The Official Top 40 biggest cassette albums of 2023 so far

The year-to-date Top 40 revealed

Ed Sheeran has secured the biggest cassette album of the year with - (Subtract), the Official Charts Company can reveal today.

Ed's emotional, acoustic-focused sixth album hit Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart earlier this year upon release, with Subtract becoming the fastest-selling album of the 2023 so far upon its release, although this record has now been broken by Lewis Capaldi's Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent.

Coming in second place is Irish rockband Inhaler's impressive second album Cuts & Brusies, while Lana Del Rey's experimental and inscrutable chart-topping opus Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. comes in at Number 3.

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The Top 10 contains further Number 1 records; Lewis Capaldi's record-breaking sophomore album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (5) and The Lathums' second fellow chart-topper, From Nothing To A Little Bit More (8).

The upper echelon is completed by LPs including The 1975's Live With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, a Record Store day exclusive (6), The Jonas Brothers' The Album (7) and US alt-pop singer Gracie Abrams' impressive debut record, Good Riddance (10).

Further down the list, more Number 1 albums from 2023 make the cut. These include Gorillaz's Cracker Island (13), Enter Shikari's A Kiss For The Whole World (14), Foo Fighters' But Here We Are (15), U2's Songs of Surrender (17) and Metallica's 72 Seasons (18).

These are followed by The Courteener's landmark Number 1 re-release of St Jude (19), Maisie Peters' poptastic The Good Witch (21), The Reyton's What's Rock And Roll (22), country icon Shania Twain's Queen of Me (23) and recent chart-toppers from pop stasr Tom Grennan with What Ifs & Maybes (24), Ellie Goulding's Higher Than Heaven (25) and Niall Horan's second UK Number 1 LP, The Show (26).

The list is rounded up by two more UK Number 1 albums for this year; The Lottery Winners' hard-fought first chart-topper Anxiety Replacement Therapy (29) and Paramore's incendiary This Is Why (31).

The Official Top 40 biggest cassette albums of 2023 so far

POS	TITLE	ARTIST	PEAK
1	-	ED SHEERAN	1
2	CUTS & BRUISES	INHALER	2
3	DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER	LANA DEL REY	1
4	TAKE ME BACK TO EDEN	SLEEP TOKEN	3
5	BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT	LEWIS CAPALDI	1
6	LIVE WITH THE BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA	1975	2
7	THE ALBUM	JONAS BROTHERS	3
8	FROM NOTHING TO A LITTLE BIT MORE	LATHUMS	1
9	POWER TO PLAY	MCFLY	2
10	GOOD RIDDANCE	GRACIE ABRAMS	3
11	COUNCIL SKIES	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING	2
12	SO MUCH (FOR) STARDUST	FALL OUT BOY	3
13	CRACKER ISLAND	GORILLAZ	1
14	A KISS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD	ENTER SHIKARI	1
15	BUT HERE WE ARE	FOO FIGHTERS	1
16	TRUTH DECAY	YOU ME AT SIX	4
17	SONGS OF SURRENDER	U2	1
18	72 SEASONS	METALLICA	1
19	ST JUDE	COURTEENERS	1
20	PORTALS	MELANIE MARTINEZ	2
21	THE GOOD WITCH	MAISIE PETERS	1
22	WHAT'S ROCK AND ROLL	REYTONS	1
23	QUEEN OF ME	SHANIA TWAIN	1
24	WHAT IFS & MAYBES	TOM GRENNAN	1
25	HIGHER THAN HEAVEN	ELLIE GOULDING	1
26	THE SHOW	NIALL HORAN	1
27	LIVE AT ALEXANDRA PALACE 3	ENTER SHIKARI	15
28	UGLY	SLOWTHAI	2
29	ANXIETY REPLACEMENT THERAPY	LOTTERY WINNERS	1
30	LOST AT SEA	ROB GRANT	146
31	THIS IS WHY	PARAMORE	1
32	PHANTOMIME	GHOST	8
33	HOW MANY DREAMS	DMA'S	3
34	WAKE UP & IT'S OVER	LOVEJOY	5
35	MEMENTO MORI	DEPECHE MODE	2
36	THE RECKONING	TOM MEIGHAN	17
37	A FISTFUL OF PEACHES	BLACK HONEY	6
38	IS IT	BEN HOWARD	17
39	CROP CIRCLE 2	NINES	2
40	HANA	SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR	8