As Barbie: The Album tops this week’s Official Compilations Chart, three tracks lifted from it rise into the Prime 5. This makes it the primary movie soundtrack in UK chart historical past to land three Prime 5 singles concurrently; Billie Eilish’s contemplative What Was I Made For (3), Dua Lipa’s Dance The Evening (4) and Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua’s Barbie World (5).
What Was I Made For rises seven locations, with a 71% uplift in chart models in comparison with final week, when it debuted at Quantity 10. Equally, Dance The Evening boosts up eleven locations into the Prime 10 for the primary time, with its complete chart models seeing an 86% uplift, to develop into Dua’s thirteenth Prime 10 single.
Barbie World grants Aqua their first UK Prime 5 in 25 years, since Flip Again Time in 1998, having fun with a week-on-week uplift of 115%, turning into Ice Spice’s first, Nicki’s fifteenth and Aqua’s sixth Official Prime 10 entry.
The primary movie soundtrack to attain three simultaneous Prime 10s was Saturday Evening Fever in 1978 (Evening Fever, If I Can’t Have You, Extra Than A Lady), whereas Grease additionally accomplished a trifecta in the identical 12 months (Summer time Nights, Grease, Hopelessly Devoted To You).
Final 12 months, Disney’s Encanto grew to become the primary animated movie soundtrack to say three simultaneous Prime 10s with We Don’t Speak About Bruno, Floor Stress and The Household Madrigal.
And the Barbie-mania doesn’t cease there! A complete host of tracks from Barbie: The Album have impacted the broader Official Singles Chart as we speak, with a complete of six entries throughout the Prime 40.
Charli XCX’s Velocity Drive re-enters the chart at Quantity 19, turning into Charli’s 14th Prime 40 hit. It’s skilled a large week-on-week uplift of 285%, whereas additionally turning into Charli’s first Prime 20 single as a lead artist since 1999 with Troye Sivan in 2018.
Ryan Gosling celebrates his first-ever Official UK Prime 40 entry with dramatic ballad I’m Simply Ken (25), whereas Lizzo’s bouncy bop Pink makes its debut (39).
And whereas it technically isn’t a monitor on the Barbie soundtrack (as an alternative, it’s straight sampled on Barbie World), Aqua’s influential Barbie Lady has re-entered the Prime 40 for the primary time in 25 years, experiencing week-on-week uplift of 91%. The monitor reached Number one on the Official Singles Chart upon its launch in 1997, the place it remained for 4 consecutive weeks, and is among the best-selling singles within the historical past of the Official Chart.
