Ellie tops each the Official Singles and the Official Albums Chart this week, securing a second week at #1 with Calvin Harris collab Miracle, whereas her fifth album, dance opus Increased Than Heaven turns into her fourth chart-topping LP.
Increased Than Heaven joins Ellie’s different #1 information, debut Lights (2010), darkish pop delight Halcyon (2012) and the introspective Brightest Blue (2020). Her maximalist pop epic Delirum additionally reached Quantity 3 in 2015.
With this latest chart-topper, Ellie now joins Adele because the British feminine solo artists with essentially the most #1 albums to their title, with 4 apiece. Increased Than Heaven additionally ends the week as the largest vendor throughout unbiased report outlets within the UK, topping the Official Document Retailer Chart.
And becoming a member of in on the enjoyable is trance banger Miracle, Ellie’s high-octane trilogy-completing monitor with frequent collaborator Calvin Harris retains #1 on the Official Singles Chart for a second week, as soon as extra the most-streamed monitor within the nation of the final 7 days.
Talking solely to Official Charts whereas accepting her #1 Awards for the Official Chart Double, Ellie Goulding says: “Guys, I’m so, so completely satisfied to be holding these two awards for #1 album and #1 single. I’m speechless. This has made me so completely satisfied.
“Thanks a lot to everybody for supporting my album, shopping for it and streaming it, and for supporting Miracle. It’s such a stunning shock. It’s been such an excellent day. Thanks a lot, everyone!”
Albums
American rapper, singer-songwriter and producer NF nets a career-best as his sixth studio album HOPE debuts at Quantity 2. Previous to this, the Michigan export, born Nathan John Feuerstein, claimed two High 40 information with 2019 launch The Search (7) and 2021 mixtape Clouds (12).
The Weeknd’s best hits assortment The Highlights lifts one again into the High 3 this week (3). Simply final week, The Highlights was revealed because the UK’s Official greatest album of 2023 up to now.
Following the discharge of his candid Netflix documentary How I’m Feeling Now, Lewis Capaldi sees his debut LP Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent leap 13 spots again into the High 5 in its 204th week on chart (4). The report initially topped the chart upon its launch in 2019 earlier than spending ten non-consecutive weeks at #1.
As she continues to wow audiences stateside on The Eras Tour, 4 Taylor Swift albums expertise a surge this week: 2022’s Midnights lifts one (5), 2014 launch 1989 is up three (17), and 2019’s Lover (20) and 2020 LP folklore (25) each climb 9.
A twentieth anniversary re-issue of Linkin Park’s second album Meteora sees the report vault again into the High 10 at Quantity 7. This re-release of the group’s former #1 LP consists of beforehand unreleased materials that includes vocals from the late Chester Bennington, who died in 2017.
And, lastly, indie people trio Daughter rejoice a brand new profession excessive with Stereo Thoughts Sport (12). The group’s first studio album in seven years, it surpasses Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella’s earlier success with 2013’s If You Go away (16) and 2016 launch To not Disappear (17). Stereo Thoughts Sport additionally tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, proving the most well-liked report on wax this week.
Singles
Libianca’s breakthrough hit Folks reaches its highest place but at Quantity 2, setting itself up as a possible challenger for #1 within the coming weeks.
Drake secures this week’s highest new entry on the Official Singles Chart with Search & Rescue (5). The viral rap monitor – which incorporates the voices of Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner, igniting social media dialogue – turns into the Canadian celebrity’s thirty eighth High 10 entry within the UK.
Following the discharge of his emotional new Netflix documentary How I’m Feeling Now, three tracks by Lewis Capaldi race up the High 40; Neglect Me rockets into the High 10 for the primary time in practically 5 months (8), Pointless scores a High 20 re-entry (17), and title monitor How I’m Feeling Now boosts up 13 (24).
One of many greatest rising hits within the nation proper now, Bakar’s Hell N Again, leaps up eight spots to crack the High 20 for the primary time (20), whereas Zara Larsson’s Can’t Tame Her continues to achieve floor, up two (25).
David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Gamers hitmaker Coi Leray are one other new entry at Quantity 26 with Child Don’t Damage Me, which samples Haddaway’s influential 1993 home single What Is Love. It marks Leray’s second High 40 single, Anne-Marie’s seventeenth, and David Guetta’s forty sixth.
Lastly, two acts obtain their first ever UK High 40 singles right this moment; South Korean woman group Fifty Fifty with viral single Cupid (34), and – already a celebrity in his native US – nation singer-songwriter Morgan Wallen’s Final Night time turns into his first main UK hit (35).
