Posted Thursday at 16:064 days Sales Report: W/E 18th June 2026Source: Music WeekCommentary: Alan JonesSingles01 52,434 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You [5,084 CDs, 4,372 downloads, 42,978 streaming]02 42,116 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [total: 1,823,708]03 36,301 Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me04 31,040 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure05 30,374 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean06 27,048 Drake - Janice STFU07 25,551 Tame Impala - Dracula08 24,733 Michael Jackson - Beat It09 24,391 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun10 24,018 The Chemical Brothers - Go11 22,713 Zara Larsson - Lush Life12 21,767 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas [total: 384,193]17 19,643 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind22 16,035 Alex Warren - PASSENGER25 14,443 Alyssa Grace - bloodstream27 13,420 Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Cinderella32 12,092 Silva Bumpa - On 2nite48 9,696 Noah Kahan - Orbiter64 7,793 The Kid LAROI - GIRLS66 7,615 Cameron Whitcomb - Kingdom of Fear71 7,390 Audrey Hobert - Sue Me QuoteTay story: Taylor Swift swoops to score the seventh No.1 single of her career, and second of the year with I Knew It, I Knew You (IKIIKY).Taken from the upcoming Toy Story 5 soundtrack, the track racks up first week consumption of 52,434 units (5,084 CDs, 4,372 digital downloads and 42,978 sales-equivalent streams), and follows earlier Swift chart-toppers Look What You Made Me Do (2017), Anti-Hero (2022), Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (2023), Fortnight (feat. Post Malone, 2024), The Fate Of Ophelia (2025) and Opalite, No.1 just 17 weeks ago. A return to her roots, it is her first No.1 with a song which could be described as country, and the first in the genre by any artist since February 2024, when Texas Hold ‘Em topped the chart for Beyoncé. Swift co-wrote all of her No.1s, five of them with producer Jack Antonoff, including IKIIKY. It is the sixth of her No.1s to debut at the summit – only Opalite didn’t. Discounting the Post Malone collaboration, that means she has had five solo songs debut at No.1, equalling the record for a female artist set by Madonna in 2006 and equalled last week by Ariana Grande, whose Hate That I Made You Love Me now slips 1-3 (36,301 sales). All of Swift’s No.1s except the first have occurred in the 2020s, putting her equal with Ed Sheeran as the artist with most No.1s so far this decade.Swift’s first public performance of IKIIKY was at the Hollywood premiere of Toy Story 5 on Tuesday (June 9). She also joined Randy Newman – composer of incidental music and songs for all of the Toy Story movies – for a performance of his song, You’ve Got A Friend In Me, which appears in one form or another (sometimes more than once) in every Toy Story film, and which has racked up to-date consumption of 1,122,125 units in the digital era, despite never charting higher than No.119 in 2010. Newman also wrote Sarah McLachlan’s poignant When She Loved Me, from 1999’s Toy Story 2, which is the second most-consumed track from the franchise with to-date consumption of 203,013 units since its digital debut in 2007.Number two for the second week in a row, and fourth time in total on consumption of 42,116 units, Rein Me In glides into triple platinum territory (1,823,708 sales) for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean. Its consumption was down 7.33% week-on-week to its lowest level for 17 weeks, and if its streaming performance is both negative and worse than the market next week it will finally pass into ACR, which would definitely stop it from adding to the 13 weeks it has spent at No.1 and likely bring down the curtain on its Top 10 residency. For the record, it has now spent a total of 34 weeks in the Top 10 and 51 consecutive weeks in the Top 40. There is food for thought in the fact that although no song has spent longer at No.1 or in the Top 40 in the 2020s, 180 songs have achieved consumption of 1.8m units in the survey period ahead of it, thanks to the accumulative nature of streaming points over a longer period of time, with records like The Night We Met, a 2015 song that peaked at No.75 in 2023 for Los Angeles indie group Lord Huron; No Role Modelz, an uncharted J Cole track; and The Neighbourhood’s Sweater Weather – No.49 in 2014 but uncharted since – above it in the rankings.The rest of this week’s Top 10: The Cure (3-4, 31,040 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Jean (5-5, 30,374 sales), Janice STFU (4-6, 27,048 sales) by Drake, Dracula (6-7, 25,551 sales) by Tame Impala, Beat It (9-8, 24,733 sales) by Michael Jackson, Midnight Sun (8-9, 24,391 sales) by Zara Larsson and Go (7-10, 24,018 sales) by The Chemical Brothers.Joint seventh – alongside Rein Me In – in the all-time list of songs with most weeks in the Top 10 up to last week, Lush Life falls to No.8 in that list this week, as it exits the Top 10, falling 10-11 (22,713 sales). It is, of course, still adding to its impressive tallies of 53 weeks in the Top 40 and 73 weeks in the Top 75. Debuting at No.22 (16,035 sales), Passenger is the third preview track from Alex Warren’s upcoming second album, Wildchild, and his ninth hit, two years to the week since he made his chart debut with Carry You Home. Also new to the Top 75, a trio of debut hits by singer/songwriters in their early 20s : Bloodstream (No.25, 14,443 sales), by 22-year-old Californian, Alyssa Grace, a TikTok star for the best part of a decade despite her youth; Kingdom Of Fear (81-66, 7,615 sales), by 23-year-old Canadian Cameron Whitcomb; and Sue Me (91-71, 7,390 sales), a song released a little over a year ago but newly viral for 21-year-old Audrey Hobert from New York - who co-penned Gracie Abrams’ No.1 hit That’s So True.In the chart here since January, singer Ella Langley’s debut Top 40 hit, Choosin’ Texas, has had an unusual chart voyage thus far. No.1 in America’s Hot 100 for 10 weeks – and the Hot Country Songs chart for 28 weeks - it chalked up a record five consecutive weeks at No.35 here as it struggled to ascend the chart, and has subsequently spent five non-consecutive weeks at No.16. Eight weeks ago, it reached would looked like being its UK peak of No.13, but it equalled that position last week, and rises for the fourth time in a row this week, reaching a new peak of No.12 (21,767 sales). It the Top 75 for 22 weeks in a row, its to-date consumption is 384,193 units. 2016 rap collaboration Cinderella gained a viral toehold at No.71 a fortnight ago for Mac Miller – who died in 2018 – and Ty Dolla $ign, climbed to No.41 last week, and now parks at No.27 (13,420 sales). In so doing, it becomes the first of four Miller chart entries, and the 13th of 22 Ty Dolla $ign hits to make the Top 40.There are also new peaks for: Free Your Mind (18-17, 19,643 sales) by Prospa & Cloonee, On 2Nite (43-32, 12,092 sales) by Silva Bumpa and Orbiter (56-48, 9,696 sales) by Noah Kahan.Two years after peaking at No.47, Girls re-enters the Top 75 (76-64, 7,793 sales) for Australian singer/rapper, The Kid Laroi. Building on four weeks of viral growth, helped by the release of a ‘live from Los Angeles’ video, it was released today (12 June) in a new mix featuring Kehlani, which should spur further growth. Adding to properly researched facts on deadline is NOT a good practice, so apologies for doing so last week, when I embroidered a solid selection of Ariana Grande facts by saying that her overall tally of No.1s is bettered by six women, with Madonna (13), Rihanna (nine) and four of the five Spice Girls having landed at the summit more often. Switching from No.1 debuts to songs that got there eventually addled my brain. The real facts: Madonna does indeed lead with 13; Geri Halliwell has 11 (she wasn’t on the last two Spice Girls No.1s); Mel C also has 11; Mel B & Emma Bunton have 10, Rihanna, Victoria Beckham and Cheryl Cole – who I forgot thanks to her multiple surname/no surname and Girls Aloud complications – have nine; and Grande has eight. Sorry.Overall singles consumption is down 0.40% week-on-week to 31,531,973 units, 1.79% above same week 2025 sales of 30,976,584 units. Paid-for sales are down 1.17% week-on-week at 278,165, 3.52% below same week 2025 sales of 288,317.Albums01 28,121 Niall Horan - Dinner Party [11,549 CDs, 8,620 vinyl, 5,464 cassettes, 431 downloads, 2,057 streaming]02 24,279 Michael Jackson - The Essential03 10,964 Drake - ICEMAN04 10,206 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving05 10,060 overpass - Elsewhere, Always06 8,687 Michael Jackson - Thriller07 8,074 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide08 7,591 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop09 7,486 Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - Night Blooms10 7,334 Evanescence - Sanctuary11 7,226 Michael Jackson - Bad14 6,537 Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa - Live from Mexico17 6,121 Pink Floyd - 8-Tracks18 5,763 Paul McCartney - The Boys of Dungeon Lane [18 Yoto cards]19 5,760 Malcolm Todd - Do That Again24 4,650 Prospa - Free Your Mind29 4,050 Jalen Ngonda - Doctrine of Love34 3,653 Barry Manilow - What a Time43 3,068 Boards of Canada - Infernoxxx 1,066 Shinedown - EI8HTCompilations01 3,868 KPop Demon Hunters [210 Yoto cards, 36 downloads, 3,622 streaming] QuoteEleven weeks after the title track peaked at No.72 on the singles chart, Niall Horan’s album, Dinner Party, earns the 32-year-old Irishman from Mullingar his third No.1 long-player, debuting in pole position on consumption of 28,121 units (11,549 CDs, 8,620 vinyl albums, 5,464 cassettes, 431 digital downloads and 2,057 sales-equivalent streams).Horan co-wrote all 12 songs on the 36-minute album, his fourth solo release, following Flicker (No.3, 2017), Heartbreak Weather (No.1, 2020) and The Show (No.1, 2023). It secures the biggest first week tally of Horan’s solo career, surpassing the 26,937 units achieved by The Show on debut three years ago this week. Despite its fast start, The Show has lower overall consumption than prior Horan albums, with a to-date tally of 90,148 units, compared to Heartbreak Weather’s 175,445 and Flicker’s 237,569. Rising to fame on The X Factor as a member of One Direction when just 17, Horan had four No.1 albums as part of the boy band, all of whose surviving members – following the 2024 death of Liam Payne - have already issued a new album this year, and the second – matching Styles – to have three solo No.1s. Dinner Party’s coronation follows How Did We Get Here?, No.1 in January for Louis Tomlinson on marginally higher first week consumption of 28,416 units; Kiss All the Time: Disco, Occasionally, No.1 in March for Harry Styles on first week consumption of 183,045 units (the most of any album this year); and Konnakol, No.4 in April for Zayn (Malik) on first week consumption of 12,475 units. Styles’ album is No.2 for the year (312,523 sales), Tomlinson’s is No.125 (40,811 sales) and Malik’s is No.438 (17,048 sales).Tomlinson, Styles and Horan’s No.1s have come within a 19-week span. The only other group to have three of its members reach No.1 in a calendar year (actually, ever) is The Beatles, with introductory No.1’s for All Things Must Pass by George Harrison, Ram by Paul McCartney (with wife Linda) and Imagine by John Lennon (with The Plastic Ono Band) in 1971, although it took twice as long (38 weeks) as One Direction. McCartney, of course, was No.1 himself last week with his latest solo album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, which now dips to No.18 (5,763 sales including its first 18 Yoto cards). Dinner Party is the 51st No.1 album by an act from The Republic Of Ireland, and Horan’s tally of three solo number ones puts him level with Dermot Kennedy, and behind only Ronan Keating (four No.1s), as the Irish act with most solo No.1 albums.Together since 2019, Birmingham indie/rock quartet Overpass have been generating rave reviews for some time, so it is no surprise to find their full-length debut album, Elsewhere Always making a significant first impression on the chart. Debuting at No.5 (10,060 sales), it’s an incendiary 10-song introduction to the band – singer and guitarist Max (Newbold (23), bassist India, Armstrong (23), guitarist Elliot Rawlings (23) and drummer Jake Bishop (24) - all of whom co-wrote every song on the album.Veteran actor Jeff Goldblum’s late blossoming career as a jazz/MOR pianist fronting the fictitious Mildred Snitzer Orchestra continues to flower, with fourth set, Night Blooms debuting at No.9 (7,486 sales) to become the 73-year-old's highest charting set. His first album, The Capitol Studios Sessions, peaked at No.26 in 2018; his second, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This, reached No.20 in 2019, and his third, Still Blooming, reached No.10 last year. As well as new collaborations with Melody Gardot, Charlie Puth, Cynthia Erivo and Dodie, Night Blooms includes ‘late night session’ versions of some tracks from Still Blooming, and consists entirely of covers. None of Goldblum’s albums have made the Top 200 in his native America, though the first three, and probably Night Blooms too, have made the top five of the jazz album chart there.Just 13 when she and Ben Moody formed the band in 1994 in Arkansas, Amy Lee is still the lead vocalist, lead songwriter and keyboards player for Evanescence, whose sixth studio album, Sanctuary, debuts at No.10 (7,334 sales), becoming their fifth Top 10 album.The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-2, 24,279 sales) by Michael Jackson, Iceman (4-3, 10,964 sales) by Drake, The Art Of Loving (5-4, 10,206 sales) by Olivia Dean, Thriller (6-6, 8,687 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Great Divide (7-7, 8,074 sales) by Noah Kahan and 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-8, 7,591 sales) by Fleetwood Mac.Joining Paul McCartney in exiting the Top 10 are: Bad (10-11, 7,226 sales) by Michael Jackson, inferno (3-43, 3,068 sales) by Boards Of Canada and Ei8ht, No.8 last week for Shinedown, but now uncharted (1,066 sales). Malcolm Todd failed to chart with 2024 mixtape Sweet Boy, and his self-titled 2025 album but the 22-year-old Californian has been scaling the Top 40 with first hit single Earrings, which emanates from Sweet Boy, for the last couple of months, triggering interest in his latest album, Do That Again, which duly debuts at No.19 (5,760 sales).Also new to the Top 75: 8-Tracks (No.17, 6,121 sales), a ‘curated’ collection of Pink Floyd songs from 1971-1979, and their 30th chart entry; Free Your Mind (No.24, 4,650 sales), the first album by Leeds rave/electronic duo Prospa; Doctrine Of Love (No.29, 4,050 sales), the second album by 32-year-old UK-based American soul/ R&B singer/songwriter Jalen N’Gonda, whose 2023 debut, Come Around And Love Me peaked at No.130 and has to-date consumption of 32,417 units; and What A Time (No.34, 3,653 sales), the 33rd studio album and, coincidentally, the 33rd Top 75 entry by Barry Manilow, who turns 83 next Wednesday (17 June).Live From Mexico debuted at No.21 last week for Dua Lipa, when available only digitally. Now on CD and vinyl, it climbs to No.14 (6,537 sales). The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack set is No.1 for the second week in a row and 45th time in total on the compilation chart, despite its consumption falling below 4,000 for the first time (3,868 units including 210 Yoto cards, 36 digital downloads and 3,622 sales-equivalent streams)Overall album sales are down 1.52% week-on-week to 2,507,678 units, 0.99% below same week 2025 sales of 2,532,715. Physical product accounts for 291,042 sales, 11.61% of the total.Bonus InformationSingle Totals (digital era)1,122,125 Randy Newman - You've Got a Friend in Me203,013 Sarah McLachlan - When She Loved MeAlbum Totals237,569 Niall Horan - Flicker175,445 Niall Horan - Heartbreak Weather90,148 Niall Horan - The Show312,523 Harry Styles - Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.40,811 Louis Tomlinson - How Did We Get Here?17,048 ZAYN - KONNAKOLNotes- 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 17:073 days Taylor would’ve still beaten Rein Me In without physicals and I hope Demon Hunters remains at the top of the compilation chart until the 1999 yearbook is released. The last casual Now album to top the compilation chart was Now 70s last year
Friday at 17:083 days Alan reminding us all to stream Rein Me In this week to stop it falling into ACR next week !! Edited Friday at 17:083 days by mrpopquiz
Friday at 17:113 days 2 minutes ago, mrpopquiz said:Alan reminding us all to stream Rein Me In this week to stop it falling into ACR next week !!Nah. I’d rather stream Olivia Rodrigo’s brand new album and Taylor Swift
Friday at 17:133 days Taylor would of defeated Reign Me In on streams alone, so much for flopping on streaming Less than 4k for number 1 on the compilation chart at this point they may as well scrap it or incorporate the albums back into the main chart
Friday at 17:143 days Decent drop for "Rein Me In"! Should make it a bit easier for "the cure" to go #1 next week with a low #1 threshold (I assume Taylor will fall quite a bit).
Friday at 17:163 days I’d rather have Rein Me In going number 1 next week and DCL-3 than remaining at number 2 and avoiding ACR
Friday at 17:243 days I wonder what the point was of the Taylor CDs being listed with a release date of 19/6 in the first place. They clearly didn't need to bring them forward for chart purposes yet they did anyway? Curious. (Maybe it's making more of a difference chartwise in the US x)Overall a very similar numbers breakdown to Ariana last week anyway. This week Taylor's streams alone just about beat 'Rein Me In' but the same numbers last week wouldn't have. Hopefully 'Rein Me In' is finally properly declining now but won't hold my breath (and I know it'll still be hanging around the top 20 for another eternity even after finally going to ACR anyway).I wasn't really paying attention to the album midweeks but glad Niall held on fairly comfortably and wow at overpass hitting 5 figures, I only know of them from LiamSime sending them to BJSC recently but I guess they must have cultivated a decent fanbase from somewhere!
Friday at 17:243 days Just now, Bror said:I wonder what the point was of the Taylor CDs being listed with a release date of 19/6 in the first place. They clearly didn't need to bring them forward for chart purposes yet they did anyway? Curious. (Maybe it's making more of a difference chartwise in the US x)They’re releasing them next Friday to coincide with the release date of Toy Story 5
Friday at 17:253 days Just now, Hadji said:They’re releasing them next Friday to coincide with the release date of Toy Story 5They've been released already, hence them being included this week.
Friday at 17:303 days 5 minutes ago, Bror said:I wonder what the point was of the Taylor CDs being listed with a release date of 19/6 in the first place. They clearly didn't need to bring them forward for chart purposes yet they did anyway? Curious. (Maybe it's making more of a difference chartwise in the US x)Doubt it she had a 50 point lead before she dropped them and is now expected to top with a 100 point lead
Friday at 17:513 days Rein Me In will be adopted and embraced as an unofficial World Cup anthem and with England's first game on Wednesday it should avoid ACR.
Friday at 18:073 days Don't worry, you are forgiven. You're only human in any case! Ok...back to chart things. Surely Rein Me In has the highest consumption for the year for a single so far. Does it's 1,8 million + sales include sales from last year when it first charted, or is it this year's calendar sales?
Friday at 18:263 days Author 19 minutes ago, Simbeiosis said:Don't worry, you are forgiven. You're only human in any case! Ok...back to chart things. Surely Rein Me In has the highest consumption for the year for a single so far. Does it's 1,8 million + sales include sales from last year when it first charted, or is it this year's calendar sales?Overall total, including last year
Friday at 18:263 days 18 minutes ago, Simbeiosis said:Don't worry, you are forgiven. You're only human in any case! Ok...back to chart things. Surely Rein Me In has the highest consumption for the year for a single so far. Does it's 1,8 million + sales include sales from last year when it first charted, or is it this year's calendar sales?Not quite Man i need is still just in front @Julian_ has created a fanyastic Year to date thread for us
Friday at 20:543 days 16 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:@777666jason I'm so happy for you, Taylor made it! 😘ðŸ¤Cheers i didnt do much only listened to it 58 times didnt buy a cd or download
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