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Ed Sheeran scores UK chart double and fastest-selling album of 2019 with No.6 Collaborations Project
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Ed Sheeran claims the UK chart double, landing at Number 1 on this week's Official Albums and Singles Charts.
Ed's No.6 Collaborations Project becomes the fastest-selling album of 2019 so far, debuting at the top with 125,000 chart sales. The record, which includes duets with Bruno Mars, Cardi B and Eminem, performed well across all formats: 57,000 physical sales, 18,000 downloads and 70.2 million track streams.
The album’s opening-week figure outperforms the rest of this week’s Top 30 combined.
MORE: View Ed Sheeran's complete Official UK Chart history
Ed’s three previous studio albums all appear in this week’s albums Top 40: Divide at 7, X at 18 (up 23 slots) and + at 37 (up 47 places).
On the Official Singles Chart, Ed claims his seventh Number 1 as Beautiful People ft. Khalid climbs from 3 to 1, while two more of the album’s songs feature in this week’s Top 5: Take Me Back To London ft. Stormzy is new 3, marking Ed’s 40th UK Top 40 single, and Cross Me ft. Chance The Rapper & PnB Rock at 4.
Back on this week’s Official Albums Chart, Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent – previously 2019’s fastest-selling title - slips to Number 2, and the A Star Is Born cast recording enjoys a boost back up the chart, zooming 20 places to Number 5 after launching on Sky Cinema this week.
Gerry Cinammon’s Erratic Cinematic hits a new peak at Number 17 after a string of live shows, and Jax Jones’ Snacks EP makes its Top 40 debut at 21 after 28 weeks in the Top 100.
Finally, New Order’s live album No,12k,Lg,17Mif New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes… lands at 35.
View this week's Official Albums Chart Top 100 in full
Official Singles Chart
Elsewhere on this week’s Official Singles Chart, last week’s Number 1 Senorita by Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello drops a place to Number 2.
AJ Tracey climbs six places to claim his first Top 10 as a lead artist with Ladbroke Grove at 6, while So High by Mist ft. Fredo also climbs into the Top 10, up four to Number 7.
Elsewhere in the chart, Location by Dave ft. Burna Boy flies 25 places to Number 13 following the release of the track’s music video, Dominic Fike’s 3 Nights reaches a new peak of 15, up for places, and Billie Eilish returns to the Top 20 with Bad Guy, climbing seven slots to 16 thanks to a remix featuring Justin Bieber.
Kygo & Whitney Houston vault nine places to 17 with Higher Love, marking Whitney’s first UK singles Top 20 appearance in seven years.
Krept & Konan, Headie One and K-Trap debut at Number 18 with new collaboration I Spy, just ahead of Young T & Bugsey’s Strike A Pose ft. Aitch, up two at Number 19. Freya Ridings’ Castles charges up eight spots to 26.
Finally, UK producer Remedee debuts at 37 with Love Of My Life ft. Not3s & Young Adz, while Tiesto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora’s Ritual climbs one place to make its Top 40 debut at 40.
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etin
Low numbers for ed & very commercial album
julesin09
Mediocracy sells
de Sascha
Yup : /
M
MB
So Ed Sheeran’s I Don’t Care now drops from the chart after 9 weeks in the top 2 and no one mentions it. Ironic that Eds last album caused the 3 track rule and his new album seems to have shown it up to be a bad rule. The singles chart is fast becoming irrelevant.
David Eve
Main reason is ACR as its Ed's second song on both sales and streaming. Senorita actually drops to 3 on streaming (I Don't Care is 2), but stays at no.1 on sales so it may not have been no. 2 if I Don't Care wasn't on ACR. Ed would have been 5 (Remember The Name), 6 (Antisocial), 7 (South Of The Border), 8, (I Don't Care) and 10 (Feels) if not for the 3 track rule. He would have had half the top 30.
David Eve
Apparently "I Don't Care" is actually really No.1 due to the paid for vs. free streaming ratios rather than "Beautiful People" - or at least would be if it wasn't for ACR. The Streaming Chart does not distinguish between paid and free streaming and so does not fully reflect the streaming "sales" side of the official chart.
Mark Willmott
Bit gutted that “Remember The Name” didn’t chart ahead of “Cross Me” but guess that was due to the video views.
crunch2k
125k seems low for an Ed Sheeran album
Piran
Yeah, '÷' had about five times more sales than 'No.6 Collaborations Project' did, whereas this was the same kind of opening figure that '+' had!
MDMeridius
My thoughts too. Hopefully this means people are getting sick of his new lower-quality music and he’ll actually start putting out meaningful stuff like his first 2 albums again.
J
jorge
To be fair, it wasn’t really planned on being a mainstream album. In 2018, himself said that after the divide era he would release an experimental album and that wouldn’t probably sell as much
Piran
Yeah, it was definitely meant to be more of an experimental album than a deliberate commercial success.
Piran
Ed getting the chart double is no surprise really, haha! :)
Thankfully, 'Beautiful People' is one of the best tracks on the album in my opinion! I also like the gains for: 'Bad Guy', 'Higher Love' & 'Castles' elsewhere in the chart too.