Sales Report: W/E 7th August 2025

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 42,853 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden [1,073 downloads, 41,780 streaming]

02 37,579 Justin Bieber - DAISIES

03 33,778 MK feat. Chrystal - Dior

04 30,227 Drake & Central Cee - Which One

05 29,457 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

06 27,667 Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas - Blessings

07 26,116 Ed Sheeran - Sapphire

08 25,734 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

09 25,438 Alex Warren - Ordinary [SCR: 49,590]

10 25,132 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Your Idol

11 24,868 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Soda Pop

13 22,485 Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap

14 22,275 Alex Warren - Eternity

18 19,841 Lewis Capaldi - Survive

20 17,581 Black Sabbath - Paranoid

25 15,012 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

31 13,863 sombr - 12 to 12

32 13,164 sombr - undressed

33 12,777 sombr - back to friends

34 12,307 Lola Young - d£aler

39 11,145 Coldplay - Sparks

45 9,586 Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, I'm Coming Home

46 9,314 Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

47 9,209 Black Sabbath - War Pigs

48 9,075 Black Sabbath - Iron Man

50 8,973 Marino - Devil in Disguise

51 8,954 Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller - It Depends

55 8,757 Denon Reed & Cru2 - Let Him Go

62 7,988 Tyler, the Creator - Ring Ring Ring

63 7,873 TWICE - TAKEDOWN

71 7,704 YUNGBLUD - Zombie

73 7,668 Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah, Arslan Nizami & Irshad Kamil - Saiyaara

** 7,484 Black Sabbath - Changes

90 6,506 YUNGBLUD, Nuno Bettencourt & Frank Bello feat. Adam Wakeman & II - Changes

xxx 3,871 Ozzy Osbourne & Kelly Osbourne - Changes

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Becoming the first song from a movie to top the chart since Dua Lipa’s Dance The Night (from Barbie) in 2023, Golden – from the Netflix animated fantasy film K-pop Demon Hunters - jumps 4-1 on consumption of 42,853 units (1,073 digital downloads and 41,780 sales-equivalent streams), a 34.69% surge, week-on-week.

Golden has a convoluted artist credit – Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast – but is effectively a song by fictional K-Pop group Huntr/X, whose very real members are 33-year-old Ejae, 26-year-old Audrey Nuna and 30-year-old Rei Ami, all of South Korean origin and resident in The USA, although Nuna was the only one born there.

Performed predominantly in English with a little Korean thrown in, Golden is only the second No.1 by an act wholly or predominantly from South Korea following Gangnam Style, which topped the chart for Psy in 2012. Loose as their association is. Huntr/X is the first female ‘group’ – three or more members – to have a No.1 single since Little Mix in 2021.

In the last 20 weeks, six songs have taken turns at No.1, and all have one-word titles: Ordinary, Manchild, Survive, Dior, Daisies and Golden. It is the longest such sequence in chart history – the previous longest run of No.1s with single word titles was four, set in 2002, and equalled in 2018/2018 and 2020. Historically, one-word titles are not very common – the very first was the 59th No.1, Butterfly by Andy Williams in 1957, more than four years after the chart was created.

Also from K-pop Demon Hunters, Your Idol advances 14-10 (25,132 sales) and Soda Pop jumps 17-11 (24,868 sales). Both are credited to Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, Samuil Lee & K-pop Demon Hunters Cast. Four more songs from the album – which is No.1 on the compilation chart - are ‘starred-out’ of the Top 75.

Golden is the latest in a string of No.1s by animated characters, and the first to reach the summit since We Don’t Talk About Bruno by the cast of Encanto in 2022.

The highest of 10 new entries to the Top 75 this week is Which One (No.4, 30,227 sales), a track from Drake’s upcoming album Iceman. A collaboration with London rapper Central Cee, it arrives two years to the week after their only previous collaboration, On The Radar Freestyle, peaked at No.26. It is Drake’s 48th Top 10 and 151st Top 75 entry, Central Cee’s 11th Top 10 and 43rd Top 75 entry.

Forty-nine weeks after the release of Tinashe’s uncharted solo version of the track, No Broke Boys makes the Top 10, advancing 12-8 (25,734 sales) for Disco Lines (DJ Thadeus Labuszewski, who remixed the track) & Tinashe.

The rest of the Top 10: Daisies (1-2, 37,579 sales) by Justin Bieber, Dior (2-3, 33,778 sales) by MK feat. Chrystal, Manchild (5-5, 29,457 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, Blessings (6-6, 27,667 sales) by Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas, Sapphire (9-7, 26,116 sales) by Ed Sheeran and Ordinary (7-9, 25,438 sales) by Alex Warren. On ACR for six weeks, Ordinary is the most-popular song on the chart for the 18th time in 20 weeks, with unadjusted consumption of 49,590 units – 15.72% more than Golden.

Vacating the Top 10: Victory Lap (8-13, 22,485 sales) by Fred Again, Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax, Eternity (3-14, 22,275 sales) by Alex Warren and Survive (10-18, 19,841 sales) by Lewis Capaldi.

No announcement of an album yet but breakthrough American singer/songwriter Sombr – 20-year-old Shane Boose – racks up his fourth hit since March, with new song 12 To 12 debuted at No.31 (13,863 sales) with his existing hits Undressed (30-32, 13,164 sales) and Back To Friends (34-33, 12,777 sales) randomly lining-up immediately behind it.

27 days after Black Sabbath played their emotion-charged final gig at Villa Park, 10 days after leader Ozzy Osbourne’s death and a day after his funeral, six songs associated with the legendary heavy metal star are ascending the Top 75. Three of the songs are from Black Sabbath’s magnum opus, 1970 second album Paranoid, from which the title track – a No.4 hit at the time that was last in the Top 20 45 years ago – jumps 32-20 (17,581 sales), while two of the album’s most popular tracks, War Pigs (79-47, 9,209 sales) and Iron Man (93-48, 9,075 sales), enter the Top 75 for the first time ever. From Ozzy’s solo career, 1980 No.49 hit Crazy Train hits a new peak, climbing 56-25 (15,012 sales), as does 1991 No.46 hit Mama, I’m Coming Home, a re-entry at No.45 (9,586 Sales) while 1991 No.32 hit No More Tears is a re-entry at No.46 (9,314 sales).

Two versions of Changes – an atypical ballad from 1972 Black Sabbath album Volume 4 – came close charting too. The original Black Sabbath version is ‘starred-out’ between No.74 and No.75 (7,484 sales), while a live version of the track from the Villa Park gig jumps 98-90 (6,506 sales) for Yungblud, Nuno Bettencourt & Frank Bello feat. Adam Wakeman and II. A remake of the song cast as a duet between Ozzy and daughter Kelly was an unlikely No.1 in 2003 and increases consumption 61.56% week-on-week to 3,871 units in the latest frame, split between two different labels, but is not near the chart. War Pigs and Iron Man are Black Sabbath’s 10th and 11th hits, and their first addition to their tally since 1992, when TV Crimes – the last of six hits that had without Ozzy - reached No.33.

Also new to the Top 75: Dealer (No.34, 12,307 sales), the fifth hit for Lola Young; It Depends (No.51, 8,954 sales), the 74th hit for R&B singer Chris Brown, and the 13th for rapper Bryson Tiller; Let Him Go (76-55, 8,757 sales), the second hit for Denon Reed & Cru2; Ring Ring Ring (No.62, 7,988 sales), the 20th hit for Tyler, The Creator; Takedown (No.63, 7,873 sales), the first hit for female K-pop nonet Twice; and Saiyaara (No.73, 7,668 sales), the Hindi-language theme from the Indian film of the same name, credited to writers Tanishk Bagchi, Ishad Kamil, Faheem Abdullah and Arslan Nizami, although the track’s singer is 27-year-old Abdullah from Kashmir.

After six weeks in the 40s, late-blossoming 2000 Coldplay deep cut Sparks – which charted for the first time after the viral success of a video of Coldplay performing the track at a gig in Las Vegas in June – reaches a new peak, ascending 41-39 (11,145 sales).

There are also new peaks for: Devil In Disguise (64-50, 8,973 sales) by Marino, and Zombie, which rebounds 84-71 (7,704 sales) for Yungblud, eight weeks after reaching its previous peak of No.73.

Overall singles consumption is down 1.47% week-on-week to a 14-week low of 30,013,503 units, 2.46% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,293,585 units. Paid-for sales are up 1.30% week-on-week at 292,757, 9.04% above same week 2024 sales of 268,485.

Albums

01 25,032 The K's - Pretty on the Internet [12,512 CDs, 10,103 vinyl, 430 cassettes, 1,080 downloads, 907 streaming]

02 15,942 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009

03 11,782 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

04 11,290 Alex Warren - You’ll Be Alright, Kid

05 9,863 Paul Weller - Find El Dorado

06 9,035 Oasis - Definitely Maybe

07 8,139 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

08 7,634 Ed Sheeran - ‎+-=÷× (Tour Collection)

09 7,198 Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper

10 6,911 Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

11 5,872 Tim Minchin - Time Machine

13 5,719 Justin Bieber - SWAG

14 5,140 Black Sabbath - The Ultimate Collection

15 5,134 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

16 4,996 Tyler, the Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS

23 4,317 Madonna - Veronica Electronica

28 3,946 Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 2

32 3,797 Ozzy Osbourne - Memoirs of a Madman

34 3,498 Gary Numan - A Perfect Circle (Live at OVO Arena Wembley)

38 3,244 Black Sabbath - Paranoid

42 2,970 Alessi Rose - Voyeur

50 2,816 Booter Bee - True Stories 2

Compilations

01 16,176 KPop Demon Hunters [370 downloads, 15,806 streaming]

02 7,341 Now That's What I Call Music! 121

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Just 15 months after their first album, I Wonder I The World Knows?, peaked at No.3, indie/rock quartet The K’s – from Earlestown on Merseyside – debut emphatically at No.1 with the more mature, critically-lauded follow-up, Pretty On The Internet.

Racking up first week consumption of 25,032 units (12,512 CDs, 10,103 vinyl albums, 430 cassettes, 1,080 digital downloads and 907 sales-equivalent streams) – 99.52% higher than I Wonder If The World Knows? – Pretty On The Internet consists of a dozen new songs from the band, whose members are 29-year-old Jamie Boyle (vocals and guitar), 31-year-old Ryan Breslin (lead guitar), 29-year-old Dexter Baker (bass) and 25-year-old Nathan Peers (drums). Boyle wrote every song on the album – some alone, some with Breslin and/or Baker.

The album is the first No.1 for the 18-year-old Manchester label LAB Records, whose only charted album releases are the two sets by The K’s, and Love Is For Everyone, which reached No.35 for Andrew Cushin 12 weeks ago.

Paul Weller’s 18th solo album, Find El Dorado, is only his second to consist of covers, after 2004 No.2 album Studio 150. Consisting of 15 remakes – including hits by The White Plains, Brian Protheroe and The Bee Gees – Find El Dorado debuts at No.5 (9,863 sales). Including compilations and live sets it is the 24th Top 10 and 32nd Top 75 album of the 67-year-old’s 33-year solo career, which followed extremely successful spells fronting first The Jam and then The Style Council.

Alice Cooper is both the name of a band and an individual, the latter being the 77-year-old singer/songwriter (real name: Vincent Furnier) who fronted the former and who reached No.8 with solo concept album Road, in 2023. Now, for the first time since 1973, Alice Cooper the band is active again, with Furnier being joined by surviving bandmates Michael Bruce, Neal Smith (both 77) and Dennis Dunaway (78) for The Revenge Of Alice Cooper (No.9, 7,198 sales). The album provides Cooper The Man with the ninth Top 10, and 24th Top 75 album of his career, and Cooper The Band with their third Top 10 and seventh Top 75 entry.

At Wembley Stadium again this weekend before heading to Scotland, Oasis’ Live ’25 tour continues to boost their back catalogue, with three of their albums in the Top 10 for the fourth week in a row, namely 2010 compilation Time Flies: 1994-2009 (3-2, 15,942 sales), 1995 second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (4-3, 11,782 sales) and 1994 debut Definitely Maybe (5-6, 9,035 sales).

The rest of the Top 10: You’ll Be Alright, Kid (1-4, 11,290 sales) by Alex Warren, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-7, 8,139 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, +-=÷× Tour Collection (8-8, 7,634 sales) by Ed Sheeran and Short N’ Sweet (9-10, 6,911 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter.

Exiting the Top 10: Swag (6-13, 5,719 sales) by Justin Bieber, Hit Me Hard And Soft (10-15, 5,134 sales) by Billie Eilish and Don’t Tap The Glass (2-16, 4,996 sales) by Tyler, The Creator.

Alongside Paul Weller and Alice Cooper, two more acts over the age of 65 have new entries this week. First, 67-year-old Madonna whose Veronica Electronica – consisting of remixes of 1997/1998 repertoire – debuts at No.23 (4,317 sales), becoming her 29th Top 75 album. Second is 67-year-old Gary Numan, whose new live set A Perfect Circle: Live At OVO Arena, Wembley debuts at No.34 (3,498 sales), becoming his 34th chart album.

Also new to the Top 75: Time Machine (No.11, 5,872 sales), the second album by Anglo-Australian comedian/singer Tim Minchin, whose 2020 debut, Apart Together, reached No.27; Alfredo 2 (No.28, 3,946 sales), the first Top 75 entry for rapper Freddie Gibbs and DJ/rapper The Alchemist, who also pursue solo careers and reached No.111 with their first collaboration, Alfredo, in 2020; Voyeur (No.42, 2,970 sales), the third EP and first album chart entry for indie/pop singer/songwriter Alessi Rose from Derbyshire; and True Stories 2 (No.50, 2,816 sales), the second album by mysterious Huddersfield drill/rap artist Booter Bee – Abdulla Yousif Barham – following True Stories, which peaked at No.34 last year.

Ten days after his death and two days after his funeral, the late Ozzy Osbourne has multiple entries in the singles and albums chart. The singles are covered elsewhere, the albums are Black Sabbath’s 2016 compilation The Ultimate Collection, which jumps 22-14 (5,140 sales) to surpass its original No.20 peak; and their classic 1970 No.1 second album Paranoid, which jumps 52-38 (3,244 sales); and Osbourne’s 2014 No.23 solo compilation, Memoirs Of A Madman (60-32, 3,797 sales).

Three of its songs are in the Top 10 of the singles chart, including the new No.1 (Golden), so it’s no surprise to find the soundtrack to Netflix animated fantasy film K-pop Demon Hunters spending its sixth consecutive week atop the compilation chart, on consumption up again to a new peak of 16,176 units (370 digital downloads and 15,806 sales-equivalent streams). Kpop Demon Hunters’ continued strength stymies the chances of Now That’s What I Call Music! 121 (101-2, 7,341 sales) from topping the chart. Assuming it doesn’t, it will be only the second of 109 regular Now! albums (Now That’s What I Call Music! 13 to Now That’s What I Call Music! 121, inclusive), to fall short of topping the compilation chart since it was established in January 1989. Now! 115 was the other, failing to find a way past the Barbie soundtrack two years ago.

Overall album sales are up 0.06% week-on-week at 2,441,342 units, 3.98% above same week 2024 sales of 2,347,837. Physical product accounts for 281,615 sales, 11.54% of the total.

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Sales are in!

11.2k is a respectable hod for Alex in albums could if been a second week number 1 not too long ago

If golden increases again next week Chappel gonna have to open better than the giver

Now 121 didn't stand a chance against the mighty Demon Hunters !

5 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

11.2k is a respectable hod for Alex in albums could if been a second week number 1 not too long ago

If golden increases again next week Chappel gonna have to open better than the giver

It won’t as the playlists didn’t improve and I think it’s gonna do similar numbers, she has also a very good video out, and people really into the song, rightfully so. :)

Still reckon Chappel got the much better shot, but golden has done this well with poor playlisting anyway nothing to say it won't grow more

Now 121 would’ve had more sales if it had a stronger tracklist. Pity they didn’t mention Now 4 also not going to number 1 and hopefully, Now 122 gets released on 14th November so they don’t end up having two consecutive numbered Nows missing out. Wicked 2 is out on 21st November meaning the soundtrack will most likely be out then so Now should do the right thing and release Now 122 on 14th November. They’d be making a big mistake by releasing Now 122 on 21st November. It’s bad that 1983 yearbook sold more than what Now 121 did in its first week and good job Now 119 was released a week earlier than usual otherwise that would’ve missed number 1 but at least that managed a week at the top before Wicked came along

Edited yesterday at 18:011 day by Hadji

So this week Ordinary equals the record for most weeks as the real No.1... Next week will be interesting to see if it can beat it - though of course that should be with an asterisk as you can't really compare pre- and post-streaming records.....

Edited 19 hours ago19 hr by braindeadpj

Amazing for K's and no surprised there for the Alex Warren 2nd week considering the 5 top 30 hits he has on Amazon,

actually thought he was gonna fall to #2 only but guess Oasis is doing better on Spotify

he's gonna do 10K per week for the rest of the year if Alexa keeps pushing it down people's throats

I thought it was odd Paul Weller's opening sales were sub-10k considering he's consistently hit the 20k-25k since 2015, but I see this album is one of covers rather than new material.

Healthy sales for Madonna's remix album considering it was available on just one physical format (vinyl). Wonder what sales it might achieve when the CD and second vinyl is released later in the year.

I mean Amazon is barely 30% of the streaming market and most Alexa plays will be free rather than paid so to claim Alexa is responsible for an album doing 11k is delusional

12 minutes ago, Bjork said:

Amazing for K's and no surprised there for the Alex Warren 2nd week considering the 5 top 30 hits he has on Amazon,

actually thought he was gonna fall to #2 only but guess Oasis is doing better on Spotify

he's gonna do 10K per week for the rest of the year if Alexa keeps pushing it down people's throats

Oh my God. I probably dislike Alex Warren as much as you do, but if I hear you say "Alexa" one more time... 😬😬

So an 18 week run of >50k sales comes to an end for “Ordinary”. (It nearly managed 20 as it had a week around 49.5k at both ends.) I wonder if that is also a record.

7.3k for Now, ouch, seems like the numbered albums’ days are numbered themselves.

The tracklist is fine, not the worst they have done but by no means great. But I don’t really even think including every hit possible (if licensing issues weren’t a thing at all) would take it back over a 10k opening now tbh. The market has changed too much for them to be a mass appeal product anymore. And they will keep missing No.1 as long as a film soundtrack is in the way due to the way streams count for those and not Now albums.

Cool to see another South Korean act with a No.1 single. The song is very basic for me but it’s nice to see quick turnover at the top of late.

Ordinary has to be the most Ordinary song of the last 5 years. Absolutely bonkers it's done this well.

34 minutes ago, Rooney said:

Ordinary has to be the most Ordinary song of the last 5 years. Absolutely bonkers it's done this well.

Numbers speak for themselves at this point

1 hour ago, Julian_ said:

So an 18 week run of >50k sales comes to an end for “Ordinary”. (It nearly managed 20 as it had a week around 49.5k at both ends.) I wonder if that is also a record.

'Dance Monkey' and 'Blinding Lights' may have matched that, and I think 'Bad Habits' only fell short on week 18 otherwise it may have had a 20-week run.

47 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

7.3k for Now, ouch, seems like the numbered albums’ days are numbered themselves.

The tracklist is fine, not the worst they have done but by no means great. But I don’t really even think including every hit possible (if licensing issues weren’t a thing at all) would take it back over a 10k opening now tbh. The market has changed too much for them to be a mass appeal product anymore. And they will keep missing No.1 as long as a film soundtrack is in the way due to the way streams count for those and not Now albums.

Cool to see another South Korean act with a No.1 single. The song is very basic for me but it’s nice to see quick turnover at the top of late.

It was only Now 4 that got kept off the top by something else other than a soundtrack. At least with Barbie, it only came out a week before Now 115 whereas KPop came out a month before Now 121. It’s not just streaming platforms that are ruining Now albums. Sales took a massive nosedive after Now 100. Now 100 sold 176k in its first week but Now 101 sold 86k in its first week

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Hadji

22 minutes ago, jimwatts said:

'Dance Monkey' and 'Blinding Lights' may have matched that, and I think 'Bad Habits' only fell short on week 18 otherwise it may have had a 20-week run.

Yes 19 non consecutive for “Bad Habits” as you say. I make it 19 consecutive for “Dance Monkey” and 18 for “Blinding Lights”!

54 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

Numbers speak for themselves at this point

It's absolutely bonkers, it's the most unforgettable song I think I've ever heard. I genuinely can't even remember how it does.