Posted September 3, 20222 yr This thread is a list of albums released in 2022 that made it into the Top 10 (including reissues of old albums, such as George Michael - Older), with a comparison of their first and second weeks in the chart. It's a way of seeing which albums held up well, and which went into freefall! Note: I've not included old albums that have re-entered or moved up the chart for other reasons (for instance the effect of an artist's death like Meat Loaf's, or a career revival like N-Dubz). Official Albums Chart Top 200 #01 01-01 Beyoncé - Renaissance 01-01 Taylor Swift - Midnights 01-02 Harry Styles - Harry's House 01-04 The Weeknd - Dawn FM 01-04 Central Cee - 23 01-04 Wet Leg - Wet Leg 01-04 Liam Gallagher - C'mon You Know 01-04 Drake & 21 Savage - Her Loss 01-05 Michael Buble - Higher 01-05 Paolo Nutini - Last Night in the Bittersweet 01-06 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love 01-06 Digga D - Noughty by Nature 01-06 Florence + the Machine - Dance Fever 01-06 George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid 01-06 Sam Ryder - There's Nothing But Space, Man! 01-07 The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language 01-08 Muse - Will of the People 01-10 Years & Years - Night Call 01-11 Blossoms - Ribbon Around the Bomb 01-12 Stormzy - This Is What I Mean 01-13 Stereophonics - Oochya 01-17 Arcade Fire - We 01-17 Dermot Kennedy - Sonder 01-18 Robbie Williams - XXV 01-21 Steps - Platinum Collection 01-24 Charli XCX - Crash 01-24 Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia 01-25 Louis Tomlinson - Faith in the Future 01-26 Bastille - Give Me the Future 01-26 5 Seconds of Summer - 5SOS5 01-26 Olly Murs - Marry Me 01-34 Kasabian - The Alchemist's Euphoria 01-36 Jamie T - The Theory of Whatever 01-37 BLACKPINK - Born Pink 01-39 Rex Orange County - Who Cares 01-41 Slipknot - The End So Far 01-63 Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott - N.K-Pop 01-71 Yungblud - Yungblud 01-72 Frank Turner - FTHC 01-96 The Wombats - Fix Yourself Not the World 01-139 Don Broco - Amazing Things {Note: Its week spent at #1 was the album's 2nd week in the chart on 04/02/2022. Its first week = #91 on 29/10/2021} #02 02-03 Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers 02-03 Bruce Springsteen - Only the Strong Survive 02-04 Drake - Honestly Nevermind 02-04 D-Block Europe - Lap 5 02-04 Cliff Richard - Christmas with Cliff 02-04 SZA - SOS 02-05 Arctic Monkeys - The Car 02-06 Arrdee - Pier Pressure 02-07 Machine Gun Kelly - Mainstream Sellout 02-07 Burna Boy - Love Damini 02-08 Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point 02-11 The Beatles - Revolver [Reissue] {Note: This re-entry counts towards its 1987 version. #2 is a brand new peak, its previous best was #9 in 2009} 02-12 Future - I Never Liked You 02-30 Aitch - Close to Home 02-32 Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9 02-34 Mabel - About Last Night 02-35 Yard Act - The Overload 02-36 Ghost - Impera 02-39 Suede - Autofiction 02-43 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return of the Dream Canteen 02-49 Bad Boy Chiller Crew - Disrespectful 02-74 Sigrid - How to Let Go 02-118 Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation 02-128 Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark 02-132 George Michael - Older [Reissue] {Note: Peaked at #1 in 1996 via the record label Virgin, however this version was issued by Sony and OCC counts #2 as being a new peak for this variation of the album} 02-187 Easy Life - Maybe in Another Life 02-xxx Father John Misty - Chloe and the Next 20th Century #03 03-05 Post Malone - Twelve Carat Toothache 03-08 Eminem - Curtain Call 2 03-08 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Together in Vegas 03-09 Metro Boomin - Heroes & Villains 03-13 Lil Baby - It's Only Me 03-18 Madonna - Finally Enough Love 03-28 Knucks - Alpha Place 03-38 Foals - Life Is Yours 03-45 Black Country New Road - Ants from Up There 03-45 Avril Lavigne - Love Sux 03-45 Rammstein - Zeit 03-48 Loyle Carner - Hugo 03-49 Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts 03-51 First Aid Kit - Palomino 03-53 Alt-J - The Dream 03-72 Jack White - Fear of the Dawn 03-88 Placebo - Never Let Me Go 03-92 Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl 03-105 The Snuts - Burn the Empire 03-140 Jamie Webster - Moments 03-146 Megadeth - The Sick The Dying and the Dead 03-197 Sports Team - Gulp 03-xxx Sea Girls - Homesick #04 04-07 Gunna - DS4Ever 04-08 André Rieu & The Johann Strauss Orchestra - Silver Bells 04-13 Jack Harlow - Come Home the Kids Miss You 04-27 Luke Evans - A Song for You 04-32 DJ Khaled - God Did 04-34 Liam Gallagher - Down by the River Thames 04-36 Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart 04-48 Fred again.. - Actual Life 3 (Jan 1 - Sep 9 2022) 04-91 Beabadoobee - Beatopia 04-104 James Bay - Leap 04-109 Chase & Status - What Came Before 04-110 Marcus Mumford - (Self-Titled) 04-136 Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 04-140 Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel 04-155 Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive 04-158 Shinedown - Planet Zero 04-174 Pale Waves - Unwanted 04-xxx Sea Power - Everything Was Forever 04-xxx Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy [Reissue] {Note: Peaked at #2 in 2001} #05 05-11 Andrea, Matteo & Virginia Bocelli - A Family Christmas {Note: These positions are its 4th & 5th weeks respectively in the Top 100; its first three week positions were 17-47-47}[/size] 05-16 Calvin Harris - Funk Wav Bounces - Vol. 2 05-36 Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos 05-38 M Huncho - Chasing Euphoria 05-48 The Shires - 10 Year Plan 05-51 Slash feat. Myles Kennedy - 4 05-58 Bonobo - Fragments 05-59 Pink Floyd - Animals [Reissue] {Note: Peaked at #2 in 1977} 05-87 The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention {Note: Its week at #5 was its second week in the chart on 24/06/2022. Its first week was spent at #19 on 20/05/2022} 05-93 The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie 05-103 The Divine Comedy - Charmed Life - The Best Of 05-143 Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess [Reissue] {Note: Originally peaked at #10 in 1998, however OCC counted this reissue as being a brand new entry} 05-173 Panic! At the Disco - Viva Las Vengenace 05-185 David Bowie - Toy (Toy Box) 05-195 Thunder - Dopamine 05-xxx Feeder - Torpedo 05-xxx Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful 05-xxx The Amazons - How Will I Know If Heaven Can Find Me 05-xxx Mark Owen - Land of Dreams #06 06-14 Chris Brown - Breezy 06-20 Lil Durk - 7220 06-37 Lizzo - Special 06-44 Brent Faiyaz - Wasteland 06-90 Mitski - Laurell Hell 06-107 Elvis Costello & The Impostors - The Boy Named If 06-112 Will Young - 20 Years - The Greatest Hits 06-133 Queen - The Miracle [Reissue] {Note: Peaked at #1 in 1989} 06-140 Alter Bridge - Pawns & King 06-xxx James Morrison - Greatest Hits 06-xxx Bear's Den - Blue Hours 06-xxx Michael Head/Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott 06-xxx Maggie Rogers - Surrender 06-xxx Oasis - Be Here Now [Reissue] {Note: Peaked at #1 in 1997} 06-xxx Massive Wagons - Triggered #07 07-50 Tate McRae - I Used to Think I Could Fly 07-64 Pusha T - It's Almost Dry 07-108 Craig David - 22 07-125 Demi Lovato - Holy Fvck 07-xxx Scarlet Rebels - See Through Blue 07-xxx Metronomy - Small World 07-xxx The Coral - The Coral [Reissue] {Note: Peaked at #5 in 2002} 07-xxx Franz Ferdinand - Hits to the Head 07-xxx Sam Tompkins - Who Do You Pray To 07-xxx Matt Goss - The Beautiful Unknown 07-xxx Bloc Party - Alpha Games 07-xxx Soft Cell - Happiness Not Included 07-xxx Tom Odell - Best Day of My Life #08 08-49 Conan Gray - Superache 08-61 Nickelback - Get Rollin' 08-65 BTS - Proof 08-73 Ella Henderson - Everything I Didn't Say 08-112 UB40 feat. Ali Campbell & Astro - Unprecedented 08-184 Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch 08-xxx Korn - Requiem 08-xxx Kae Tempest - The Line Is a Curve 08-xxx Belle & Sebastian - A Bit of Previous #09 09-58 Luke Combs - Growin' Up 09-80 Charlie Puth - Charlie 09-88 Camila Cabello - Familia 09-144 Koffee - Gifted 09-174 The Cure - Wish 09-197 Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene 09-xxx The Sherlocks - World I Understand 09-xxx The Mysterines - Reeling 09-xxx Halestorm - Back from the Dead 09-xxx Embrace - How to Be a Person Like Other People 09-xxx Big Moon - Here Is Everything #10 10-30 Foo Fighters - The Essential 10-195 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down 10-xxx Gang of Youths - Angel in Realtime 10-xxx Editors - EBM xxx = fell out of the Top 200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 181 Top 10 albums overall. Second week stats: 35 albums stayed in the Top 10 [19.34%] // 146 albums fell out of the Top 10 [80.66%] 50 albums stayed in the Top 20 [27.62%] // 131 albums fell out of the Top 20 [72.38%] 77 albums stayed in the Top 40 [42.54%] // 104 albums fell out of the Top 40 [57.46%] 105 albums stayed in the Top 75 [58.01%] // 76 albums fell out of the Top 75 [41.99%] 114 albums stayed in the Top 100 [62.98%] // 67 albums fell out of the Top 100 [37.02%] 148 albums stayed in the Top 200 [81.77%] // 33 albums fell out of the Top 200 [18.23%]
September 3, 20222 yr Author It's pretty bleak how most new albums experience very short chart runs. Well over half of Top 10 peaking albums fell straight out of the Top 40 in week 2. Of the 26 #1 albums, only 7 are in this week's Top 100: Harry Styles - Harry's House (This week: #2 / 15 weeks in the chart) Beyoncé - Renaissance (This week: #5 / 5 weeks in the chart) Steps - Platinum Collection (This week: #21 / 2 weeks in the chart) George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (This week: #24 / 12 weeks in the chart) Bastille - Give Me the Future (This week: #29 / 4 weeks in the chart, 30 weeks old) Paolo Nutini - Last Night in the Bittersweet (This week: #59 / 9 weeks in the chart) The Weeknd - Dawn FM (This week: #99 / 33 weeks in the chart, 34 weeks old) Including the most recent chart, there's been 122 albums that have reached the Top 10 in 2022. If I've counted it up correctly, only 16 of those albums are in this week's Top 100. Only smallll correction is that it’s The Smile! Thanks! I'll edit it. Official Charts Company only have them down as Smile!
September 3, 20222 yr Same could be said for several others where the OCC removes 'The' (The Wombats, The Shires, The Black Keys, The Divine Comedy, The Sherlocks and The Mysterines) :kink: Thanks for putting this together though, very interesting to see these stats after so much discussion about it recently!
September 3, 20222 yr Such a shame albums are this way now and not given a chance to breathe. Not many new artists hanging around either.
September 3, 20222 yr I would be kind of interested to see these stats just for the sales-only chart - I imagine they would be a little bit better but not really that much? It is quite alarming that it's statistically the norm for top 10 albums to drop directly out of the top 40!
September 21, 20222 yr Author I would be kind of interested to see these stats just for the sales-only chart - I imagine they would be a little bit better but not really that much? Sales Only Chart (This list only includes the albums that also went Top 10 in the official albums chart): 01-01 Wet Leg - Wet Leg 01-02 Michael Buble - Higher 01-02 Paolo Nutini - Last Night in the Bittersweet 01-02 Taylor Swift - Midnights 01-02 Cliff Richard - Christmas with Cliff 01-03 Liam Gallagher - C'mon You Know 01-03 George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid 01-04 Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point 01-04 Harry Styles - Harry's House 01-05 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love 01-05 Arcade Fire - We 01-05 Florence + the Machine - Dance Fever 01-05 Muse - Will of the People 01-05 The Beatles - Revolver [Reissue] {Note: This is actually the album's 2nd & 3rd weeks respectively in the Albums Sales chart - I'm not sure when its 1st week happened} 01-05 Sam Ryder - There's Nothing But Space, Man! 01-06 Steps - Platinum Collection 01-06 Robbie Williams - XXV 01-07 Blossoms - Ribbon Around the Bomb 01-08 Stereophonics - Oochya 01-08 Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia 01-11 Eminem - Curtain Call 2 01-11 Olly Murs - Marry Me 01-12 Jamie T - The Theory of Whatever 01-12 Beyoncé - Renaissance 01-12 Kasabian - The Alchemist's Euphoria 01-13 Years & Years - Night Call 01-13 Bastille - Give Me the Future 01-13 Frank Turner - FTHC 01-13 Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation 01-14 The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language 01-15 5 Seconds of Summer - 5SOS5 01-15 First Aid Kit - Palomino 01-16 Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott - N.K-Pop 01-16 Dermot Kennedy - Sonder 01-17 Foals - Life Is Yours 01-17 Mabel - About Last Night 01-18 Louis Tomlinson - Faith in the Future 01-21 Don Broco - Amazing Things 01-21 James Bay - Leap 01-22 Yungblud - Yungblud 01-23 Rex Orange County - Who Cares 01-25 Charli XCX - Crash 01-26 David Bowie - Toy (Toy Box) 01-26 Sea Power - Everything Was Forever 01-28 The Wombats - Fix Yourself Not the World 01-29 BLACKPINK - Born Pink 02-03 Bruce Springsteen - Only the Strong Survive 02-05 André Rieu & The Johann Strauss Orchestra - Silver Bells 02-07 Liam Gallagher - Down by the River Thames 02-07 Luke Evans - A Song for You 02-08 Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9 02-09 Arctic Monkeys - The Car 02-10 Madonna - Finally Enough Love 02-11 Suede - Autofiction 02-12 Yard Act - The Overload 02-12 Ghost - Impera 02-12 Stormzy - This Is What I Mean 02-13 Sigrid - How to Let Go 02-15 Elvis Costello & The Impostors - The Boy Named If 02-15 Slipknot - The End So Far 02-15 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return of the Dream Canteen 02-16 Alt-J - The Dream 02-16 The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention 02-16 Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive 02-18 The Divine Comedy - Charmed Life - The Best Of 02-18 Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark 02-18 Father John Misty - Chloe and the Next 20th Century 02-18 Megadeth - The Sick The Dying and the Dead 02-19 Rammstein - Zeit 02-21 Beabadoobee - Beatopia 02-23 Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful 02-23 Shinedown - Planet Zero 02-24 Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel 02-25 Central Cee - 23 02-26 Michael Head/Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott 02-30 Sports Team - Gulp 02-37 Pale Waves - Unwanted 02-38 Machine Gun Kelly - Mainstream Sellout 02-45 Bad Boy Chiller Crew - Disrespectful 02-52 Bear's Den - Blue Hours 02-55 Embrace - How to Be a Person Like Other People 02-65 Chase & Status - What Came Before 02-73 Sea Girls - Homesick 02-82 Easy Life - Maybe in Another Life 02-xx Digga D - Noughty by Nature 03-04 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Together in Vegas 03-05 Andrea, Matteo & Virginia Bocelli - A Family Christmas {Note: These positions are its 4th & 5th weeks respectively in the Top 100, with the 4th week matching its first week inside the Official Albums chart Top 10. Its first three week positions in the Albums Sales chart were 08-15-11} 03-07 Jack White - Fear of the Dawn 03-08 Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts 03-08 Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos 03-09 Slash feat. Myles Kennedy - 4 03-09 Placebo - Never Let Me Go 03-10 UB40 feat. Ali Campbell & Astro - Unprecedented 03-12 Black Country New Road - Ants from Up There 03-15 The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie 03-17 Avril Lavigne - Love Sux 03-20 Bonobo - Fragments 03-26 Thunder - Dopamine 03-28 Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl 03-29 Alter Bridge - Pawns & King 03-30 Jamie Webster - Moments 03-30 The Snuts - Burn the Empire 03-34 Mark Owen - Land of Dreams 03-41 Metronomy - Small World 03-50 Aitch - Close to Home 03-51 Loyle Carner - Hugo 03-52 Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy [Reissue] 03-54 Feeder - Torpedo 03-59 The Coral - The Coral [Reissue] 03-62 Maggie Rogers - Surrender 03-81 Knucks - Alpha Place 04-10 The Shires - 10 Year Plan 04-13 Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart 04-15 Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 04-20 Craig David - 22 04-24 James Morrison - Greatest Hits 04-25 Marcus Mumford - (Self-Titled) 04-27 Matt Goss - The Beautiful Unknown 04-27 Kae Tempest - The Line Is a Curve 04-27 Soft Cell - Happiness Not Included 04-30 Conan Gray - Superache 04-40 Queen - The Miracle [Reissue] {Note: Peaked at #1 in 1989} 04-42 Oasis - Be Here Now [Reissue] 04-44 Editors - EBM 04-48 Korn - Requiem 04-53 Big Moon - Here Is Everything 04-56 Massive Wagons - Triggered 04-59 The Amazons - How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me 04-61 Bloc Party - Alpha Games 04-79 Burna Boy - Love Damini 04-xx The Sherlocks - World I Understand 04-xx Scarlet Rebels - See Through Blue 04-xx Sam Tompkins - Who Do You Pray To 05-13 Pink Floyd - Animals [Reissue] 05-15 Belle & Sebastian - A Bit of Previous 05-17 Will Young - 20 Years - The Greatest Hits 05-21 Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess [Reissue] 05-22 Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene 05-23 Luke Combs - Growin' Up 05-34 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down 05-35 Gang of Youths - Angel in Realtime 05-37 Franz Ferdinand - Hits to the Head 05-38 Panic! At the Disco - Viva Las Vengenace 05-58 Arrdee - Pier Pressure 05-63 Koffee - Gifted 05-92 Tom Odell - Best Day of My Life 05-99 Charlie Puth - Charlie 05-xx D-Block Europe - Lap 5 06-25 The Mysterines - Reeling 06-26 Mitski - Laurell Hell 06-26 Halestorm - Back from the Dead 06-26 Nickelback - Get Rollin' 06-37 Calvin Harris - Funk Wav Bounces - Vol. 2 06-45 Camila Cabello - Familia 06-57 Demi Lovato - Holy Fvck 06-81 Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch 06-97 Fred again.. - Actual Life 3 (Jan 1 - Sep 9 2022) 07-19 Ella Henderson - Everything I Didn't Say 07-52 The Cure - Wish 07-78 Tate McRae - I Used to Think I Could Fly 07-97 Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers 08-24 Lizzo - Special 08-26 Foo Fighters - The Essential 08-xx M Huncho - Chasing Euphoria 08-xx BTS - Proof 10-66 The Weeknd - Dawn FM (02-18 in the first two weeks of physical availability) 12-57 Post Malone - Twelve Carat Toothache 38-xx Drake - Honestly Nevermind 59-xx Drake & 21 Savage - Her Loss 61-xx Chris Brown - Breezy * #2 was The Smile's third week in the chart on 24/06/2022. These official Top 10 peaking albums weren't in the Top 100 sales charts in their first two weeks: Gunna - DS4Ever Lil Durk - 7220 Pusha T - It's Almost Dry Future - I Never Liked You Jack Harlow - Come Home the Kids Miss You Brent Faiyaz - Wasteland DJ Khaled - God Did Lil Baby - It's Only Me Metro Boomin - Heroes & Villains SZA - SOS
September 23, 20222 yr Sales Only Chart (This list only includes the albums that also went Top 10 in the official chart): 01-01 Wet Leg - Wet Leg Only album that peaked in the top 10 to spend it's first 2 weeks at #1 on sales Wegheads rise up!
September 23, 20222 yr Thanks for these stats Jay! Surprised there are so few top 10 albums that didn't also go top 10 on sales actually (and of the few that did, the majority went to the extreme of not even being top 100). None of the sales #1s of the year beating the old benchmark drop of 'Bionic' then :lol: although oof at Digga D going 2-x (though it's more surprising he got as high as #2 on sales than anything else). Looked it up and Kendrick, like The Weeknd, got a new sales peak with the release of his vinyls and went 3-50. He also went 9-50 in the first and second weeks of CD availability so 3 separate big drops from the top 10 lol (although surprisingly he actually held up pretty well in the weeks between the CD and vinyl releases and is in fact still hanging onto the album sales chart now, currently #80 with 14 weeks on the chart!)
October 3, 20222 yr Author Updated both lists! BLACKPINK have the dubious honour of having the worst collapse for a #1 in the sales chart in 2022, down to #29!
October 3, 20222 yr Such a shame that most albums now are fanbase products and - aside from a few big hitters, usually from long established artists - so few albums now genuinely capture the attention of the general public for a prolonged period to rack up decent sales over time.
October 3, 20222 yr That’s mad how many lower top 10 albums just fall straight out of the charts the next week We are in a culture now where most albums are 1 week wonders. Tbh though I have more of an issue with 1 and our albums. That’s not something to celebrate!
October 3, 20222 yr I wonder how far back we'd have to go to find an album that actually climbed on its second week on the chart!
October 3, 20222 yr November/December 2019 saw those Robbie and Rod Stewart albums released the same week as Coldplay was climb to No.1 in subsequent weeks. There must be a more recent example than that though, perhaps something lower down that's taken off on streams gradually.
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