of what we do. We're so lucky to have people that come to 10 or more shows in a single tour and support us night after night. We're super grateful.”
Classics, Vol. 1 is also straight in at Number 1 on the Official Record Store Chart, the most popular LP of the week in UK independent record shops.
Tyler, The Creator’s 2024 chart-topper CHROMAKOPIA rebounds back into the Top 20 with the release of Mother, a track celebrating the record’s first anniversary (19).
Continuing its steady eight-week ascent up the Top 100, rising Merseyside rapper EsDeeKid reaches new heights with his debut album Rebel jumping 14 places this week (25).
Bob Dylan banks an impressive 57th Top 40 LP with Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 (The Highlights), a record boasting a selection of the iconic singer’s earliest live sessions (28).
Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Luvcat, also known as Sophie Morgan Howarth, sinks her first-ever Albums Chart entry, with debut offering Vicious Delicious straight in at Number 31.
A Super Deluxe Edition boxset sees The Who’s eighth studio album, 1978’s Who Are You, back in the Top 40 for the first time in 47 years, at Number 34. The record previously peaked at Number 6 on its original release.
And finally, following the release of its 20th anniversary Stargazer Edition, KT Tunstall’s 2004 debut Eye To The Telescope returns to the Top 40 for the first time in 18 years, at Number 35. The album peaked at Number 3 back in 2005.
