Sabrina Carpenter makes it two consecutive weeks atop the Official Albums Chart with Man’s Best Friend. The record becomes Sabrina’s second to spend more than one week at the summit, following 2023’s record-breaking Short n’ Sweet, which shows its endurance at Number 11.
This week’s highest new entry comes courtesy of Britpop icons Suede, with their tenth studio collection Antidepressants. The record matches the peak of 2023 record Antifiction, and earns the band a tenth Top 10 album in the UK.
Antidepressants also tops the Official Record Store Chart, shifting the most copies in independent UK record shops this week, and the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the week’s biggest seller on wax.
Huge congratulations go to Merseyside alt-rock exports Red Rum Club, who claim a career-best with their fifth full-length work BUCK. The group, comprising Joe “the Blow” Corby, Fran Doran, Simon Hepworth, Neil Lawson, Michael McDermott and Tom Williams, previously saw Albums Chart success with 2020’s The Hollow Of Humdrum, 2021 LP How To Steal The World and 2024’s Western Approaches.
English pop pioneers Saint Etienne sink a third Top 10 album, and their highest charting in 31 years, with International this week. The twelfth studio LP from Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs joins 1993’s So Tough and 1994 record Tiger Bay in their Top 10 tally, now with 11 Top 40 albums overall.
With the release of its sequel SWAG II, Justin Bieber’s SWAG soars 77 back into the Top 10 this week .
English singer-songwriter Tom Odell enjoys a seventh Top 40 album, with latest release A Wonderful Life joining 2013 chart-topper Long Way Down, 2016’s Wrong Crowd, 2018 LP Jubilee Road, 2021’s Monsters, 2022 record Best Day Of My Life and 2024’s Black Friday.
Champion Sound earns London dance legends Faithless a tenth Top 40 album, as American folk outfit Big Thief bag a third with Double Infinity.
With the addition of brand-new single The Dead Dance, Lady Gaga’s former chart-topper MAYHEM vaults 49 back into the Top 40.
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne nets a fifth solo Top 40 LP with Who Is The Sky? and, finally, as he kicks off his UK arena tour, Lewis Capaldi’s 2019 debut Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent leaps 22.
Source: music-news.com