Posted Thursday at 19:315 days Sales Report: W/E 27th November 2025Source: Music WeekCommentary: Alan JonesSingles01 53,518 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia [1,758 downloads, 51,760 streaming]02 50,456 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden03 46,924 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! [2,276 vinyl]04 31,158 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love)05 29,541 Olivia Dean - Man I Need [SCR: 58,450]06 25,953 Taylor Swift - Opalite07 23,376 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In08 21,411 Dave & Tems - Raindance09 18,110 SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill10 17,476 Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor11 17,242 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - How It's Done13 16,755 Olivia Dean - A Couple Minutes15 15,511 EsDeeKid & Rico Ace - Phantom16 14,970 EsDeeKid - Century18 13,296 Fred again.., Sammy Virji & Reggie - Talk of the Town19 13,229 Wham! - Last Christmas22 12,230 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You26 11,745 Charli xcx - Chains of Love27 11,342 Lewis Capaldi - The Day That I Die29 11,208 Keith David, Lilli Cooper, Kimiko Glenn, Krystina Alabado, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg - Love In A Bottle30 10,722 Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb - Think About Us35 9,708 EsDeeKid - 4 Raws38 9,023 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree41 8,592 Blake Roman, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg - Losin' Streak44 8,425 D-Block Europe - Bad Luck48 8,034 Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me51 7,974 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York52 7,939 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree53 7,916 NF - FEAR57 7,697 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock60 7,525 Billie Eilish - ocean eyes [3,925 vinyl] [total: 2,115,927]66 6,955 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone72 6,383 Jeremy Jordan, Christian Borle, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg - VOX POPULI73 6,220 NF & James Arthur - SORRY74 6,214 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? QuoteThe Fate Of Ophelia is No.1 for Taylor Swift for the second week in a row, and the fifth time in total on consumption of 53,518 units (1,758 digital downloads, 51,760 sales-equivalent streams) – the lowest for a No.1 for 14 weeks. Its 9.18% dip in consumption week-on-week means that its victory margin over Golden (2-2, 50,456 sales) by Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast’s Golden shrinks from 7.18% to 6.07%.The threat of Golden, which has spent a total of 10 weeks at No.1, is over, however – after three straight weeks of declining streams, it will fall into ACR next week, nullifying its chances of a return to the top. Olivia Dean’s Man I Need had its decline hastened by ACR three weeks ago, and is actually the most popular song in the country in the latest frame, with unadjusted consumption of 58,450 units trumping Ophelia and Golden, although its ACR-adjusted total of 29,541 units sees the track easing 4-5. In stepping back, it allows Dean’s So Easy (To Fall In Love) (5-4, 31,158 sales) to secure a new peak – but that track is a long way in arrears of Where Is My Husband!, which is at its peak of No.3 for the fourth week in a row and fifth time in total for Raye. Increasing its consumption 13.15% to 46,924 units – its highest level for five weeks – Raye’s hit is helped by sales of 2,276 copies of its new marbled pink vinyl edition, and still has a chance of becoming her second No.1.The only new arrival in the top tier is Die On This Hill, which jumps 13-9 (18,110 sales) to become the initial Top 10 hit for Sienna Spiro, replacing How It’s Done (10-11, 17,242 sales) by Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast.The rest of the Top 10: Opalite (6-6, 25,953 sales) by Taylor Swift, Rein Me In (8-7, 23,376 sales) by Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, Raindance (7-8, 21,411 sales) by Dave & Tems and Elizabeth Taylor (9-10. 17,476 sales) by Taylor Swift.Charli XCX’s soundtrack to Wuthering Heights – the upcoming Emerald Fennell film based loosely on Emily Bronte’s classic novel of the same name – spawns XCX’s 35th Top 75 and 23rd Top 40 hit, Chains Of Love (No.26, 11,745 sales). It is the highest of eight Top 75 debuts this week.Season Two of Amazon Prime’s adult animated streaming hit Hazbin Hotel is the source of three new hits – Love In A Bottle (No.29, 11,208 sales) by Keith David, Lilli Cooper, Kimiko Glenn, Krystina Alabado, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg; Losin’ Streak (No.41, 8,592 sales) by Blake Roman, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg; and Vox Populi (No.72, 6,383 sales) by Jeremy Jordan, Christian Borle, Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg. They are the first hits to credit Cooper, Glenn, Alabado, Jordan and Borle – all American singers/actors – the second to credit David and the fifth, sixth and seventh to credit Haft and Underberg. The Season Two soundtrack set debuts at No.3 on the compilation chart (7,432 sales). Three of the four songs on Lewis Capaldi’s new EP, Survive, have charted in recent weeks, and the set is complete with the newly-unleashed The Day That I Die debuting at No.27 (11,342 sales) to become the Scot’s 16th Top 75 and 14th Top 40 hit. Also new to the Top 75: Bad Luck (No.44, 8,425 sales), a track from D-Block Europe’s new mixtape PTSD 2, and their 54th hit; and two songs from American rapper/singer NF’s new Fear EP – the title track (No.53, 7,916 sales) and James Arthur collaboration Sorry (No.73, 6,220 sales), raising NF’s hit count to seven, Arthur’s to 19. Recording 28 sales on its first week on release in 2015, and eventually reaching its previous peak of No.72 in 2018, Billie Eilish’s debut single Ocean Eyes is nevertheless one of her most popular songs. Newly-released on etched translucent turquoise vinyl – which sold 3,925 copies last week – the track belatedly scales a new peak, re-entering at No.60 (7,525 sales). It is her fourth most-consumed song with a to-date tally of 2,115,927 units, behind only Bad Guy (No.2, 2019, 3,165,579 units), Khalid collaboration Lovely (No.47, 2018, 2,291,551 units) and Birds Of A Feather (No.2, 2024, 2,169,772 sales). Her overall track consumption: 41,526,225 units.The two biggest climbers in the chart are seasonal perennials Last Christmas (50-19, 13,229 sales) by Wham! and All I Want For Christmas Is You (51-22, 12,230 sales) by Mariah Carey. They were the only Christmas songs in the Top 75 last week but are now joined by annual returnees, Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (No.38, 9,023 sales) by Brenda Lee, Santa Tell Me (No.48, 8,034 sales) by Ariana Grande, Fairytale Of New York (No.51, 7,974 sales) by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl, Underneath The Tree (No.52, 7,939 sales) by Kelly Clarkson, Jingle Bell Rock (No.57, 7,697 sales) by Bobby Helms, Merry Christmas Everyone (No.66, 6,955 sales) by Shakin’ Stevens and Do They Know It’s Christmas? (No.74, 6,214 sales) by Band Aid.Scouse rapper EsDeeKid scales new peaks yet again with Phantom (with Rico Ace, 17-15, 15,511 sales), Century (21-16, 14,970 sales) and 4 Raws (43-35, 9,708 sales). His debut album Rebel does likewise, rising 19-16 (5,772 sales). There are also new peaks for: A Couple Minutes (15-13, 16,755 sales) by Olivia Dean; Talk Of The Town (22-18, 13,296 sales) by Fred Again & Sammy Virji feat. Reggie; and Think About Us (33-30, 10,722 sales) by Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb. Overall singles consumption is down 0.38% week-on-week to 30,940,615 units, 3.72% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,830,281 units. Paid-for sales are down 1.35% week-on-week at 256,927, 6.84% below same week 2024 sales of 275,780.Albums01 19,119 5 Seconds of Summer - EVERYONE'S A STAR! [11,967 CDs, 4,619 vinyl, 391 downloads, 2,142 streaming]02 17,090 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving03 14,171 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl04 12,279 D-Block Europe - PTSD 205 9,037 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend06 8,587 Lily Allen - West End Girl07 7,692 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)08 7,596 The Weeknd - The Highlights09 7,082 Michael Jackson - The Essential10 7,074 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop11 7,001 Oasis - Familiar to Millions [total: 378,624]12 6,330 Celeste - Woman of Faces13 6,068 Summer Walker - Finally Over It14 6,053 NF - FEAR16 5,772 EsDeeKid - Rebel17 5,735 Doves - So, Here We Are: Best of Doves18 5,615 ROSALÍA - LUX20 5,549 Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair40 3,074 The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue129 1,702 Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette PartyCompilations01 13,747 KPop Demon Hunters [33 CDs, 359 vinyl, 169 downloads, 13,186 streaming]02 7,588 Now That’s What I Call Music! 12203 7,432 Hazbin Hotel: Season Two QuoteTheir line-up unchanged since their 2011 inception – when they were all still at school – Australian pop/rock quartet 5 Seconds Of Summer secure their fourth No.1 album in all, and third in a row with their sixth studio set, Everyone’s A Star!, debuting in pole position on consumption of 19,119 units (11,967 CDs, 4,619 vinyl albums, 391 digital downloads and 2,142 sales-equivalent streams).Full of pithy songs – 16 of them (all at least partly self-penned) on the deluxe version with an average duration of barely three minutes – Everyone’s A Star! has a 28.72% bigger first week than its immediate predecessor, 2022’s 5SOS5. That is despite the fact that 5SOS5’s biggest release week format was cassette (4,428 sales out of total consumption of 14,853 units) – a format in which Everyone’s A Star! has not been released – and the last of the band’s 15 charted singles was nearly six years ago.5 Seconds Of Summer have made the Top 3 with all of their studio albums, the most consumed being their eponymous first release, which debuted and peaked at No.2 with first week sales of 66,973 copies in 2014, and has to-date consumption of 400,265 units, with follow-up Sounds Good, Feels Good (No.1 in 2015) next (157,077 units) and 2018 third album Youngblood, which reached No.3, third (154,134 units). Consisting entirely of New South Welshmen, 5 Seconds Of Summer are the only completely native-born Aussie band to have four No.1s in the UK – AC/DC match that tally but have always featured more members born in the UK (mostly Scotland) than in Australia. 5 Seconds Of Summer are additionally the second Australian act to have three No.1 albums in the 2020s (after Kylie Minogue) and the third group so to do (following The Killers and Blossoms).The week that 5SOS5 debuted at No.1, D-Block Europe’s Lap 5 debuted at No.2. D-Block Europe had to wait a further two years for what is, so far, their only No.1, Rolling Stone. They dared to clash with 5 Seconds Of Summer again this week, with their new mixtape PTSD 2 – but it doesn’t get as close, debuting instead at No.4 (12,279 sales). A London hip-hop duo, D-Block Europe have landed 10 albums in the chart since their debut with Yxng Bane collaboration, Any Minute Now, reached No.14 in 2018. All of their subsequent albums have made the Top 10. PTSD 2 is a sprawling, 29-song – including 11 collaborations – 86-minute set, and is the sequel to their 2019 28-song mixtape, PTSD, which remains their most-consumed title with a to-date tally of 336,870 units.Its consumption climbing for the second week in a row, The Art Of Loving holds at No.2 (17,090 sales) for Olivia Dean.The rest of the Top 10: The Life Of A Showgirl (1-3, 14,171 sales) by Taylor Swift, Man’s Best Friend (5-5, 9,037 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, West End Girl (3-6, 8,587 sales) by Lily Allen, +-=÷× Tour Collection (7-7, 7,692 sales) by Ed Sheeran, The Highlights (6-8, 7,596 sales) by The Weeknd, The Essential (8-9, 7,082 sales) by Michael Jackson and 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-10, 7,074 sales) by Fleetwood Mac.Exiting the Top 10: Lux (4-18, 5,615 sales) by Rosalía and Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party (10-129, 1,702 sales) by Hayley Williams. Twenty-five years after their debut, Manchester alt-rock trio Doves have released their career-encompassing new compilation, So, Here We Are: Best Of, which debuts at No.17 (5,735 sales). Gathering together material from their six studio albums and adding previously unreleased 2006 song, Spirit Of Your Friend, it is their ninth charted album and effectively updates their earlier compilation, The Best Of Doves: The Places Between, which reached No.12 on release in 2010, and will likely become the band’s fifth gold album this very day, with consumption of 99,987 units to midnight yesterday. It trails their second album The Last Broadcast (No.1, 2002, 416,761 sales), debut release Lost Souls (No.16, 2000, 320,461 sales), third album Some Cities (No.1, 2005, 268,107 sales) and fourth album, Kingdom Of Rust (No.2, 2009, 150,499 sales). Completing their studio slate: The Universal Want (No.1, 2020, 41,924 sales) and Constellations For The Lonely, which was No.5 on debut just 37 weeks ago, and has to-date consumption of 19,589 units.Also new to the Top 75: Woman Of Faces (No.12, 6,330 sales), the second album for US-born British singer/songwriter Celeste, whose 2020 debut Not Your Muse topped the chart after she won the BBC Sound Of award that year, and has gone on to achieve consumption of 113,747 units; Finally Over It (No.13, 6,068 sales), the third album by American R&B singer/songwriter Summer Walker, following the same titular theme as her debut Over It (No.7, 2019) and follow-up Still Over It (No.5, 2021); and Fear (No.14, 6,053 sales), a six-song EP that provides the fourth chart entry for singer and rapper NF from Michigan. Oasis’ 2000 live release, Familiar To Millions – recorded at their Wembley show that July – is newly-released in 25th anniversary CD and vinyl editions, and secures its first chart appearance for more than 23 years at No.11 (7,001 sales). It is their 11th most-consumed album with a to-date tally of 378,624 units.No.2 on release in 1985, and certified triple platinum for sales in excess of 900,000 copies only a year later, Tears For Fears’ second studio album Songs From The Big Chair is their biggest-seller. Home to the Top 5 hits Shout and Everybody Wants To Rule The World, it has been the subject of several reissues and expansions since. The latest, marking the set’s 40th birthday, sees b-sides, single edits, remixes and interviews swelling new editions, and earns the album a re-entry at No.20 (5,549 sales) – its first chart appearance since 1991 and its highest placing since 1986. Meanwhile, a new massively expanded super deluxe version of The Rolling Stones’ 13th studio album, Black & Blue, which includes a new Steven Wilson mix of the set, earns the 1976 No.2 album its first chart appearance in more than 49 years (No.40, 3,074 sales). Netflix’s animated fantasy film Kpop Demon Hunters’ soundtrack set is No.1 compilation for the 22nd week in a row on consumption of 13,747 units (33 CDs, 359 vinyl albums, 169 digital downloads and 13,186 sales-equivalent streams). The new Now That’s What I Call Music! 122 compilation debuts at No.2 (7,588 sales). Now 122! is only the third of 110 regular Now! albums (Now That’s What I Call Music! 13 to Now That’s What I Call Music! 121, inclusive) but the second in a row to fall short of topping the compilation chart since it was established in January 1989. Now! 115 was the other.Overall album sales are up 3.24% week-on-week at 2,643,032 units, 3.33% above same week 2024 sales of 2,557,958. Physical product accounts for 376,894 sales, 14.26% of the total. Bonus InformationSingle Totals3,165,579 Billie Eilish - bad guy2,291,551 Billie Eilish & Khalid - lovely2,169,772 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHERAlbum Totals400,265 5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer157,077 5 Seconds of Summer - Sounds Good Feels Good154,134 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood336,870 D-Block Europe - PTSD416,761 Doves - The Last Broadcast320,461 Doves - Lost Souls268,107 Doves - Some Cities150,499 Doves - Kingdom of Rust99,987 Doves - The Best of Doves: The Places Between41,924 Doves - The Universal Want19,589 Doves - Constellations for the Lonely113,747 Celeste - Not Your MuseNotes- Sales can appear at any time, so please bear with us, we're doing our best to get the report + breakdown up as quickly as possible.- If you have any sales information to share, please back it up with a source.- Please don't ask us for any other sales info - if it's not in the report, we don't have it!- The mods reserve the right to delete any posts that are deemed inappropriate or inflammatory.
Friday at 18:354 days Shame rayes vinyls dont look to have done much, just counteract the streaming decline , was hoping much closer
Friday at 18:384 days Now 122 would’ve had slightly more sales if it weren’t for that pointless spin-off of theirs and so glad the former outsold the latter. Now 120 is the only numbered Now to top the compilation chart this year but on the other hand, this will be Demon Hunters final week at the top
Friday at 18:434 days 4 minutes ago, Hadji said:Now 122 would’ve had slightly more sales if it weren’t for that pointless spin-off of theirs and so glad the former outsold the latter. Now 120 is the only numbered Now to top the compilation chart this year but on the other hand, this will be Demon Hunters final week at the topWell you will be happy next week its looking very likely wicked for good will top the compilation chart 🤣
Saturday at 10:024 days Is there a reason Lewis Capaldi’s EP is chart ineligible? Thought it at least would have been covered in the sales report.
Saturday at 10:454 days 40 minutes ago, Rob said:Is there a reason Lewis Capaldi’s EP is chart ineligible? Thought it at least would have been covered in the sales report.Was it ineligible?I see ‘The Day That I Die’ at number 3 in the physical singles chart and 5 in downloads.I see ‘Survive’ at 4 in downloads.I don’t know much about the EP, but I guess it contributed to one or other of these, and the download sales for ‘Survive’ are maybe not enough for it to chart. Does that help at all, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Edited Saturday at 10:464 days by GreyAsh
Saturday at 10:524 days 4 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:Was it ineligible?I see ‘The Day That I Die’ at number 3 in the physical singles chart and 5 in downloads.I see ‘Survive’ at 4 in downloads.I don’t know much about the EP, but I guess it contributed to one or other of these, and the download sales for ‘Survive’ are maybe not enough for it to chart.Does that help at all, or am I barking up the wrong tree?But the EP itself hasn’t charted. It’s just strange when other EPs this week, like NF’s Fear, feature.
Saturday at 12:154 days 1 hour ago, Rob said:But the EP itself hasn’t charted. It’s just strange when other EPs this week, like NF’s Fear, feature.Hasn’t charted where? Even though it was called an EP - it was not eligible for the album chart (I don’t know the exact rule, but 4 track EPs under 20 minutes are singles, not albums).Therefore if it’s sold physically or as an iTunes bundle, it counts as a single, and will be credited to just one track. I guess it’s plausible that the physical copies and electronic bundles might even be credited to different tracks to each other.So even if it is in the singles chart, it will not be called ‘EP’ and may not even share a title with the title track.However - some of what I say here is fact and some hypothesis. Edited Saturday at 12:164 days by GreyAsh
Saturday at 12:514 days 1 hour ago, Sour Candy said:NF's EP is over 20 mins, how long is Capaldi's?13 and half minutes so doesnt qualify for albums
Saturday at 14:054 days I also noticed that Now 122 had slightly more sales than what Now 121 had in its first week
Saturday at 22:573 days 10 hours ago, GreyAsh said:Hasn’t charted where? Even though it was called an EP - it was not eligible for the album chart (I don’t know the exact rule, but 4 track EPs under 20 minutes are singles, not albums).Therefore if it’s sold physically or as an iTunes bundle, it counts as a single, and will be credited to just one track. I guess it’s plausible that the physical copies and electronic bundles might even be credited to different tracks to each other.So even if it is in the singles chart, it will not be called ‘EP’ and may not even share a title with the title track.However - some of what I say here is fact and some hypothesis.As per the discussion in the midweeks thread 4 tracks counts as a single unless the run time is over 25 minutes. (The NF EP is 6 tracks so it counts as an album, run time is irrelevant in that case).'The Day That I Die' is showing at #3 in the physical chart and it doesn't have a separate physical release of its own as far as I can tell so unless I am mistaken the physical sales of the EP definitely counted towards that. On the download chart 'Survive' is a re-entry at #4 with 'The Day That I Die' debuting at #5 - I don't really pay attention to iTunes any more but that maybe suggests downloads of the EP were indeed counted differently to the physical EP sales and went to 'Survive' instead for some reason? I was assuming from 'Survive' popping up in the First Look chart that all the EP sales were going to it, but clearly not. Maybe it was changed midweek? Seems like quite a steep decline otherwise for it to have dropped from First Look top 20 to not even top 100 at the end of the week as it's surely still doing an ok amount of streams in its own right especially with a likely boost from the EP release.edit: yeah 'The Day That I Die' was around mid top 10 on iTunes all week while 'Survive' only crept back into the top 40 at the start of the week then plummeted again so definitely makes no sense that 'Survive' would be higher in the download chart unless it includes digital EP sales. 'The Day That I Die' ended up 5 places higher in the final chart than it was in the Wednesday mids, while 'Survive' fell from Monday #29 to out of the top 100 entirely on Friday which I think seems consistent with them deciding midweek to switch the physical EP sales from 'Survive' to 'The Day That I Die', but odd if so that they didn't move the downloads over as well
Saturday at 23:113 days Although perhaps the oddest thing about it all is that despite being able to shift CD singles by the bucketload he sold very poorly with this EP! Definitely did less than 2.3k CDs as it's behind 'WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!' on the physical chart... you'd think he'd push it a bit harder.
Sunday at 00:183 days Thanks for the analysis @Brer Glad to hear my hunch seems right. It’s all very bizarre - but however they chose to do it, none of the tracks would have charted particularly high.
Monday at 07:402 days Is there a way to know how many sales Girls Aloud got even if they missed the top 100?
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