Sales Report: W/E 18th September 2025

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 68,222 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden [2,207 downloads, 66,015 streaming]

02 61,789 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

03 40,638 Sabrina Carpenter - Tears

04 38,247 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Soda Pop

05 35,306 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

06 32,328 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

07 31,812 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Your Idol

08 29,791 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

09 28,520 Sabrina Carpenter - When Did You Get Hot?

10 26,756 sombr - 12 to 12

** 23,668 Sabrina Carpenter - My Man on Willpower

11 23,219 Justin Bieber - DAISIES

13 21,542 Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance

14 21,534 Chappell Roan - The Subway

17 14,064 Justin Bieber - YUKON

18 13,739 Coldplay - Sparks

19 13,682 Coldplay - Yellow

21 13,366 Olivia Dean - Dive

22 12,816 Coldplay - Viva La Vida

25 12,139 Gunna feat. Burna Boy - wgft

30 11,164 Rihanna - Breakin' Dishes

34 10,536 Calvin Harris & Jessie Reyez - Ocean

41 9,582 Kehlani - Folded

51 7,890 Justin Bieber - SPEED DEMON

55 7,126 oskar med k - Make Me Feel

71 6,144 Radiohead - Creep [total: 2,379,680]

73 6,093 Radiohead - Let Down [total: 449,550]

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Its consumption is down week-on-week for the first time, but Golden is No.1 for the fifth week in a row and sixth time in all for Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast.

Achieving consumption of 68,222 units (2,207 digital downloads, 66,015 sales-equivalent streams), it weakens 1.59%. Its 17.20% lead over nearest challenger Man I Need by Olivia Dean, shrinks to 10.41% as the latter track continues to strengthen, improving 4.46% to 61,789 units – the highest for a No.2 so far this year, as it secures its third straight week as runner-up. The last No.2 to have higher consumption was Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, which racked up 94,170 units (187,566 without ACR) in the last week of 2024.

The two other songs from the Netflix movie soundtrack in the Top 10 – credited to Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast – both climb a place but remain below earlier peaks with Soda Pop recovering 5-4 (38,247 sales) and Your Idol rallying 8-7 (31,812 sales). Like Golden, Your Idol suffers its first dip in consumption but Soda Pop grows for the 11th week in a row, albeit by a minuscule 0.62%.

Three songs from Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, Man’s Best Friend, are in the Top 10 again this week, with Tears (3-3, 40,638 sales) and Manchild (4-6, 32,328 sales) both present and correct but My Man On Willpower, which debuted at No.7 last week is now ‘starred-out’ (23,668 sales), losing out to When Did You Get Hot?, which completes Carpenter’s trio under primary artist rules, debuting at No.9 (28,520 sales) to become her 22nd hit in all, and 11th Top 10 entry.

Sombr scores his third Top 10 hit, as 12 To 12 climbs 12-10 (26,756 sales).

No Broke Boys (6-5, 35,306 sales) by Disco Lines & Tinashe and Nice To Each Other (9-8, 29,791 sales) by Olivia Dean both climb but are below their peak positions, and have declining consumption.

In retreat ever since it debuted at No.1 five weeks ago, The Subway exits the Top 10 for Chappell Roan, falling 10-14 (21,534 sales).

One of three songs newly added to the digital edition of her latest album Mayhem, and featured in the new, second season of Netflix’s hit Gothic comedy Wednesday, The Dead Dance debuts at No.13 (21,542 sales) for Lady Gaga, becoming her 36th Top 75 and 33rd Top 40 hit. Two other new tracks on Mayhem – Can’t Stop The High and Kill For Love – fail to chart in their own right but help the album, which debuted at No.1 26 weeks ago, to achieve its highest position for 17 weeks, jumping 82-38 (3,359 sales).

Justin Bieber’s latest album, Swag, has also been extended, and spawns new hit Speed Demon (No.51, 7,890 sales), the Canadian’s 81st hit, while giving a boost to existing hits Daisies and Yukon, which rebound 13-11 (23,219 sales) and 20-17 (14,064 sales), respectively.

After announcing their first tour in seven years, with tickets already on sale for their four O2 gigs in November, Radiohead’s most popular title, 1993 No.7 hit Creep (81-71, 6,144 sales) returns to the Top 75 for the first time since 2008. It is joined not by any of their other 21 hits but by Let Down (89-73, 6,093 sales), a song from their 1997 third album, OK Computer. Both are on ACR. Creep has to-date consumption of 2,379,680 units – more than twice that of their second most-consumed track, 1998 No.4 hit No Surprises (1,121,478 units) – while Let Down, which previously peaked at No.85, is their eighth most popular track (449,550 units).

On the album chart, 1997 chart-topper OK Computer jumps 74-52 (2,655 sales) to achieve its highest chart placing since it reached No.2 in a 2017 revival, immediately after its release in expanded, remastered 20th anniversary editions.

Also new to the Top 75: Ocean (No.34, 10,536 sales), a collaboration between Calvin Harris and Canadian singer Jessie Reyez which delivers his 52nd Top 75 and 46th Top 40 hit, her third Top 75 and second Top 40 hit. They first teamed in 2019 for the uncharted Hard To Love, and worked together again, along with Sam Smith, for I’m Not Here To Make Friends, which reached No.23 in 2023, delivering Reyez’s highest chart placing. Her uncharted Lewis Capaldi collaboration, Rush, and Eminem feature Good Guy are her most-consumed titles with to-date tallies of 487,928 and 198,757 units, respectively.

Although a tube strike caused the postponement of some of their Wembley gigs this week, Coldplay reach another peak with 2000 track Sparks (19-18, 13,739 sales), while their iconic Yellow (17-19, 13,682 sales) and Viva La Vida (20-22, 12,816 sales) remain in close attendance.

There are also new peaks for: Dive (22-21, 13,366 sales) by Olivia Dean, WGFT (29-25, 12,139 sales) by Gunna & Burna Boy, Breakin’ Dishes (31-30, 11,164 sales) by Rihanna, Folded (47-41, 9,582 sales) by Kehlani and Make Me Feel (64-55, 7,126 sales) by Oskar Med K.

Overall singles consumption is up 0.60% week-on-week to 29,861,948 units, 2.80% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,048,172 units. Paid-for sales are down 5.47% week-on-week at 268,097, 13.11% below same week 2024 sales of 308,549.

Albums

01 32,591 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend [3,156 CDs, 2,197 vinyl, 421 cassettes, 178 downloads, 26,639 streaming]

02 16,091 Suede - Antidepressants [7,978 CD, 5,965 vinyl, 265 cassettes, 1,113 downloads, 770 streaming]

03 8,315 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009

04 7,613 Ed Sheeran - +–=÷× (Tour Collection)

05 7,574 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

06 7,308 The Weeknd - The Highlights

07 7,229 Red Rum Club - BUCK

08 7,100 Saint Etienne - International

09 7,052 Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

10 6,781 Justin Bieber - SWAG

11 6,415 Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

12 6,261 Tom Odell - A Wonderful Life

13 6,084 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

15 5,808 Faithless - Champion Sound

21 4,238 Big Thief - Double Infinity

33 3,359 Lady Gaga - MAYHEM

34 3,198 David Byrne - Who Is the Sky?

37 3,047 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent

40 3,020 CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY

42 3,002 Mazza_l20 - Different Times

52 2,655 Radiohead - OK Computer

73 2,281 Lewis Capaldi - Broken By Desire to Be Heavenly Sent

143 1,501 Bryan Adams - Roll with the Punches

xxx 423 The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

Compilations

01 21,867 KPop Demon Hunters [28 CDs, 524 downloads, 21,315 streaming] [7,573 ineligible CDs]

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Man’s Best Friend’s dogged resistance earns Sabrina Carpenter the accolade of consecutive weeks at No.1 for the first time in her career.

Despite its consumption falling 61.79% week-on-week to 32,591 units (3,156 CDs, 2,197 vinyl albums, 421 cassettes, 178 digital downloads and 26,639 sales-equivalent streams), the album mounted a steadfast defence of pole position, leaving previous chart-toppers Suede, Tom Odell and Faithless’ new albums trailing in its wake.

Its repeat performance ends a run of 38 consecutive weeks in which leadership of the chart has changed – the second longest run in chart history, behind the 41-week run assembled in 2020/2021. Although Carpenter’s 2024 blockbuster Short N’ Sweet has accumulated five weeks at No.1, it has done so only one week at a time. Carpenter’s overall tally of seven weeks at the summit puts her equal with Lewis Capaldi and behind only Taylor Swift (28 weeks) and Ed Sheeran (nine weeks) for most time spent at No.1 in the 2020s.

Partly because Spotify data was unavailable for the first four of the week’s sales flashes, Suede – whose sales are largely physical – held a handsome lead in early snapshots, and might have fancied their chances of achieving their fourth No.1 album in all and their first since 1999 with their 10th studio album, Antidepressants.

In the final rankings, it ends up well beaten – but its No.2 debut on consumption of 16,091 units is 14.62% greater than the opening frame of 14,038 that earned their last album, Autofiction, the same position in 2022, and secures the 10th Top 10 and 14th Top 75 entry for the veteran alt-rock quintet fronted, as always, by Brett Anderson.

Antidepressants is, however, by far the biggest album physically this week, with 7,978 CD, 5,965 vinyl album and 265 cassette sales together contributing 88.29% of its tally. It is also the biggest seller digitally (1,113 sales), with only streaming (770 units) letting it down. It provides Suede’s best tally since 1999, when their fourth album, Head Music, debuted at No.1 on sales of 32,884.

Eclectic indie sextet Red Rum Club have had a busy few months, headlining at Aintree Racecourse, touring as support for fellow scousers The Wombats, and gigging at multiple festivals, including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds. It seems to have paid off as they maintain their record of charting higher with each successive release.

Introductory album Matador reached No.158 in 2019, with follow-up The Hollow Of Humdrum peaking exactly 100 places higher the following year, while How To Steal The World reached No.34 in 2021 and Western Approaches reaching No.8 last year. The fifth album and second Top 10 entry for the Liverpool lads – vocalist Fran Doran (32), guitarists Tom Williams (30) and Michael McDermott (32), bassist Simon Hepworth (32), trumpeter Joe Corby (33) and drummer Neil Lawson (33) – Buck gallops to a No.7 debut (7,229 sales).

Thirty-four years to the week since they released first album Foxbase Alpha, veteran chart campaigners Saint Etienne’s 12th and final studio album, International, debuts at No.8 (7,100 sales). Far surpassing their 11th studio set, The Night, which peaked at a lowly No.191 last December, International is an excellent swansong from the trio – Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs – with guest vocalists and guest co-writers making it a perfect pop celebration, which duly earns them their 14th Top 75 entry, their third Top 10 album and their highest chart placing since 1994.

No.4 on debut eight weeks ago, Justin Bieber’s latest studio album, Swag, rockets 87-10 (6,781 sales), after the original 21 track-set was expanded to 44 tracks as Swag II, which is subsumed into the original for chart purposes, hence its revival.

The rest of the Top 10: Time Flies 1994-2009 (4-3, 8,315 sales) by Oasis, +-=÷× Tour Collection (9-4, 7,613 sales) by Ed Sheeran, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-5, 7,574 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Highlights (12-6, 7,308 sales) by The Weeknd and You’ll Be Alright, Kid (6-9, 7,052 sales) by Alex Warren. The Weeknd’s best chart placing for 14 weeks and The Highlights’ highest consumption for 30 weeks follow the announcement of his 2026 UK tour.

While Man’s Best Friend continues at No.1, Sabrina Carpenter’s last album, Short N’ Sweet dips 8-11 (6,415 sales). Also exiting the Top 10: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (10-13, 6,084 sales) by Oasis, Euro-Country (2-40, 3,020 sales) by CMAT, Roll With The Punches (3-143, 1,501 sales) by Bryan Adams and The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives, which debuted at No.5 last week for The Hives but now departs the Top 200 (423 sales).

All of his six previous studio albums made the Top 10, but Tom Odell falls short with seventh set, A Wonderful Life, which debuts at No.12 (6,261 sales).

Thirty years since their breakthrough, dance legends Faithless’ eight studio album delivers their 12th chart entry, debuting at No.15 (5,808 sales).

Also new to the Top 75: Double Infinity (No.21, 4,238 sales), the sixth album and fourth chart entry for New York indie/folk band Big Thief; Who Is The Sky (No.34, 3,198 sales), the eighth solo studio album and fourth solo chart entry for 73-year-old David Byrne, who was famously the lead singer of Talking Heads; Different Times (No.42, 3,002 sales), the second chart entry for 28-year-old Liverpool drill rapper Mazza_L20 (Malcolm Graham), who reached No.63 last year with Against All Odds.

Lewis Capaldi’s ongoing tour provides a lift for his Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (59-37, 3,047 sales) and Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (113-73, 2,281 sales) albums.

The soundtrack to Netflix animated fantasy film Kpop Demon Hunters is No.1 on the compilation chart for the 12th consecutive week, but has a notional decrease in consumption for the first time ever, ebbing 3.69% to 21,867 units (28 CDs, 524 digital downloads, 21,315 sales-equivalent streams). Those CDs seem to be a no-frills import; the album was released in two CD formats a week ago domestically, each of which comes with one of nine photo cards, which help to generate multiple purchases from collectors but contravenes chart regulations, resulting in all of their 7,573 sales being excluded.

Overall album sales are down 1.79% week-on-week to 2,432,779 units, 1.34% above same week 2024 sales of 2,400,521. Physical product accounts for 265,194 sales, 10.90% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

1,121,478 Radiohead - No Surprises

487,928 Lewis Capaldi feat. Jessie Reyez - Rush

198,757 Eminem feat. Jessie Reyez - Good Guy

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Sales are in!

Soda pop might actually avoid acr when Golden goes 😮

"Golden" starting to decrease in sales. A 7th week could happen, but Olivia could take over the week after.

It still looks like “Golden” is the favourite for next week, but the gap will likely narrow again. “Man I Need” isn’t really increasing much now, although it looks on course to still be the frontrunner if “Golden” goes to ACR in 3 weeks.

Wonders will never cease. An album selling a decent amount in its second week and getting another week at the top!

Grr, Saint Etienne really so close to No.4. Still, a top ten album is a fitting way to go out.

How come the Demon Hunters CD was ineligible and good that it blocked Now’s pointless spin-off from number 1

amazing for St Etienne, they hadn't had a top 10 album since 1994, 500-ish more sales and they would have been #4

also great for Suede

Has Golden had a sales increase or a decline?

11 minutes ago, Hadji said:

How come the Demon Hunters CD was ineligible and good that it blocked Now’s pointless spin-off from number 1

Probably the usual kpop different artists cards but same album thing

1 minute ago, adrianreavill83 said:

Has Golden had a sales increase or a decline?

Yeah only something like a couple hundred

Olivia biggest sales for a number 2

22 minutes ago, Hadji said:

How come the Demon Hunters CD was ineligible and good that it blocked Now’s pointless spin-off from number 1

It's explained in the report

Maybe the best chance for Olivia Dean to go number 1 is the week of her album release.

Isn’t that the same week as Taylor Swift tho? Could be tricky

2 minutes ago, Maestro said:

Isn’t that the same week as Taylor Swift tho? Could be tricky

Olivia is 26th September. Taylor is 3rd October

48 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Wonders will never cease. An album selling a decent amount in its second week and getting another week at the top!

Grr, Saint Etienne really so close to No.4. Still, a top ten album is a fitting way to go out.

Delighted Saint Etienne are bowing out on a top 10 album, they always deserved far more success than they had but this is a good way to go out.

If you calculate sales on the retail price of each record rather than the copies sold, the number one album would be Suede. With the figures given Suede would have amounted £283,704.64p, while Sabrina would have only sold £124,502.48p

I didn't include the streaming figures, since I couldn't break down the price of the streams of the albums. But I don't believe it would have changed the top position.

Price breakdown figures - Sabrina CD £12.99 - Vinyl £34.99 - Cass £10.99 Download £10.99.

Suede CD £12.99 Vinyl £27.99 Cass £9.00 Download £8.99

These prices are the typical prices found on the net, some stores could have sold them at higher or lower prices.

Sadly, I can't give the figures of the singles chart.

Creep has been Top 75 after 2008 on several occasions. As recently as 2023

1 hour ago, Graham A said:

If you calculate sales on the retail price of each record rather than the copies sold, the number one album would be Suede. With the figures given Suede would have amounted £283,704.64p, while Sabrina would have only sold £124,502.48p

I didn't include the streaming figures, since I couldn't break down the price of the streams of the albums. But I don't believe it would have changed the top position.

Price breakdown figures - Sabrina CD £12.99 - Vinyl £34.99 - Cass £10.99 Download £10.99.

Suede CD £12.99 Vinyl £27.99 Cass £9.00 Download £8.99

These prices are the typical prices found on the net, some stores could have sold them at higher or lower prices.

Sadly, I can't give the figures of the singles chart.

I mean yeah Suede sold way more albums so obviously they made more money from sales lol, Sabrina is #1 primarily off the back of extremely strong streaming which Suede didn't have. Assuming £0.005 per stream which should be roughly correct the total figures would be £324,294.98 for Sabrina and £289,479.64 for Suede.

Edited Friday at 20:075 days by Foxes

2 hours ago, Graham A said:

If you calculate sales on the retail price of each record rather than the copies sold, the number one album would be Suede. With the figures given Suede would have amounted £283,704.64p, while Sabrina would have only sold £124,502.48p

I didn't include the streaming figures, since I couldn't break down the price of the streams of the albums. But I don't believe it would have changed the top position.

Price breakdown figures - Sabrina CD £12.99 - Vinyl £34.99 - Cass £10.99 Download £10.99.

Suede CD £12.99 Vinyl £27.99 Cass £9.00 Download £8.99

These prices are the typical prices found on the net, some stores could have sold them at higher or lower prices.

Sadly, I can't give the figures of the singles chart.

All if buts and touch shits, thats not how album sales have been done for years, if you want to go and retrospectively calculate same for every artist using the same method then obviously sued wouldn't be the first 😬

2 hours ago, Foxes said:

I mean yeah Suede sold way more albums so obviously they made more money from sales lol, Sabrina is #1 primarily off the back of extremely strong streaming which Suede didn't have. Assuming £0.005 per stream which should be roughly correct the total figures would be £324,294.98 for Sabrina and £289,479.64 for Suede.

Though you can calculate streams at £0.005p per stream, that would be on a single track. Albums have different numbers of tracks. So do you calculate the stream figure for every track on an album? A ten track album streamed by 100 people, would therefore have fewer streams than a 20 track one, streamed by the same number of people. Alan Jones does not break down also the streams of premier and add funded streams. Add funded streams are more common than premier. That figure might have be £0.001p or even £0.0001p. On Jones' figures, the first calculation is 26p per track! Hardly adding much to Sabrina's total sales!