Benson's team messed up they needed to do signed bundles I'm sure he'd at least be on 12-14k if they had done even a signed Cassette/CD bundle alongside some vinyl bundles.

Sabrina needs one more week to equal the 44 weeks of Elvis Presley's G.I. Blues [OST] as the longest run in the Top 5 for any (not just studio) solo artist album.

Really surprised Benson Boone isnt top 3 in the albums but maybe he has a chance by the end of the week, but as others have said the label messed up by not having more variants available.

Pulp doing much better again this week than i expected im happy to see them get a third week top 20.

Hopefully in the singles Muse can stay top 100 and Lorde gets another top100 with Hammer, was hoping CMAT might have been higher today than 59.

Decent for Youngblud but underwhelmed for Haim tbh!

Also pretty poor for Central Cee. Was #1 on NMF got a big name feature and just no buzz or interest at all and looks likely to miss the top 40 might even be near the bottom of the top 100

1 hour ago, gasman449 said:

Good to see so many new entries at the bottom end of the top 40, hope they all hang on. Also hoping Fred and Sam overtake Calvin so he can keep his bingo!

Last week, 'Family Matters' and 'undressed' finished 2k ahead, but both appear to be losing ground - would be most annoying if just one of them overtook and Calvin ended up at #6!

'Now It's Gone' could be about to lose its record runs without going Top 75 & at a #76 peak too.

13 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

Also pretty poor for Central Cee. Was #1 on NMF got a big name feature and just no buzz or interest at all and looks likely to miss the top 40 might even be near the bottom of the top 100

Outside of the States Sexyy Red is hardly a big name

2 hours ago, Bjork said:

Sabrina is 2K ahead, not really a chart battle, she extended the lead from yesterday

Huge for Yungblud then, was expecting more from Haim but hopefully they at least reach 15K

was also expecting double from Benson

Still closer than a dominat 6k win last week but ok 😂

I’m also surprised about Benson I thought he’d do a lot more. He’s sold out an arena tour and has three hit singles in the top 20. I watched his set at Capital Summertime Ball and he got the best reception by far.

It’s obviously in Sabrina’s favour but the lead now is expected it’s from Monday onwards the rest should gain on her if her numbers keep dropping.

I'd expect Sabrina to hang on this week but glad it's at least not looking like she'll be squatting at #1 for too long this time. 'Dior' would be a decent #1 (would be good for MK to finally get one as a named / primary artist, 12 years after 'Look Right Through' and as mentioned already 30 years into his chart career!) but I am really rooting for 'Love Me Not' to somehow still eventually get there, I notice the Rex Orange County version has re-entered the top 200 on Spotify today and it's actually ahead of 'Manchild' combined, although obviously MK has overtaken since First Look so it's not trending in the right direction.

I did figure it was probably wishful thinking from me overrating the chances of HAIM beating YUNGBLUD for the #1 album but really thought it'd at least be closer than it is oops - HAIM should still get similar if not slightly higher opening sales to their last album though so could be worse, I just thought the Taylor Swift stimulus package since the release of 'Women In Music Pt. III' could put them in contention to be pushing some slightly higher numbers now. YUNGBLUD has actually just barely already beaten the opening sales of his last album (by 60 units!) - would need to do another 16k to match the opening of his 2020 album though. Good to see Loyle Carner keeping up well with his previous sales too and even Aitch is doing a bit better than I expected. I think Benson Boone is much more of a 'general public' artist than one with a particularly sizeable fanbase, his album will hang around longer than the other debuts but not too surprised that he isn't contending for #1.

I’m rally surprised Benson isn’t doing better, his profile has increased significantly since he released his debut. Maybe it’ll hang around a bit longer but opening sales look a bit underwhelming.

Wonder if drive will fo enough to be the third track im guessing low top 100 if it does

Benson is clearly only a streaming artist not an album artist.

8 hours ago, Melancholia said:

Benson is clearly only a streaming artist not an album artist.

Yet he'd sold 8k by the Monday midweeks - not many artists manage that...!

Music Week Top 40 Sales Flash

Singles

01 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild (25,981)

02 MK feat. Chrystal - Dior (23,047)

03 Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not (21,838)

04 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club (18,491)

05 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In (18,193)

06 Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap

15 Benson Boone - Mystical Magical

23 Levi Heron - The Glen

26 Morgan Seatree & Florence + the Machine - Say My Name

27 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

29 Lola Young - Messy

31 The Black Eyed Peas - Rock That Body

34 Rossi. & Jazzy - High On Me

35 Chrystal - The Days

36 KATSEYE - Gabriela

37 PinkPantheress - Illegal

38 JADE - Plastic Box

40 sombr - we never dated

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Albums (Top 100)

01 YUNGBLUD - Idols (24,439) [22,625 physicals 1,261 streaming, 553 downloads]

02 Loyle Carner - hopefully ! (12,814)

03 HAIM - I quit (12,489)

04 Benson Boone - American Heart (10,449)

05 Aitch - 4 (6,832)

12 Elton John - Diamonds

13 Malevolence - Where Only the Truth Is Spoken

17 Lucy Spraggan - Other Sides of the Moon

19 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

23 Arctic Monkeys - AM

31 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS

36 Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa

37 Oasis - Definitely Maybe

39 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend

Sales of the top 5 albums since the Monday update

2195 Benson Boone

1554 YUNGBLUD

1428 Loyle Carner

1013 HAIM

596 Aitch

Don't think Benson's closed the gap enough to get a top 3 peak, though I'd love to be pleasantly surprised. That said, nice to see it showing the best chance of holding up well, and it's now over double the opening week of Fireworks & Rollerblades with a couple more days to go.

Manchild has #1 locked down it seems

Out of curiosity, do we have any info about 6/7 in the albums? It seems likely at least 1 of Ed/Sabrina will take #5, curious if Ed is still ahead of Sabrina for that

Definitely sabrinas week this week then dior seems to have stalled could it recover to challenge next week

Suprised to see had still top 40 in this update so im guessing it will land somewhere between 50 and 75 on Friday 😥

1 minute ago, EmailsICantChase said:

Manchild has #1 locked down it seems

Out of curiosity, do we have any info about 6/7 in the albums? It seems likely at least 1 of Ed/Sabrina will take #5, curious if Ed is still ahead of Sabrina for that

Sabrina is ahead of Ed