Posted Thursday at 18:384 days Sales Report: W/E 4th December 2025Source: Music WeekCommentary: Alan JonesSingles01 49,524 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia [2,080 downloads, 47,444 streaming]02 44,992 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!03 30,274 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love)04 28,571 Olivia Dean - Man I Need [SCR: 56,581]05 24,069 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In06 22,950 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden07 22,965 Taylor Swift - Opalite08 19,944 Dave & Tems - Raindance09 19,226 Wham! - Last Christmas10 18,763 EsDeeKid - Century11 18,475 SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill12 17,883 EsDeeKid & Rico Ace - Phantom14 17,638 Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande - For Good16 16,973 Tate McRae - NOBODY'S GIRL17 16,898 Cynthia Erivo - No Good Deed19 16,412 Tate McRae - TIT FOR TAT21 15,071 Olivia Dean - Let Alone the One You Love** 14,572 Olivia Dean - A Couple Minutes22 14,352 Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor25 12,497 Tate McRae - ANYTHING BUT LOVE27 12,288 EsDeeKid - 4 Raws29 11,848 Cynthia Erivo & Jonathan Bailey - As Long As You're Mine35 10,930 Stray Kids - Do It37 10,773 HAVEN. & Kaitlin Aragon - I Run39 10,544 Zara Larsson - Lush Life [total: 2,988,634]47 9,020 Christian Borle, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg - Brighter64 7,650 Kylie Minogue - XMAS68 7,429 Tyla - CHANEL QuoteThe charmed life of The Fate Of Ophelia continues with the track earning its sixth overall (third consecutive) week at No.1 for Taylor Swift on consumption of 49,524 units (2,080 digital downloads, 47,444 sales-equivalent streams). Although Where Is My Husband! is now its nearest challenger – rising 3-2 for Raye – it is also losing support – down 4.11% to 44,992 units – and both tracks are about to be swamped by Christmas songs. The Fate of Ophelia’s consumption is the lowest in the eight weeks that have elapsed since its release – despite the release on Wednesday (November 25) of a Chainsmokers remix priced briefly at 59p – and the lowest for a No.1 single for 17 weeks, but enough for it to join 2022’s Anti-Hero as the Swift song to spend most weeks at No.1. It wasn’t the most-consumed song of the week, however – that was Olivia Dean’s Man I Need, which rises 5-4 with consumption capped at 28,571 units by ACR, compared to its unadjusted tally of 56,581 units. Meanwhile, Dean’s So Easy (Fall In Love) climbs one notch for the fourth week in a row, establishing a new peak (4-3, 30,274 sales), while her Sam Fender collaboration, Rein Me In (7-5, 24,069 sales), climbs for the fifth straight week, and surpasses the No.6 peak it occupied on debut some 22 weeks ago. A Couple Minutes, which reached a new peak of No.13 last week for Dean, is now ‘starred-out’ with 14,572 sales, being replaced as Dean’s last track under primary artist rules by Let Alone The One You Love – another track from her album The Art Of Loving – which debuts at No.21 (15,071 sales), becoming her 10th hit. Scouse rapper EsDeeKid continues to blossom, with his first three hits all rising yet again to new peaks. The only new song in the Top 10 this week, Century achieves both its and his highest chart placing (16-10, 18,763 sales), while Phantom (feat, Rico Ace) moves 15-12 (17,883 sales) and 4 Raws 35-27 (12,288 sales). EsDeeKid’s debut album Rebel grows consumption for the fifth straight week and reaches another new chart peak, climbing 16-13 (7,113 sales). Some of the uplift is apparently due to a bizarre rumour that EsDeeKid is actually actor Timothée Chalamet, though evidence for this is scant, to say the least. I think a far more interesting name, not yet associated with EsDeeKid anywhere else, is Aldi Muhamad Rahman – while EsDeeKid is credited as a writer/co-writer on his hits here, some overseas royalty agencies list 27-year-old Rahman, and two separate sources show an association with Indonesia for the mystery man. Time will tell… Last Christmas (19-9, 19,226 sales) by Wham! leaps into the Top 10 for the 10th advent season in a row.Rounding out the Top 10: Golden (2-6, 22,950 sales) by Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast, Opalite (6-7, 22,965 sales) by Taylor Swift and Raindance (8-8, 19,944 sales) by Dave & Tems.Die On This Hill (9-11, 18,475 sales) by Sienna Spiro and Elizabeth Taylor (10-22, 14,352 sales) by Taylor Swift both vacate the Top 10.A year after the Motion Picture Cast Recording of Wicked spawned a trio of hit singles, its sequel Wicked For Good does likewise. This week’s crop are For Good (No.14, 17,638 sales) by Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande, No Good Deed (No.17, 16,898 sales) by Cynthia Erivo and As Long As You’re Mine (No.29, 11,848 sales) by Cynthia Erivo & Jonathan Bailey. Erivo has now had five hits (all Wicked-related) and Grande 54. As Long As You’re Mine is the first hit for 37-year-old actor Bailey, from Oxfordshire.The new deluxe edition of Tate McRae’s album So Close To What generates new hits Nobody’s Girl (No.16, 16,973 sales) and Anything But Love (No.25, 12,497 sales), which raise the Canadian singer/songwriter’s hit count to 19. Her existing hit, Tit For Tat, retreats 17-19 (16,412 sales).The number of seasonal songs in the Top 75 grows week-on-week from nine to 21. Twenty of those are returning oldies on ACR, with the solitary new track being Xmas (No.64, 7,650 sales) by Kylie Minogue. Currently an Amazon exclusive that is available only to stream, it will be included on the retailer’s ‘Fully Wrapped’ version of Minogue’s expanded 2015 album, Kylie Christmas. It is her 64th hit. South Korean boy band Stray Kids secure their fourth hit single with Do It (No.35, 10,930 sales). It is taken from their new album of the same name which, as is the norm for K-Pop acts, falls foul of chart regulations, and is thus uncharted, despite consumption of 13,948 units in the week. In America, where chart regulations differ, the album is on track to become Stray Kids’ eighth No.1 this weekend, bringing to an end the seven-week reign of Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl.Also new to the Top 75: I Run (No.37, 10,773 sales), a new version of the Haven track that peaked at No.56 before being disqualified a fortnight ago, this time with vocals from first-time hitmaker, Kaitlin Aragon, a 27-year-old Texan; Brighter (No.47, 9,020 sales), the latest offcut from the Hazbin Hotel Season Two soundtrack, providing the second hit for Christian Borle, the eight for Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg; and Chanel (81-68, 7,429 sales), the fourth hit for South African singer Tyla.The second of 15 hits thus far for Swedish singer Zara Larsson, Lush Life was a 2015 release that ignited the following year, peaking at No.3. It has remained extremely popular ever since, and returns to the chart this week at No.39 (10,544 sales) after going viral. Larsson has been singing the track on her current tour, being joined onstage by fans to perform a dance routine, which has since spawned thousands of TikTok imitators. Lush Life is likely a week or so away from going quintuple platinum, with to-date consumption of 2,988,634 units, and will probably overtake Clean Bandit collaboration Symphony (3,019,275 units) to become Larsson’s top track before the end of the year. Overall singles consumption is up 0.58% week-on-week to 31,121,463 units, 3.31% above same week 2024 consumption of 30,124,352 units. Paid-for sales are down 1.30% week-on-week at 253,575, 5.34% below same week 2024 sales of 267,869.Albums01 22,394 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time [11,054 CDs, 10,088 vinyl, 220 cassettes, 662 downloads, 370 streaming]02 18,241 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving03 12,534 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl04 11,962 Tate McRae - So Close to What05 10,605 Olly Murs - Knees Up06 10,517 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of07 9,491 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend08 9,226 Madness - Hit Parade09 8,808 The Beatles - Anthology 410 8,027 Sub Focus - Contact11 7,819 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)12 7,332 The Weeknd - The Highlights13 7,113 EsDeeKid - Rebel14 6,940 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop15 6,558 Lily Allen - West End Girl16 6,087 Michael Jackson - The Essential24 4,796 Michael Bublé - Christmas25 4,790 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses [post-1994 sales: 1,657,510]29 4,496 The Beatles - Anthology Collection31 4,307 D-Block Europe - PTSD 237 3,608 The Stone Roses - The Very Best of the Stone Roses [total: 1,291,075]45 3,136 Simply Red - Recollections66 2,467 5 Seconds of Summer - EVERYONE'S A STAR!Compilations01 20,535 Wicked: For Good [4,087 CDs, 5,250 vinyl, 1,691 downloads, 9,507 streaming]02 12,038 KPop Demon Hunters04 6,042 Wicked [total: 212,412]17 1,060 Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [total: 473,887] QuoteThe combination of old blood and Yungblud is a potent one, propelling One More Time to debut atop the album chart this week, on consumption of 22,394 units (11,054 CDs, 10,088 vinyl albums, 220 cassettes, 662 digital downloads and 370 sales-equivalent streams).A collaboration between legendary American rock band Aerosmith and Yorkshire cult favourite Yungblud, the set – technically an EP – consists of just five songs, and has a playing time of less than 20 minutes.It thus becomes the shortest of the 1,418 albums that have topped the chart since its inception more than 69 years ago, replacing Elvis Presley’s King Creole soundtrack, a 1958 No.1 that crammed 11 songs into a 22-minute LP. In recent years, the shortest No.1 has been Blackpink’s 2023 topper, Born Pink, which had eight songs, and a playing time of around 24 minutes.Aerosmith have been together since 1970, with founder members – vocalist Steven Tyler, bassist Tom Hamilton, drummer Joey Kramer and guitars Joe Perry – still in harness alongside guitarist Brad Whitford, who joined the following year. One More Time is their first No.1 album, their previous best placing coming in 1993, when their 11th studio album, Get A Grip, debuted and peaked at No.2 behind Cliff Richard’s The Album. With an average age of nearly 75, they are the second oldest group to have a No.1 album, trailing only the Rolling Stones. By contrast, Yungblud is just 28, and has already topped the chart with Weird! (2020), Yungblud (2022) and, just 22 weeks ago, Idols (2025). He has therefore now had four No.1 albums in the 2020s – a figure beaten only by Taylor Swift (10) and Ed Sheeran (five). It's safe to say that if there’s a new Olly Murs album, it is November. The X Factor 2009 runner-up’s latest studio album, Knees Up is his eighth in a row – his entire output – to drop in November but the first to debut outside the top two, making its initial appearance at No.5 (10,605 sales). Consisting of 12 new songs – 10 of which Murs co-wrote - it follows his eponymous debut (No.2, 2010), In Case You Didn’t Know (No.1, 2011), Right Place Right Time (No.1, 2012), Never Been Better (No.1, 2014), 24 Hrs. (No.1, 2016), You Know I Know (No.2, 2018) and Marry Me (No.1, 2022). Right Place Right Time (1,529,875 sales), In Case You Didn’t Know (1,174,265 sales) and Never Been Better (1,047,405 sales) are all million sellers, and his overall album canon has achieved consumption of 5,592,917 units. The 41-year-old from Essex has also had five million selling singles among his 21 hits, with cumulative track consumption of 15,288,863. Despite this, he has yet to release a compilation.Chart regulars for nearly 40 years, esteemed Manchester rock/indie band James – fronted by enigmatic vocalist Tim Booth – return with their most ambitious and comprehensive career retrospective, Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of. Debuting at No.6 (10,517 sales), it includes the brand-new songs Wake Up Superman and Hallelujah Anyhow amongst its 58 tracks, and it is the band’s first release since their 18th studio album, Yummy, reached No.1 in April 2024. Yummy was their first ever No.1 studio album – but their first compilation, The Best Of, topped the chart back in 1998, and remains their most-consumed title with a to-date tally of 1,055,711 units. A second compilation, Fresh As A Daisy: The Singles reached No.12 in 2007, and has to-date consumption of 90,081 units. Nothing But Love… is James’ 13th Top 10 and 22nd Top 75 entry.Like James, Madness have had a long and storied career and finally had a No.1 studio album with their last release (2023’s Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie). Also like James, they have previously topped the chart with a compilation – two, actually (Complete Madness in 1982 and Divine Madness in 1992) – and return to the top tier with yet another ‘best of’ this week. Opening at No.8 (9,226 sales), Hit Parade houses 45 Madness singles originally released between 1979 and 2024, including 32 of their 33 hits (I Pronounce You, No.44 in 1988, seems to be missing in action). It is their 12th Top 10 and 24th Top 75 album, the latter tally including no fewer than nine compilations.Debuting at No.9 (8,808 sales) with Anthology 4, The Beatles are in the Top 10 for the first time since November 2023, when their 1973 compilations 1967-1970 and 1962-1966 – aka The Blue Album and The Red Album – simultaneously returned at No.2 and No.3 after being released in remastered, expanded editions. A new compilation blending previously released material and tracks making their debut, Anthology 4’s release coincides with the 30th anniversary of The Beatles Anthology documentary series, which has itself been expanded and remastered for streaming by Disney+. The three previous Anthology albums – Anthology 1 (No.2, 1995), Anthology 2 (No.1, 1996) and Anthology 3 (No.4, 1996) – are also bundled together with Anthology 4, and newly remastered as part of The Anthology Collection, which simultaneously debuts at No.29 (4,496 sales). Contact (No.10, 8,027 sales) is the fifth consecutive chart entry – his entire studio output – but the first Top 10 album for 43-year-old DJ and producer Nicolaas Dowe Douwma from Surrey, as Sub Focus.No.2 on debut 39 weeks ago, So Close To What has remained in the Top 40 ever since for Canadian singer/songwriter Tate McRae, but sprints 24-4 (11,962 sales) to make its first Top 10 appearance for 24 weeks after being released digitally in an expanded edition, which adds five new songs.The rest of the Top 10: The Art Of Loving (2-2, 18,241 sales) by Olivia Dean, The Life Of A Showgirl (3-3, 12,534 sales) by Taylor Swift and Man’s Best Friend (5-7, 9,491 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter.Two of 5 Seconds Of Summer’s previous three No.1 albums dipped to No.17 on week two, and the third to No.26 – but their latest, Everyone’s A Star!, makes their biggest slump yet, diving 1-66 (2,467 sales).Also exiting the Top 10: +-=÷× Tour Collection (7-11, 7,819 sales) by Ed Sheeran, The Highlights (8-12, 7,332 sales) by The Weeknd, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (10-14, 6,940 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, West End Girl (6-15, 6,558 sales) by Lily Allen, The Essential (9-16, 6,087 sales) by Michael Jackson and PTSD 2 (4-31, 4,307 sales) by D-Block Europe.The last of eight new entries to the Top 75 is Recollections (No.45, 3,136 sales), newly-recorded updates of 40 Simply Red favourites to celebrate their 40-year legacy, and their 21st Top 75 album.The death of bassist Mani eight days ago (November 20) is the spur for resurgences of The Stone Roses’ critically-lauded 1989 No.5 eponymous debut album (134-25, 4,790 sales), and 2002 No.13 compilation The Very Best Of (167-37, 3,608 sales). The former’s Kantar (Millward Brown) era consumption (since February 1994) stands at 1,657,510, while the latter’s lifetime tally climbs to 1,291,075. Into the Top 40 for the 15th year in a row, Christmas jumps 44-24 (4,796 sales) for Michael Bublé.No.1 for the last 22 weeks on the compilation chart – a record – Netflix’s animated fantasy film Kpop Demon Hunters’ soundtrack slips to No.2 (12,038 sales) this week, easily supplanted by Wicked For Good, the soundtrack to the sequel to director Jon M. Chu’s 2024 smash, Wicked. Wicked For Good racked up consumption of 20,535 units (4,087 CDs, 5,250 vinyl albums, 1,691 digital downloads and 9,507 sales-equivalent streams) and arrives at the summit exactly a year after Wicked did likewise on consumption of 20,874 units. No.1 for 16 weeks in a row, Wicked has never fallen below No.13 and holds at No.4 (6,042 sales) this week, while its cumulative consumption climbs to 212,412 units. The Original Broadway Cast version of Wicked, which was released here in 2004, bounces 25-17 (1,060 sales) this week, raising its lifetime cume to 473,887 units. Overall album sales are up 4.69% week-on-week at 2,767,043 units, 4.42% above same week 2024 sales of 2,649,822. Physical product accounts for 479,526 sales, 17.33% of the total. Bonus InformationSingle Totals3,019,275 Clean Bandit feat. Zara Larsson - SymphonyAlbum Totals1,529,875 Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time1,174,265 Olly Murs - In Case You Didn't Know1,047,405 Olly Murs - Never Been Better1,055,711 James - The Best Of90,081 James - Fresh As a Daisy: The SinglesNotes- 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 18:273 days If Ophelia doesn't pick up sales next week, then it'll be going onto ACR the week after.
Friday at 18:293 days Raye really closing the gap on “Ophelia” then, especially as it didn’t have the sales boost this week. It probably won’t get to #1 this year but could be getting into a good position for the 1st week of January.
Friday at 18:303 days Also good news for @RobBot. It looks like a 5x Platinum certification is due for "Lush Life" within the next 2 weeks! Edited Friday at 18:433 days by DanielCarey
Friday at 18:313 days Oh the gap between Ophelia & Husband ended up being bigger than what I expected Could it end it’s SCR run at #1 or will Christmas already hit it?
Friday at 18:353 days 1 minute ago, elincomprendido said:Oh the gap between Ophelia & Husband ended up being bigger than what I expectedCould it end it’s SCR run at #1 or will Christmas already hit it?Probably the remix taylor dropped on Wednesday helped Raye dropped 1 earlier in the week so swings and roundabouts The witches slayed the demons 😮
Friday at 18:423 days Wham! will be #1 next week I think.Interesting that the OCC have classified this version of I Run as a separate entity to the first one
Friday at 18:453 days 10 minutes ago, 777666jason said:Probably the remix taylor dropped on Wednesday helpedRaye dropped 1 earlier in the week so swings and roundaboutsThe witches slayed the demons 😮Taylor would’ve been #1 from streaming alone 😭
Friday at 18:483 days 1 minute ago, elincomprendido said:Taylor would’ve been #1 from streaming alone 😭I know the remix wasnt even needed but I think it was more for the American charts since she done chart double 7 weeks in a row there
Friday at 18:483 days Apparently Wham! Has 42k last year in the next week (that had more of December so that should favor them) therefore I think next week could be a nice 3 way fight between Taylor, Wham & Raye
Friday at 18:523 days 5 minutes ago, Maestro said:Wham! will be #1 next week I think.Interesting that the OCC have classified this version of I Run as a separate entity to the first oneWell technically it is , new name, new feature and they'll probably want to distance themselves as far away as possible from original
Friday at 18:563 days 4 minutes ago, 777666jason said:Well technically it is , new name, new feature and they'll probably want to distance themselves as far away as possible from originalName is the same. Spotify are counting it as the same track.
Friday at 19:003 days Physical album sales are quite high already! The Christmas increase isn’t completely dead.
Friday at 19:013 days 4 minutes ago, Maestro said:Name is the same. Spotify are counting it as the same track.Strange some have it as haven some as hvnThe whole top 8 on albums could of been number 1 at certain points in the year Edited Friday at 19:023 days by 777666jason
Friday at 19:253 days Is Opalite n Golden's sales swapped around. The one in 6th position has fewer sales then 7th
Friday at 19:253 days 24 minutes ago, BREAKTHETENSION said:Physical album sales are quite high already! The Christmas increase isn’t completely dead.Thanks to our local HMV re-opening last weekend and me buying every CD in sight
Friday at 19:323 days May I ask a question? Is the OCC counting only the new version of “I Run,” whereas Spotify is combining the streams? I assumed it would have charted higher, but it’s hard to tell if the streams are not separated on the daily chart. Edited Friday at 19:343 days by Pineapple_
Friday at 19:333 days Author Just now, Pineapple_ said:May I ask a question? Is the OCC counting only the new version of “I Run,” whereas Spotify is combining the streams? I assumed it would have charted higher, but it’s hard to tell if the streams are not separated on the daily chart.The original isn't available to stream so it makes no difference, it's only the new version counting at this point (but yes, the OCC appear to be counting it separately)
Friday at 19:343 days 1 minute ago, Pineapple_ said:May I ask a question? Is the OCC counting only the new version of “I Run,” whereas Spotify is combining the streams? I assumed it would have charted higher, but it’s hard to tell if the streams are not separated on the daily chart.There's only one version - the original version was taken down
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