Taylor Swift Reigns Over U.K. Chart With ‘Tortured Poets’
When Taylor Swift crammed up Wembley Stadium for 3 consecutive shows about the weekend, she did so as 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 1st of her 8 scheduled concerts at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Tortured Poets is Taylor’s 11th studio album, and her longest-operating chart-topper in the U.K., the Formal Charts Firm reports, eclipsing 2022’s Midnights which sat at the top for 5 non-consecutive cycles.
TayTay sales possibilities a podium of feminine solo artists. Coming in at No. 2 is Billie Eilish’s earlier chief Hit Me Tricky and Tender (Interscope), up two destinations, while Charli XCX’s Brat (Atlantic) dips 2-3.
The leading rated new debut on the hottest tally belongs to British rock outfit Sea Ladies, as Midnight Butterflies (Alt) flaps its wings at No. 5. Which is a 3rd-consecutive leading rated 5 appear for the group, courting once again to 2020’s Open Up Your Head (No. 3 peak) and 2022’s Homesick (No. 3).
Chappell Roan landed her 1st entry on the Billboard Incredibly hot 100 ahead of this yr with the new single “Good Luck, Babe!” The Missouri-born pop artist is taking pleasure in a breakthrough on the other side of the Atlantic, as well, wherever her 2023 debut The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island) lifts 15-9, for her initial general appear in the U.K. top 10.
Paul McCartney & Wings’ dwell studio album 1 Hand Clapping (Capitol) bows at No. 10. The LP, recorded at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios in August 1974, turns into McCartney and Co.’s 1st leading rated 10 album provided that Back once again To The Egg peaked at No. 6 in 1979 — 45 lots of years back.
At final, North Carolina state star Luke Combs bags his fourth finest 40 LP with Fathers & Sons (Sony Audio CG), his fifth studio album. It is new at No. 14. Combs’ job tally requires U.K. finest 10 locations for 2022’s Growin’ Up (No. 9) and 2023’s Gettin’ Aged (No. 5).