Sabrina Carpenter fends off Manic Street Preachers to return to Number 1 with Short N' Sweet

As Louis Dunford secures his first-ever Top 10 with Be Lucky

Sabrina Carpenter Short N Sweet Number 1 album

Sabrina Carpenter’s chart run isn’t so Short N’ Sweet, as her latest LP returns to Number 1 for a third non-consecutive week.

The 2025 BRITs Global Success award winner jumps four to the summit with her sixth studio album, bolstered by the release of a deluxe edition featuring five brand-new tracks including a reworking of former chart-topper Please Please Please with Dolly Parton.

Short N’ Sweet first topped the Official Albums Chart on its release in September 2024, and went on to become the third-biggest album of last year in the UK.

Welsh rock legends Manic Street Preachers secure this week’s highest new entry with Critical Thinking (2). The band’s 15th studio album, it becomes their 15th Top 10 across a career spanning 34 years.

Critical Thinking tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart this week too, shifting the most copies on wax over the past seven days.

Manic Street Preachers Critical Thinking

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PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake bag a brand-new entry with their first collaborative collection $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (3). The record earns PARTYNEXTDOOR a second Top 10 and career-best in the UK, while netting Drake his 14th Top 10 LP.

It’s a fifth Top 10 album for Liverpudlian rock outfit The Wombats, as Oh! The Ocean makes its Albums Chart debut (4). The band previously enjoyed success with 2007 debut The Wombats Proudly Present…A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation (11), 2011’s This Modern Glitch (3), 2015 album Glitterbug (5), 2018’s Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (3) and 2022’s Fix Yourself, Not The World (1).

Oh! The Ocean comes in at Number 1 on the Official Record Store Chart; the most popular album of the week in the UK’s independent record shops.

Congratulations are in order for London-born singer-songwriter Louis Dunford, who celebrates his first-ever Top 10 album with Be Lucky (8).

Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, Louis Dunford says:

“I’ve just found out that my debut album, Be Lucky, has made it into the Top 10 of the Official Albums Chart, which is absolutely mental.

“I want to thank all the listeners who’ve been buying, downloading and streaming the album. I never dreamed of getting into the Top 10, I’m absolutely buzzing!

“I’m so excited to get on the road for my upcoming tour in March, going all over the UK and Ireland. It ends in the biggest show I’ve ever played at Alexandra Palace, which is sold out. 10,000 people!

“Thank you so much for all the support. A Top 10 album, who’d have thought?”

South Wales-formed alt-rock outfit Punk Rock Factory bag their first-ever Albums Chart placing with All Hands On Deck (22).

London-born rapper, singer and songwriter M Huncho secures his seventh Top 40 collection with U2OPIA, new in at Number 30. The mixtape serves as the sequel to 2019’s Utopia, which peaked at Number 13.

Finally, Kendrick Lamar’s acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning 2017 album DAMN. flies 15 places to Number 37, re-entering the Top 40 for the first time in seven years.