Sales Report: W/E 28th August 2025

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 59,449 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden [1,970 downloads, 57,479 streaming]

02 37,494 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

03 34,212 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Soda Pop

04 33,952 Chappell Roan - The Subway

05 31,794 MK feat. Chrystal - Dior

06 31,786 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Your Idol

07 30,653 Justin Bieber - DAISIES

08 28,140 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

09 27,872 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

10 23,062 Alex Warren - Ordinary

11 22,681 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

12 22,381 Ed Sheeran - Sapphire

14 20,335 sombr - 12 to 12

18 15,563 Rossi. & Jazzy - High on Me

27 11,837 Lola Young - d£aler

28 11,607 Coldplay - Sparks

31 10,931 TWICE - TAKEDOWN

32 10,609 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things

34 9,794 Gunna feat. Burna Boy - wgft

35 9,210 TWICE - Strategy

36 9,147 Denon Reed & Cru2 - Let Him Go

38 9,126 Olivia Dean - Lady Lady

** 8,670 Olivia Dean - Dive

45 8,085 Tyler, the Creator - Sugar on My Tongue

46 8,051 Pierce the Veil - So Far So Fake

48 7,867 Kehlani - Folded

72 6,393 Bella Kay - The Sick

76 6,131 Gunna feat. Wizkid - forever be mine

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No.1 for the second week in a row and third time in total, Kpop Demon Hunters cut Golden – by Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast – continues to increase consumption, which rises 14.42% week-on-week to 59,449 units (1,970 digital downloads and 57,479 sales-equivalent streams). It is only the second time in 12 weeks that the No.1 single has not changed.

Two more songs from the Netflix movie soundtrack also remain in the top tier and also continue to grow. They are Soda Pop (6-3, 34,212 sales) and Your Idol (7-6, 31,786 sales), both by Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast.

With special ‘singalong’ cinema screenings of Kpop Demon Hunters tomorrow (August 23) and Sunday (August 24), it is likely that demand for the triumvirate will increase again next week. It wouldn’t take much for the soundtrack album to become only the second in chart history to simultaneously place three songs in the Top 5 – writer/director Greta Gerwig’s box office smash, Barbie, did so a little more than two years ago, when What Was I Made For? jumped 10-3 for Billie Eilish; 15-4 (34,928 sales) for Dance The Night exploded 15-4 for and Barbie World catapulted 20-5 for Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua.

Whether it clears that hurdle or not, Kpop Demon Hunters is already one of only five films in chart history to spawn three simultaneous Top 10 hits, those not mentioned hitherto being Saturday Night Fever and Grease – both in 1978 – and Encanto, in 2022.

Although it retreats to No.2 behind Alex Warren’s Ordinary in the latest chart, Golden also topped the US US Hot 100 singles chart last week, thus becoming the first song by a female vocal grouping of three or more to reach No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic since Lady Marmalade did so in 2001 for Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya & Pink. That was also from a highly successful film, specifically Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge.

Ahead of the release of her second album, The Art Of Loving, next month, Olivia Dean lands her third Top 10 hit with Man I Need. The only new entry to the Top 75 this week, it opens at No.8 (28,140 sales). Its debut coincides with her first Top 10 solo hit – Nice To Each Other, which reached No.10 five weeks ago – bouncing 14-9 (27,872 sales) to achieve a new peak and Lady Lady – No.55 last month – returning at a new high of No.38 (9,126 sales).

Ahead of the release of her second album, The Art Of Loving, next month, Olivia Dean lands two entries in the Top 10 this week. The only new entry to the Top 75 this week, her third Top 10 hit Man I Need opens at No.8 (28,140 sales). Her first Top 10 solo hit – Nice To Each Other, which reached No.10 five weeks ago – meanwhile also bounces 14-9 (27,872 sales). Lady Lady – No.55 last month – returns at a new high of No.38 (9,126 sales).

Her Sam Fender collaboration, Rein Me In – which became her first Top 10 hit just eight weeks ago, when it debuted at No.6 – also enjoys an updraft, recovering 13-11 (22,681 sales), while 2023 solo cut Dive, which reached No.59 a fortnight ago, posts its highest sale yet (8,670 units) but is ‘starred-out’ between No.41 and No.42.

No Broke Boys reaches a new peak for the seventh week in a row for Disco Lines & Tinashe, rising 3-2 (37,494 sales), although it is now 58.56% behind Golden, having been 32.30% in arrears last week.

The rest of the Top 10: The Subway (2-4, 33,952 sales) by Chappell Roan, Dior (4-5, 31,794 sales) by MK feat. Chrystal, Daisies (5-7, 30,653 sales) by Justin Bieber and Ordinary (8-10, 23,062 sales) by Alex Warren.

ACR sends Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things crashing 10-32 (10,609 sales) – its lowest chart placing for 28 weeks – while Ed Sheeran’s Sapphire makes a less dramatic Top 10 exit, falling 9-12 (22,381 sales).

Notwithstanding the 9-20 slump made by Gunna’s new album, The Last Wun, on its second frame, the album’s breakout track WGFT soars 60-34 (9,794 sales), its fortunes in stark contrast to the other new hit from the track, Wizkid collab. Forever Be Mine, which slides 46-76 (6,131 sales), WGFT becomes the ninth Top 40 hit for Gunna, and the 15th for Burna Boy.

Four weeks after debuting and peaking at No.46, Sugar On My Tongue – a track on Tyler, The Creator’s latest album Don’t Tap The Glass – is in full revival mode. It scooted 86-71 last week, and now charges to a new peak, moving up to No.45 after increasing consumption 18.33% week-on-week to 8,085 units.

K-Pop nonet Twice’s first two UK hits continue to rise in tandem, with Takedown (35-31, 10,931 sales) now being joined in the Top 40 by Strategy (45-35, 9,210 sales)

There are also new peaks for 12 To 12 (17-14, 20,335 sales) by Sombr, High On Me (19-18, 15,563 sales) by Rossi & Jazzy, Dealer (31-27, 11,837 sales) by Lola Young, Sparks (30-28, 11,607 sales) by Coldplay, Let Him Go (37-36, 9,147 sales) by Denon Reed & Cru2, So Far, So Fake (62-46, 8,051 sales) by Pierce The Veil, Folded (68-48, 7,867 sales) by Kehlani and The Sick (73-72, 6,393 sales) by Bella Kay.

Overall singles consumption is down 1.34% week-on-week to 29,882,452 units, 3.62% above same week 2024 consumption of 28,839,733 units. Paid-for sales are up 2.70% week-on-week at 272,945, 11.18% below same week 2024 sales of 307,312.

Albums

01 23,772 Tom Grennan - Everywhere I Went, Led Me to Where I Didn't Want to Be [17,856 CDs, 2,671 vinyl, 971 cassettes, 902 downloads, 1,372 streaming]

02 12,952 Conan Gray - Wishbone

03 12,533 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009

04 8,886 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

05 8,341 Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

06 8,281 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

07 7,208 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)

08 6,960 As December Falls - Everything's on Fire But I'm Fine

09 6,883 Oasis - Definitely Maybe

10 6,868 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT [3,092 anniversary vinyl] [total: 526,549]

13 5,226 Alison Goldfrapp - Flux

20 4,186 Gunna - The Last Wun

23 3,891 Niall Horan - Heartbreak Weather [total: 163,357]

25 3,749 Jordan Davis - Learn the Hard Way

29 3,640 OneRepublic - The Collection

31 3,592 Black Honey - Soak

43 2,938 Jack Garratt - Pillars

51 2,651 Asco - Perfect Timing

66 2,373 mgk - lost americana

xxx 1,105 Craig David - Commitment

xxx 810 The Royston Club - Songs for the Spine

Compilations

01 20,546 KPop Demon Hunters [511 downloads, 20,035 streaming]

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Tom Grennan’s fourth studio album, Everywhere I Went, Led Me To Where I Didn’t Want To Be, secures a very easy victory atop the chart this week, debuting at No.1 on consumption of 23,772 units (17,856 CDs, 2,671 vinyl albums, 971 cassettes, 902 digital downloads and 1,372 sales-equivalent streams).

Effecting the 36th change in leadership of the chart in as many weeks – five short of the all-time record of 41 set in 2020/2021 – Everywhere… has a 12.17% smaller first week than its immediate predecessor, What Ifs & Maybes, which opened at No.1 in 2023 on consumption of 27,065 units; a 37.24% bigger first week than Grennan’s second album, Evering Road, which opened at No.1 on sales of 17,322 copies in 2021; and a 118.98% bigger first week that his debut release, Lighting Matches, which opened and peaked at No.5 with 10,856 sales in 2018. To date, Lighting Matches has achieved consumption of 165,847 units, Evering Road 248,113 units and What Ifs & Maybes 17,590 units.

What Ifs & Maybes was home to six Top 40 hits even before its release, which explains its higher first frame. Six of the 15 tracks on Everywhere... – on which 30-year-old Grennan, from Bedford, co-wrote every song – have also been released as singles/preview tracks but none have dented the Top 75, with the first of them, Higher, coming closest, with a peak of No.78. Higher was well-supported on radio, spending two weeks atop the Music Control airplay chart, while follow-up Shadowboxing peaked at No.25 and Boys Don’t Cry and Full Attention both at No.8 on that list, although later offcuts I Won’t Miss A Thing and Somewhere Only We Go have not made the Top 200.

26-year-old Californian singer/songwriter Conan Gray also released his fourth studio album last Friday and proves to be Grennan’s nearest challenger, debuting at No.2 (12,952 sales) with Wishbone. Although it has not spawned any airplay or singles chart hits, Wishbone makes the best showing yet for an album by Gray, who previously debuted and peaked at debuting at No.4 with third release, Found Heaven last year, having reached No.8 with 2022’s Superache and No.30 with his 2020 debut Kid Krow. Gray’s only hit single, Heather – from Kid Krow – reached No.17 in 2020, and has achieved to-date consumption of 967,809 units, while the album itself is on 105,218 units, just behind Superache (107,937 units) and well ahead of Found Heaven (32,350 units).

The third and final new entry to the Top 10 is, likewise, a fourth studio set, this time from Nottingham rock quartet As December Falls, who fell short of the chart with their eponymous 2019 debut and 2021 set Happier but reached No.11 with 2023’s Join The Club, after being a big hit at the Download Festival in Donington the previous month.

Their progress continues, with the self-released Everything’s On Fire, But I’m Fine providing their Top 10 debut at No.8 (6,960 sales), helped considerably by six vinyl variants and a busy week for the band playing acoustic sets and signing albums at multiple stores. Formed in 2014, they are fronted by 29-year-old singer Bethany Hunter Jiminez. Her husband, guitarist Ande Hunter Jiminez, is also in the band, whose membership is completed by bassist Timmy Francis and drummer Kiaran Hegarty.

A dark blue and splatter vinyl edition of Billie Eilish’s latest album, Hit Me Hard And Soft, accounts for 3,092 (45.02%) of its 6,868 sales in the latest frame, hoisting it 25-10. Although the new vinyl is officially a ‘one year anniversary edition’ the album has been in the charts continuously since it debuted at No.1 65 weeks ago, never falling below No.27. Its to date consumption: 526,549 units.

As expected, with Oasis’ triumphant Live ’25 tour now shifting to North America, domestic consumption of their oeuvre is in decline, although they have three albums in the Top 10 for the seventh week in a row with Time Flies 1994-2009 slipping 1-3 (12,533 sales), (What’s The Story) Morning Glory ebbing 3-4 (8,886 sales) and Definitely Maybe receding 7-9 (6,883 sales). The band’s two sell-out gigs at Dublin’s Croke Park last weekend helped galvanise their Irish fanbase to the extent that they have the top three albums – in the same order as the UK – in the Republic this week, with related leaps of 24-3 for Live Forever, 21-5 for Look Back In Anger and 30-8 for Wonderwall in the singles chart, where local indie/folk group Kingfishr’s Killeagh spends its fifth straight week, and seventh week in all, at No.1.

The rest of the Top 10: You’ll Be Alright, Kid (5-5, 8,341 sales) by Alex Warren, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-6, 8,281 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and +-=÷× Tour Collection (8-7, 7,208 sales) by Ed Sheeran.

After debuting inside the Top 10 last week, The Last One dips 9-20 (4,186 sales) for Gunna, while Lost Americana slumps 2-66 (2,373 sales) for MGK. Last week’s No.4, Songs For The Spine by The Royston Club, and No.10, Commitment by Craig David, exit the Top 200 on consumption of 810 and 1,105 units, respectively.

Among nine new entries to the Top 75 this week, the only one by a previously uncharted act is Learn The Hard Way (No.25, 3,749 sales), the third full-length album by 37-year-old country singer Jordan Davis, from Louisiana. Davis’ 2018 debut, Home State, and 2023 follow-up, Bluebird Days, failed to make the Top 200, but have outsold many that do, with to-date consumption of 18,694 and 29,178 units, respectively. The latter set houses uncharted but silver-certified songs Buy Dirt (371,257 sales) and Next Thing You Know (25,352 sales), both of which have prospered on TikTok.

Debuting at No.29 (3,640 sales), The Collection is the first compilation from OneRepublic, who have charted all six of their studio albums since 2007 debut Dreaming Out Loud, with cumulative UK sales of a little over a million. Their most popular songs, Counting Stars (3,761,414 units), Apologize (with Timbaland, 2,044,076 units) and I Ain’t Worried (1,968,622 units) are included on The Collection alongside a further 23 recordings.

Also new to the Top 75: Flux (No.13, 5,226 sales), the second solo album for Alison Goldfrapp, following 2023 No.6 album The Love Invention; Soak (No.31, 3,592 sales), the fourth chart album for Brighton indie band Black Honey; Pillars (No.43, 2,938 sales), the third album for 33-year-old Jack Garratt from Buckinghamshire, who previously reached No.3 with 2016 debut Phase and No.8 with 2020 follow-up, Love Death & Dancing; and Perfect Timing (No.51, 2,651 sales), the first full-length album by Asco (37-year-old East London MC/rapper Asfa Joel Allan), who previously reached No.58 in 2018 with mixtape, Better Late Than Never.

No.1 on debut in April 2020, former One Direction star Niall Horan’s second solo album, Heartbreak Weather, returns to the chart after an absence of more than five years at No.23 (3,891 sales) following the release of an expanded ‘five year anniversary edition’, which raises its career cume to 163,357 units.

Home once again to seven of the country’s 20 most-consumed songs this week, although primary artist rules mean only three are charting, the soundtrack to Netflix animated fantasy film Kpop Demon Hunters spends its ninth consecutive week atop the compilation chart, with consumption rising a further 7.23% week-on-week to 20,546 units (511 digital downloads and 20,035 sales-equivalent streams) – slightly more than the rest of the Top 15 combined.

Overall album sales are down 0.19% week-on-week to 2,422,030 units, 3.96% above same week 2024 sales of 2,329,853. Physical product accounts for 259,445 sales, 10.71% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

3,761,414 OneRepublic - Counting Stars

2,044,076 Timbaland feat. OneRepublic - Apologize

1,968,622 OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried

967,809 Conan Gray - Heather

371,257 Jordan Davis - Buy Dirt

Album Totals

248,113 Tom Grennan - Evering Road

165,847 Tom Grennan - Lighting Matches

107,937 Conan Gray - Superache

105,218 Conan Gray - Kid Krow

32,350 Conan Gray - Found Heaven

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Sales are in!

8 sales away from 3 KPops in the top 5!

Singles

With special ‘singalong’ cinema screenings of Kpop Demon Hunters tomorrow (August 23) and Sunday (August 24), it is likely that demand for the triumvirate will increase again next week. It wouldn’t take much for the soundtrack album to become only the second in chart history to simultaneously place three songs in the Top 5 – writer/director Greta Gerwig’s box office smash, Barbie, did so a little more than two years ago, when What Was I Made For? jumped 10-3 for Billie Eilish; 15-4 (34,928 sales) for Dance The Night exploded 15-4 for and Barbie World catapulted 20-5 for Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua.

BiB: Three singles from 'Grease' were also in the top 5 at the same time: 'Summer Nights' was at number 1 when 'Sandy' was at #3 and 'Hopelessly Devoted To You' was at number 4 on the chart dated 11 November 1978 while the following week the same three singles were at numbers 2 ('Hopelessly Devoted To You'), 3 ('Summer Nights') and 4 ('Sandy').

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by Robbie

16 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

8 sales away from 3 KPops in the top 5!

Think we could see this next week with the cinema release

The KPH album even increasing not fat off being overall number 1 again 😮

Side note thats the healthiest sales for the whole top 10 in a while

Glad Conan got two. Very talented. Pretty close on many positions this week.

Happy to see Niall Horan and One Republic stay top 30 and good to see Conan hold top 2.

Olivia Dean totals from Music Week:

432,044 Dive

271,373 Rein Me In

255,146 Nice To Each Other

If Demon Hunters keeps increasing, I can see 1976 being the second 70s yearbook after 1973 to miss the top spot on the compilation chart

Cmon KDH defeat those evil Now compilations 🙌

1 hour ago, 777666jason said:

Cmon KDH defeat those evil Now compilations 🙌

How are they evil? You do realise that a lot of people grew up with these albums. It’s clueless gen z people who think these albums are evil. I don’t mind it defeating their pointless spin-offs or 70s yearbooks to be honest