The Official biggest albums of 2024 so far

Check out the Official Top 40 biggest LPs of the year to date

albums of 2024

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is officially the UK’s biggest album of 2024 so far. 

Tortured Poets has spent eight non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 since its release in May, and has racked up 667,500 chart units to date. It’s both the most-streamed and best-selling album of 2024, with a physical sales total amounting to 265,000. 

Noah Kahan’s Stick Season enjoys a place at Number 3 in the year-to-date list, while Billie Eilish lifts one place to Number 4 with her chart topping Hit Me Hard and Soft, which earned Billie the biggest opening week of her career back in May. 

Despite being released in 2023, Chappell Roan’s debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess enters the list for the first time at Number 12 after an extraordinary breakthrough summer for Chappell. Currently the biggest debut album of 2024 so far, having seen a monumental rise in streams and sales as the British public discover her music, the Missouri singer continues to dominate the weekly Official Singles Chart too with no less than three of her hits riding high on the current week’s chart. Expect further climbs for Chappell before 2024 is out. 

MORE: The biggest songs of 2024

A sweep of big summertime smashes crash straight into the list including reigning singles queen Sabrina Carpenter with her sixth studio album Short ‘n’ Sweet (14), while one of the biggest comebacks in history has helped Oasis’ debut album Definitely Maybe into the Top 20 (18) as the record celebrates its 30th anniversary. Possibly the most talked about album of the summer, BRAT by Charli xcx rounds out the Top 20 (20). 

More chart-topping albums released in 2024 to land in the year-to-date list are Ariana Grande’s seventh album Eternal Sunshine at Number 22, Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism at Number 31, and very close behind, Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) at Number 32. 

Finally, as Linkin Park reform with two new band members and brand-new music – their first since the passing of Chester Bennington - their greatest hits collection Papercuts: Singles Collection 2000-2023 enters the list at Number 38 as fans revisit their catalogue. 

The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2024 so far

POS TITLE ARTIST
1 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT TAYLOR SWIFT
2 THE HIGHLIGHTS WEEKND
3 STICK SEASON NOAH KAHAN
4 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT BILLIE EILISH
5 GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO
6 50 YEARS - DON'T STOP FLEETWOOD MAC
7 TIME FLIES - 1994-2009 OASIS
8 CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS EMINEM
9 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA
10 DIAMONDS ELTON JOHN
11 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT
12 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS CHAPPELL ROAN
13 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT
14 SHORT N' SWEET SABRINA CARPENTER
15 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO
16 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT
17 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT
18 DEFINITELY MAYBE OASIS
19 THE ESSENTIAL MICHAEL JACKSON
20 BRAT CHARLI XCX
21 REPUTATION TAYLOR SWIFT
22 ETERNAL SUNSHINE ARIANA GRANDE
23 GREATEST HITS QUEEN
24 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
25 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION POST MALONE
26 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC
27 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS
28 LEGEND BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
29 SOS SZA
30 COWBOY CARTER BEYONCE
31 RADICAL OPTIMISM DUA LIPA
32 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRACE) EMINEM
33 SINGLES MAROON 5
34 CURTAIN CALL 2 EMINEM
35 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN
36 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY
37 I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THERAPY - PT 1 TEDDY SWIMS
38 PAPERCUTS - SINGLES COLLECTION 2000-2023 LINKIN PARK
39 BEST OF 50 CENT
40 TEENAGE DREAM KATY PERRY

©2024 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

Related artists

Related Articles

Join the conversation by joining the Official Charts community and dropping comment.

Already registered?

Log in

No account?

Register

avatar

laurelcanyon

1

Awesome choices 😀 

avatar

itsnoodleszn_

0

as for the rest of the chart, it’s awesome to see hit me hard and soft in the top 5 (i think it’ll retain that) along with the hazbin hotel soundtrack in the top 40!! that was a very pleasant surprise. something really needs to be done about these compilations though, they’re not studio albums. the weeknd was the biggest album of last year with a greatest hits and not fresh material. surely it gets boring right?

avatar

itsnoodleszn_

0

the only reason tortured poets has that lead is because taylor plugged so many different variants to prevent other albums from reaching that number 1 spot. i’m still salty about brat not getting it because that’s an absolutely incredible album + aoty for me (along with hit me hard and soft)

swifties can send me death threats all they want, i don’t care, just know you are giving your fandom a bad name. i love taylor swift and a lot of her music but im not part of this hivemind or taylor’s shameless ways of making sure she’s always winning. 

as a taylor enjoyer, i wish she would just focus on the music and not meaningless numbers. would make supporting her so much easier for me.

avatar

Robert79

0

To qualify for Best of 2024 charts, the albums considered should only be ones that were released between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024.

C

conor

0

would be a very short list then! i think 7 of the top 40 currently are 2024 releases!

D

djcarbines

1

Am I right in thinking not a single one "this year's" top 40 actually came out this year?

C

conor

0

i believe 7 of them are 2024 releases, and the rest are from previous years!