Sales Report: W/E 30th April 2026

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 65,435 Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead [2,470 CDs, 1,902 7" vinyl, 232 cassettes, 3,121 downloads, 57,710 streaming]

02 56,276 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

03 41,495 Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj - Beauty and a Beat

04 37,089 Tame Impala - Dracula

05 34,774 Justin Bieber - DAISIES

06 32,898 Alex Warren - FEVER DREAM

07 31,038 sombr - Homewrecker

08 27,872 Dominic Fike - White Keys

09 27,108 Zara Larsson - Lush Life

10 26,825 Dominic Fike - Babydoll

11 24,571 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

12 23,275 Bella Kay - iloveitiloveitiloveit

13 23,209 Harry Styles - American Girls

14 21,318 Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor [15,202 7" vinyl]

17 18,959 Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris - Baby

21 15,473 Sabrina Carpenter - House Tour

29 13,235 Malcolm Todd - Earrings

30 12,814 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind

31 12,603 sombr - Potential [??]

32 12,664 Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber - Eenie Meenie [??]

40 11,807 Tyla feat. Zara Larsson - SHE DID IT AGAIN

47 9,451 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

53 8,764 STELLA LEFTY - Boston

60 7,808 Charli xcx - party 4 u

** 7,718 Olivia Dean & Jools Holland - You've Got a Friend

65 7,357 Sabrina Carpenter - Sugar Talking

68 7,126 Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love

** 7,031 Sabrina Carpenter - Nodoy's Son

69 7,028 LONOWN & riserayss - worry

70 6,918 Lana Del Rey - First Light

90 5,680 Madonna - I Feel So Free

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Drop Dead is the introductory single from Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming third album, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, and breezes to a No.1 debut, on first week consumption of 65,435 units - the highest tally for any single for 12 weeks.

Dethroned Rein Me In (1-2, 56,276 sales), which had been No.1 for the last five weeks and eight of the last nine weeks for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, nevertheless returns to SCR again after a modest increase in both overall and streaming consumption.

With speeded-up, slowed-down, acoustic and instrumental variants as well as its original, Drop Dead’s consumption comprised 2,470 CDs, 1,902 7-inch singles, 232 cassettes, 3,121 digital downloads and 57,710 sales-equivalent streams.

Rodrigo’s 16th hit, Drop Dead is her ninth Top 10 entry, fourth No.1, and second single to debut at the summit, following 2021 smash, Drivers License. Her other No.1s – Good 4 U and Vampire – both debuted at No.2 and climbed to the summit.

Rodrigo’s highest first week consumption (94,770 units) came from Drivers License, her highest in all from Good 4 U, which had second week consumption of 117,355 units. Rodrigo’s overall singles consumption of 23,608,224 units, includes top tallies of 2,962,007 from Good 4 U, 2,552,447 from Drivers License and 1,800,044 from Vampire. Thirteen of her songs have gone platinum, with a further six reaching gold and another eight silver.

Rodrigo is the fifth artist to have four No.1s in the 2020s, ranking alongside Sabrina Carpenter but trailing Ed Sheeran (six), Taylor Swift and Lewis Capaldi (five apiece).

She is also now the Olivia with most No.1 hits, ahead of Olivia Newton-John (three) and Olivia Dean (two). While they have all topped the chart more than once, only one other Olivia has ever been listed on the chart – Olivia O’Brien being featured vocalist on Gnash’s 2016 No.7 hit, I Hate U, I Love U. The dearth of Olivias is strange, as Olivia has been in the annual births list of Top 10 girl’s names in the UK continuously since 1999, spending 13 (non-consecutive) years at No.1.

Coachella is over but the Californian festival, streamed here on YouTube, continues to fuel the surge in consumption of tracks by participants, most demonstrably Justin Bieber.

Bieber’s 2012 No.16 hit Beauty And A Beat – featuring Nicki Minja – returned at a new peak (No.11) last week, and now dashes to No.3 (41,495 sales), becoming Bieber’s 29th Top 10 hit, and Minaj’s 16th. Bieber’s 2025 No.1 Daisies, also continues its climb, moving 15-5 (34,774 sales), while his 2010 No.3 hit Baby (feat. Ludacris) re-enters at No.17 (18,959 sales). His 2009 No.9 collaboration with Sean Kingston, Eenie Meenie also returns (No.32, 12,664 sales) after escaping ACR.

Five more songs by Bieber are ‘starred-out’ of the Top 75 on growing consumption. Bieber’s albums are also on the rise: 2025 No.4 album Swag climbs 37-17 (5,511 sales), 2015 No.2 album Purpose moves 26-20 (4,909 sales), 2010 debut My World 2.0 jumps 72-49 (2,973 sales), and 2009 EP My World progresses 79-56 (2,680 sales).

The rest of the Top 10: Dracula (2-4, 37,089 sales) by Tame Impala, Fever Dream (3-6, 32,898 sales) by Alex Warren, Homewrecker (4-7, 31,038 sales) by Sombr, White Keys (7-8, 27,872 sales) by Dominic Fike, Lush Life (6-9, 27,108 sales) by Zara Larsson and – the only song in the Top 10 not to increase consumption week-on-week – Babydoll (5-10, 26,825 sales) by Dominic Fike.

After accumulating 31 weeks in the Top 10 in three runs, the most recent of which was for 10 weeks, Man I Need dips out of the top tier for Olivia Dean, falling 9-11 (24,571 sales).

Also exiting the Top 10: Iloveitiloveitiloveit (8-12, 23,275 sales) by Bella Kay and American Girls (10-13, 23,209 sales) by Harry Styles.

While Homewrecker spends its 10th straight week in the Top 10, Sombr has issued another new song, Potential. Debuting at No.31 (12,603 sales), it is his sixth hit.

While the Coachella effect is clearly still very potent for Justin Bieber, it fades for Sabrina Carpenter, with declines for House Tour (20-21, 15,473 sales), Manchild (43-47, 9,451) and Nobody’s Son (7,031 sales). The latter track was No.68 last week but is now ‘starred-out’ losing its berth as Carpenter’s final track under primary artist rules to Sugar Talking, which debuts at No.65 (7,357 sales), becoming her 18th hit in all, and eighth from her album Man’s Best Friend.

Also new to the Top 75: She Did It Again (No.40, 11,807 sales), a collaboration between South Africa’s Tyla and Sweden’s Zara Larsson, the former’s sixth hit, the latter’s 17th; Stay Love (No.68, 7,126 sales), Lewis Capaldi’s 17th hit and a track on his newly-expanded EP, Survive; and First Light (No.70, 6,918 sales), the 30th hit for Lana Del Rey.

Free Your Mind – the first hit for Prospa & Cloonee – continues to climb, moving 39-30 (12,814 sales).

Other first hits climbing to new peaks: Earrings (37-29, 13,235 sales) by Malcolm Todd, Boston (57-53, 8,764 sales) by Stella Lefty, and Worry (74-69, 7,028 sales) by Lonown & Riserayss.

Record Store Day (RSD) has less impact on the singles market than on the album market. The most obvious beneficiary is Elizabeth Taylor, which bounces 73-14 for Taylor Swift with 15,202 of its 21,318 sales in the latest frame from its new ‘violet glitter’ 7-inch RSD edition. It is the highest position held by the track - which debuted and peaked 28 weeks ago at No.3 – for 22 weeks. Charli XCX’s 2025 No.19 hit Party 4 U also returns with a new vinyl edition (No.60, 7,808 sales),

‘Starred-out’ of the Top 75 under primary artist rules, Olivia Dean At The BBC – a 7-inch RSD single featuring Carole King cover You’ve Got A Friend (with Jools Holland) and Boygenius cover Cool About It – sold 7,718 copies.

Overall singles consumption is up 3.34% week-on-week to 32,730,908 units, 11.31% above same week 2025 sales of 29,404,452 units. Boosted by RSD, paid-for sales are up 36.31% week-on-week at 334,035, 30.09% below same week 2025 sales of 256,781.

Albums

01 20,414 Skindred - You Got This [10,485 CDs, 5,743 vinyl, 2,872 USBs, 959 downloads, 355 streaming]

02 18,582 Jessie Ware - Superbloom

03 12,910 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

04 12,475 ZAYN - KONNAKOL

05 9,437 Michael Jackson - The Essential

06 8,745 RAYE - THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.

07 8,229 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

08 7,629 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend

09 7,600 Harry Styles - Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.

10 7,362 Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

13 6,546 BTS - ARIRANG

16 5,608 TOMORA - COME CLOSER

17 5,511 Justin Bieber - SWAG

20 4,909 Justin Bieber - Purpose

21 4,872 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS [total: 755,470]

23 4,606 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR [total: 1,310,185]

26 4,315 Ella Langley - Dandelion

27 4,121 The Cure - Greatest Hits

48 2,810 Madonna - Finally Enough Love

49 2,973 Justin Bieber - My World 2.0

52 2,753 Michael Jackson - Bad

56 2,680 Justin Bieber - My World

65 2,525 Michael Jackson - Thriller

74 2,404 Paramore - All We Know Is Falling

77 2,340 Blur - Live at the Budokan

78 2,322 Madonna - The Confessions Tour (Live)

149 1,626 Jack Savoretti - We Will Always Be the Way We Were

154 1,576 Holly Humberstone - Cruel World

Compilations

01 6,088 Now That's What I Call Music! 123 [5,699 CDs, 389 downloads]

02 5,236 KPop Demon Hunters

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After losing out to Cian Ducrot by just 149 units at the top of the chart with their last album three years ago, Welsh band Skindred finally land their first No.1 album with their ninth studio set, You Got This opening atop the list on consumption of 20,414 units (10,485 CDs, 5,743 vinyl albums, 2,872 USB sticks, 959 digital downloads and 355 sales-equivalent streams), boosted by a round of record store PAs, and social media rallying calls.

Arriving at the summit 28 years since Skindred’s formation, 24 years after their album debut and 15 years since they first made the Top 75, You Got This racks up the highest weekly sale yet for the metal/reggae fusion trio, surpassing by 31.54% the 15,519 units that Smile shifted when it debuted at No.2 in 2023.

Their sixth Top 75 album, all of the 10 songs on You Got This were written by band members 59-year-old Benji Webb (vocals, keyboards), 44-year-old Mikey Demus (guitar) and 46-year-old Ayra Goggin (drums), all of whom have been with the band since before its first album. Most were written in collaboration with 46-year-old bass guitarist Dan Pugsley, who left the band after 27 years last December. Making the difference between the album being No.1 and No.2, the USB version of You Got This sold more copies than any previous USB in any week, helped by the fact that it is priced at £4.99, and includes an otherwise unavailable 11th song, Dred Or Alive.

For all their progress, Skindred remain a ‘fanbase act’, without a hit single. Their most-consumed album is their first Top 75 entry, 2011’s Union Black, which peaked at No.54 and has to-date consumption of 34,256 units.

Briefly ahead of Skindred – by nine sales on Wednesday’s sales flash – Jessie Ware put up a good fight in pursuit of her first No.1 with sixth album, Superbloom. She also hit the road, with in-store signings, and released a 24-hour online exclusive Full Bloom digital edition of the album – tagged at £5.99 with five bonus tracks, including her version of Barbra Streisand’s hit The Way We Were – in an effort to wrest the throne.

She failed, but gloriously, with Superbloom debuting at No.2 on consumption of 18,582 units, a new high for her in both first week sales, and chart peak.

It is her sixth straight Top 10 album – her entire studio output – following Devotion (2012, No.5), Tough Love (2014, No.9), Glasshouse (2017, No.7), What’s Your Pleasure? (2020, No.3) and That Feels Good (2023, No.3). As with Skindred, it’s the first charted set, not the one that got highest, that has the greatest consumption, with Devotion on 144,343 units. Her previous best weekly sale came from That Feels Good, which had a first week tally of 11,988 units.

The only member of One Direction to officially leave the group and the first to release five solo albums, Zayn (Malik) has had a chequered solo album career. His 2016 opener, Mind Of Mine, reached No.1; 2018 follow-up Icarus Falls peaked at a lowly No.77; 2021’s Nobody Is Listening reached No.17; and 2024’s country-flavoured Room Under The Stairs reached No.3. New set Konnakol debuts at No.4, on consumption of 12,475 units – 18.33% below the 15,275 units achieved by Room Under The Stairs on debut.

Liam Payne died in 2024, but Zayn is the third of the four remaining founder members of the group to deliver an album thus far in 2026, with Konnakol arriving 12 weeks after Louis Tomlinson’s third studio album How Did I Get Here debuted at No.1 (28,416 sales) and six weeks after Harry Styles’ fourth studio album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally – which dips 6-9 (7,600 sales) this week – debuted at No.1 (183,045 sales). Final 1D member Niall Horan’s fourth studio album, Dinner Party, arrives in six weeks (June 5).

Panned by critics, as much for what it doesn’t include as what it does, the Michael Jackson biopic is nevertheless a big box office hit. Its success, and that of the BBC’s new three-part documentary Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy, impacts the album chart, with The Essential scooting 9-5 (9,437 sales) and 1987 chart-topper Bad climbing 74-52 (2,753 sales), while 1982 No.1, Thriller (85-65, 2,525 sales) joins them in the Top 75. The Essential is at its highest position for 871 weeks (more than 15 years), Bad for 616 weeks (nearly 12 years), and Thriller for 178 weeks (more than three years). Michael: Songs From The Motion Picture was released today (24 April).

No.1 for the eighth time in total last week, The Art Of Loving retreats to No.3 for Olivia Dean, but has a modest spike in sales, increasing 2.58% to 12,910 units.

The rest of the Top 10: This Music May Contain Hope (3-6, 8,745 sales) by Raye, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-7, 8,229 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Man’s Best Friend (10-8, 7,629 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter and You’ll Be Alright, Kid (14-10, 7,362 sales) by Alex Warren.

Exiting the Top 10: Arirang (5-13, 6,546 sales) by BTS, Dandelion (7-26, 4,315 sales) by Ella Langley, We Will Always Be The Way We Were (2-149, 1,626 sales) by Jack Savoretti and Cruel World (4-154, 1,576 sales) by Holly Humberstone.

Tomora is a place in Mali, and also the portmanteau name adopted by Tom Rowlands and Aurora for their collaborative album, Come Closer, which debuts at No.16 (5,608 sales). 55-year-old Rowlands is better known as half of The Chemical Brothers, in which guise he has had 12 charted albums, six of them No.1s; while 29-year-old Norwegian singer Aurora has charted four solo albums here.

Last Saturday (April 18) was Record Store Day (RSD), and saw no fewer than 536 limited edition releases, mostly albums, and mostly new editions of previously released material. No previously uncharted: album makes the Top 75 because of RSD – Live At The Budokan, a 1996 set recorded at the legendary Tokyo arena by Blur, now released on vinyl for the first time, comes closest debuting at No.77 on consumption of 2,340 units, raising its overall cume to 96,338 units.

However, there are RSD-powered resurgences for: Greatest Hits (95-27, 4,121 sales), a 2001 release that peaked at No.19 in 2019 for The Cure, and is newly-released in a 25th anniversary edition remastered by the band’s leader, Robert Smith; and All We Know Is Falling (No.74, 2,404 sales), Paramore’s 2005 debut, which peaked at No.51 in 2009, and is now available in a new double vinyl deluxe edition with a bonus EP.

Coming close: The Confessions Tour (No.78, 2,322 sales), Madonna’s No.7 2007 souvenir of her 2006 tour of the same name, detonated anew by a ‘splatter vinyl’ edition. Although The Confessions Tour doesn’t quite return to the Top 75, Madonna’s 2022 compilation, Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones does – and without an RSD edition. Bubbling up recently anyway, it scoots 84-48 (2,810 sales) to achieve its highest position for 146 weeks, as her new single I Feel So Free (No.90, 5,680 sales) impacts.

Ten different albums from the Now That’s What I Call Music! stable have spent a combined 11 weeks as runner-up to the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack during the 41 times it has been No.1 on the compilation chart in the last 43 weeks – but that hex is over, with Now! 123 debuting atop the chart on consumption of 6,088 units (5,699 CDs, 389 digital downloads).

Pushed down to No.2 for the third time in its career (5,236 units), KPop Demon Hunters’ victims included the last two regular topline Now! releases, Now! 121 and Now! 122. Now! 123’s first week sales are 32.34% below those of its 2025 equivalent (Now! 120) and 19.77% below its immediate predecessor (Now! 122).

Overall album sales are up 8.98% week-on-week to 2,720,684 units, 12.10% below same week 2025 sales of 2,427,105. Physical product accounts for 430,951 sales, 15.84% of the total. Record Store Day helping boost vinyl 126.03% week-on-week to 275,179 units, 18.32% above the 232,574 units sold in the week following RSD in 2025, and 2.25% above the 269,134 2024 tally.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

2,962,007 Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u

2,552,447 Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license

1,800,044 Olivia Rodrigo - vampire

Album Totals

144,343 Jessie Ware - Devotion

34,256 Skindred - Union Black

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Sales are in! Not sure what's up with the Potential / Eenie Meenie sales, one must be wrong.

GUTS and SOUR weekly + total sales come from another Music Week article on Olivia.

Rein Me In back to zero weeks of decline !!

RMI increasing this week.

I'll be 100 and it'll still be on SCR

Edited Friday at 17:204 days by DanielCarey

Embarrassing sales for Now 123 really

Still no total sales for Bieber with that huge domination ?

Go to h*** Music Week !

Hope OCC are gonna make an article with the biggest Bieber's hits with sales very soon.

Great consistency for Jessie ware over the years. Does anyone know if other British female artists had six top 10 albums on the trot from their debut?

2 minutes ago, Josh! said:

Great consistency for Jessie ware over the years. Does anyone know if other British female artists had six top 10 albums on the trot from their debut?

Not sure if you're looking for exactly six or at least six - but if the latter then all 10 of Kate Bush's studio albums have made the top 10 ❤️

RMI back to #1 next week pls 🙏🏻

So she did it with streaming alone looks like the first day clinched it but RMI looks highly likely to regain next week then

Looks like there was an extra 4k copies of ET online then and she actually streamed better than expected although would of still been top 25 on vinyls alone

Weird no info on Alex's physicals this week

4 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Weird no info on Alex's physicals this week

Only #30 on the physical chart so either they haven't all shipped, or they didn't sell many

"Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, nevertheless returns to SCR again after a modest increase in both overall and streaming consumption."

HELP !!

It's the time of year where improving weather = increases that are perhaps lower than the market increase = ACR swerving

6,000 for Now, eek! Quickly getting to the point that it won’t be worth their while, although it has a historically bad tracklist, probably the worst ever. At least the series got another No.1.

Nice to see Now back at the top of the compilation chart even with those disastrous sales. I hope it remains there next week or for Demon Hunters to knock it off and Now really need to do a strong tracklist for Now 124 unless they wanna get more disastrous sales. Even the year old Now Christmas in 2023 and all the yearbooks up to 1978 had more sales than Now 123

Edited Friday at 21:154 days by Hadji

1 hour ago, Jade said:

Not sure if you're looking for exactly six or at least six - but if the latter then all 10 of Kate Bush's studio albums have made the top 10 ❤️

At least six I was looking for so this is a very impressive stat! Wonder how many others there are

11 minutes ago, Josh! said:

At least six I was looking for so this is a very impressive stat! Wonder how many others there are

I wonder, having a brainstorm and Katie Melua is another one I can think of - 8 top 10 albums in a row including her debut!

1 hour ago, gooddelta said:

6,000 for Now, eek! Quickly getting to the point that it won’t be worth their while, although it has a historically bad tracklist, probably the worst ever. At least the series got another No.1.

Are they even making any sort of profit if sales are now as low as 6,000?

It feels like they're eeking the franchise on for as long as they can, but like you say how can it really be worth their while?

RMI is not the only song increasing in sales after declining last week. I think a lot of songs have probably escaped ACR for a few more weeks - including Landslide - which continues to keep The Chain starred out.

(Apologies if this has already been covered in another thread).

Absolutely saddened on Jessie.. The difference is Skindred have USB formats.. She will top if USBs are not in the volume