beabadoobee celebrates first UK Number 1 album with This Is How Tomorrow Moves: “I am so over the moon!”

beabadoobee scores her first-ever chart-topping record in the UK today.

Huge congratulations are due to beabadoobee, who lands at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart for the first time today with This Is How Tomorrow Moves.

The third LP from the Filipino-British singer-songwriter (real name Beatrice Laus), This Is How Tomorrow Moves debuts straight at the top of the Official Albums Chart, becoming the first chart-topper of beabadoobee’s career.

She’s previously hit the Top 10 on the Official Albums Chart with 2020’s Fake It Flowers (8) and 2022’s Beatopia (4).

Speaking to Official Charts on her first UK Number 1 album, beabadoobee says:

“I just got a Number 1! I am so over the moon. I want to thank the fans for buying and streaming this record and getting this album to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart. I am so, so happy. I wouldn’t have done it without you guys and everyone who worked on this record. Thank you. I love you all so much!”

This Is How Tomorrow Moves also debuts at Number 1 on the Official Record Store Chart, making it the most popular purchase from record shops across the country this week and is the best-selling album on vinyl too, topping the Official Vinyl Albums Chart for good measure.

beabadoobee accepts her Official Albums Chart Number 1 award for This Is How Tomorrow Moves

Credit: Thomas Davis

Will Young enters straight into the Top 5 today with Light It Up (5). It’s the ninth studio album from the original Pop Idol, and his 11th collection to enter the Official Albums Chart Top 10.

Just outside the Top 10, Calvin Harris’s compilation 96 Months debuts at Number 11, becoming the Scottish DJ’s seventh Top 40 album.

It’s a big day for English blues singer Elles Bailey, who earns her first ever entry in the Official Albums Chart Top 40 with Beneath The Neon Glow, which debuts at Number 12.

Afrobeats superstar Asake debuts at Number 15 with LUNGU BOY, his third album and highest-charting yet. He previously reached the Top 40 with 2022’s Mr Money With The Vibe (22) and 2023’s Work of Art (20).

And finally, following his only UK tour date of the year in Cardiff, US superstar Billy Joel’s greatest hits collection Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel re-enters the Top 40 at Number 32.