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Sales Report: W/E 23rd July 2026

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

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01 48,901 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [3,662 7" vinyl, 969 downloads and 44,270 streaming] [total: 2,041,224]

02 34,790 Oasis - Wonderwall

03 32,714 David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

04 30,188 ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra - Talk to You

05 27,867 Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai

06 27,240 Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song

07 26,166 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind

08 26,009 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas

09 24,244 Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me

10 21,518 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You

11 21,362 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure

12 21,251 Harry Styles - American Girls

16 17,059 HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin' to the Sun

20 14,683 Fat Les - Vindaloo

22 13,800 SIENNA SPIRO - Great Expectation

24 12,472 The Beatles - Hey Jude

26 12,297 Shakira feat. Freshlyground - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)

29 12,074 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart [digital era total: 1,482,665]

30 12,015 Olivia Rodrigo - honeybee

33 11,540 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

35 11,047 Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline

** 10,562 Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead

42 10,047 The Killers - Mr. Brightside [total: 7,288,274, including 22,519 physicals, 1,056,566 downloads and 6,209,189 streaming]

43 9,946 Calvin Harris & Jazzy - Satisfy

52 9,011 Josh Baker & Poppy Baskcomb - My Place

54 8,912 Audrey Hobert - Sue me

60 8,567 Beyoncé - MORNING DEW (DONK)

65 7,902 Fat Papi & prodshushy - FREAKED OUT

67 7,800 MK feat. Poppy Baskcomb - Zone

68 7,717 pupsies - Misery.

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Rein Me In continues to carve its place in chart history, securing its 17th week at No.1 in total and fourth in a row, after England’s elimination from the World Cup on Wednesday (16 July) blunted a surge from Oasis evergreen Wonderwall.

As suggested last week, a further tranche of pink 7-inch vinyl singles helped make Rein Me In safe although it actually managed an increase in consumption in every metric to pull back from the brink of ACR to SCR again, with overall consumption climbing 19.23% to 48,901 units – its highest level for seven weeks. That tally included 3,662 7-inchers, 969 digital downloads and 44,270 sales-equivalent streams - growth of 2004.60%, 141.65% and 9.47% respectively, week-on-week.

Now trailing only American crooner Frankie Laine’s 1953 behemoth, I Believe, which spent 18 weeks at the summit, Rein Me In is likely to equal that record a week hence.

Rein Me In is in the Top 40 for a record 56th week in a row, and raises its tally of weeks in the Top 10 to 39, including 29 consecutively. The only song to spend more total weeks in the Top 10 is All I Want For Christmas Is You (53 weeks) by Mariah Carey, while the only one to spend more weeks in a row in the Top 10 is I Believe (35 weeks) by Frankie Laine.

Ending the week with to-date consumption of 2,041,224 units, Rein Me In has taken 73 weeks from release to topping the two million mark. You might think that would be among the top few tracks of the 2020s – in fact, it is only enough for it to gain a toehold on the Top 100 for the decade to date, at No.99.

World Cup fever deepened its hold on the chart this week, but with England eliminated and the competition ending on Sunday, this will be the peak.

England’s unofficial anthem, Wonderwall (11-2, 34,790 sales) by Oasis, England’s 1996 official anthem Three Lions (21-3,32,714 sales) by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds, and the official FIFA 2026 anthem, Dai Dai (13-5, 27,867 sales) by Shakira & Burna Boy, all vault into the Top 10. It represents the highest placing yet for Dai Dai on its seventh week on the list, a return to the Top 10, and its original peak, after a 30-year interval for Wonderwall, and an eight-year high for Three Lions.

Further down the chart, Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) surges 42-26 (12,297 sales) for Shakira & Freshlyground, reaching its highest position since its original 2010 No.21 peak.

There’s even more Top 40 activity surrounding the World Cup, with re-entries for a trio of fan favourites. They are ACR escapees Vindaloo (No.20, 14,683 units), an unofficial England anthem by Fat Les (Keith Alleb, Damien Hirst, Alex James et al), which peaked at No.2 in 1998 and secures its highest placing since; The Beatles’ 1968 chart-topper Hey Jude (No.24, 12,472 sales), at its highest position since a 1976 reissue, used latterly as a salute to England star Jude Bellingham; and Neil Diamond’s ‘so good’ 1971 No.8 hit Sweet Caroline (No.35, 11,047 sales), which actually serves as a rallying call at any and all major sports events these days.

Finally breaching the Top 10 is a song which has switched direction 10 times in the 19 weeks that have elapsed since it debuted at No.53 in March – club cut Talk To You by ANOTR feat 54 Ultra, which catapults 14-4 (30,188 sales). Another dance disc that has taken a long time to fulfil its potential, Free Your Mind jumps 10-7 (26,166 sales) for Prospa & Cloonee.

Stuck in its debut position of No.2 on ever declining consumption for the last four weeks, Stupid Song registers a 4.95% uptick but slides to No.6 (27,240 sales). Olivia Rodrigo had two other songs in the Top 10 last week but both dip out – The Cure ebbing 8-11 (21,362 sales) and Drop Dead, which was No.9 last week, falling into ACR and being ‘starred-out’ (10,562 adjusted sales) with its place as Rodrigo’s third eligible track under primary artist rules passing to Honeybee, which debuts at No.30 (12,015 sales), becoming her 19th hit.

Top 10 titles not mentioned thus far: Choosin’ Texas (5-8, 26,009 sales) by Ella Langley, Hate That I Made You Love Me (3-9, 24,244 sales) by Ariana Grande and I Knew It, I Knew You (7-10, 21,518 sales) by Taylor Swift.

In addition to the Olivia Rodrigo tracks mentioned above, there are Top 10 exits for American Girls (6-12, 21,251 sales) by Harry Styles, and ACR casualty Billie Jean (4-33, 11,540 sales) by Michael Jackson.

It is an excellent week for Poppy Baskcomb, from Portsmouth, who lands on the chart simultaneously with two dance collaborations. The 28-year-old from Portsmouth reached No.18 earlier this year with Sonny Fodera & D.O.D affiliation, Think About Us. She now voxes new alliances My Place (82-52, 9,011 sales) with Josh Baker, and Zone (87-67, 7,800 sales) with MK. It is the third hit for Manchester DJ and producer Baker, and the 12th for Detroit DJ and producer MK (Marc Kinchen).

Social media is behind Freaked Out (No.65, 7,902 sales), the debut hit for Fat Papi (Baban Hussain), a rapper from New Zealand of Kurdish extraction, and producer Prodshushy from Perth, Western Australia.

Also new to the Top 75: Misery (84-68, 7,717 sales), the introductory hit for 19-year-old American singer Pupsies (Ella Kamgaing).

Dance music is enjoying something of a purple patch at the moment. As well as new Top 10 peaks for ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra and Prospa & Cloonee and Poppy Baskcomb’s debuts – all covered above - there are new highs for Movin’ To The Sun (22-16, 17,059 sales) for Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate; and Satisfy (60-43, 9,946 sales) for Calvin Harris & Jazzy, sparked back into life by the release of a James Poole remix, seven weeks after reaching its previous peak of No.46.

Climbers not mentioned hitherto which achieve new peaks: Great Expectation (32-22, 13,800 sales) by Sienna Spiro, Sue Me (60-54, 8,912 sales) by Audrey Hobert and Morning Dew (Donk) (66-60, 8,567 sales) by Beyoncé.

Following Bonnie Tyler’s sad death last week, her 1983 No.1 smash Total Eclipse Of The Heart is a re-entry at No.29 (12,074 sales). The bombastic Jim Steinman song, which last charted in 2008, has digital era consumption of 1,482,665 units, and was certified gold for sales of more than 500,000 units within three months of its original release, meaning its overall consumption is in excess of two million units.

Tangentially benefitting from the World Cup – it was played at half-time during several games – The Killers’ indefatigable 2004 hit Mr Brightside springs 51-42 (10,047 sales). That’s the highest position for 132 weeks for the track which – despite peaking at No.10 and being on ACR continuously – is the longest-running hit in chart history, with only seven weeks in the Top 40 but staggering totals of 253 weeks in the Top 75, and 514 weeks in the Top 100, both tallies unmatched by any other song. Although it is not the biggest seller in chart history in the literal sense, it is the most-consumed with a to-date tally of 7,288,274 units, with 22,519 physical sales, 1,056,566 digital downloads and 6,209,189 sales-equivalent streams.

Overall singles consumption is down 0.26% week-on-week to 30,727,727 units, 1.28% below same week 2025 sales of 31,125,308 units. Paid-for sales are down 2.75% week-on-week at 249,004, 12.97% below same week 2025 sales of 266,124.

Albums

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01 38,016 The Rolling Stones - Foreign Tongues [20,891 CDs, 12,825 vinyl, 471 cassettes, 2,074 downloads, 1,755 streaming]

02 16,380 My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

03 16,350 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

04 16,090 Michael Jackson - The Essential

05 13,035 December 10 - On Your Side

06 11,327 Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings | Repented

07 8,345 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

08 8,318 SIENNA SPIRO - Visitor

09 7,758 Madonna - CONFESSIONS II

10 7,257 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

11 6,805 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide

13 6,340 Katy Perry - The Ones That Got the Plays

16 5,595 Michael Jackson - Thriller

17 5,269 Harry Styles - Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.

21 4,855 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade [total: 1,211,392]

27 4,636 Future - The Real Me

29 4,458 Jack White - Frozen Charlotte

30 4,001 The Specials - Live from the Cathedral

33 3,916 My Chemical Romance - May Death Never Stop You [total: 476,156]

58 2,560 System of a Down - System of a Down [total: 649,144]

Compilations

01 3,583 KPop Demon Hunters [253 Yoto cards, 24 downloads, 3,306 streaming]

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The Rolling Stones have the opposition licked, as they stroll to a No.1 debut with 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, as the UK albums chart celebrates its 70th anniversary.

Racking up first week consumption of 38,016 units (20,891 CDs, 12,825 vinyl albums, 471 cassettes, 2,074 digital downloads and 1,755 sales-equivalent streams), Foreign Tongues is the legendary band’s third consecutive No.1 album, albeit on considerably lower consumption than 2016 blues covers set Blue & Lonesome, which was their first new album in more than a decade, and had first week consumption of 105,830 units; and follow-up Hackney Diamonds, which sprinted to a 72,204 opening frame in 2023.

The Stones were also No.1 in September 2020, when the reissued and expanded 1973 album Goats Head Soup topped on sales of 13,107 units.

Already the oldest band to have a No.1 album, and the one with the longest span of chart-toppers, they lengthen their lead in both categories. Comprising lead vocalist Sir Mick Jagger, who will be 83 a week on Sunday (July 26), fellow founder member Keith Richards (82) and ‘new boy’ Ronnie Wood (79), who didn’t join until 1975, they are the first group to have a No.1 album with an average age of more than 80. Paul McCartney – who plays bass on Foreign Tongues track Covered In You – and Tom Jones are the only solo acts to have an album of new material top the chart as octogenarians.

Twelve of Foreign Tongues’ 14 songs are Jagger/Richard originals, two of which were co-written by producer Andrew Watt, and two more by session musician Matt Clifford, who plays keyboards in their tour band. There’s also a cover of 2007 Amy Winehouse hit, You Know I’m No Good, and Beautiful Delilah, a 1958 song by Chuck Berry, whose Carol, from the same year, was on their first album 62 years ago.

Foreign Tongues extends The Rolling Stones’ span of No.1 albums to more than 62 years, and is arguably their 13th No.1 album, following their eponymous debut (1964), The Rolling Stones No.2 (1965), Aftermath (1966), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971), Exile On Main Street (1972), Goats Head Soup (1973), Emotional Rescue (1980), Voodoo Lounge (1994), Blue & Lonesome (2016) and Foreign Tongues (2023).

If chart-topping reissues of Exile On Main Street and Goat’s Head Soup are included alongside their similarly high-achieving originals – Exile On Main Street and Goats Head Soup returned to the summit in 2010 and 2020 respectively, with extra content – their tally of No.1s to 15. However, those same sources don’t credit the only group with more No.1 albums – The Beatles – with a 16th chart-topper for the 2017 return to No.1 of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, even though it too had masses of new material in some of its 50th anniversary editions.

To muddy the waters still further, when BMRB became the UK’s first official chart compilers in 1969, the chart was carried by both Record Retailer and Record Mirror – the former being renamed Music Week in 1972, the latter consumer magazine being folded into Music Week in 1991. With earlier deadlines, Music Week initially ran the album chart a week in arrears of Record Mirror. They caught up in October 1969, which meant missing a week’s chart. The missing chart was the one in which supergroup Blind Faith’s eponymous only album was dethroned by The Rolling Stones’ compilation Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Volume 2). It was published in Record Mirror, but Music Week simply skipped that week and showed positions which were really from two weeks prior as ‘last week’ for continuity purposes.

The only group to have new No.1 albums in six different decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, 2020s), The Rolling Stones have indisputably had 12 No.1 studio albums, the most by any group, surpassing The Beatles’ tally of 11. Ahead of them are solo star Taylor Swift (13). Robbie Williams also has 12 (excluding his Better Man soundtrack, on which multiple other singers take lead, and XXV, which includes re-recordings and re-ocrhestrations).

With The Rolling Stones replacing 67-year-old Madonna’s Confessions II (1-9, 7,758 sales) at the top, we have the oldest pair of consecutive No.1 artists in the chart’s history.

New Jersey rock veterans My Chemical Romance’s fourth and last studio set, Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, racked up impressive first week sales of 32,766 on debut in 2010 – but in those halcyon days that only sufficed for a No.14 placing. Now reissued in an expanded (and slightly late) 15th anniversary deluxe edition, it returns for the first time since, and carves out a new peak of No.2 (16,380 sales), becoming their third Top 10 entry. The band broke up in 2014 and reunited five years later, but have yet to release a new album.

Their ongoing tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their magnum opus, The Black Parade, help that album to levitate 25-21 (4,855 sales) – a 1,005-week high – while their 2014 compilation, May Death Never Stop You: The Greatest Hits, rises 41-33 (3,916 sales), to achieve its highest placing since it debuted at No.15, 642 weeks ago. No.2 in 2006, The Black Parade is their biggest seller (1,211,392 units), followed by second album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, a 2004 release that peaked at No.9 on reissue last year (644,299 units) with the aforementioned 2014 May Death… compilation, which debuted and peaked at No.15, third (476,156 sales).

Boy band December 10, whose formation was documented in 2025 Netflix series Simon Cowell: The Next Act, reached No.68 in February with first single Run My Way. Two further singles have failed to chart but they have been busy drumming up support, with a selection of live shows, including at the O2 Bristol Academy yesterday (July 16), instore photo opportunities at half a dozen HMV shops and more, including multiple formats and lowball pricing, their EP, On Your Side makes a very respectable debut at No.5 (13,035 sales).

Bring Me The Horizon score their sixth Top 10 and ninth Top 75 entry with Count Your Blessings: Repented (No.6, 11,327 sales), a completely re-recorded version of their seminal first album, Count Your Blessings, which debuted and peaked at No.93 in 2006. The Sheffield rockers, still comprising 2004 founder members – 39-year-old vocalist and keyboards player Oli Sykes, 40-year-old bassist Matt Kean, 40-year-old drummer Matt Nicholls and 42-year-old lead guitarist Lee Malia – topped the chart with 2019 album Amo and 2021 follow-up Post Human.

Their biggest seller, however, is fifth album, That’s The Spirit, which reached No.2 in 2015, and has to-date consumption of 442,686 units. The original Count Your Blessing was certified silver in May, and has to-date consumption of 62,204 units, ranking ninth in their canon.

In the top five for 40 weeks in a row since debut last October, Olivia Dean’s The Art Of Loving finally loses its grip, subsiding to No.7 (8,345 sales).

The rest of the Top 10: You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-3, 16,350 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Essential (4-4, 16,090 sales) by Michael Jackson, Visitor (2-8, 8,318 sales) by Sienna Spiro and 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-10, 7,257 sales) by Fleetwood Mac.

The Great Divide (7-11, 6,805 sales) by Noah Kahan, The Ones That Got The Plays (10-13, 6,340 sales) by Katy Perry, Thriller (9-16, 5,595 sales) by Michael Jackson and Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (6-17, 5,269 sales) by Harry Styles all vacate the Top 10.

Rapper Future is set for his 12th No.1 album in his native USA this weekend with new studio set, The Real Me. He has yet to top the chart here but The Real Me debuts at No.27 (4,636 sales), becoming his 16th charted album on this side of the Atlantic, and his 13th to breach the Top 40.

Frozen Charlotte (No.29, 4,458 sales) is the seventh solo album by Jack White, the first five of which made the top five for the 51-year-old singer/songwriter. A chart regular since 1999 when he was 50% of The White Stripes – alongside former wife Meg – White has also charted as a member of The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. In all his guises, Frozen Charlotte is his 20th Top 75 album.

Two concerts at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this week by veteran heavy metal band System Of A Down helped lift their eponymous 1998 debut into the Top 75 for the first time. Jumping 108-58 (2,560 sales), it becomes the fifth charted album for the act. That is their entire studio oeuvre, which they have not added to since 2005, although after a 2006 break-up they have been back together since 2010. Overall sales of the set, which previously peaked at No.92, stand at 649,144, making it their second most-consumed album behind sophomore release, Toxicity, a 2001 album that peaked at No.13 and has to-date consumption of 782,722 units.

Also new to the Top 75: Live From The Cathedral (No.30, 4,001 sales), the 10th chart entry, and last album by The Specials, following the 2022 death of lead singer Terry Hall, recorded at the cathedral in their home city of Coventry.

The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack set is No.1 for the seventh week in a row and 50th time in total on the compilation chart, on consumption of 3,583 units (253 Yoto cards, 24 digital downloads and 3,306 sales-equivalent streams), the lowest for a No.1 compilation for 56 weeks.

Overall album sales are down 0.72% week-on-week to 2,403,439 units, 2.95% below same week 2025 sales of 2,476,610. Physical product accounts for 287,802? sales, 11.97% of the total.

Bonus Information

Album Totals

782,722 System of a Down - Toxicity

644,299 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

442,686 Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit

62,204 Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings

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  • Ne Plus Ultra
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    Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart [digital era total: 1,482,665] 612,850 pre February 1994 units + 1,482,665 post February 1994 units = 2,095,515 total chart units!

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    RMI back onto zero weeks of decline

  • That’s a very impressive second week for Madonna considering nearly every legacy act goes 1-out these days.

Shakira top 5 *_* Amazing! Also great to see Bonnie Tyler made the top 40. The top 10 looking a little fresher despite the amount of older songs around. Should see a clear out of most of the football songs next week!

2 million "sales" only just getting you into the top 100 best "selling" of the decade makes the millionaire status look silly nowadays 😮

At least the top 5 singkes were all over 30k this week

Rein Me In avoiding ACR yet again, you can't stop the Rein ❤️

Shame yearbook 60s volume 3 failed to disrupt Demon Hunters run at the top of the compilation chart. It might have had a better chance if they did the 60s as individual yearbooks and I’m hoping Now 124 can disrupt Demon Hunters as I can’t see 12" 1987 part 1 doing that

So Alan Jones mentions the skipped week for the LP chart, but gets wrong the fact that the LW positions for that week were the missing week and NOT from 2 weeks ago in Record Retailer and he still says its arguably their 13th, despite showing its really (arguably) their 14th (or 16th depending on how you count it). I guess its good he did at least acknowledge this discrepancy, even if he didn't actually correct the numbers from the 'official' line....

Also Record Retailer only caught up for that week. The following week's chart is the same chart BUT with the bargain/midprice/sampler/budget LPs removed and they're back to being a week later and Record Mirror was also a week late (it was only the first couple of months of BMRB that Record Mirror printed the chart on time).

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17 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

2 million "sales" only just getting you into the top 100 best "selling" of the decade makes the millionaire status look silly nowadays 😮

At least the top 5 singkes were all over 30k this week

Hahaha you can say that again. I thought selling a million was a big deal, let alone 2 million.

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart [digital era total: 1,482,665]

612,850 pre February 1994 units + 1,482,665 post February 1994 units = 2,095,515 total chart units!

Edited by Ne Plus Ultra

Quick question, so the Rolling Stones have 13 chart toppers, and not 15 as I previously assumed? Some sources mention 15 no.1s.

Just now, Simbeiosis said:

Quick question, so the Rolling Stones have 13 chart toppers, and not 15 as I previously assumed? Some sources mention 15 no.1s.

They have 13 but if you include the reissues of Exile On Main St and Goats Head Soup they have 15. The charts company have separate entries for the reissues of those albums so they give the Stones 15. Strangely enough the 2019 version of Abbey Road counts as a separate entry for the Beatles yet the charts company don't count it as a separate number one, very inconsistent from them.

4 minutes ago, Simbeiosis said:

Quick question, so the Rolling Stones have 13 chart toppers, and not 15 as I previously assumed? Some sources mention 15 no.1s.

2 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

They have 13 but if you include the reissues of Exile On Main St and Goats Head Soup they have 15. The charts company have separate entries for the reissues of those albums so they give the Stones 15. Strangely enough the 2019 version of Abbey Road counts as a separate entry for the Beatles yet the charts company don't count it as a separate number one, very inconsistent from them.

No, 14 or 16..... see above and what Alan actually says rather than the numbers he gives...

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49 minutes ago, braindeadpj said:

No, 14 or 16..... see above and what Alan actually says rather than the numbers he gives...

Oh boy. I'm more confused 😕 🤣🤣

The 'official' total is 13 albums - or 15 if you include the reissues as new No. 1s (which the OCC does in some cases but not others!)

BUT this is based on the TW positions for charts published in Record Retailer. As stated, Record Retailer published the LP chart a week in arrears from March 8th 1969 to September 27th 1969. On the 4th October they published the chart on time - perhaps because The Beatles were to debut at No.1 on every other LP Chart and they didn't want to be behind or perhaps a different person sent it to the type setters and sent the wrong chart, but either way they printed the current chart instead of a week in arrears as normal. The LW positions on this chart are for the chart they would have published if it was still a week in arrears (and as was published in Record Mirror that week). On that 'missing' chart, Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Volume 2) climbed to No. 1 and this was reflected in the LW position of the chart published in Record Retailer. Unfortunately the OCC database is built on the charts published in Record Retailer and since this chart only appears as last week positions or in Record Mirror, it has been omitted BUT it is an LP chart as created by BMRB based on sales to week ending 20th September and therefore is 'official' and so should be included.

Record Retailer chart in 27-09-1969 issue covers sales to the 13th September - Blind Faith at No. 1

REcord Retailer chart in 04-10-1969 issue covers sales to the 27th September - Abbey Road is No. 1

Album chart for week covering sales to the 20th September - published as last week positions in Record Retailer's 04-10-1969 issue or in full in Record Mirror's same dated issue has Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Volume 2) at No. 1

I hope that clarifies things a bit.....

The OCC use to add to Beatles total number ones by including the 50th anniversary re-issue of Abbey Road - giving them 16. But this was subsequently downgraded to 15. They never included Sgt Pepper when it returned to no. 1 in 2017.

Lack of consistency.

so once rmi gets that record it can go to acr

All time total for Mr. Brightside is nice but would have been good to get ones for Wonderwall and Three Lions too

23 minutes ago, Maestro said:

All time total for Mr. Brightside is nice but would have been good to get ones for Wonderwall and Three Lions too

They gave totals in last weeks report:

5,562,955 Wonderwall

2,543,702 Three Lions

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