New Releases: Dua Lipa, The Beatles, PinkPantheress, Chase & Status and more

This week's biggest single, album and home entertainment releases, only on Official Charts

Welcome to your weekly round-up of the biggest new single, album and home entertainment releases, all in one handy place.

Let’s kick things off with some of the week’s biggest albums, shall we?

As they aim for an 18th Official Number 1 single with Now And Then, The Beatles reissue their iconic 1962-1966 (‘The Red Album’) and 1967-1970 (‘The Blue Album’) compilations.

Celebrating the albums’ 50th anniversaries, the latest issues see the tracks remastered in Dolby Atmos, and include bonus material not available on the LPs’ original 1973 releases across multiple stunning formats.

Read everything you need to know about The Beatles’ ‘The Red Album’ and ‘The Blue Album’ 2023 reissues here.

PinkPantheress unleashes her debut full-length release Heaven Knows this week. Including the singles Boy’s a liar Pt. 2 (featuring Ice Spice), Mosquito, Capable of Love and brand-new Central Cee collab Nice to meet you, she’ll be hoping it enjoys the same success as her to hell with it mixtape, which landed inside the Top 20 in 2021 (20).

Elsewhere, pioneering drum and bass duo Chase & Status return with 2 RUFF, Vol. 1. The record includes Top 5 Bou team-up Baddadan (featuring IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga and Takura) and Hedex and ArrDee collab Liquor & Cigarettes, plus tracks with Stefflon Don, Clementine Douglas and Kwengface.

Read our exclusive interview with Chase & Status’s Saul Milton on the making of 2 RUFF, Vol. 1 here.

Four-piece Italian rock outfit Måneskin unleash a repackaged version of their Top 5 record RUSH! this week. RUSH! (ARE U COMING?) features brand-new tracks, including latest single VALENTINE and previous release HONEY (ARE U COMING?).

Other big album releases this week come courtesy of The Kid LAROI (THE FIRST TIME), Kentucky-born country star Chris Stapleton (Higher), K-pop outfit Stray Kids (Rock-Star), Cast (All Change) and Bush (Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023).

On the singles front, Dua Lipa launches her third album campaign with the Danny L Harle and Kevin Parker (aka Tame Impala)-produced Houdini. The song sees Dua break new sonic ground with this slinky, psychedelic earworm.

Continuing to capitalise on 2023’s appetite for interpolations, David Guetta and Kim Petras join forces on When We Were Young (The Logical Song). The cut borrows from, you guessed it, German happy hardcore outfit Scooter’s The Logical Song, which peaked at Number 2 back in 2002. Could the track earn Guetta a mammoth 48th UK Top 40 single next week?

This week also sees Girls Aloud's 2004 Number 2 hit The Show EP land on streaming services in full for the first time. See Nadine Coyle, Cheryl, Sarah Harding, Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts' most popular tracks in our list of Girls Aloud's Official Top 40 biggest songs here.

This year's much-anticipated John Lewis Christmas ad has landed, this time sound tracked by Andrea Bocelli's Festa. The track is lifted from a reissue of Bocelli's A Family Christmas LP, also released this week, which earned him a Number 4-peaking record alongside son Matteo and daughter Virginia last year.

See the heartwarming John Lewis Christmas advert featuring Andrea Bocelli's Festa here.

Also entering the Christmas Number 1 race early doors, Mimi Webb unveils her festive original Back Home for Christmas.

Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, Mimi Webb says: "I really felt like this year was the year [to release my own Christmas song]. I wanted it to be something that really describes me and my character. It’s such a fun song, I think people will really get to see the fun in this one!"