Olivia Dean rolls the dice and pins lucky number seven, as The Art of Loving becomes the longest-running Number 1 album by a British female this decade.
Released in October last year, it now boasts seven non-consecutive weeks at the top, meaning it has comfortably surpassed Adele’s 30, which spent five consecutive weeks at the summit in 2021.
Within this time, The Art of Loving has never exited the Top 5, marking an incredible run for Olivia, who won Best New Artist at this year’s GRAMMY Awards.
Following his incredible Super Bowl halftime show performance last Sunday, Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS climbs a remarkable 42 places to Number 2, earning a new highest peak in the process and a first Top 10 album for the Puerto Rican icon.
Rap royalty J.Cole bows out in style as his final album The Fall-Off earns the American his fifth Top 10 accolade (3).
Joji’s Piss in the Wind earns the Japanese singer-songwriter his highest charting album to date and a fourth Top 40 entry overall (6).
And ahead of his upcoming biopic Michael, Michael Jackson’s The Essential climbs back into the Top 10 (8).
Following a special double deluxe vinyl release, Lorien Testard’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 makes a first entrance into the Top 40 at Number 16.
Lorien Testard exclusively tells Official Charts:
“I want to thank all the players and listeners for welcoming our music into your lives.
“I don’t really have the words to express how moving it is for us to share our songs with you in your daily life, whether they are by your side for joyful dances around a saxophone, or moments gathered around a guitar, singing for those we hope to see again...
“Every day, I feel that invisible and deep bond that music creates between us. I will be forever grateful to have had the chance to paint the Clair-Obscur with you. I look forward to meeting you again for a new adventure - whether in shadow, in light or somewhere in between, so that a bouquet may be born.”
Danny Kelleher, CEO and founder of Laced Records:
“We remain completely bowled over by the response to the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 video game soundtrack, both in terms of digital streams & sales and physical units sold.
“While the Laced team worked tirelessly on this campaign, its success belongs to the incredibly talented co-composers Lorien Testard & Alice Duport-Percier, and the passionate game developers at Sandfall Interactive. Together, they created a phenomenon for those who come after.
“As a label that has championed video game music for over 10 years, it’s very exciting for us to see music from a new game achieve this level of record-breaking commercial success and break into the mainstream music charts, especially with so many No.1 spots in the Official Charts.”
Manchester post-punk outfit IST IST bag their second Top 40 record and best performing to date with DAGGER (21).
There's also a hotshot debut for Jamaican-British musician Marnz Malone, whose powerful project Yaqeen enters at 36 to become his first Top 40 album.
Congratulations, too, to Portsmouth-based group Crystal Tides, who score their maiden album chart entry with Toothpaste (37).
Celebrating the news, Crystal Tides tell Official Charts: “It’s an incredible feeling to have landed in Top 40 with our debut album Toothpaste.
“The last 8 years of being a band have been hard work but very proud of what we’ve achieved here as an independent band. We couldn’t have done it without our amazing fanbase, truly the best community we could ask for. This is for them.”
