Sales Report: W/E 11th September 2025

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 69,326 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden [2,422 downloads, 66,904 streaming]

02 59,152 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

03 55,488 Sabrina Carpenter - Tears

04 42,185 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

05 38,010 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Soda Pop

06 35,788 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

07 34,073 Sabrina Carpenter - My Man on Willpower

** 32,982 Sabrina Carpenter - When Did You Get Hot?

08 32,790 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Your Idol

** 30,963 Sabrina Carpenter - House Tour

** 30,951 Sabrina Carpenter - Sugar Talking

09 30,876 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

10 27,728 Chappell Roan - The Subway

11 25,205 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

13 24,772 Justin Bieber - DAISIES

14 24,733 MK feat. Chrystal - Dior

17 14,908 Coldplay - Yellow

19 14,452 Coldplay - Sparks

21 14,102 Coldplay - Viva La Vida

22 14,063 Olivia Dean - Dive

** 13,481 Olivia Dean - The Hardest Part

24 13,026 TWICE - TAKEDOWN

29 11,535 Gunna feat. Burna Boy - wgft

30 11,418 Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. [total: 2,608,511]

31 10,992 Rihanna - Breakin' Dishes

32 10,790 TWICE - Strategy

35 10,627 Tyler, the Creator - Sugar on My Tongue

40 9,989 Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap

** 9,736 Olivia Dean - Lady Lady

47 8,228 Kehlani - Folded

54 7,198 Skepta & Fred again.. - Back 2 Back

58 6,945 Luke Dean & Omar+ - Make Believe

64 6,689 oskar med k - Make Me Feel

70 6,399 Skepta & Fred again.. - London

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Initially looking vulnerable to Sabrina Carpenter’s attempt to secure her fifth No.1 with a track from her new album, Man’s Best Friend, Golden eventually emerged victorious, claiming the No.1 slot for the fourth week in a row and fifth time in total for Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & K-pop Demon Hunters Cast. And it did so in style, further increasing its consumption by 5.90% week-on-week to 69,326 units (2,422 digital downloads and 66,904 sales-equivalent streams) – the highest of its 10-week chart career, and the highest for any track for 20 weeks.

Carpenter did manage to impact the two other songs from the Netflix movie soundtrack – Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & K-pop Demon Hunters Cast’s Soda Pop and Your Idol, which dip 4-5 (38,010 sales) and 6-8 (32,790 sales) respectively, despite both increasing their consumption for the 10th week in a row.

Eleven new songs from Carpenter’s album and its recent No.1 offcut, Manchild, had to fight it out for the three chart berths available to them under primary artist rules. Although it was unable to maintain the No.1 position it held in the first couple of the week’s sales flashes, Tears outperformed everything else from the album, opening at No.3 (55,488 sales), while Manchild surges 26-4 (42,185 units) after a reset from ACR, ahead of My Man On Willpower (No.7, 34,073 sales). Tears’ sales are the highest for a No.3 so far in 2025.

When Did You Get Hot? (32,982 sales), House Tour (30,963 sales) and Sugar Talking (30,951 sales) are the top three of nine ‘starred-out’ tracks from the album between No.7 and No.15. Altogether, consumption of Sabrina Carpenter tracks increased by 492,033 units in the latest frame to a career total of 15,825,640 units. Carpenter has now had 13 Top 75 entries, eight of which have made the Top 10.

Olivia Dean has another great week although some of her hits are buffeted by Sabrina Carpenter. Man I Need isn’t one of them – it increases consumption 36.09% to 59,152 units, as it holds at No.2 – but Nice To Each Other (7-9, 30,876 sales) falls from its peak, despite increasing its consumption by 4.44% to a new personal best, and Sam Fender collaboration, Rein Me In, dips out of the Top 10 (10-11, 25,205 sales). Further down the chart, Dive reaches a new peak (31-22, 14,063 sales), while The Hardest Part (13,481 sales) and Lady Lady (9,736 units) have their best weeks yet in terms of consumption but miss out under primary artist rules.

Back at the top end of the chart, the Top 10 is completed by No Broke Boys (3-6, 35,788 sales) by Disco Lines & Tinashe and The Subway (5-10, 27,728 sales) by Chappell Roan, while erstwhile No.1s Daisies (9-13, 24,772 sales) by Justin Bieber and Dior (8-14, 24,733 sales) by MK feat. Chrystal settle on lower ground.

Fred Again equalled his best ever chart position and Skepta scored his second highest-charting hit with their recent collaboration, Victory Lap, which also featured PlaqueBoy Max and peaked at No.4. That track moves 42-40 (9,989 sales) this week and is joined in the Top 75 by two new tracks by the pair, namely Back 2 Back (77-54, 7,198 sales) and London (No.70, 6,399 sales). Their arrival raises Skepta’s overall hit tally to 41, and Fred Again’s to 19. All three tracks are from the pair’s new EP Skepta.. Fred.

Also new to the Top 75: Make Believe (89-58, 6,945 sales), the second hit for both Luke Dean and Omar+; and Make Me Feel (96-64, 6,689 sales), the first hit for Norwegian producer Oskar Sjåvåg as Oskar Med K.

Twelve weeks into its chart run, and 25 years after it was first released as an album track, Sparks climbs 22-19 (14,452 sales) for Coldplay, belatedly becoming their 25th Top 20 hit. With their record-breaking Wembley residency set to end next week, Yellow (19-17, 14,908 sales) and Viva La Vida (20-21, 14,102 sales) also continue to prosper.

South Korean band Twice reach new highs with Takedown (27-24, 13,026 sales) and Strategy (39-32, 10,790 sales).

There are also new peaks for: WGFT (34-29, 11,535 sales) by Gunna & Burna Boy, Breakin’ Dishes (40-31, 10,992 sales) by Rihanna, Sugar On My Tongue (47-35, 10,627 sales) by Tyler The Creator and Folded (59-47, 8,228 sales) by Kehlani.

Virtual band Gorillaz are 25 years old, and to mark the occasion the ‘group’ – fronted by Blur’s Damon Albarn – staged one-off performances of each of their first three albums at London’s Copper Box Arena this week. As a result, their 2011 compilation, The Singles Collection 2001-2011 surges 127-48 (2,626 sales) – two places below its all-time peak – while their 2005 No.2 hit, Feel Good Inc, re-enters the singles chart at No.30 (11,418 sales), escaping ACR and raising its lifetime cume to 2,608,511 units.

Overall singles consumption is up 0.65% week-on-week to 29,683,357 units, 2.99% above same week 2024 consumption of 28,822,125 units. Paid-for sales are up 0.97% week-on-week at 283,602, 9.72% below same week 2024 sales of 314,146.

Albums

01 85,305 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend [12,911 CDs, 27,178 vinyl, 7,214 cassettes, 825 downloads, 37,177 streaming]

02 16,266 CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY

03 10,613 Bryan Adams - Roll with the Punches

04 8,660 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009

05 7,871 The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

06 7,611 Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

07 7,542 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

08 7,262 Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet [total: 797,931]

09 7,032 Ed Sheeran - +–=÷× (Tour Collection)

10 6,391 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

11 6,357 sombr - I Barely Know Her

13 5,737 Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

16 4,375 Wolf Alice - The Clearing

21 4,119 Sabrina Carpenter - emails i can't send [2,326 deluxe vinyl] [total: 227,030]

27 3,775 Nova Twins - Parasites & Butterflies

32 3,366 Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine [total: 299,060]

36 3,076 Deftones - private music

48 2,626 Gorillaz - The Singles Collection 2001-2011

56 2,518 Laufey - A Matter of Time

57 2,506 Belinda Carlisle - Once Upon a Time in California

69 2,295 Blood Orange - Essex Honey

74 2,184 Halsey - BADLANDS [total: 263,081]

102 1,785 Kingfishr - Halcyon

162 1,416 Pendulum - Inertia

Compilations

01 22,705 KPop Demon Hunters [1 CD, 575 downloads, 22,129 streaming]

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Summer is almost over but the dog days continue for Sabrina Carpenter, whose seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend has the competition licked as it sprints to a No.1 debut on first week consumption of 85,305 units (12,911 CDs, 27,178 vinyl albums, 7,214 cassettes, 825 digital downloads and 37,177 sales-equivalent streams), while spinning off two new Top 10 singles.

Falling 4.86% short of the 89,658 opening frame achieved by its immediate predecessor, Short N’ Sweet a year ago last week, it nevertheless outsells the No.2 by a margin of greater than five to one, and the rest of the Top 10 combined, scoring the second highest weekly consumption of 2025, behind only the 107,124 start made by Sam Fender’s People Watching 27 weeks ago.

Its release helps Short N’ Sweet – which has topped the chart on five separate occasions since its release – to return to the Top 10 after a three-week absence, with consumption growing 3.92% week-on-week to 7,262 units as it bounces 13-8. Meanwhile, Carpenter’s fifth album, Emails I Can’t Send - which belatedly made its chart debut the same day that Short N’ Sweet did, and achieved its previous peak of No.40 25 weeks ago – catapults into the Top 30 for the first time, rocketing 134-21 (4,119 sales), following the release of a deluxe expanded vinyl edition, which accounted for 2,326 of those sales.

Short N’ Sweet sold as many copies in its first year on release as the next two biggest albums (Time Flies 1994-2009 by Oasis and +-=÷× Tour Collection by Ed Sheeran) combined in the same time frame, and now raises its to-date tally to 797,931 units, while Emails I Can’t Send raises its cume to 227,030.

Dublin singer/songwriter CMAT – 29-year-old Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson – continues to make great strides, with her third studio album, Euro-Country, debuting at No.2 (16,266 sales). Her 2022 debut If My Wife New I’d Be Dead (sic) fell short of the Top 200, but follow-up Crazymad For Me debuted and peaking at No.25 in 2023.

All three have reached No.1 in her native Ireland, with Euro-Country notably preventing Sabrina Carpenter from topping the chart there this week. A track from Euro-Country – Take A Sexy Picture Of Me – earned CMAT her UK singles chart debut in June, peaked at No.42 in July, and now becomes her first song to achieve six-figure consumption, ending the week on 102,385 units.

Bryan Adams is the sole composer of every track on his 16th studio album, Roll With The Punches. Debuting at No.3 (10,613 sales), it is the first ever album by the 65-year-old UK-based Canadian on which he had no writing assistance, provides his 12th Top 10 and 21st Top 75 entry and extends his album chart career to more than 40 years.

In the Top 10 for the fourth time, the Top 40 for the fifth time and the Top 75 for the sixth time thanks to their seventh studio album The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives, which debuts at No.5 (7,871 sales), Swedish punk garage band The Hives comprise five musicians in their late forties, four of whom have been together since its formation in 1993.

The rest of the Top 10: Time Flies – 1994-2009 (4-4, 8,660 sales) by Oasis, You’ll Be Alright, Kid (5-6, 7,611 sales) by Alex Warren, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-7, 7,542 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, +-=÷× Tour Collection (12-9, 7,032 sales) by Ed Sheeran; and (What’s The Story) Morning Glory (11-10, 6,391 sales) by Oasis.

The Clearing subsides 1-16 (4,375 sales) for Wolf Alice.

Also exiting the Top 10: I Barely Know Her (10-11, 6,357 sales) by Sombr, The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (9-13, 5,737 sales) by Chappell Roan, Private Music (2-36, 3,076 sales) by The Deftones, A Matter Of Time (3-56, 2,518 sales) by Laufey, Halcyon (7-102, 1,785 sales) by Kingfishr and Inertia (8-152, 1,416 sales) by Pendulum.

Comprising covers of 1960s and 1970s hits, Once Upon A Time In California (No.57, 2,506 sales) is Belinda Carlisle’s first album of new recordings in eight years, and her first charting studio album since Runaway Horses reached No.37 in 1999. It is the 10th charting solo album in all for the 67-year-old, who came to fame fronting 1980s girl group, The Go-Go’s.

Also new to the Top 75: Parasites & Butterflies (No.27, 3,775 sales), the third album and second chart entry for London female rock duo Nova Twins (singer/guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South), exactly matching the debut and peak and surpassing the introductory 2,896 sales of its 2022 predecessor, Supernova; and Essex Honey (No.69, 2,295 sales), the eclectic second charted album by Dev Hynes as Blood Orange, seven years after the first, Negro Swan, peaked at No.64.

Halsey’s 2015 debut album, Badlands, has been reimagined and rearranged in a number of editions, with orchestrated versions, demos, remixes, alternate takes and other rarities. No.9 when first released without spawning a single hit, it now re-enters at No.74 (2,184 sales), raising its to-date tally to 263,081 units.

Following the announcement that she will tour the UK in 2026, Ariana Grande’s latest album, Eternal Sunshine, catapults to a 17-week high, moving 81-32 with consumption increasing 59.22% week-on-week to 3,366 units, raising its 78-week cume to 299,060. It will become her sixth platinum album in the next few days.

The soundtrack to Netflix animated fantasy film K-pop Demon Hunters is No.1 on the compilation chart for the 11th consecutive week, and maintains its record of increasing consumption every week. It improves 4.33% this week to 22,705 units (575 digital downloads, 22,129 sales-equivalent streams and one CD), the latter being a leak occurring ahead of its full CD release today (September 5).

Overall album sales are up 1.71% week-on-week to 2,477,251 units, an 11-week high and 2.80% above same week 2024 sales of 2,409,677. Physical product accounts for 320,488 sales, 12.94% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

102,385 CMAT - Take a Sexy Picture of Me

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Sales are in!

Short n sweet opened with 89,658 so pretty even for Sabrina!

Without the three track rule, Sabrina would have had half the top ten!

So not quite 70k for golden but pretty impressive still growing 3 months in, next week is looking more and more like Olivias best shot though

Is this the first time the top 3 have all been above 50k since christmas ?

Impressive for sabrina expected it to improve on SNS a little but still second biggest opening of the year is nothing to be sniffed at

Shame it doesn’t mention how many copies the 1976 yearbook sold. It’s also the second 70s yearbook not to top the compilation chart

Wonder who the lucky person was to get the KPop Demon Hunters CD a day early haha

3 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Shame it doesn’t mention how many copies the 1976 yearbook sold. It’s also the second 70s yearbook not to top the compilation chart

Flopped so badly they didnt mention it 🤭

1 minute ago, lewistgreen said:

Wonder who the lucky person was to get the KPop Demon Hunters CD a day early haha

Probably their local Asda stocked it a day early. It will have another increase next week with the CD being released and the way it’s going, it will end up outselling Barbie

1 minute ago, 777666jason said:

Flopped so badly they didnt mention it 🤭

Their pointless spin-off which came out today will more likely miss out too

Haha reminds me of the single streaming sale Band Aid 30 got first week somehow!

Good result for CMAT there, she's definitely a star on the rise. Also, a really good hold for sombr which gives the impression the album may have legs

Gutted no mention of Katie prices sales considering she had a "25000%" sales increase

Imagine how much Sabrina could have done with a better lead single and longer pause between album, wasted Opportunity

Is there a particular reason for Gorillaz back in the singles' and albums?

5 minutes ago, Padamic_Tension said:

Is there a particular reason for Gorillaz back in the singles' and albums?

They did a gig in London, its in the writeup 😀

1 hour ago, 777666jason said:

Gutted no mention of Katie prices sales considering she had a "25000%" sales increase

Easy - 25 downloads on iTunes, and she's a number one popstar! (in her head)

15 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

Easy - 25 downloads on iTunes, and she's a number one popstar! (in her head)

Surely she done at least 1k if she's number 2 on the sales only chart though 😅

Interesting how Sabrina sold a lot more vinyls than CDs - I think the same thing happened with Short N Sweet?

2 minutes ago, Catherine91 said:

Interesting how Sabrina sold a lot more vinyls than CDs - I think the same thing happened with Short N Sweet?

I was surprised by that too. Short N Sweet had 32k CDs and 20k vinyls though so it was the other way around