Sales Report: W/E 16th April 2026

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 60,510 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [33 7" vinyl, 822 downloads, 59,655 streaming] [total: 1,355,433]

02 50,225 Bella Kay - iloveitiloveitiloveit

03 32,933 Tame Impala - Dracula

04 30,628 Zara Larsson - Lush Life

05 30,504 Alex Warren - FEVER DREAM

06 29,552 sombr - Homewrecker

07 29,107 Dominic Fike - Babydoll

08 26,817 Harry Styles - American Girls

09 26,615 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

10 23,786 Dominic Fike - White Keys

12 18,356 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun

16 16,960 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas

18 16,632 BTS - SWIM

23 14,426 Harry Styles - Ready, Steady, Go!

24 13,266 Sean Paul feat. Keyshia Cole - (When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me

28 11,971 Harry Styles - Sign of the Times [total: 2,305,009]

29 11,496 ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra - Talk to You

30 11,133 Central Cee - WAGWAN

** 9,633 Harry Styles - Aperture

40 9,571 Malcolm Todd - Earrings

59 7,120 The Long Faces - Jane!

60 7,050 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind

61 6,959 Temper City - Self Aware

69 6,157 ZXKAI & slxughter - NO BATIDÃO

75 5,815 James Hype - Be Mine

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No.1 for the fourth week in a row, and seventh week in total, Rein Me In continues its slow fade for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean.

On its 42nd consecutive week in the Top 40 – 12 fewer than the all-time record of 54 set by Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud in 2014/2015 – Rein Me In achieves consumption of 60,510 units (33 7-inch vinyl, 822 digital downloads and 59,655 sales-equivalent streams) to raise its career cume to 1,355,433 units. Its consumption is at its lowest level for six weeks, and dips for the second week in a row, but its streaming decline is smaller than the overall market, so it regains its SCR status, and cannot enter ACR for at least four weeks.

That threat, however, is real and immediate for Bella Kay’s Iloveitiloveitiloveit, which remains at No.2 (50,225 sales) but enters ACR next week.

Completing a static top triumvirate, Tame Impala’s Dracula increases consumption yet again, upping its tally 4.91% to 32,933 units on its second week at No.3.

Dominic Fike achieves a notable double this week, with his viral 2018 release Babydoll (8-7, 29,107 sales) being the only existing Top 10 hit to reach a new peak, and his current single White Keys (12-10, 23,786 sales) joining it in the top tier, to become his third Top 10 hit.

Meanwhile, Zara Larsson’s viral 2015 hit Lush Life rebounds 7-4 (30,628 sales), seven weeks after peaking at No.3, while the title track of her current album, Midnight Sun, moves ever closer to joining it in the Top 10, rising 16-12 (18,356 sales) and becoming her highest-charting new hit since 2018.

Fever Dream (6-5, 30,504 sales) by Alex Warren, Homewrecker (9-6, 29,552 sales) by Sombr and Man I Need (10-9, 26,615 sales) by Olivia Dean all rebound below their peaks.

Harry Styles hangs on to a Top 10 place with American Girls (4-8, 26,817 sales) and treads water with Ready Steady Go (24-23, 14,426 sales) but loses chart status with Aperture. The introductory single from his current album Kiss All The Time…, Aperture debuted at No.1 10 weeks ago but is now ‘starred-out’ and on ACR (9,633 sales) as Styles’ very first solo hit, 2017 chart-topper Sign Of The Times replaces it under primary artist rules, re-entering at No.28 (11,971 sales) after escaping ACR, boosted by its use in the film Project Hail Mary, which is No.2 in the box office chart. Sign Of The Times remains third in Styles’ list of most-consumed tracks with a to-date tally of 2,305,009 units, behind Watermelon Sugar (3,013,820 units) and As It Was (3,469,190 units).

The only track expelled from the Top 10 this week, Swim sinks 5-18 (16,632 sales) for BTS.

Very little is known about Temper City, whose viral alt-rock anthem Self Aware is the highest of just two debuts on the Top 75 this week, increasing consumption for the sixth week in a row as it climbs 79-61 (6,959 sales). Rumoured to be a trio, and signed to Los Angeles indie label Thirty Knots, Self Aware is their first release, and their apparent lack of appetite to reveal themselves has led some to believe they are an AI act. The song’s writing credits lead to LA production team Sync (Aviv Barenholtz & Chen Kordova) and Israeli singer/songwriter Eytan Peled.

Also new to the chart – Be Mine (No.75, 5,815 sales) is the fifth hit for Liverpudlian DJ and producer James Marsland as James Hype.

Country singer Ella Langley’s second album, Dandelion, is released today (April 10), while its introductory single Choosin’ Texas – which got stuck at No.35 for a record five weeks in a row – surges 29-16 (16,960 sales). Climbing more places than it did in the previous eight weeks combined, it is the first Top 20 hit for Langley, and has completed 13 weeks in the chart without once declining.

Sean Paul & Keyshia Cole’s 2006 No.31 hit (When You Gonna) Give It Up To Me’s continues its viral re-birth to reach another new peak (26-24, 13,266 sales). Meanwhile, two old tracks/first hits which charted for the first time last week after going viral, continue their climbs: 2024 song Earrings is up 68-40 (9,571 sales) for Malcolm Todd, while 2018 cut Jane! improves 62-59 (7,120 sales) for The Long Faces.

There are also new peaks for: Talk To You (48-29, 11,496 sales) by ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra, Wagwan (31-30, 11,133 sales) by Central Cee, Free Your Mind (71-60, 7,050 sales) by Prospa & Cloonee and No Batidão (72-69, 6,157 sales) by Zxkai & Slxughter.

Overall singles consumption is down 3.21% week-on-week to 31,279,298 units, 1.70% below same week 2025 sales of 31,820,374 units. Paid-for sales are down 10.20% week-on-week at 250,488, 1.62% above same week 2025 sales of 246,490.

Albums

01 22,155 Dermot Kennedy - The Weight of the Woods [13,665 CDs, 3,756 vinyl, 1,436 cassettes, 477 downloads, 2,821 streaming]

02 15,571 RAYE - THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.

03 13,922 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

04 10,079 Harry Styles - Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.

05 9,966 BTS - ARIRANG

06 8,879 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

07 7,336 Michael Jackson - The Essential

08 6,881 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)

09 6,689 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend [1,459 new vinyl variant]

10 6,466 The Weeknd - The Highlights

11 6,414 Kanye West - BULLY

13 6,056 Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire

21 4,358 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS

22 4,237 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

63 2,409 Melanie Martinez - HADES

87 2,015 U2 - Easter Lily

172 1,354 Tom Misch - Full Circle

xxx 909 Robyn - Sexistential

xxx 867 Don Broco - Nightmare Tripping

Compilations

01 6,338 KPop Demon Hunters [187 Yoto cards, 77 downloads, 6,074 streaming]

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Hailing from the village of Rathcoole near Dublin, Irish singer/songwriter Dermot Kennedy maintains his impressive record of topping the chart with each of his regular studio albums, completing the hat trick with The Weight Of The Woods.

Comprising 14 songs, all of which 34-year-old Kennedy co-wrote, the album debuts at No.1 on consumption of 22,155 units (13,665 CDs, 3,756 vinyl albums, 1,436 cassettes, 477 digital downloads and 2,821 sales-equivalent streams). That is 10.44% above the 20,061 sales that earned his debut studio album, Without Fear, pole position on debut in 2019, and 13.95% below the 25,748 units that follow-up Sonder secured as it topped the chart on debut in 2022.

Kennedy is the only Irish solo artist to top the charts with his first three albums – though we should mention that even before his first regular studio album, he released an eponymous January 2019 compilation.

Without Fear has to-date consumption of 452,233 units, with Sonder on 149,918 units, and the compilation – which reached No.76, and was a single sale away from making the Top 75 the week that Without Fear opened at No.1 - on 127,233 units.

The Weight Of The Woods is the landmark 50th No.1 album by an act from the Republic Of Ireland, arriving more than 48 years after the first, an eponymous album by crooner Val Doonican, which toppled The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The complete list of acts from The Republic Of Ireland to have a No.1 album in the UK, and the year in which they first achieved it, are Val Doonican (1967), Gilbert O’Sullivan (1973), U2 (1983), Sinead O’Connor (1990), Enya (1991), The Cranberries (1994), Boyzone (1995), The Corrs (1998), Ronan Keating (2000), Westlife (2000), The Script (2008), Niall Horan (2020), Inhaler (2021), Fontaines DC (2022), Cian Ducrot (2023) and Hozier – whose 2023 album, Unreal Unearth, was the last No.1 by an Irish act prior to this week.

The Irish (some would say Anglo-Irish) act with most No.1s is U2, with 11, and the label with most is Island, with 15 including all of the U2 and Kennedy albums. U2 were also theoretically in contention for No.1 this week, with their second EP of the year, Easter Lily, a six-song 32-minute effort thus far released only digitally, that debuts at No.87 (2,015 sales). It arrives six weeks after their previous EP, the six-song, 23-minute set Days Of Ash – also only digital – debuted and peaked at No.190. Had their contents been combined, and the set released physically, it would probably have been No.1.

A ‘carbonated pink champagne liquid edition’ vinyl variant of Man’s Best Friend helps to propel the Sabrina Carpenter 2025 chart-topper to a 23-9 jump, and accounts for 1,459 of its 6,689 sales as it returns to the Top 10 after a seven-week gap.

The rest of the Top 10: This Music May Contain Hope (1-2, 15,571 sales) by Raye, The Art Of Loving (2-3, 13,922 sales) by Olivia Dean, Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (6-4, 10,079 sales) by Harry Styles, Arirang (4-5, 9,966 sales) by BTS, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-6, 8,879 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Essential (11-7, 7,336 sales) by Mchael Jackson, +-=÷× Tour Collection (12-8, 6,881 sales) by Ed Sheeran and The Highlights (13-10, 6,466 sales) by The Weeknd.

Half of last week’s Top 10 are no longer there, namely Bully (3-11, 6,414 sales) by Ye, Hades (5-63, 2,409 sales) by Melanie Matrinez, Full Circle (9-172, 1,354 sales) by Tom Misch plus Top 100 departees Nightmare Tripping (867 sales) by Don Broco and Sexistential (909 sales) by Robyn, the latter pair ranking seventh and tenth a week ago.

Last week, 14 albums made their Top 75 debuts, this week just two – Dermot Kennedy’s, and Ambiguous Desire, the third album by Arlo Parks. Another collection of self-penned songs by the London singer/songwriter, which debuts at No.13 (6,056 sales), it follows Parks’ introductory album, the critically-acclaimed Collapsed In Sunbeams which reached No.3 in 2021 and has to-date consumption of 111,862 units; and follow-up My Soft Machine, which got to No.9 in 2023, and has to-date consumption of 19,813 units.

Olivia Rodrigo’s 2021 debut album Sour had only been lower once and 2023 follow-up Guts had never been lower than the positions they held in last week’s chart – Sour, at No.39 on its 254th consecutive week in the chart had only been out of the Top 40 (and lower) when it ranked at No.45 146 weeks earlier; and Guts, at No.43 on its 134th chart week, surpassing its previous low of No.41 four weeks earlier. Both, of course, have magnificent longevity, and the announcement of Rodrigo’s third album, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, has helped them both to recover – Guts jumps 22 notches to No.21 with consumption up 31.55% to 4,358 units, and Sour climbing 17 places to No.22, with consumption up 19.44% to 4,237 units. That’s a 39-week high for both albums.

K-Pop Demon Hunters is No.1 on the compilation chart for the 40th time in 42 weeks, on consumption of 6,338 units (187 Yoto cards, 77 digital downloads and 6,074 sales-equivalent streams).

Overall album sales are down 6.66% week-on-week to 2,491,939 units, 2.88% below same week 2025 sales of 2,565,706. Physical product accounts for 276,604 sales, 11.10% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

3,469,190 Harry Styles - As It Was

3,013,820 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar

Album Totals

452,233 Dermot Kennedy - Without Fear

149,918 Dermot Kennedy - Sonder

127,233 Dermot Kennedy - Dermot Kennedy

111,862 Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams

19,813 Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine

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Sales are in! Bella confirmed for ACR, Rein Me In's decline less than the market so back to 0 declines ffs

On 09/04/2026 at 14:08, JosephStyles said:

On its 42nd consecutive week in the Top 40 – 12 fewer than the all-time record of 54 set by Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud in 2014/2015 – Rein Me In achieves consumption of 60,510 units (33 7-inch vinyl, 822 digital downloads and 59,655 sales-equivalent streams) to raise its career cume to 1,355,433 units. Its consumption is at its lowest level for six weeks, and dips for the second week in a row, but its streaming decline is smaller than the overall market, so it regains its SCR status, and cannot enter ACR for at least four weeks.

ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

we may as well let this spend an ungodly amount of weeks at #1 to make up for how the OCC screwed over Man I Need tbh

Rein Me In streams only declined by 300 this week

RMI back to SCR - everyone loves to see it (apart from Buzzjack) 🤣

Its so screwed up that a 2026 release song is going on acr before a 2025 release though

It’s never made any sense to me why a decline less than the market rate doesn’t class as a decline? The song is still getting less popular - does anyone know what the rational was behind it?

It’s getting less popular in absolute terms but not in relative terms. The rule is sound but it should work both ways. If you increase by less than the market it counts as a decline

Swim now three weeks #1 on the sales chart. The longest such run since Golden had 7 back in August and September.

32 straight weeks over 50k SCR sales for “Man I Need” - looks like that run could be finally drawing to a close though.

This market crap needs to stop. A decline should mean a decline

If Bella is on ACR next week hopefully that means Dracula can at least peak at 2 🤞

Hopefully something comes along soon im just not sure Olivia R can do it instantly

Absolutely fuming that 'Rein Me In' has escaped ACR. We're never gonna get rid of it are we? #reinreinmeinin

2 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:

Its so screwed up that a 2026 release song is going on acr before a 2025 release though

Look at #4

Whilst I don't love Rein Me In, I don't hate it either. I have no objections to it avoiding ACR. There's nothing else I'd prefer at #1 at present, except for maybe Lush Life.

The top ten is full of "kinda nice" songs. Dracula is probably my fave, but I have removed it from my own playlist like 3 months ago lol. Never underestimate how slow the public is in letting go of their faves.

Is this the first time in the streaming era that single sales are down YOY? I can’t say I’ve noticed before. I wonder if this means streaming has finally reached market saturation.

After spending 2 months between positions 32-38 it’s great to see Choosin Texas finally getting a big leap, really hope it goes Top 10.

Looks like RMI might get an 8th week before Olivia might be able to boot it off but whether or not it holds is another matter, maybe a song from 2025 that hasn't yet had a second wind might be the thing to bet on the way this year is going.

I wonder if Olivia might have a shot of going back to No.1 in the albums next week?

24 minutes ago, Supercell said:

Looks like RMI might get an 8th week before Olivia might be able to boot it off but whether or not it holds is another matter, maybe a song from 2025 that hasn't yet had a second wind might be the thing to bet on the way this year is going.

I wonder if Olivia might have a shot of going back to No.1 in the albums next week?

Took me a moment to realise you're talking about two different Olivias in this post!