Sales Report: W/E 30th October 2025

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 67,888 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia [1,892 downloads, 65,996 streaming]

02 63,197 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

03 62,687 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden

04 45,013 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

05 42,743 Taylor Swift - Opalite

06 31,577 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love)

07 31,244 Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor

08 30,342 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

09 22,718 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - How It's Done

10 21,817 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [total: 472,422]

13 19,734 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - What It Sounds Like

16 14,719 SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill

17 13,964 sombr - 12 to 12

** 12,969 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Your Idol

20 12,887 Sam Fender & Elton John - Talk to You

21 12,537 Tame Impala - Dracula

25 11,824 EsDeeKid & Rico Ace - Phantom

28 11,030 Sam Fender - People Watching [total: 613,994]

37 8,652 Joji - PIXELATED KISSES

39 8,340 Tame Impala - My Old Ways

43 7,951 Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb - Think About Us

46 7,624 James Hype feat. Sam Harper & Bobby Harvey - Waterfalls

57 6,475 SIENNA SPIRO - MAYBE.

62 6,333 David Guetta, Teddy Swims & Tones and I - Gone Gone Gone

63 6,261 SIENNA SPIRO - You Stole the Show

73 5,909 ROLE MODEL - Sally, When the Wine Runs Out

75 5,883 Ed Sheeran feat. Karan Aujla - Symmetry

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In a tightly packed Top 3, Taylor Swift wins out again with The Fate Of Ophelia securing its third consecutive week at the summit, although with consumption falling 24.73% week-on-week to 67,888 units (1,892 digital downloads, 65,996 sales-equivalent streams).

With parent album The Life Of A Showgirl No.1 throughout, Swift is the first artist to spend three weeks at No.1 on both the singles and albums charts simultaneously since Ed Sheeran in 2017; the first woman since Adele in 2011; and the first American since Beyoncé ruled with Crazy In Love and Dangerously In Love in 2003.

Swift continues to have three songs in the Top 10, with Opalite falling 4-5 (42,743 Sales) and Elizabeth Taylor 6-7 (31,244 sales). The other nine songs on The Life Of A Showgirl remain ‘starred-out’ between positions eight and 17.

Their consumption falling at a lower rate than The Fate Of Ophelia, former No.1s Man I Need (2-2, 63,197 sales) by Olivia Dean and Golden (3-3, 62,687 sales) by Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast effectively draw closer. The latter act simultaneously register their second Top 10 hit with How It’s Done (12-9, 22,718 sales) and their third hit in all with What It Sounds Like, which debuts at No.13 (19,734 sales).

Thus filling all three chart slots available to tracks from the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack album under primary artist rules, they are fortunate that many of the others – including Your Idol – which was No.10 last week for Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & Kpop Demon Hunters Cast – are hampered by ACR. On a level playing field, where ACR and track limits don’t exist, How It’s Done and What It Sounds Like are the fourth and fifth most popular tracks from the album, and 17th and 22nd in overall track popularity for the week. Despite debuting, What It Sounds Like’s consumption is at an 11-week low.

Sam Fender won the Mercury Prize last week for latest album People Watching, resulting in a resurgence for the album itself – which jumps 75-17 – and also its constituent tracks. Although not on the album at the moment, his Olivia Dean collaboration Rein Me In starts its fifth run in the Top 10 since July, rebounding 13-10 (21,817 sales). It will appear on the deluxe edition of People Watching, which drops on December 5, and is joined in the chart by another song from that edition - Elton John duet, Talk To You, which debuts at No.20 (12,887 sales) becoming Fender’s 16th hit, John’s 94th – as well as the title track, which exits ACR, and returns at No.28 (11,030 sales).

There is also a new peak for Olivia Dean’s So Easy (To Fall In Love) (8-6, 31,577 sales). With the aforementioned Man I Need At No.2, Sam Fender duet Rein Me In at No.10 and Nice To Each Other easing 7-8 (30,342 sales), Dean has four songs in the Top 10 – but Man I Need and Nice To Each Other both hit ACR next week.

Completing the Top 10, Where Is My Husband! climbs for the third week in a row (5-4, 45,013 sales) but remains below its No.3 peak for Raye.

As mentioned above, last week’s No.10, Your Idol, is now ‘starred-out’ after falling foul of primary artist and ACR rules at the same time (12,969 sales). Sombr’s 12 To 12 also hits ACR, and dives 9-17 (13,964 sales).

Without a Top 40 hit previously, Tame Impala has now had two in a fortnight. New album, Deadbeat, spins off its second and his/their fourth hit as My Old Ways debuts at No.39 (8,340), taking the spot vacated by Dracula, which accelerates 39-21 (12,537 sales).

Also new to the Top 75: Pixelated Kisses (No.37, 8,652 sales), the fifth hit for Joji; Think About Us (No.43, 7,951 sales), the eighth hit for Australian DJ Sonny Fodera, the fifth for British DJ D.O.D, and the first for Poppy Baskcomb, a 27-year-old singer from Portsmouth; Gone Gone Gone (82-62, 6,333 sales), the 65th hit for French DJ David Guetta, the fourth hit for American singer Teddy Swims and the third for Australian singer Tones And I; Sally When The Wine Runs Out (79-73, 5,909 sales), the viral first hit from 28-year-old American singer/songwriter Tucker Pillsbury as Role Model; and Symmetry (No.75, 5,883 sales), the 83rd Top 75 hit for Ed Sheeran, and the first for his featured guest, 28-year-old Indian singer/rapper Karan Aujla.

Intense piano ballads seem to be her stock-in-trade, and three examples of that – her first three hits – reach new peaks for 20-year-old Londoner Sienna Spiro. Newest release, Die On This Hill, leads the march, jumping 26-16 (14,719 sales), while Maybe climbs 72-57 (6,475 sales), and You Stole The Show saunters 65-63 (6,261 sales).

There are also new peaks for Phantom (29-25, 11,824 sales) by EsDeeKid & Rico Ace and Waterfalls (51-46, 7,624 sales) by James Hype feat Sam Harper & Bobby Harvey.

Overall singles consumption is down 1.85% week-on-week to 30,465,054 units, 2.81% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,633,331 units. Paid-for sales are down 1.71% week-on-week at 250,017, 11.39% below same week 2024 sales of 282,168.

Albums

01 32,532 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl [5,564 CDs, 1,259 vinyl, 21 cassettes, 583 downloads, 25,105 streaming] [total: 503,336]

02 26,840 The Last Dinner Party - From the Pyre [11,612 CDs, 10,835 vinyl, 1,873 cassettes, 534 downloads, 1,986 streaming]

03 17,591 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

04 14,917 Tame Impala - Deadbeat

05 10,920 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend

06 8,177 The Weeknd - The Highlights

07 7,476 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)

08 7,337 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

09 6,684 Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

10 6,423 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009

11 6,368 Sam Ryder - Heartland

12 6,039 David Gilmour - The Luck and Strange Concerts

13 5,765 Miles Kane - Sunlight in the Shadows

15 5,588 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

16 5,578 Of Monsters and Men - All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade

17 5,327 Sam Fender - People Watching [total: 231,768]

18 5,250 Rianne Downey - The Consequence of Love

32 3,544 Ashnikko - Smoochies

58 2,576 Sabaton - Legends

60 2,520 Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time

68 2,385 All Time Low - Everyone's Talking!

177 1,371 Richard Ashcroft - Lovin’ You

Compilations

01 21,493 KPop Demon Hunters [3 CDs, 1,560 vinyl, 1,695 Yoto cards, 355 downloads, 17,880 streaming]

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Trailing by diminishing quantities on sales flashes for most of the week, The Life Of A Showgirl (TLOAS) ultimately emerged triumphant to post its third consecutive week at No.1 on consumption of 32,532 units (5,564 CDs, 1,259 vinyl albums, 21 cassettes, 583 digital downloads and 25,105 sales-equivalent streams).

It is the first album to spend its first three weeks at No.1 since The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) by Eminem in 2024, and the first by a woman since Swift’s own 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in 2023. Her last album, The Tortured Poets Department was No.1 for two weeks in its introductory phase in 2024, but ultimately spent 11 weeks at No.1, including one run of four weeks in a row.

Swift has now spent 35 weeks at No.1, 31 of them in the 2020s, while TLOAS is the first album to achieve consumption in excess of 500,000 units this year, with a 21-day tally of 503,336 units.

Swift’s late swoop is bad news for all-female London-based pop/rock quintet The Last Dinner Party, whose critically-acclaimed second album, From The Pyre, had previously led the way. Opening at No.2 (26,840 sales) in the final analysis, it is the follow-up to their debut set, Prelude To Ecstasy, which opened atop the chart on consumption of 32,846 units, in February 2024, a tally that was helped by their coronation as winners of the BBC’s prestigious annual Sound Of… poll the previous month, and the fact their single Nothing Matters – still their only hit – was in the Top 20 at the time.

Comprising vocalist Abigail Morris (26), lead guitarist Emily Roberts (27), bassist Georgia Davies (26), guitarist Lizzie Mayland (26) and keyboards player Aurora Nishevci (29), all members of The Last Dinner Party co-penned the songs on the new album, which is by far the biggest-selling album physically this week, shifting 11,612 CDs, 10,835 vinyl albums and 1,873 cassettes, with 534 digital downloads and 1,986 sales-equivalent streams making up its total.

Prelude To Ecstasy was even more heavily accented towards vinyl, which accounted for 14,058 of its first week sales – the highest for any debut album in the 21st century. Prelude To Ecstasy sold 841 copies in its latest frame to raise its career cume to 124,683 units, while the single Nothing Matters – which eventually peaked at No.16 – has to-date consumption of 582,785 units and is on track to go platinum before Christmas.

Tame Impala’s first album in more than five years, fifth studio effort Deadbeat delivers the act’s fourth Top 20 and third consecutive Top 10 entry, debuting at No.4 (14,917 sales). Home to Dracula, which became Tame Impala’s first ever Top 40 single last week, and My Old Ways, which follows it this week, it surprisingly falls short of the No.3 debut, on consumption of 16,489 copies of the act’s last album, The Slow Rush, in 2020.

A psych-rock act whose only permanent member is 39-year-old Australian Kevin Parker, Tame Impala’s most successful album is 2015 third set, Currents, which has to-date consumption of 424,733 units, and is also home to his/their most popular song, the uncharted The Less I Know, The Better, which went triple platinum earlier this year and has to-date consumption of 1,905,643 units.

It is the second most-consumed track of the 21st century not to make the extended (previously Top 200, currently Top 100) chart, with only You Make My Dreams by Daryl Hall & John Oates (2,135,438 units) ahead of it. A No.5 hit in America in 1981, You Make My Dreams subsequently featured in many films but it was not until adopted by McDonald’s as a commercial soundbed in 2017 that it started to become very popular in the UK, eventually emerging as a staple of ‘gold’ radio stations. The Less I Know The Better is easily the most-consumed uncharted song from the current century.

The rest of the Top 10: The Art Of Loving (2-3, 17,591 sales) by Olivia Dean, Man’s Best Friend (4-5, 10,920 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, The Highlights (5-6, 8,177 sales) by The Weeknd, +-=÷× Tour Collection (6-7, 7,476 sales) by Ed Sheeran, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-8, 7,337 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, You’ll Be Alright Kid (9-9, 6,684 sales) by Alex Warren and Times Flies 1994-2009 (8-10, 6,423 sales) by Oasis.

Exiting the Top 10: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory (10-15, 5,588 sales) by Oasis, and Lovin’ You (3-177, 1,371 sales) by Richard Ashcroft.

Runner-up at Eurovision and on the singles chart with Space Man earlier that year, Sam Ryder went one better on the album chart in 2022, with his first release, There’s Nothing But Space, Man!, which dashed to a No.1 debut on consumption of 24,847 units. Almost three years on, There’s Nothing But Space, Man!’s consumption has risen to 109,456 units, and his second album Heartland, on which he co-wrote every track, makes a less spectacular No.11 debut (6,368 sales).

Fourteen months after former Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour racked up his third solo No.1 album with Luck And Strange, The Luck And Strange Concerts – featuring concert recordings from his tour in support of that set – debuts at No.12 (6,039 sales).

No.1 twice as lead singer of The Last Shadow Puppets, 39-year-old Liverpudlian Miles Kane makes his sixth solo chart foray with Sunlight In The Shadows (No.13, 5,765 sales), which follows all of its predecessors into the Top 20, and consists of 11 originals and a cover of Flamin’ Groovies’ 1972 song, Slow Death.

Also new to the Top 75: All Is Love And Pain In The Mouse Parade (No.16, 5,578 sales), the fourth album (all Top 20 entries) for quirky Icelandic folk/rock quintet, Of Monsters And Men; The Consequence Of Love (No.18, 5,250 sales), the self-penned debut album for 26-year-old Glaswegian singer Rianne Downey; Smoochies (No.32, 3,544 sales), the third chart entry for Ashnikko (29-year-old American rapper Ashton Nicole Casey) who reached No.19 with 2019 mixtape Demidevil and No.7 with 2023 album, Weedkiller; Legends (No.58, 2,576 sales), the 11th studio album and fifth chart entry for Swedish metal band Sabaton; and Everyone’s Talking! (No.68, 2,385 sales), the 10th studio album and eighth chart entry for US pop-punk band All Time Low.

Its consumption increasing 144.33% week-on-week to 5,327 units after it won the coveted Mercury Prize last week, Sam Fender’s People Watching, which became his third No.1 earlier this year, rallies 75-17.

Expanded and remastered to mark its 40th anniversary, Simple Minds’ No.1 million-seller, Once Upon A Time - last in the chart in 1987 - re-enters at No.60 (2,520 sales).

Netflix animated fantasy film Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack tops the compilation chart for a record 18th time in a row on consumption of 21,493 units (3 CDs, 1,560 vinyl albums, 1,695 Yoto cards, 355 digital downloads and 17,880 sales-equivalent streams).

Overall album sales are up 0.21% week-on-week at 2,579,239 units, 4.89% above same week 2024 sales of 2,459,043. Physical product accounts for 331,197 sales, 12.84% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

2,135,438 Daryl Hall & John Oates - You Make My Dreams

1,905,643 Tame Impala - The Less I Know the Better

582,785 The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

Album Totals

424,733 Tame Impala - Currents

124,683 The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy

109,456 Sam Ryder - There's Nothing But Space, Man!

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Sales are in! Man I Need and Nice to Each Other both confirmed for ACR.

The additional Sam Fender information is from another Music Week article.

So gutted for Sam missing out on the Top 10 by such a small margin!

The gap down to 500 sales probably suggests golden would be above MIN even without acr next week

Suprised Taylor sold more physicals than expected must of been a decent amount of signed cds even if they were only available for 4 minutes

My guess Your Idol would still of been top 20 on acr without 3 track rule was correct then soda pop likely too

Edited yesterday at 17:131 day by 777666jason

Ah disappointing that Sam Ryder was only 55 sales away from #10 on the album chart!

What the hell is a Yoto card and how can they sell 1,695 of those in a week and only 3 CDs?

"The Less I Know, The Better, which went triple platinum earlier this year and has to-date consumption of 1,905,643 units.

It is the second most-consumed track of the 21st century not to make the extended (previously Top 200, currently Top 100) chart, with only You Make My Dreams by Daryl Hall & John Oates (2,135,438 units) ahead of it."

I guess that means 'No Role Modelz', 'Mardy Bum', 'Champagne Supernova' and perhaps 'You're Welcome' all made the Top 200 before it was discontinued?

1 minute ago, AcerBen said:

What the hell is a Yoto card and how can they sell 1,695 of those in a week and only 3 CDs?

Nearly all of its CD sales are excluded from the chart because of randomised elements (I think the CDs that do count must be imports?)

Yoto is an audio playing device marketed for young children so makes sense that KPop Demon Hunters would be doing numbers on it x (I remember it popping up in the writeup for a #1 album before - I think it was Elton John's 'Diamonds'?)

55 minutes ago, LillianV273 said:

So gutted for Sam missing out on the Top 10 by such a small margin!

Me too, i was really hoping he would get that 2nd top 10.

28 minutes ago, AcerBen said:

What the hell is a Yoto card and how can they sell 1,695 of those in a week and only 3 CDs?

My little nephews both have one. You buy / get little cards which you insert into the Yoto player (I guess as opposed to a CD) and it just plays what is on the card.

I believe it’s primarily for stories but I guess songs/albums are on them now too!

Edited yesterday at 18:091 day by Lee_J11

1 hour ago, AcerBen said:

What the hell is a Yoto card and how can they sell 1,695 of those in a week and only 3 CDs?

Plus itll be selling more than 3 cds but loads will be disqualified as usual

Ophelia is now at 291.6k units. Will easily surpass 300k next week, and be certified Gold by early November.

2 hours ago, Lee_J11 said:

My little nephews both have one. You buy / get little cards which you insert into the Yoto player (I guess as opposed to a CD) and it just plays what is on the card.

I believe it’s primarily for stories but I guess songs/albums are on them now too!

It's supported music for a while, I bought my nephew one a couple of years ago with a Beatles album he liked. My mate works for Yoto and actually makes the players, he says they're doing really well at the moment.

3 hours ago, JosephBoone said:

Sales are in! Man I Need and Nice to Each Other both confirmed for ACR.

The additional Sam Fender information is from another Music Week article.

I guess that means 'Golden' is returning to #1 next week 🥱

Ooh interesting that You Make My Dreams is the biggest non-charter, had it in my head that it was No Role Modelz!

EDIT oh just seen this includes the top 200 too...

Edited 22 hours ago22 hr by gasman449

3 hours ago, jimwatts said:

"The Less I Know, The Better, which went triple platinum earlier this year and has to-date consumption of 1,905,643 units.

It is the second most-consumed track of the 21st century not to make the extended (previously Top 200, currently Top 100) chart, with only You Make My Dreams by Daryl Hall & John Oates (2,135,438 units) ahead of it."

I guess that means 'No Role Modelz', 'Mardy Bum', 'Champagne Supernova' and perhaps 'You're Welcome' all made the Top 200 before it was discontinued?

From memory, yes, pretty sure they all charted Top 200.

Poor Sam so close and bloody Oasis blocking him… yet another reason to hate that band 🤣

If What It Sounds Like got top 10 then it would have been 3 Taylor songs, 3 Olivia songs and 3 Huntrix songs! :o

Sam did a lot better than I expected but it hurt to see him miss the top ten by a few sales.

Shame that Man I Need is off to ACR as could have been a fun battle but maybe Gokden will accelerate more this week anyway now schools are on half-term.

Great to see Symmetry sneak in for Ed - and such a shame it wasn’t the album push single instead of Camera!

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by gooddelta