THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. one-ups RAYE’s debut My 21st Century Blues, which peaked at Number 2 on its release in 2023.
What’s more, the album is this week’s best-selling on wax, topping the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, earns his tenth Top 10 album, and first under his new moniker, with BULLY (3). It comes ahead of Ye’s UK return at this year’s Wireless Festival, where he’ll headline three nights at London’s Finsbury Park July 10-12.
It’s a third Top 10 LP for Melanie Martinez with HADES (5). The New York native previously saw Top 10 success with 2019’s K-12 (8) and 2023 collection PORTALS (2).
Bedford-born rockers DON BROCO bank their fourth consecutive Top 10 album with fifth studio LP Nightmare Tripping (7). It joins 2015’s Automatic (6), 2018’s Technology (5) and 2021 chart-topper Amazing Things in the lads’ Top 10 tally.
London singer-songwriter Tom Misch lands his third Top 10 with Full Circle (9), following 2018 release Geography (8) and collaborative 2020 Yussef Dayes project What Kinda Music (4).
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Sexistential sees Robyn reach new heights three decades into her career, becoming the Swedish pop pioneer’s first-ever UK Top 10 album (10).
Fully remixed and remastered, an expanded Collector’s Edition of Queen’s iconic 1974 record Queen II boosts it back into the Top 40 for the first time in 50 years (14).
Colchester rock outfit PET NEEDS bank a personal best with ELBOWS OUT! THIS IS CAPITALISM, new in at Number 16. It one-ups the band’s last project, 2024’s Intermittent Fast Living, which peaked at Number 17. ELBOWS OUT! THIS IS CAPITALISM also tops this week’s Official Record Store Chart, the best-selling LP of the week in UK independent record shops.
These Are The Good Days secures Scouting For Girls their ninth Top 40 album (17), while Courtney Barnett claims her fifth with Creature of Habit (29).
West London’s finest Central Cee earns a fourth Top 40 with ALL ROADS LEAD HOME (34) and, finally, Missouri-born alt-pop star Slayyyter celebrates her first-ever Albums Chart entry with WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA (36).
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