When Taylor Swift stuffed up Wembley Stadium for 3 consecutive exhibits over the weekend, she did in order the undisputed Queen of the nationwide albums chart.
Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division (EMI) enters a seventh non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the Official Chart, revealed Friday, June 21, coinciding with the primary of her eight scheduled live shows at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Tortured Poets is Taylor’s eleventh studio album, and her longest-running chart-topper within the U.Okay., the Official Charts Firm reviews, eclipsing 2022’s Midnights which sat on the prime for 5 non-consecutive cycles.
TayTay leads a podium of feminine solo artists. Coming in at No. 2 is Billie Eilish’s former chief Hit Me Laborious and Smooth (Interscope), up two locations, whereas Charli XCX’s Brat (Atlantic) dips 2-3.
The highest new debut on the most recent tally belongs to British rock outfit Sea Ladies, as Midnight Butterflies (Alt) flaps its wings at No. 5. That’s a third-consecutive prime 5 look for the group, relationship again to 2020’s Open Up Your Head (No. 3 peak) and 2022’s Homesick (No. 3).
Chappell Roan landed her first entry on the Billboard Scorching 100 earlier this 12 months with the brand new single “Good Luck, Babe!” The Missouri-born pop artist is having fun with a breakthrough on the opposite facet of the Atlantic, too, the place her 2023 debut The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island) lifts 15-9, for her first look within the U.Okay. prime 10.
Paul McCartney & Wings’ dwell studio album One Hand Clapping (Capitol) bows at No. 10. The LP, recorded at London’s iconic Abbey Highway Studios in August 1974, turns into McCartney and Co.’s first prime 10 album since Again To The Egg peaked at No. 6 in 1979 — 45 years in the past.
Lastly, North Carolina nation star Luke Combs baggage his fourth prime 40 LP with Fathers & Sons (Sony Music CG), his fifth studio album. It’s new at No. 14. Combs’ profession tally contains U.Okay. prime 10 spots for 2022’s Growin’ Up (No. 9) and 2023’s Gettin’ Outdated (No. 5).
