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Kanye West’s Donda debuts at Number 1 on Official UK Albums Chart
Plus new records from Maisie Peters, Halsey and Becky Hill land in the Top 10.
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Kanye West’s Donda lands straight in at Number 1 on the Official UK Albums Chart, securing the rapper his third chart-topping record.
Following its digital-only release on Sunday (August 29), Donda – named after Kanye’s late mother - takes the top spot with 20,000 chart sales. 91% of its week 1 total is streaming equivalent sales, with the remaining 9% being downloads. In total, Donda racked up 33.4 million streams across its 27 tracks.
Kanye’s tenth studio album becomes his third UK Number 1, following 2007’s Graduation and 2013’s Yeezus. View Kanye’s Official UK Chart history in full here.
MORE: Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2021 so far
Meanwhile, rising star Maisie Peters enters at Number 2 with her debut album You Signed Up For This – and was the top selling album in UK independent record shops over the past seven days. Last week’s chart-topper, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, drops to 3.
Scottish synth-pop band Chvrches land at Number 4 with their fourth album Screen Violence, and Halsey completes the Top 5 with her fourth record If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power – the UK’s best-selling album on vinyl this week.
Elsewhere, Becky Hill’s debut album Only Honest At The Weekend opens at Number 7, KSI’s All Over The Place rebounds ten places to Number 10 following a deluxe edition release, and ABBA’s Gold – Greatest Hits edges closer to the Top 10 – up two spots to Number 12 – following news of their new album Voyage and virtual concert.
Further down, Beach Boys boxset Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 enters at 19, Toyah earns her eighth Top 40 album with Posh Pop at 22, and a remastered edition of Supergrass’ In It For The Money lands at 28.
Finally, US band OneRepublic open at Number 30 with their fifth album Human, and a 15th anniversary reissue of The Kooks’ debut album Inside In/Inside Out bows at 40.
View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full
Article image credit: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
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🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
congratulations to kanye!! the album was brilliant. not twisted fantasy-level but it was brilliant. it was definitely worth the wait, especially with 9/10 bangers like hurricane!
elsewhere, i loved the new halsey album, haven't heard the chvrches album, don't really like becky hill's, but maisie peters' was sh*te, sorry.
Shreyas is on Coney Island
That dumb Kanye is no 1 wtf. Our girl Maisie deserved it. Let's get her to no 1 next week.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
maisies album was trash. cry about it
Marko
Halsey's album is trash
thierry henon
you obviously have no taste in music!
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
everything is trash according to him. he clearly has no life.
thierry henon
how are you today collocelot101? ready for the week end? Summer is "back"! BTW are you an ABBA fan? if so, you know the good news about the new album coming out in November 5th? I would have loved to see the band releasing it on the 29th October: same day as Ed's new album! Have a great day mate..
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
hi thierry, i’m fine albeit a bit nervous about college coming up! i have heard about abba and their new album, and i’ve heard one of the songs from it and thought it was decent.
i doubt they’re gonna go to number 1 though, because adele is coming back with her new album on the exact same day! it’s gonna be a huge battle for number 1 on the year end list lol. have an awesome weekend! :)
sanskar raut
it's not bad
it has conceptually good
but the execution was mid
sanskar raut
ironic coming from someone calling kanye west as talentless
Küll
🤦
Iron Maiden should be the next number 1
NN
Nu No
91% Streaming? 27 tracks? That means that each time 37 people listen to the full album he would gain 1 equivalent chart sale from streaming. That means that in reality the album had much less persons listening to it than one would expect reading the almost 20.000 figure for "chart sales" (in reality it means the album was listen to only 1.2 million in full - on average is not that much really).
stumurmer
Well, this is a new low. Kanye gets a number 1 album when only 1800 people could be bothered to pay for his album? As for the streaming figures, did 1 million people play the whole album 33 times? Or does it only take a few tracks from the album being played to count as a full stream? The whole use of streaming figures in the album chart really needs to be looked at. :)
NN
Nu No
Actually with 27 tracks the album was only played in full once (on average) 1.2 million times to get that chart sales number so you just need around 40k people to play the album 33 times each to get those numbers.
stumurmer
That's appalling. Thanks for the info. Official Charts Co really need to rethink how streaming figures count towards the album chart. Something similar happened a couple of months back when Olivia Rodrigo was up against Gary Numan. She sold just over half the amount of sales that Numan did but the streaming figures pushed her way out in front.
Piran
I was hoping for Maisie to take it, but congratulations to Kanye nonetheless!
Happy to see CHVRCHES, Olivia & Halsey complete the Top 5 too.
Shame Becky didn’t make it though! :(
thierry henon
ONE REPUBLIC only at 30!! "HUMAN" is their best album in years!!
Marko
You crazy man. It's their worst album ever.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
jesus, only at 30?! now that’s a shocker.
thierry henon
BECKY HILL only at 7 when the overrated kanye west at number 1!! what an awful week!!
Lars Van Moer
Kanye or Ye or whatever his name is this week, did not make the top 10 in the actual albums sales chart.
thierry henon
Glad to hear that Lars! really can't stand that talentless man!
Lars Van Moer
You don't have to hear it from me. Just click in the menu on top of this website on "Charts", then "Albums" and then NOT "Top 100" but "Sales" .
sanskar raut
you must have a really bad taste in music
sanskar raut
he didn't make to album sales chart
because he didn't have a physical copy for sale and all the itunes buys were refunded on time due to changes
T
Trent
Bit rich to call him talentless when you stan Becky Hill