Ed Sheeran fends off Haim and Jay-Z to claim a 14th week at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart
Despite some serious competition this week, Ed Sheeran holds firm at the top of this week’s Official Albums Chart, claiming at 14th week at Number 1.
Ed’s latest album ÷ is now his longest-reigning chart-topping album: 2014’s x logged 13 weeks at the summit (and is a non-mover at Number 10 in this week’s tally), while his debut + managed three weeks at Number 1 in 2011/2012.
÷ was this week’s biggest seller across physical and streaming formats. To date, the record has shifted just over 2 million combined sales this year to claim 2017's best-selling album so far - check out the full Top 40 here.
MORE: View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full
Ed’s continued success means Haim have to settle for second place this week with second album Something To Tell You. The LA sibling trio’s debut album Days Are Gone reached the top spot in October 2013.
Meanwhile, Jay-Z’s new album 4:44 enters at Number 3, and Public Service Broadcasting land at 4 with Every Valley, earning the London band their first Top 10 record.
New entries and high climbers
Radiohead’s reissue of their landmark OK Computer album rebounds five spots to 7 following its release on vinyl, and Little Mix’s latest album Glory Days returns to the Top 10 at 9 off the back of their latest single Power.
More albums climb up this week’s Official Albums Chart: Common by British rapper J Hus lifts five spots to 19, and Dua Lipa’s self-titled debut is back in the Top 20, rebounding eight places to 20.
MORE: The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2017 so far
Three rock bands currently on tour see their records return to the Top 40: Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams leaps 16 places to 27, U2’s The Joshua Tree vaults 45 spots to 28, and The Killers’ Direct Hits shifts 12 places to Number 30.
Finally, singer-songwriter Lucy Rose scores her third Top 40 album on the Official Chart with Something’s Changing, which lands at 34.
View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full
Look back over every Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in 2017 so far below:
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Sami24601
time for a different number 1
JB
Jack Brown
Haim need to reach no 1 next week, c'mon, I love Haim so much
JJ
Jack James
I told all of you don't underestimate The King next week he will be #1 again 2017 is his year.
Mark Willmott
Get a life mate!!
JJ
Jack James
Hate on me if you wish but the facts remain unchanged 30 weeks at #1 this decade for the King.
Lars Van Moer
Because the King died 40 years ago this year ? 16th of August 1977 that was. Surely you can mean no-one else ?
JJ
Jack James
Elvis is not the King of UK's digital era that's Ed Sheeran based on stats not nostalgia.
Lars Van Moer
then call Ed Sheeran "the King of UK's digital era", not just "the King" ... unless you are aiming for a total lack of originality on purpose, of course
JJ
Jack James
30 Weeks at #1 this decade makes Ed Sheeran this generation UK's Music King congrats.
etin
ed & her 30 weeks