Dua Lipa is the new queen of the U.K.’s albums chart, as Radical Optimism debuts at No. 1.

The runaway chief at the midway mark, Radical Optimism (Warner Records) collects 46,300 chart models in its really very first cycle, the most for any British lady due to the reality Adele’s November 2021 smash 30, the Formal Charts Enterprise reports.

Also, Radical Optimism will grow to be the biggest opening 7 days of any British act so significantly this yr, eclipsing the 39,400 very first-7 days complete for Liam Gallagher and John Squire’s eponymously title LP, which dropped in March. The likes of Caroline Ailin, Danny L. Harle and Tobias Jesso Jr. presented resourceful enter on the new collection, while Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker co-wrote and created seven tracks, collectively with the 3 U.K. leading rated 10 singles “Houdini,” “Training Season” and “Illusion.”

Radical Optimism is Dua’s second U.K. No. 1 following 2020’s Future Nostalgia, and 1st to bow at No. 1 Future Nostalgia climbed to the summit in its 2nd week, and has logged 204 months at the major, collectively with 4 stints at the prime. Her self-titled 2017 debut peaked at No. 3 but has clocked 354 months on the Formal Albums Chart.

With her most recent leader, verified Friday, May 10, Lipa knocks off Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Office (EMI), down 1-2 following two months at the chart zenith.

Closing out the podium is Frank Turner’s Undefeated (Xtra Mile), new at No. 3. It’s the sixth U.K. leading rated 10 all round appear for the English singer and songwriter following 2013’s Tape Deck Coronary heart (No. 2 peak), 2015’s Beneficial Tunes For Destructive Persons (No. 2), 2018’s Be More Variety (No. 3), 2019’s No Man’s Land (No. 3) and 2022 chart-topper FTHC.

Also netting a U.K. prime 10 debut is Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones, whose 2nd solo studio exertion Inescapable Unbelievable (Ignition) begins off at No. 6. That’s a vocation solo finest for the Welshman, bettering the No. 8 peak for his debut solo LP Never Permit The Satan Choose An more Day from 2020. As a member of Stereophonics, Jones has 8 U.K. No. 1s.

Lastly, as ABBA celebrates the 50th anniversary of their Eurovision Tune Contest earn with “Waterloo,” the Swedish pop group’s juggernaut Gold: Biggest Hits (Polydor) rebounds into the most effective 10, up 11-9 in its 1,149th 7 days. Britain can declare a smaller sized element in ABBA’s early fantastic outcomes. The group won Eurovision in Brighton, England back once more in 1974, while the Swedish entry been offered nil particulars from the U.K. voting jury. Viewers of the 2024 Eurovision closing, hosted in Malmo, Sweden, had been dealt with to a surprise on Saturday evening when ABBA’s digital avatars have been beamed to the studio from the ABBA Voyage phase exhibit in London. The pop megastars’ early breakthrough is retold in ABBA: In opposition to the Odds, streaming in the U.S. on the CW Network.