Sam Fender & Olivia Dean are challenged by Shakira & Burna Boy for this week's #1 spot. New single releases include KATSEYE's "Animal", Lizzy McAlpine's "The light in the painting" and Chase & Status featuring J Hus and IRAH on "Disgruntled", plus tracks from Sam Smith, ADÉLA, 2hollis, Morgan Wallen, JENNIE, Cloonee/Prospa, FLO, Victoria Monét and Shaboozey/Leon Bridges

Charli xcx could land her fourth #1 album with "Music, Fashion, Film", meanwhile The Strokes return with "Reality Awaits", Tyla drops her second LP "A*POP" and Shania Twain releases "Little Miss Twain". There's also albums out from Baby Queen, Waterparks, Nines, WILLOW, Rico Nasty, No Pressure, MOULD, Robyn Hitchcock, The Hu, Atarashii Gakko! and Anitta

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Interested to see how CharliXCX and Shania perform on the album charts.

Both have really gone for it with formats etc., but Team Shania have been pushing variants, special editions, signed copies etc for ages in the lead up to her Harry support.

44 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

Interested to see how CharliXCX and Shania perform on the album charts.

Both have really gone for it with formats etc., but Team Shania have been pushing variants, special editions, signed copies etc for ages in the lead up to her Harry support.

Ooh that shall be interesting

Edited 13 hours ago13 hr by ElectroPaul

recent opening week figures for this week's chart battle...

21,071 - Charli xcx - Wuthering Heights

17,976 - Shania Twain - Queen of Me

7,983 - The Strokes - The New Abnormal

(if we're not counting WH as a proper album - BRAT did 27,234)

could very well be tight between Charli & Shania

I think the Strokes were missing a crucial format for The New Abnormal's first week so I'd expect a bigger debut from them.

oh yes I forgot about that, although even putting the two release weeks together they're still some way off Shania (12,807) but also that was in 2020 when record sales were poorer for obvious reasons so not a true fair comparison

I do expect we'll have an all-new top 3 anyhow, surely they can muster up the 15k needed to outdo the MJ GH..

38 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

I think the Strokes were missing a crucial format for The New Abnormal's first week so I'd expect a bigger debut from them.

And The New Abnormal really gave them a huge boost of popularity - ‘The Adult Are Talking’ is their most streamed song on Spotify overall now!

However the new album hasn’t been received well by fans, so we’ll see…

I’d much much rather Shania get it over Charli but I have a feeling Charli might edge it?! BRAT was huge and I think she’ll get a lot of casual streamers this time around plus this is kind of the actual follow up to BRAT in terms to this being a studio album.

I was thinking Charli would be an easy #1!

Not sure of all the Charli ones but these are the Shania variants

CD

CD & Signed Insert

CD - UK Exclusive ‘Greatest Hits’ Edition & Signed Insert

CD - HMV Exclusive

CD - Amazon Exclusive With Bonus Track

‘Moose’ Vinyl & Signed Insert

‘Moose’ Vinyl & Poster

Black Vinyl & Signed Insert

Picture Disc & Signed Insert

‘River’ Vinyl & Signed Insert

‘Rosie’ Vinyl & Signed Insert

Assai Vinyl & Signed OBI

Red Vinyl - HMV Exclusive

Red Vinyl - Amazon Exclusive With Bonus Track

Splatter Vinyl - Blood Records Exclusive

Most independent stores and Amazon seem to have the signed art cards too.

Rooting for Shania! Charli doesn’t seem to have much hype this time around and her streaming is pretty poor

3 minutes ago, No Sleeep said:

Rooting for Shania! Charli doesn’t seem to have much hype this time around and her streaming is pretty poor

She has the entire album top 200 on spotify only Noah, Harry and olivia Rodrigo have done that this year

Depends how big of a drop she has on streaming. It debuted well but is it going to stay there?

12 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:

Depends how big of a drop she has on streaming. It debuted well but is it going to stay there?

The poor performance around the world suggests not. It did 10 million first day on Spotify, that puts it below Madonna’s ‘Confessions II’ and Doja Cat’s ‘Vie’ and just slightly above Miley’s ‘Something Beautiful’. It did do disproportionately well in the UK but I’d be surprised if it holds up.

23 minutes ago, No Sleeep said:

The poor performance around the world suggests not. It did 10 million first day on Spotify, that puts it below Madonna’s ‘Confessions II’ and Doja Cat’s ‘Vie’ and just slightly above Miley’s ‘Something Beautiful’. It did do disproportionately well in the UK but I’d be surprised if it holds up.

Why did it do disproportionately , she british it was always going to do best on her home turf

if Music Fashion Film gets #1 then Charli will be only the third British female soloist to get four UK number 1 albums ever (the other two being Adele and Ellie Goulding)