Sales Report: W/E 10th July 2025

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 68,414 Lewis Capaldi - Survive [25,415 CDs, 7,849 downloads, 35,150 streaming]

02 42,554 MK feat. Chrystal - Dior

03 41,256 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

04 37,995 Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not

05 30,972 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club

06 30,547 Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap

07 27,814 Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas - Blessings

08 27,677 Alex Warren - Ordinary

09 27,427 Ed Sheeran - Sapphire

10 26,672 Skye Newman - Family Matters

12 26,001 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

15 22,608 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

22 17,186 PinkPantheress - Illegal

23 15,867 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

28 13,909 Rossi. & Jazzy - High on Me

29 13,882 sombr - undressed

31 13,155 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden

34 12,473 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Your Idol

35 12,221 Lorde - What Was That

37 11,443 Alex Warren & ROSÉ - On My Mind

40 10,248 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - How It's Done

42 9,583 CMAT - Take a Sexy Picture of Me

43 9,460 Chappell Roan - The Giver [5,870 vinyl] [1,703 ineligible vinyl sales]

44 9,429 Lorde - Shapeshifter

51 8,745 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved [SCR: 16,349] [total: 6,081,852]

64 7,649 J Hus & Asake - Gold

66 7,533 Lorde - Hammer

67 7,396 The Killers - Mr. Brightside [SCR: 14,676] [total: 6,457,717]

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After his surprise set on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage last Friday (June 27), Lewis Capaldi makes a similarly triumphant return to No.1 with comeback single, Survive.

Opening atop the chart on consumption of 68,414 units – the highest consumption for a No.1 for nine weeks - Survive is 28-year-old Glaswegian Capaldi’s sixth chart-topper –- the most for any Scot apart from Calvin Harris (11, although only two solo) - and was released simultaneously in three CD editions, which attracted 25,415 sales, with the remainder of its tally coming from 7,849 digital downloads and 35,150 sales-equivalent streams.

It is the third single by Capaldi to debut at No.1 – emulating 2022’s Forget Me and 2023’s Wish You The Best – and provides his 12th week at No.1 since his chart career began in 2019. It secures the highest first week sale of any single in 2025, and the highest of Capaldi’s career, replacing 2022 smash Forget Me (56,882 sales).

Capaldi’s most popular song, Someone You Loved - which spent seven weeks at No.1 and has staggering to-date consumption of 6,081,852 units making it the third biggest hit of the 21st century – also returns to the chart. Ranked 51st (8,745 ACR-adjusted sales, 16,349 unadjusted sales), it appears in the Top 75 for the 160th time in total but the first time for 65 weeks.

The only track to spend longer in the Top 75 is Mr Brightside, The Killers’ 2004 No.10 hit, which retreats 65-67 (7,396 ACR-adjusted sales, 14,676 unadjusted sales), settling in its favourite chart position for the 15th time, and extending its current chart run to 20 weeks. Mr. Brightside is, of course, one of the two tracks with higher 21st century consumption than Someone You Loved, with a to-date tally of 6,457,717, placing it behind only being Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You, which spent a comparatively meagre 75 weeks in the Top 75, the last of them nearly seven years ago, but has accumulated consumption of 6,637,792 units.

Survive shifted more copies on CD than any single in a week since X Factor 2014 winner Ben Haenow’s coronation single, Something I Need, sold 47,001 copies (all on CD) as it debuted at No.1 that December, 550 weeks ago.

Capaldi’s coronation is tough on Dior, which holds at No.2 on consumption of 42,554 units – a 1.71% increase week-on-week – despite overcoming former incumbent, Manchild, which slips 1-3 (41,256 sales) for Sabrina Carpenter.

Sapphire returns to the Top 10 for Ed Sheeran, bouncing 12-9 (27,427 sales) to match its original peak.

The rest of the Top 10: Love Me Not (3-4, 37,995 sales) by Ravyn Lenae, Pink Pony Club (5-5, 30,972 sales) by Chappell Roan, Victory Lap (4-6, 30,547 sales) by Fred Again, Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax, Blessings (8-7, 27,814 sales) by Calvin Harris feat. Clementine Douglas, Ordinary (9-8, 27,677 sales) by Alex Warren and Family Matters (10-10, 26,672 sales) by Skye Douglas.

Rein Me In tumbles 6-12 (26,001 sales) for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, while ACR ends an eight-week run in the Top 10 for Sombr’s Undressed (7-25, 13,882 sales).

Three songs from the soundtrack to Netflix animated fantasy film Kpop Demon Hunters simultaneously gatecrash the Top 40, these being Golden (93-31, 13,155 sales) and How It’s Done (No.40, 10,248 sales), both by Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast and Your Idol (No.34, 12,473 sales) by Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast. Some of the credited artists are fictional, others real, some artists are American, others South Korean, and none has charted before. Four more songs from the soundtrack are ‘starred-out’ of the Top 75.

The new, expanded version of Alex Warren’s You’ll Be Alright Kid drops in a fortnight (July 16), ahead of which it spawns a fifth hit single in the form of On My Mind (No.37, 11,443 sales), a collaboration with Blackpink’s Rosé.

As Lorde’s album, Virgin, debuts at No.1, it spawns her 12th and 13th Top 75 hits in the form of Shapeshifter (No.44, 9,429 sales) and Hammer (92-66, 7,533 sales) and a revival in the fortunes of recent No.11 success, What Was That (56-35, 12,221 sales).

Also new to the Top 75, Gold (No.64, 7,649 sales), a collaboration between rappers J Hus and Asake, delivering the former’s 25th hit, the latter’s third.

Fifteen weeks after debuting and peaking at No.2, The Giver returns to the chart at No.43 (9,460 sales) for Chappell Roan. Still on ACR, it benefits from the release of three chart-eligible seven-inch variants (5,870 sales), but not from two others (1,703 discounted sales).

Only two of PinkPantheress’ 12 hits have made the Top 20 but Illegal looks like being the third, advancing 36-22 (17,186 sales) in the latest frame.

There are also new peaks for: Nice To Each Other (18-15, 22,608 sales) by Olivia Dean, No Broke Boys (26-23, 15,867 sales) by Disco Lines & Tinashe, High On Me (33-28, 13,909 sales) by Rossi & Jazzy and Take A Sexy Picture Of Me (57-42, 9,583 sales) by CMAT.

Overall singles consumption is down 0.26% week-on-week at 30,823,160 units, 7.62% above same week 2024 consumption of 28,641,799 units. Paid-for sales are up 19.13% week-on-week at 345,874, 6.15% above same week 2024 sales of 325,826.

Albums

01 18,848 Lorde - Virgin [3,302 CDs, 8,676 vinyl, 433 downloads, 6,437 streaming]

02 9,444 Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums

03 8,211 Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

04 8,109 Ed Sheeran - ‎+-=÷× (Tour Collection)

05 7,824 Rod Stewart - Ultimate Hits

06 7,381 Oasis - Time Flies: 1994-2009

07 6,817 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

08 6,374 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS [total: 601,278]

09 6,184 Charli xcx - BRAT

10 6,054 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

11 5,849 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

13 5,527 Teddy Swims - I've Tried Everything But Therapy

14 5,289 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

15 5,166 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent

19 4,457 Benson Boone - American Heart

21 4,388 YUNGBLUD - Idols

xx,xxx Pulp - More

26 4,109 Oasis - Definitely Maybe

30 3,793 Lewis Capaldi - Broken By Desire to Be Heavenly Sent

39 3,124 Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

40 3,124 Barbra Streisand - The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2

55 2,572 KATSEYE - BEAUTIFUL CHAOS

61 2,476 BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation

62 2,451 Motörhead - The Manticore Tapes

65 2,410 RAYE - My 21st Century Blues

75 2,174 Loyle Carner - hopefully !

98 2,007 HAIM - I quit

xxx 1,102 Kneecap - Fine Art

xxx 1,025 Aitch - 4

xxx 1,008 Bob Vylan - Humble As the Sun

xxx 307 Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life

Compilations

01 7,871 KPop Demon Hunters [262 downloads, 7,609 streaming]

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Simultaneously surpassing the peaks of her previous long-players Pure Heroine (No.4, 2013), Melodrama (No.5, 2017) and Solar Power (No.2, 2021), while maintaining her pace of one release every four years, singer/songwriter Lorde’s fourth album, Virgin, debuts atop the chart on consumption of 18,848 units (3,302 CDs, 8,676 vinyl albums, 433 digital downloads and 6,437 sales-equivalent streams).

Effecting the 29th change of leadership of the chart in as many weeks, it arrives at the summit more than 11 years after her debut smash Royals topped the singles chart, and secures her highest yet first week sale, beating her previous best of 18,294, as set by Pure Heroine, which is, by some distance, her most-consumed album with a to-date tally of 478,559 units.

Born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor in Auckland, Lorde was just 16 when Royals was No.1, and is now 28. She is the first solo artist born in New Zealand to have a No.1 album, although Rosé, who topped the chart as a member of Blackpink. was also born in Auckland, as was Daniel Bedingfield, who reached No.2 with Gotta Get Thru’ This in 2002. Bedingfield’s sister Natasha, who reached No.1 with Unwritten in 2004, emerged into the world in West Sussex after the Bedingfields relocated to the UK.

For the first time in chart history, there are simultaneous debuts for three albums by artists over 75-years-old – each very different.

Leading the way, Tracks II: The Lost Albums (No.2, 9,444 sales) is the follow-up to the similarly-themed Tracks (No.50, 1998) and gathers together 83 previously unissued tracks from seven unissued albums recorded between 1983 and 2018 by Bruce Springsteen, delivering the 75-year-old’s 42nd Top 75 and 24th Top 10 album.

Released to coincide with his performance in Glastonbury’s Legends slot last Sunday (29 June), Rod Stewart’s new career-encompassing compilation, Ultimate Hits, debuts at No.5 (7,824 sales), becoming his 40th Top 10 and 52nd Top 75 album.

Completing the triumvirate, The Secret Of Life: Partners Volume 2 is a companion release to the 2014 No.2 success Partners by Barbra Streisand and finds Babs, now 83, accompanied by the likes of Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Sting and more contemporary stars like Hozier, Laufey and Sam Smith. Debuting at No.40 (3,124 sales), it is Streisand’s 16th Top 10 and 37th Top 75 album.

Rod Stewart is far from being the only artist to benefit from the Glastonbury effect, with Guts (24-8, 6,374 sales) and Sour (25-11, 5,849 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo; Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (110-15, 5,166 sales) and Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (No.30, 3,793 sales) by Lewis Capaldi; Stick Season (15-10, 6,054 sales) by Noah Kahan; Jagged Little Pill (No.39, 3,124 sales) by Alanis Morrissette; and My 21st Century Blues (No.65, 2,410 sales) by Raye all receiving substantial uplifts.

Guts is at a 49-week high, and tips into double platinum territory (601,278 sales), while Sour is at a 57-week high. Divinely Uninspired… is at a 104-week high and Broken By Desire… at a 73-week high for Capaldi. Meanwhile, Stick Season is back in the Top 10 after a 23-week absence, Jagged Little Pill returns to the Top 40 for the first time since 2015, and My 21st Century Blues makes its first 2025 chart appearance.

Oasis weren’t at Glastonbury but with their Live ’25 reunion tour starting in Cardiff tonight (4 July), Time Flies: 1994-2009 (9-6, 7,381 sales), What’s The Story, Morning Glory (18-14, 5,289 sales) and Definitely Maybe (37-26, 4,109 sales) also perk up.

Top 10 titles not mentioned above: Short N’ Sweet (5-3, 8,211 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, +-=÷× Tour Collection (6-4, 8,109 sales) by Ed Sheeran, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-7, 6,817 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and Brat (10-9, 6,184 sales) by Charli XCX.

Neither of Yungblud’s previous two No.1 albums have managed to spend a second week in the Top 10 – and neither does his latest, Idols, though it has a lesser second week decline than its predecessors, dipping 1-21 (4,388 sales).

Also turfed out of the Top 10: American Heart (4-19, 4,457 sales) by Benson Boone, Hopefully (2-75, 2,174 sales) by Loyle Carner, I Quit (3-98, 2,007 sales) by Haim and 4 by Aitch, which tumbles out of the Top 200 (1,025 sales) from No.7.

Containing everything on his No.12 album I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy Part 1 and No.2 album I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy Part II and more, the digital exclusive I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Complete Edition) debuts at No.13 (5,527 sales) for Teddy Swims.

Pre-dating any of their previous 24 Top 75 albums, The Manticore Tapes (No.62, 2,451 sales) consists of the first recordings and studio rehearsals of Motörhead. Unearthed, restored and released for the first time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band’s formation, it was recorded in August 1976 at Manticore Studios (hence its title) and features the original, classic Motörhead line-up of Lemmy, Phil Taylor & Eddie Clarke, all of whom are now, sadly, dead.

Also new to the Top 75: Beautiful Chaos (No.55, 2,572 sales), the second EP (five songs, 14 minutes) by Los Angeles-based international girl group Katseye; and A Sober Conversation (No.61, 2,476 sales), the seventh studio album and second chart entry for 46-year-old Manchester-based American indie singer and songwriter Brian Christinzio, as BC Camplight.

Controversial Glastonbury appearances prompted week-on-week increases in consumption of 85.52% for Kneecap’s album Fine Art (1,102 sales), 2,092.86% for Bob Vylan’s The Price Of Life (307 sales) and 4,990.40% for Bob Vylan’s Humble As Sun (1,008 sales).

The soundtrack to Netflix animated fantasy film Kpop Demon Hunters enjoys a 96.11% surge in consumption to 7,871 units (262 digital downloads and 7,609 sales-equivalent streams) on its second week atop the compilation chart.

Overall album sales are up 0.12% week-on-week at 2,457,919 units, 5.95% above same week 2024 sales of 2,319,946. Physical product accounts for 256,074 sales, 10.42% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

6,637,792 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You

Album Totals

478,559 Lorde - Pure Heroine

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Sales are in!

So Lewis would've just about made it without the physicals.

Next week is going to be super close between the top 5

I'm quite surprised that Lauren Spencer Smith's new album was only No.52 on the mid-week album chart and has missed the top 100 completely for the full week. Hopefully, her album will chart in Canada and USA.

"Debuting at No.40 (3,124 sales), it is Streisand’s 16th Top 10 and 37th Top 75 album."

How can it be her 16th top ten album if it barely made the top 40?

Looks like MK could dethrone Lewis next week

oh I so knew it that it was useless to ship the CDs earlier!!!

great for Lorde to finally have a #1album and decent sales, expected for her, she's really been stable since album 1 and all her 4 albums have opened similarly, except Solar Power that didn't have CDs

I can’t believe Lorde hasn’t had a no.1 album before I just assumed she had. Nice to see stick season back in the top 10 again, such a good album.

Fair play to Lewis being no1 even without physicals. Shame cmat just missed out on the top 40, been stuck in my head all week after watching her glasto set.

Also nice to Sam holding up on the singles, refreshing to see a post album single doing well.

Edited Friday at 18:201 day by Supercell

Top 3 sellers
1. Shape Of You - 6,637,792 units.
2. Mr. Brightside - 6,457,717 units
3. Someone You Loved - 6,081,852 units

^ Band Aid actually 3rd

And Wham! 4th?

EDIT: Would Wham! not actually be ahead of Band Aid now?

Edited Friday at 18:431 day by Maestro

1 hour ago, Bjork said:

oh I so knew it that it was useless to ship the CDs earlier!!!

Tbf he only would of had it by 400 sales and they probably released them as a safety net and would of been a gamble if they hadn't

Amazing sales for Lewis, I’m here for Dior at number next week!

1997 has become the sixth yearbook after 1982, 1980-1984, 1973, 1990 and 1998 to miss the number 1 spot on the compilation chart

Some totals not revealed in the main report here: https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/ben-mortimer-on-polydor-label-group-s-hot-streak-including-lewis-capaldi-sam-fender-olivia-dean/092244

1,155,725 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

728,884 Sabrina Carpenter - Short N Sweet

191,724 Sam Fender - People Watching

It's insane Lewis managed to sell 25,000 CD singles

most artists nowadays can do just 1K and that's it

but mostly are super expensive and Lewis was just 99p

but Ed was also 99p and sold 1K

so hard for me to see how Lewis has the hardcore fanbase to buy so much

Surprised that OCC didn't keep the earlier Teddy Swims albums (Pt 1 and Pt 2) on chart. Double counting doesn't seem to be an issue with studio albums and GHs.

Does that mean any future sales (for part 1 and 2) are only download or physical only for him ?

20 minutes ago, Sour Candy said:

Surprised that OCC didn't keep the earlier Teddy Swims albums (Pt 1 and Pt 2) on chart. Double counting doesn't seem to be an issue with studio albums and GHs.

But this is the Complete Edition of the album, it's not a GH? It's like a combo of the 2 albums put together, not sure how it qualifies actually

I might be confused but part 1 still is charting, only down 7 spots, that doesnt seem like the kind of dip that is caused by the OCC pulling streaming from it. And part 2 hasnt been in the top 100 for like a month.