Ed Sheeran takes +–=÷× (Tour Collection) back to the top

Ed Sheeran takes his +–=÷× (Tour Collection) to a second non-consecutive week at Number 1 in the UK today. 

 

The 2024 hits collection spans hits and live recordings of tracks from six of Ed’s previous chart-topping albums: 2011’s +, 2024’s X, 2017 release ÷, 2019’s No.6 Collaborations Project, 2021 album = and 2023’s -, and became the superstar’s eighth Number 1 LP in January of this year.

It comes as Ed releases Sapphire, the latest track lifted from his upcoming eighth studio record Play, dropping September 12.

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Oh, boy! As she prepares to headline Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival this weekend, Sabrina Carpenter’s former chart-topper Short N’ Sweet holds strong inside the Top 5 in its 41st week on chart (2). Fans are treated to a brand-new track from Sabrina today, as she releases Jack Antonoff co-production Manchild.

Miley Cyrus secures this week’s highest new entry with her ninth studio set Something Beautiful (3). It joins six further LPs in Miley’s Top 10 tally, including chart-toppers Bangerz (2013) and Endless Summer Vacation (2023). Catch Miley’s accompanying Something Beautiful film, showing in UK cinemas for one night only on June 27.

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Look what you made her do! With the news that she now owns all the music she’s ever made, Taylor Swift’s 2017 chart-topper reputation vaults back into the Top 10 for the first time since in eight years, up 63 and experiencing 146% week-on-week uplift (7).

The announcement also serves as catalyst to see Taylor’s original 1989 recording back into the wider Top 40, soaring an incredible 131 spots, up 111% week-on-week (39).

As their groundbreaking show ABBA Voyage celebrates its third anniversary with a refreshed setlist, ABBA’s enduring ABBA Gold collection lifts eight back into the Top 10 in its 1204th week on chart (9).

Alt-rock icons Garbage gain a ninth Top 40 album with eighth studio record Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (24). It joins eponymous 1995 LP Garbage (6), 1998’s Version 2.0 (1), 2001’s Beautiful Garbage (6), 2005 album Bleed Like Me (4), 2007’s Absolute (11), 2012’s Not Your Kind of People (10), 2016’s Strange Little Birds (17) and 2021 LP No Gods No Masters (5) in their Top 40 tally.

The National’s Matt Berninger nets his second Top 40 album with Get Sunk this week (27), following the success of 2020’s Serpentine Prison (21).

And finally, the announcement of his American Heart Tour, hitting the UK in October, Benson Boone’s debut Fireworks & Rollerblades blazes back up the Albums Chart (31).

Anna Lapwood ‘stretches her wings’ with Official Classical Chart Number 1 Firedove

Huge congratulations to Anna Lapwood, who lands her second Official Classical Artist Albums Chart Number 1 with Firedove. 

The British organist and choir director receives an Official Classical Artist Albums Chart Number 1 Award to mark the occasion; the record now joining Anna’s 2023 chart-topper Luna.

Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, Anna Lapwood says:

"WE DID IT! I can honestly hardly believe I’m saying this, but I am so excited that Firedove has hit Number 1 on the Official Classical Artist Albums Chart.

"I spent so many years being told that only a small number of people loved the organ, and that there isn't really a market for it! This album feels like a stretching of musical wings for me, and like I've finally found my musical home. I've loved bringing together the different parts of my musical life, juxtaposing incredible classical organ repertoire by composers like Duruflé and Vierne with some of my musical experiments, fusing genres and bringing them together through the thread of the organ itself.

"This album has helped me fall in love with the organ all over again, and I hope it might make other people fall in love with it too. To the incredible online community that has helped me find my voice: thank you! I couldn’t have done this without you."

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