Posted Thursday at 16:283 days Sales Report: W/E 14th May 2026Source: Music WeekCommentary: Alan JonesSingles01 56,538 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [23 7" vinyl, 726 downloads, 55,789 streaming]02 34,102 Tame Impala - Dracula03 33,088 Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead04 31,831 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean05 29,240 Alex Warren - FEVER DREAM06 28,959 Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj - Beauty and a Beat07 28,318 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun [total: 416,717]08 27,842 sombr - Homewrecker09 27,048 Zara Larsson - Lush Life [total: 3,590,695]10 25,404 Michael Jackson - Beat It11 25,138 Olivia Dean - Man I Need13 24,750 Justin Bieber - DAISIES15 23,491 Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough** 22,279 Michael Jackson - Human Nature20 17,884 Alex Warren - FINE PLACE TO DIE22 15,779 The Chemical Brothers - Go [total: 469,947]23 15,537 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind26 13,923 Malcolm Todd - Earrings28 13,578 ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra - Talk to You29 13,557 Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love30 13,230 Olivia Dean - Baby Steps33 12,177 The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back36 11,985 Temper City - Self Aware38 11,596 STELLA LEFTY - Boston40 11,456 Dominic Fike - Babydoll41 11,140 Katy Perry - The One That Got Away [total: 1,604,219]42 11,014 Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten63 7,790 F3miii - NOBLE67 7,572 SIENNA SPIRO - Material Lover QuoteOn its 29th week in the Top 10 and 46th consecutive week in the Top 40, Rein Me In secures its 10th week at No.1 for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean – and it’s further ahead in percentage terms than at any time during its reign.Although its consumption slips 2.84% week-on-week to 56,538 units (23 7-inch vinyl, 726 digital downloads and 55,789 sales-equivalent streams), it has a 65.79% lead over Dracula (4-2, 34,102 sales), which returns to peak for Tame Impala, although it has the lowest consumption for a No.2 for 60 weeks.Rein Me In’s lead is the biggest in percentage terms for a No.1 for 48 weeks. Four weeks after reaching its previous peak of No.12, Midnight Sun shines 19-7 (28,318 sales) for Zara Larsson, buoyed by streaming of the newly expanded version of the album of the same name. Eclipsing her viral revival Lush Life (8-9, 27,048 sales), which peaked at No.3 in 2014 and again this year, Midnight Sun is Larsson’s seventh Top 10 entry and becomes her 12th song to go gold, with to-date consumption of 416,717 units. For its part, Lush Life has spent 31 weeks in the Top 10 in all - a total exceeded by only seven songs in chart history - and is days away from going sextuple platinum (3,590,695 sales). Consumption of music by Michael Jackson started to grow strongly after the screening of the BBC’s new three-part TV documentary An American Tragedy last month, and increased spectacularly following the release of his new biopic Michael, which sits atop the box office chart despite largely negative reviews from critics. Songs by Jackson solo, in collaborations and with the Jacksons/Jackson 5 achieved consumption of 428,066 units in the latest frame.The charge is being led by Billie Jean, which soars 13-4 (31,831 sales) this week, with Beat It (22-10, 25,404 sales) and Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough (23-15, 23,491 sales) following in its wake. That’s the maximum MJ tracks allowed in the Top 75 under primary artist rules, leaving a further 12 ‘starred-out’, of which the one making the biggest impression is Human Nature, a track off Thriller, which wasn’t a UK single at the time, and only appeared in the chart in 2009, when it reached No.62, immediately after Jackson’s death. It was very nearly his final track under primary artist rules this week, being ‘starred-out’ immediately behind Don’t Stop… with consumption of 22,279 units. The Jacksons/Jackson 5 are considered separately, and their debut hit, I Want You Back, which reached No.2 in 1970, has escaped ACR to return at No.33 (12,177 sales).Top 10 hits not mentioned to this point: Drop Dead (2-3, 33,088 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Fever Dream (5-5, 29,240 sales) by Alex Warren, Beauty And A Beat (3-6, 28,959 sales) by Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj and Homewrecker (7-8, 27,842 sales) by Sombr.Man I Need (9-11, 25,138 sales) by Olivia Dean, Daisies (6-13, 24,750 sales) by Justin Bieber and ACR casualty Babydoll (10-40, 11,456 sales) by Dominic Fike exit the Top 10.The highest new entry is Fine Place To Die (No.20, 17,884 sales), the eighth hit (sixth Top 20) for Alex Warren.Preview track I Feel So Free reached No.90 a fortnight ago for Madonna, but her upcoming Confessions II album surrenders its first Top 75 entry in the form of lead single, Bring Your Love, a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter. Debuting at No.29 (13,557 sales), it is Madonna’s 73rd hit, and Carpenter’s 19th. Although she has charted in the interim with collaborations and re-entries, it is the first new hit from a Madonna album since 2015, when Living For Love, from Rebel Heart, reached No.26. Sneaking in under the wire, the third and final Top 75 debut this week is Material Lover (No.67, 7,572 sales), the fifth hit from Sienna Spiro, as featured on the new The Devil Wears Prada 2 soundtrack. After slipping back last week, club favourite Free Your Mind returns to growth and reaches a new peak for Prospa & Cloonee, jumping 32-23 (15,537 sales).There are also new peaks for: Earrings (30-26, 13,923 sales) by Malcom Todd, Talk To You (29-28, 13,578 sales) by ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra, Baby Steps (31-30, 13,230 sales) by Olivia Dean, Self Aware (45-36, 11,985 sales) by Temper City, Boston (48-38, 11,596 sales) by Stella Lefty and Noble (71-63, 7,790 sales) by F3miii. The last and lowest-charting of The Chemical Brothers’ 19 Top 75 entries, Go peaked at No.46 in 2015 but it is featured in new Netflix streaming hit Apex, which features Taran Egerton and Charlize Theron and performed well enough last week to escape ACR, precipitating its return to the chart this week, at a new peak of No.22 (15,779 sales). Their first Top 40 hit since 2007, its modest chart performance hitherto masks its popularity – its to-date consumption of 469,947 units places it a lofty third in The Chemical Brothers’ canon, behind Hey Boy, Hey Girl (921,389 units) and Galvanize (647,679 units), ahead of their No.1s, Block Rockin’ Beats (396,672 units) and Setting Sun (231,644 units).Also returning to the chart following viral resurgences are The One That Got Away (No.41, 11,140 sales) by Katy Perry and Unwritten (No.42, 11,014 sales) by Natasha Bedingfield. The latter track, No.6 on first release in 2004, also reached No.12 when it went viral in 2024. The One That Got Away, on the other hand, was a No.18 hit in 2011, bringing to an end a run of five straight Top 10 hits from Perry’s Teenage Dream album. Its resurgence is also aided by the release of a new ‘director’s cut’ video, The One That Got Away is Perry’s ninth most-consumed track (1,604,219 units). Overall singles consumption is down 4.35% week-on-week to 32,258,059 units, 3.65% above same week 2025 sales of 31,122,520 units. Paid-for sales are up 1.54% week-on-week at 274,073, 4.05% above same week 2025 sales of 263,410.Albums01 29,453 Michael Jackson - The Essential [397 CDs, 121 downloads, 28,935 streaming]02 23,983 Kneecap - FENIAN03 19,483 Melanie C - Sweat04 16,398 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide05 15,004 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving06 10,640 Michael Jackson - Thriller07 9,267 Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere08 8,790 Michael Jackson - Bad09 8,095 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop10 7,719 Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid11 6,668 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)13 6,580 Tori Amos - In Times of Dragons14 6,127 Harry Styles - Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.27 4,235 Asake - M$NEY29 4,123 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE)33 3,631 The Black Keys - Peaches!36 3,429 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun45 3,173 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT47 3,067 Michael Jackson - Off the Wall73 2,395 Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy75 2,345 Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?76 2,333 Michael Jackson - Michael: Songs from the Motion Picture109 1,833 Billie Eilish - dont smile at me127 1,729 Michael Jackson - Number OnesCompilations01 4,657 KPop Demon Hunters [187 Yoto cards, 40 downloads, 4,430 streaming] QuoteMichael Jackson is No.1 for the first time in more than a decade, with compilation The Essential stealing the honours from sales flashes leaders Melanie C and Kneecap.Last No.1 in 2014, when Xscape – a posthumous compilation of previously unreleased tracks – topped the chart, Jackson has three albums in the Top 10, and 12 in the Top 200 (including Jacksons/Jackson 5 releases), as the box office success of biopic Michael continues to fuel rapidly increasing consumption across his entire catalogue. Soaring 14-1 with 29,453 sales (397 CDs, 121 digital downloads and 28,935 sales-equivalent streams), the rise of The Essential – a No.2 album on release in 2005 which subsequently spent seven weeks at No.1 after his death in 2009 – contrasts starkly with the Top 75 exits of two Jackson albums that graced the top five last week - the Michael soundtrack (4-76, 2,333 sales) and Number Ones (5-127, 1,729 sales).That is because pure sales order dictated where the streams from common tracks (both solo and Jacksons/Jackson 5 material) were directed for chart purposes last week - but record companies have the option to ‘lock’ streams to a specific compilation, as long as the tracks are on it, and Sony has nominated to do that with The Essential this week. As a result, it vacuums up ALL of the streams that songs on Michael and Number Ones actually registered in the week, leaving them with only their pure sales, hence their sudden and dramatic decline.It is a quirk of the chart that streams can count towards both a studio album and a compilation, so although this decision had consequences for the compilations, it failed to stop the march of Jackson’s studio albums, with 1982 No.1 Thriller advancing 8-6 (10,640 sales), 1987 No.1 Bad moving into the Top 10 for the first time in 14 years (13-8, 8,790 sales), and 1979 No.3 album Off The Wall surging 80-47 (3,067 sales). Up against more experienced chart campaigners Melanie C and Michael Jackson in a terrific three-way tussle for No.1, controversial hip-hop trio Kneecap sales-flash supremacy evaporated as the week progressed, with their album, Fenian ultimately debuting at No.2, while securing higher consumption (23,983 units) than any album NOT to be No.1 for 27 weeks. Fenian is Kneecap’s second album: their eight-song, 30-minute 2017 mixtape 3CAG has only had its consumption tracked since last June by OCC, since when it has logged 96 units. The song of that title is not on that album, appearing instead as the introductory track of debut album proper Fine Art, which gave the band their UK breakthrough, reaching No.43 in 2024, and securing to-date consumption of 46,907 units. Ultimately unable to add to the two No.1 albums she scored as a member of the Spice Girls – 1996 debut Spice, and 1997 follow-up Spice World – Melanie C(hisholm) nevertheless scores her ninth straight solo chart album, representing her entire studio output, debuting at No.3 (19,483 sales) with Sweat – the highest sale for that position for 35 weeks.That’s not just the highest chart position of the 52-year-old Liverpudlian’s solo career – surpassing the No.4 peak of her 1999 solo debut, Northern Star – but also the highest position of any solo album by any Spice Girl (Geri Halliwell’s 1999 solo debut Schizophonic and Emma Bunton’s 2001 solo debut, A Girl Like Me also reached No.4). The only member of The Spice Girls to have a sustained and regular solo career, Chisholm has now had as many Top 75 albums as the rest put together. Chisholm’s best first week sale remains the 30,866 copies that her second album, Reason, sold on debut at No.5 in 2003, but Northern Star has outsold the rest of her output together by a margin of more than four to one. Achieving triple platinum status earlier this year, it has to-date consumption of 900,317 units. That is more than any other solo album by a Spice Girl (Geri’s Schizophonic is second with 490,819 units) but less than Spice (3,102,398 units) and Spice World (1,663,649 units). Mel B’s L.A. State Of Mind is the back marker (1,963 sales). Middle Of Nowhere earns 37-year-old Texan singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves her sixth Top 75 and fourth Top 10 album, debuting at No.7 (9,267 sales). Her seventh studio album, it is the fifth country album to make the Top 10 already this year – a record for this stage – following earlier efforts from Zac Bryan, Luke Combs, Jane McDonald (sic) and Ella Langley. The rest of the Top 10: The Great Divide (1-4, 16,398 sales) by Noah Kahan, The Art Of Loving (3-5, 15,004 sales) by Olivia Dean, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-9, 8,095 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and You’ll Be Alright, Kid (7-10, 7,719 sales) by Alex Warren. The Art Of Loving revisits the lowest position of its 32-week chart career, but with its highest consumption for five weeks, and the highest for a No.5 since it occupied that rung itself 27 weeks ago.Tour Collection (9-11, 6,668 sales) by Ed Sheeran, Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (10-14, 6,127 sales) by Harry Styles and Your Favorite Toy (2-73, 2,395 sales) by Foo Fighters join the two MJ titles in exiting the Top 10.Esoteric, eclectic, allegorical and metaphorical, Tori Amos’ 18th studio album, In Times Of Dragons, debuts at No.13 (6,580 sales). Entirely written (with three assists) and produced by the UK-based 62-year-old American singer/songwriter, it delivers her 17th Top 75 and 15th Top 40 album since her 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes.Recorded during her sell-out world tour in support of 2024 No.1 album Hit Me Hard And Soft – which itself floats 47-45 (3,173 sales) – Billie Eilish’s triple vinyl exclusive Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour debuts at No.29 (4,123 sales), becoming her fifth chart album. Its release coincides with new vinyl editions of her 2019 debut album, When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which sprints 180-75 (2,345 sales) and 2017 EP Don’t Smile At Me, a re-entry at No.109 (1,833 sales)Also new to the Top 75: M$ney (No.27, 4,235 sales), the fourth and lowest charting Top 40 album – his entire output – by Nigerian Afrobeats singer Asake; and Peaches! (No.33, 3,631 sales), the 14th studio album, 11th Top 75 and ninth Top 40 entry for Akron rock duo The Black Keys.Thirty-one weeks after debuting and peaking at No.36, Swedish singer/songwriter Zara Larsson’s fifth studio album, Midnight Sun re-enters at the same position (3,429 sales), following the release of an expanded ‘Girls Trip’ CD edition. The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is No.1 for the second week in a row, and the 43rd time in 46 weeks, despite a 7.33% dip in consumption week-on-week to 4,657 units (187 Yoto cards, 40 digital downloads and 4,430 sales-equivalent streams).Overall album sales are down 3.71% week-on-week to 2,592,356 units, 3.09% above same week 2025 sales of 2,514,591. Physical product accounts for 310,228 sales, 11.97% of the total. Bonus InformationSingle Totals921,389 The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl647,679 The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize396,672 The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats231,644 The Chemical Brothers - Setting SunAlbum Totals3,102,398 Spice Girls - Spice1,663,649 Spice Girls - Spiceworld900,317 Melanie C - Northern Star490,819 Geri Halliwell - Schizophonic1,963 Mel B - L.A. State of Mind46,907 Kneecap - Fine Art96 Kneecap - 3CAGNotes- 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 17:482 days 1 minute ago, Jade said:1,963 Mel B - L.A. State of MindLmao not this sales update Poor old LA State OF Mind - more articles have been written about its sales figures than people who actually own it. It’s actually a decent album too. Edited Friday at 17:562 days by ___∆___
Friday at 18:022 days Also is it the first time this year the top album of the week where streaming contributed more than physicals?
Friday at 18:151 day A curious thing about the Mel B update is that 1,963 is the exact same figure shared back in May 2020. Can it really have sold nothing in 6 years? Not even a download here and there? It increased from 1,702 in June 2009 to 1,963 in May 2020. Although with the same figure being shared now, it makes me wonder if it's remained as 1,963 in the OCC database for some time in advance of May 2020.
Friday at 18:161 day I hope the 1972 yearbook can disrupt Demon Hunters run at the top next week and nice to see Now 123 overtaking Now 70s Soul to become this week’s biggest selling Now
Friday at 18:171 day To-Date SalesSam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In: 1,582,258Michael Jackson - The Essential: 2,244,953from Music Week Chart Pack
Friday at 18:181 day Pretty healthy second week for noah then looks like he might be sticking around for a bit with this one too
Friday at 18:221 day Rein Me In might finally be starting to decline! (We’ll probably get some good weather soon to push it up again)
Friday at 18:231 day Rein Me In would’ve been on ACR by now if it wasn’t for these stupid market rules that don’t make sense
Friday at 18:421 day I completely forgot that streams get double counted in the album chart, 1 for studio albums and a 2nd time for compilation albums... All the more reason to put compilation albums in their own chart. The singles chart feels so stale. Justin, Michael, Katy, "Unwritten" re-entering... At this point over half the chart must be made up by songs released pre-2020? I would laugh at that but it's quite sad for newer artists trying to crack the market! Also wish ACR applied due to any decline and not a decline in comparison to the market...Anyway mini-rant over. Glad to see Mel C #3 with almost 20k sales!
Friday at 20:001 day Why wouldn’t they have nominated the Michael soundtrack? Surely he could’ve had his 11th #1 album if they had done so rather than just another week for The Essential
Friday at 20:151 day 2 hours ago, Jade said:1,963 Mel B - L.A. State of MindLmao not this sales update Looool, and according to that update LA State of Mind hasn't sold even 1 copy in 6 years! 😂Really pleased for Melanie getting her highest ever charting album in the UK, and it was so exciting thinking she could possibly be #1 for a little while. It's been a great week to be one of her stans, also utterly loving the album, and I can honestly say nobody expected her to produce those kind of sales, Mel and Kneecap challenging for the top spot was on nobody's radar! 🥰
Friday at 20:221 day 1 hour ago, Envoirment said:I completely forgot that streams get double counted in the album chart, 1 for studio albums and a 2nd time for compilation albums... All the more reason to put compilation albums in their own chart.The singles chart feels so stale. Justin, Michael, Katy, "Unwritten" re-entering... At this point over half the chart must be made up by songs released pre-2020? I would laugh at that but it's quite sad for newer artists trying to crack the market! Also wish ACR applied due to any decline and not a decline in comparison to the market...Anyway mini-rant over. Glad to see Mel C #3 with almost 20k sales!Agreed on the singles chart. We’re well into May and only three songs in the top ten were released this year. When the story of 2026 comes to be told, there won’t be much to report. Where are the new hits?
Friday at 20:281 day In Mel Bs defence if the sales are the same as 6 years ago we know noones returned it 🤣
Friday at 20:481 day 23 minutes ago, gooddelta said:Agreed on the singles chart. We’re well into May and only three songs in the top ten were released this year. When the story of 2026 comes to be told, there won’t be much to report. Where are the new hits?Indeed the average song in the top 40 currently was released in... January 2019. Even if you ignore the MJ comeback, it is then June 2023. Only 14 of the current top 40 were actually released this calendar year, so it's dire no matter how you look at it.I will have to be a tad hypocritical though and celebrate the brilliant "Go" belatedly becoming a top 40 hit though.The Jackson 5 ~ I Want You Back 07/10/1969Michael Jackson ~ Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 01/07/1979Michael Jackson ~ Billie Jean 29/11/1982Michael Jackson ~ Beat It 29/11/1982Milky ~ Just the Way You Are 19/08/2002Sean Paul ~ (When You Gonna) Give It Up To Me (feat. Keyshia Cole) 06/06/2006Justin Bieber ~ Beauty and a Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj) 15/06/2012The Chemical Brothers ~ Go 04/05/2015Zara Larsson ~ Lush Life 05/06/2015Dominic Fike ~ Babydoll 16/10/2018Malcolm Todd ~ Earrings 05/04/2024Alex Warren ~ Ordinary 07/02/2025PinkPantheress ~ Stateside 25/04/2025Zara Larsson ~ Midnight Sun 13/06/2025Sam Fender and Olivia Dean ~ Rein Me In 20/06/2025Huntr/x ~ Golden 20/06/2025Justin Bieber ~ Daisies 11/07/2025Olivia Dean ~ Man I Need 15/08/2025Sabrina Carpenter ~ House Tour 29/08/2025Raye ~ Where Is My Husband! 19/09/2025Tame Impala ~ Dracula 24/09/2025Olivia Dean ~ So Easy (To Fall In Love) 26/09/2025Olivia Dean ~ Baby Steps 26/09/2025Ella Langley ~ Choosin' Texas 17/10/2025Dave ~ Raindance (feat. Tems) 23/10/2025Dominic Fike ~ White Keys 14/11/2025Bella Kay ~ iloveitiloveitiloveit 11/01/2026Noah Kahan ~ The Great Divide 30/01/2026Sombr ~ Homewrecker 05/02/2026Temper City ~ Self Aware 15/02/2026Alex Warren ~ Fever Dream 26/02/2026Harry Styles ~ American Girls 06/03/2026Anotr ~ Talk To You (feat. 54 Ultra) 06/03/2026Noah Kahan ~ Porch Light 13/03/2026Prospa and Cloonee ~ Free Your Mind 27/03/2026Stella Lefty ~ Boston 27/03/2026Olivia Rodrigo ~ Drop Dead 17/04/2026Noah Kahan ~ Doors 24/04/2026Alex Warren ~ Fine Place to Die 30/04/2026Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter ~ Bring Your Love 30/04/2026
Friday at 20:571 day I wonder if there are issues with 'L.A. State of Mind' being credited to Melanie Brown on streaming causing its sales to be registered separately?(And maybe that is preventing people from finding it to download/stream? I just had to search for the album title on Apple to find it as it's nowhere to be seen under "Melanie B") Edited Friday at 20:591 day by Juranamo
Friday at 21:191 day it's credited to Mel B on Spotify. I think it's just literally a case of no-one cares for it, the tracks have very pitiful stream counts.
Friday at 21:501 day Highlight of this week’s chart is Mel C getting her highest charter and best solo Spice album peak. Also poor Mel B, how savage 😩🤣Dracula could’ve been number 1 if RMI hadn’t avoided ACR due to market rules, this is annoying at it would be a well deserved no.1.
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