Sales Report: W/E 2nd July 2026

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 43,461 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [3 vinyl, 398 downloads, 43,060 streaming]

02 33,035 Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song

03 29,676 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

04 29,069 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure

05 27,843 Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead

06 27,151 Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me

07 26,220 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You

08 25,553 Harry Styles - American Girls

09 24,633 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas

10 22,919 Michael Jackson - Beat It

12 22,157 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind

14 17,512 Silva Bumpa - On 2nite

15 17,261 SIENNA SPIRO - Material Lover

16 16,996 ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra - Talk to You

17 16,126 Malcolm Todd - Earrings

18 14,549 STELLA LEFTY - Boston

19 14,053 Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai

20 13,701 Harry Styles - Sign Of The Times

21 13,437 Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Cinderella

23 12,832 Tame Impala - Dracula

24 12,704 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun

25 12,632 Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas - Blessings

27 12,374 Harry Styles - Aperture

33 11,225 Oasis - Wonderwall

39 10,226 Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions

40 9,926 Shakira - Waka Waka

43 9,646 Ella Langley - Be Her

52 9,235 Prospa & Murda Beatz - Baby

63 8,026 Josh Fawaz - Like A Prayer

69 8,440 Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin’ To The Sun

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Making chart history has become second nature to Rein Me In, the indefatigable smash hit collaboration between Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, which celebrates the beginning of its second year of unbroken chart presence by rebounding 4-1, to become the first song ever to rise to No.1 four times in the same chart run.

Eclipsing triple toppers I Believe by Frankie Laine (1953), Singing The Blues by Guy Mitchell 1957), Happy by Pharrell Williams (2014), What Do You Mean? by Justin Bieber (2015), Despacito by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber (2017) and Blinding Lights by The Weeknd (2020), Rein Me In first topped the chart in February, spending three weeks at the summit. Pushed down to No.2, it returned immediately for a further five weeks, and was then overhauled for a week before spending a further five weeks on top. The song to have most runs at No.1 overall is Last Christmas by Wham!, which has risen to the top seven times in five different chart runs since 2020.

Rein Me In’s return to the apex comes with a modest 2.43% increase in consumption to 43,461 units (three 7-inch singles, 398 digital downloads and 43,060 sales-equivalent streams). That’s the lowest tally for a No.1 since its own first week at the summit on consumption of 43,425 units 18 weeks ago. 

Back on top after a gap of three weeks, its overall tally of weeks at No.1 to 14 – more than any other song in the 2020s – moving ahead of Ordinary, which spent 13 weeks at No.1 for Alex Warrenlast year. It moves into joint fifth place for most weeks at No.1 in chart history, alongside Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and Shape Of You by Ed Sheeran. It trails only I Believe (18 weeks) by Frankie Laine, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (17 weeks) by Bryan Adams, Love Is All Around (15 weeks) by Wet Wet Wet and One Dance (15 weeks) by Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla. 

It has now completed 53 consecutive weeks in the Top 40, one fewer than the all-time record holder, Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran. It also registers its 36th (non-consecutive) week in the Top 10, moving clear in fourth place on that list. Twenty-six of those weeks have come consecutively this year, placing it ahead of Rema’s Calm Down (25 weeks) in third place for most consecutive weeks in the Top 10, and the longest for 72 years.  

Twenty-three weeks after entering the Top 75, Choosin’ Texas finally makes the Top 10 for Ella Langley. The first Top 10 hit for the 27-year-old country star from Alabama, the track spent 10 weeks at No.1 on the US Hot 100, and climbs 14-9 (24,633 sales) here this week. Langley’s Be Her – which peaked at No.50 10 weeks ago – also reaches a new high, climbing 62-43 (9,646 sales).  

As phenomenally successful biopic Michael becomes available to stream, Michael Jackson’s 1983 No.1, Billie Jean, rebounds yet again. Climbing 7-3 (29,676 sales), it equals the peak of its current chart run, as previously achieved six weeks ago, and matched four weeks ago. It is, however, the lowest consumption it has achieved in the eight weeks since it returned to the Top 10 in May – a run, incidentally, which surpasses the six weeks it spent in the Top 10 in its initial 1983 chart run.

After securing a second week at No.1 with CDs, I Knew It, I Knew You now dips to No.7 (26,220 sales) for Taylor Swift.

No.1 on debut 15 weeks ago but absent from the Top 10 for the last nine weeks, American Girls jumps 12-8 (25,553 sales) for Harry Styles, as his Wembley Arena residency continues. Although Aperture drifts 25-27 (12,374 sales), Styles’ chart eligible triumvirate is completed by 2017 No.1 Sign Of The Times, which returns to the Top 20 for the first time in nine years, rising 29-20 (13,701 sales).  

The rest of the Top 10: Stupid Song (2-2, 33,035 sales), The Cure (3-4, 29,069 sales) and Drop Dead (5-5, 27,843 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Hate That I Made You Love Me (6-6, 27,151 sales) by Ariana Grande and Beat It (8-10, 22,919 sales) by Michael Jackson. 

ACR ends the Top 10 careers of Dracula (9-23, 12,832 sales) by Tame Impala and Midnight Sun (10-24, 12,704 sales) by Zara Larsson.

As the sun continues to beat down, playlists of uplifting summery anthems prevail, and it’s appropriate that the only new entry to the Top 75 has a suitably seasonal title. A collaboration between Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté, Movin’ To The Sun explodes 85-59 (8,440 sales). It is the second hit for French producer Hugel, the first for UK-based producer Angel and the 11th hit for 58-year-old Ultra Naté – 37 years after her chart debut, 29 years to the week since her biggest hit, Free, peaked at No.4, and her first chart entry for 21 years.

Football focus: Shakira & Burna Boy’s Dai Dai (28-19, 14,053 sales) becomes the first Official FIFA World Cup anthem ever to make the Top 20. It eclipses the previous best of No.21 set in 2010 by another Shakira track, Waka Waka (This Time For Africa), which also featured Freshlyground. A re-entry last week, Waka Waka now falls 37-40 (9,926 sales), retreating alongside other football-related hits Three Lions (35-39, 10,226 sales) by Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds and No Scotland, No Party (74-92, 6,404 sales) by Nick Morgan. However, after being adopted as the unofficial England World Cup anthem, Oasis’ 1995 No.2 hit Wonderwall is a re-entry at No.33 (11,225 sales). 

With two of last week’s Top 10 and nine of last week’s Top 40 moving to ACR, there’s a lot more room for in-chart climbs to new peaks this week, not all of them necessarily coinciding with increased consumption. 

Aside from those already mentioned, they are: Free Your Mind (18-12, 22,157 sales) by Prospa & Cloonee, On 2Nite (30-14, 17,512 sales) by Silva Bumpa, Material Lover (20-15, 17,261 sales) by Sienna Spiro, Talk To You (23-16, 16,996 sales) by Anotr & 54 Ultra, Earrings (19-17, 16,126 sales) by Malcolm Todd, Boston (26-18, 14,549 sales) by Stella Lefty, Cinderella (27-21, 13,437 sales) by Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Baby (63-52, 9,235 sales) by Prospa & Murda Beatz and Like A Prayer (72-63, 8,026 sales) by Josh Fawaz.

Helped by its inclusion in what is apparently the hottest new video game of the year – Forza Horizon 6 – Blessings surges 44-25 (12,632 sales) for Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas. That is the highest placing for 45 weeks for the track, which peaked at No.3 last July. Harris’ latest single, Jazzy collaboration Satisfy, which peaked four weeks ago at No.46, also registers a double-digit climb, rebounding 71-56 (8,988 sales), 

Overall singles consumption is up 0.18% week-on-week to 31,571,265 units, 2.16% above same week 2025 sales of 30,902,628 units. Paid-for sales are down 16.89% week-on-week at 252,085, 13.18% below same week 2025 sales of 290,343.

Albums

01 28,002 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love [2,375 CDs, 2,012 vinyls, 224 cassettes, 249 downloads, 23,142 streaming]

02 22,679 Myles Smith - My Mess, My Heart, My Life.

03 21,759 Michael Jackson - The Essential

04 10,338 Harry Styles - Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.

05 9,569 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

06 7,772 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

07 7,771 Michael Jackson - Thriller

08 7,188 Drake - ICEMAN

09 7,018 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide

10 6,675 The Weeknd - The Highlights

14 5,830 Placebo - Placebo RE:CREATED

20 4,686 When Rivers Meet - Rhythm Rust & Static

27 3,658 Calvin Harris - 96 Months

28 3,642 Harry Styles - Harry's House

33 3,431 Harry Styles - Fine Line

46 2,796 Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory Live From Cork

53 2,622 M Huncho - The Wizard

58 2,529 Hard-Fi - Sweating Someone Else's Fever

xx 590 Embrace - Avalanche

Compilations

01 3,780 KPop Demon Hunters [261 Yoto cards, 32 downloads, 3,487 streaming]

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Becoming only the second album to spend its first two weeks at No.1 in 2026, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love had to come from behind to retain its title for Olivia Rodrigo, eventually doing so on consumption of 28,002 units (2,375 CDs, 2,012 vinyl albums, 224 cassettes, 249 digital downloads and 23,142 sales-equivalent streams) – a 72.76% dip week-on-week, and the lowest consumption for a No.1 album for nine weeks.

In the first five of the week’s sales flashes, it was trailing My Mess, My Heart, My Life, the introductory full-length album by Myles Smith. 

A 28-year-old from Luton – who previously reached No.32 on the album chart with his 2024 EP, A Minute…, which has to-date consumption of 119,486 units, including its later length-doubling A Minute, A Moment… edition – Smith co-wrote all 15 songs and co-produced most on My Mess, My Heart My Life. Home to three middling hit singles – Stay (If You Wanna Dance) (No.32), Niall Horan duet Drive Safe (No.27) and My Mess (No.58) – My Mess, My Heart, My Life has the best first week consumption of any debut album thus far in 2026, opening at No.2 with 22,679 units. 

Alluded to above, the other album to spend its first two weeks at No.1 is Kiss All The Time, Disco, Occasionally by Harry Styles, which dips 3-4 (10,338 sales), as his Wembley Arena residency continues. There are, however, slight climbs for his other albums, Harry’s House (30-28, 3,642 sales), Fine Line (34-33, 3,431 sales) and Harry Styles (196-185, 1,276 sales). 

The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-3, 21,759 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Art Of Loving (4-5, 9,569 sales) by Olivia Dean, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-6, 7,772 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Thriller (7-7, 7,771 sales) by Michael Jackson, Iceman (6-8, 7,188 sales) by Drake, The Great Divide (8-9, 7,018 sales) by Noah Kahan and The Highlights (10-10, 6,675 sales) by The Weeknd. 

Despite peaking at No.5 and No.9 respectively, Embrace’s last two studio albums managed only one week in the chart apiece – the same is true of their latest album, Avalanche, which debuted at No.5 last week, and now makes a suitably precipitous slide out of the Top 200 (590 sales).

Reworking and embellishing the tracks on their eponymous debut album 30 years after the fact, Placebo debut at No.14 (5,830 sales) with the resulting Re-Created, becoming their 12th charted set. The original 1996 album – which peaked at No.5, and includes the hits Teenage Angst, Nancy Boy and Bruise Pristine – has to-date consumption of 359,374 units, placing it second in their canon behind follow-up, Without You I’m Nothing. Source of the hits Pure Morning, You Don’t Care About Us and Every You, Every Me, Without You I’m Nothing reached No.7 in 1998 and has to-date consumption of 399,545 units.           

Rhythm Rust & Static (No.20, 4,686 sales) is the sixth studio album and fourth chart entry for Essex blues/rock act When Rivers Meet – husband and wife Aaron and Grace Bond – arriving a little over a year since their last album, Addicted To You, became their highest charting set, reaching No.4.  

A consistent chartmaker since his breakthrough 19 years ago, 49-year-old blues/rock singer and guitarist Joe Bonamassa scores his 26th Top 75 entry since that time with The Spirit Of Rory: Live From Cork (No.46, 2,796 sales), a tribute to the late Irish guitar legend Rory Gallagher, who hailed from the city.

London rapper M Huncho secures his eighth album chart entry with The Wizard (No.53, 2,622 sales). 

Twenty-one years since their chart-topping debut, Stars Of CCTV, and nearly 15 years since their last album, Surrey indie rock outfit Hard-Fi return with fourth studio set and fifth chart album, Sweating Someone Else’s Fever. Debuting at No.58 (2,529 sales), it comprises 11 new songs all written by 53-year-old lead singer and guitarist Richard Archer, still accompanied by 44-year-old guitarist Russ Phillips, 53-year-old bassist Kai Stephens and 47-year-old drummer Steve Kemp. Stars Of CCTV remains their No.1 album, with to-date consumption of 859,931 units.

Go-to indicators of hot weather, 96 Months by Calvin Harris and Legend by Bob Marley & The Wailers surged to their highest positions for more than a year, during the last very hot spell in the week-ending May 29. 96 Months surged 42-27 that week, and Legend catapulted 62-29. With sustained hot weather this week, they are at it again, with 96 Months jumping 41-27 (3,658 sales) and Legend climbing 56-41 (3,048 sales). 

The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack set is No.1 for the fourth week in a row and 47th time in total on the compilation chart, on consumption of 3,780 units (261 Yoto cards, 32 digital downloads and 3,487 sales-equivalent streams). That is its lowest weekly consumption to date – five fewer than its previously low, set last week - and the lowest for a No.1 compilation for 53 weeks. 

Overall album sales are down 3.45% week-on-week to 2,442,080 units, 0.52% below same week 2025 sales of 2,454,906. Physical product accounts for 248,527 sales, 10.18% of the total.  

Bonus Information

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Sales To Date:

Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In: 1,909,601

Olivia Rodrigo - You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love: 130,825.

from Music Week Chart Pack

Demon Hunters might have got knocked off the top if Now didn’t decide to postpone extra 1972 and Demon Hunters will probably get an increase next week thanks to the anniversary edition. Toy Story 5 OST nowhere to be seen in either album chart or compilation chart. I also noticed that Demon Hunters has decreased by 5 sales

Edited Friday at 18:191 day by Hadji

They will literally reset anything except for Mr. Brightside

Rein Me In - 3 vinyl

We’ve gone from 42,000 physicals for last weeks #1 to 3 🤣🤣

20 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

Rein Me In - 3 vinyl

We’ve gone from 42,000 physicals for last weeks #1 to 3 🤣🤣

Still 3 more than Taylor should have been credited for last week x

28 minutes ago, Maestro said:

They will literally reset anything except for Mr. Brightside

And Christmas songs

I'm suprised Olivia had such a big drop, considering how high the songs are still doing on streaming

5 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:

I'm suprised Olivia had such a big drop, considering how high the songs are still doing on streaming

Streaming numbers across the board arnt exactky huge stupid song wasnt even doing 300k on spotify the other day and it was still top 3

Physicals would definitely of been front loaded

2 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:

I'm suprised Olivia had such a big drop, considering how high the songs are still doing on streaming

The majority of her first week sales were still pure sales, almost all albums' pure sales fall off a cliff entirely on week 2 these days. Her streaming figure has held up quite well - down 41.3% compared to (to use probably the only other album that we have the first 2 weeks of streaming units for this year lol) Harry Styles dropping 47.7%. Drake dropped ~58% (we don't have the pure/streaming split for the second week but can assume it to have had negligible pure sales in week 2 considering it was not in the sales top 100).

A separate article on the Music Week website gave a breakdown for Myles Smith.

( 22,679 = 17,565 physical / 974 downloads / 4,140 streams )

If Taylor never had physical last week, her track would be:

1 - 8 - 7

Nice to see 'The Hits Album: The Alternative Pop Album' get to #11 on the compilation chart. Some of these budget efforts from Sony are pretty decent.

So 'Rein Me In' really sold 3 vinyls for that anniversary release?

2 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

So 'Rein Me In' really sold 3 vinyls for that anniversary release?

I think they've held them back for a week where the number one won't be as easy to get...

5 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

So 'Rein Me In' really sold 3 vinyls for that anniversary release?

No - guessing they are random RSD ones still hanging around.

They’ve changed the release date for the new vinyl - going to be released next week to go for matching Bryan’s record.

Don't really see the point of changing the date, they were gonna get number 1 vinyl or no vinyl

18 minutes ago, lewistgreen said:

Nice to see 'The Hits Album: The Alternative Pop Album' get to #11 on the compilation chart. Some of these budget efforts from Sony are pretty decent.

Those budget compilations would be so much better if they didn’t keep using the same songs over and over again. I’ll only buy them if they have songs that I haven’t got

 

12 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

They’ve changed the release date for the new vinyl - going to be released next week to go for matching Bryan’s record.

Difference is, people still remember Everything I Do I Do It For You 35 years later. I don’t think Rein Me In in 35 years time will be as memorable as Everything I Do I Do It For You is now

It's not 'matching Bryan Adams' record' when the record he has is only for consecutive weeks.