Posted Thursday at 19:161 day Sales Report: W/E 6th August 2026Source: Music WeekCommentary: Alan JonesSingles01 44,474 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [1 7" vinyl, 3,865 downloads, 40,608 streaming] [total: 2,129,149]02 42,070 Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai03 26,519 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas04 26,352 Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song05 24,944 ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra - Talk to You06 23,325 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind07 23,284 HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin' to the Sun08 20,660 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure09 20,353 Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me10 19,434 Olivia Dean - Man I Need [SCR: 38,584] [total: 2,644,060]11 19,265 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You12 18,874 Oasis - Wonderwall13 18,199 SIENNA SPIRO - Material Lover14 17,919 STELLA LEFTY - Boston15 17,784 SIENNA SPIRO - Great Expectation16 16,727 KATSEYE - Animal20 13,632 Alyssa Grace - bloodstream22 12,058 Charli xcx - Camera27 11,225 Temper City - Self Aware35 9,824 Robyn - Dancing on My Own36 9,689 Noah Kahan - Orbiter40 9,511 Audrey Hobert - Sue me45 8,971 HUGEL & SOLTO (FR) - Jamaican (Bam Bam)53 8,310 Morgan Wallen - Been By Now54 8,210 Cameron Whitcomb - Kingdom of Fear59 8,023 ADÉLA - Ain't in LA61 7,960 Cloonee, Prospa & Tristan Henry - Good Girl69 7,503 Kolter - Trapped71 7,249 Jonas Blue & Malive - Edge of Desire77 7,001 Kolter - Hey Everybody (Back in the Dance) QuoteMore than 35,000 records have made the singles chart since its 1952 inception, of which in excess of 1,400 have reached No.1 but none has managed to spend more than 18 weeks at the apex – until now.Sam Fender & Olivia Dean’s blockbusting duet Rein Me In is the one to break the mould, racking up an incredible 19th week at the summit, to take the all-time record, toppling Frankie Laine’s I Believe, which has held it for nearly 73 years, after racking up 18 weeks at No.1 in 1953 before the chart was even a year old. Laine’s leviathan resisted previous challenges from the like of (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, No.1 for Bryan Adams for 16 weeks in 1991; and Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet, which endured for 15 weeks in 1994, but is finally relegated to second place by Rein Me In. Trailing the official World Cup anthem Dai Dai by Shakira and Burna Boy on sales flashes for much of the week, Rein Me In emerged triumphant after a short, sharp and successful social media campaign for fans to download the track on Thursday (30 July) boosted its digital sales from 562 to that point, to 3,865 just 24 hours later. The incentives to do so before the chart deadline, at a 59p price point, included prizes of Official Charts Fan Awards and T-Shirts with, appropriately, 19 of each available.On the sixth week of its fourth run at No.1, its 31st consecutive week in the Top 10, and 58th straight week in the Top 40, Rein Me In achieved overall consumption of 44,474 units (one 7-inch sale and 40,608 sales-equivalent streams complete its profile) – an increase of 2.36%, week-on-week. Within that, digital downloads increased 535.69% week-on-week to their highest ever level, while sales-equivalent streams ebbed 5.21%.The campaign was crucial in fighting off Dai Dai, which ended up just 2,404 units in arrears, its consumption rising 10.20% week-on-week to 42,070 units on its second week as runner-up.Now in pursuit of a 20th week at No.1, Rein Me In actually saw its streaming decline for the second week in a row, and will fall into ACR if it returns negative streaming next week – an event which would surely end any chance of it adding further to its chart-topping exploits. Choosin’ Texas (5-3, 26,519 sales) climbs to a new peak for Ella Langley, while Movin’ To The Sun shines ever brighter for Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté. Surging 11-7 (23,284 sales) it is the third Top 10 entry for Ultra Naté, some 28 years after her second, and the first for the others. Hugel also has a fast-rising second hit in the form of Jamaican (Bam Bam), his collaboration with fellow French DJ Solto, which jumps 67-45 (8,971 sales).The rest of the Top 10: Stupid Song (4-4, 26,352 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Talk To You (3-5, 24,944 sales) by ANOTR & 54 Ultra, Free Your Mind (6-6, 23,325 sales) by Prospa & Cloonee, The Cure (9-8, 20,660 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Hate That I Made You Love Me (7-9, 20,353 sales) by Ariana Grande, and Man I Need (12-10, 19,434 sales) by Olivia Dean.It is the 50th consecutive week that Man I Need has spent in the Top 40 – its entire career since it debuted at No.8 last August. Aside from the week after Christmas, when it dipped to No.35 under pressure from seasonal evergreens, it has actually never been lower than No.17, even though it has been on ACR for most of its chart career. It is a strangely contradictory week for the track, which returns to the Top 10 after an absence of 12 weeks but with its lowest unadjusted (38,584 units) consumption since its debut tally of 28,140 units. Although No.1 for only one week, Man I Need remains Dean’s most-consumed track with a to-date tally of 2,644,060 units – over half a million more than Rein Me In (2,129,149 units). I Knew It, I Knew You (10-11, 19,265 sales) by Taylor Swift and Wonderwall (8-12, 18,874 sales) by Oasis exit the Top 10.Global girl group sextet Katseye have the highest of seven debuts on the Top 75 this week, scoring their sixth chart entry and second Top 20 hit with Animal (No.16, 16,727 sales). The song was written by Israeli Omer Fedi, American Blake Slatkin and our own Johnny McDaid (Snow Patrol) and Ed Sheeran. Although absent from the chart as an artist, Sheeran also co-wrote the No.2, Dai Dai, with a different set of writers. As for Slatkin, he also co-wrote another of this week’s new entries, Ain’t In LA (No.59, 8,023 sales), the first hit for Adéla – 22-year-old Slovakian singer Adéla Jergová, who was also among the latter track’s five writers. Charli XCX’s new No.1 album, Lights, Camera, Action spawns her 41st Top 75 and 27th Top 40 hit, Camera, which debuts at No.22 (12,058 sales). It is the fourth and biggest hit from the album, surpassing Rock Music (No.36), SS26 (No.43) and Wink Wink (No.57). Been By Now (No.53, 8,310 sales), is a new standalone single, and the 11th hit for country singer Morgan Wallen.Good Girl (No.61, 7,960 sales) is the second collaborative hit between Prospa & Cloonee following current Top 10 smash Free Your Mind. It is the third hit in total for Leeds electronic artists and DJs Prospa (Harvey Blumler and Guiorgi Smith), the second for UK-born, US-based DJ Cloonee (Dave Bissett), and the first for featured vocalist Tristan Henry, also UK-born but with an American accent as a legacy of living there for much of his childhood.German DJ Kolter – Johannes Kolter from Cologne – has had nearly 40 tracks released in the UK without breaching the Top 75 – but breaks his duck this week. Increasing consumption for the 16th week since its release in April, Trapped (80-69, 7,503 sales) makes the grade, while another Kolter track – Hey Everybody (Back In The Dance) – falls just shy, debuting at No.77 (7,001 sales) after a shorter, two-week gestation. The former is a Kolter original, the latter a re-titled cover of Jazzy Dee’s 1983 No.53 hit, Get On Up.Released more than a year ago, Edge Of Desire (77-71, 7,249 sales) has been in the 76-100 region of the chart for 11 of the last 13 weeks, and finally makes its Top 75 debut for Jonas Blue & Malive. Blue’s 12th hit, and first since 2021, it is the first for his Brazilian foil, Malive. There are new peaks for concurrent Sienna Spiro Top 20 hits Material Lover (14-13, 18,199 sales) and Great Expectation (19-15, 17,784 sales) plus Boston (15-14, 17,919 sales) by Stella Lefty, Bloodstream (23-20, 13,632 sales) by Alyssa Grace, Self Aware (29-27, 11,225 sales) by Temper City, Orbiter (40-36, 9,689 sales) by Noah Kahan, Sue Me (49-40, 9,511 sales) by Audrey Hobert and Kingdom Of Fear (57-54, 8,210 sales) by Cameron Whitcomb.Its chart career re-ignited by its prominence in Netflix streaming hit Voicemails From Isabelle, Robyn’s 2010 No.8 hit Dancing On My Own is back in the Top 40 for the first time since, rising 46-35 (9,824 sales).Overall singles consumption is up 0.15% week-on-week to 30,860,674 units, 2.82% above same week 2025 sales of 30,013,503 units. Paid-for sales are up 7.20% week-on-week at 269,700, 7.88% below same week 2025 sales of 292,757.Albums01 22,322 Charli xcx - Music, Fashion, Film [6,704 CD, 7,932 vinyl, 414 cassettes, 1,762 downloads, 5,510 streaming]02 14,469 Michael Jackson - The Essential03 14,125 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love04 10,710 Snow Patrol - Eyes Open [total: 2,587,671, including 2,257,730 physicals, 154,307 downloads and 175,634 streaming]05 8,538 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving06 8,208 SIENNA SPIRO - Visitor07 7,933 Shania Twain - Little Miss Twain08 7,621 The Strokes - Reality Awaits09 7,315 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop10 6,762 The Weeknd - The Highlights11 6,625 Katy Perry - The Ones That Got the Plays12 6,489 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide14 5,842 Nines - Lost Tapes18 4,926 Gracie Abrams - Daughter from Hell19 4,755 The Rolling Stones - Foreign Tongue31 4,011 Luke Combs - The Way I Am [total: 57,986]43 3,270 Tyla - A*POP47 2,961 Luke Combs ~ This One's For You [total: 341,374]66 2,425 Songer - WHAT IF I SAY NO?85 2,110 Charli xcx - BRAT [total: 608,992]Compilations01 3,788 KPop Demon Hunters [281 Yoto cards, 47 downloads, 3,460 streaming] QuoteThe Brat is back…again!A mere 23 weeks after her Wuthering Heights soundtrack debuted at No.1, Charli XCX returns to pole position, with her latest regular studio album, Music, Fashion, Film, becoming the first British woman ever to have two No.1 albums in the same calendar year.Securing first week consumption of 22,322 units (6,704 CD, 7,932 vinyl, 414 cassettes, 1,762 digital downloads and 5,510 sales-equivalent streams), her ninth charted album consists of 11 new songs (14 on The B-Sides Edition), all of which she co-wrote with producer Finn Keane, and most of which were also co-written by Keane’s co-producer A.G. Cook.Arriving at the summit two days before XCX’s XXXIVth (34th) birthday, it is her fourth No.1 album, following the aforementioned Wuthering Heights which opened atop the chart on consumption of 21,071 units in February; Crash, which debuted at No.1 in 2022 on consumption of 16,117 units; and Brat, which was No.2 on debut in 2024 on consumption of 27,234 units, and reached No.1 18 weeks later on consumption of 35,949 units, following the release of an expanded Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat edition.XCX’s only albums to reach the Top 10 before this year, Crash and Brat are also her most-consumed titles by some distance, with Crash on 80,600 units and Brat, more than seven times as popular, on 608,992 units – the latter tally doesn’t include the standalone double vinyl editions of Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat, which peaked at No.40, and have sold a combined 7,289 copies. Brat spent 103 consecutive weeks in the Top 75 from its debut until slipping below the mark in May, and spends its 112th consecutive week in the Top 100 this week, rallying 100-85 (2,110 sales)The time that elapsed between Wuthering Heights and Music, Fashion, Film debuting at No.1 is the shortest for consecutive No.1s by an artist since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuted at No.1 in 2023, 16 weeks after Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).With 10 No.1 albums in the 2020s, Swift is one of only three artists to have had more No.1 albums than XCX this decade, the others being Ed Sheeran and Drake (five apiece). Liam Gallagher, Yungblud and Kylie Minogue have also had four.Ahead of Snow Patrol performing their signature album, Eyes Open, in its entirety for the first time ever at three sell-out concerts at The Royal Albert Hall in September, the album has been expanded from 11 to 36 tracks, in a 20th anniversary edition which, naturally, provides much of the thrust for the set to re-enter at No.4 (10,710 sales).The first of Snow Patrol’s two No.1 albums – they had to wait 18 years for their second, The Forest Is The Path in 2024 – Eyes Open was the fourth of the band’s eight studio albums, and is home to the hits Chasing Cars, You’re All I Have, Hands Open and Set The Fire To The Third Bar.Building on first week sales of 126,809 copies, it is the band’s most successful album with to-date consumption of 2,587,671 units, followed by Final Straw (1,849,296 units) and 2009 No.3 album compilation Up To Now (1,326,325 units). Before today, Eyes Open had spent 111 weeks in the Top 75, the last of which was in September 2009, 883 weeks ago.It is the 40th most-consumed album of the 21st century, although its sales-equivalent streams amount to just 175,634 units. Ranked on pure sales (physical formats and digital downloads), its tally of 2,412,037 units places it 29th. On physical sales only (2,257,730), it is higher still (No.27).Shania Twain lands the ninth Top 75 album and seventh Top 10 album of her career with eighth studio set, Little Miss Twain. Debuting at No.7 (7,933 sales), the album follows back-to-back No.1 studio albums by the 60-year-old Canadian country star - Now (2017) and Queen Of Me (2023).Their line-up unchanged since their 1998 formation, New York rock quintet The Strokes score their seventh consecutive Top 10 studio album – their entire output – with Reality Awaits (No.8, 7,621 sales). It is the follow-up to 2020 set, The New Abnormal, which debuted and peaked at No.3 on consumption of 7,983 units. The band’s only No.1 album, third studio set First Impressions Of Earth, is their third most-popular title (270,801 units) behind their 2001 debut Is This It (899,221 units) and 2003 follow-up, Room On Fire (474,593 units), both of which peaked at No.2.The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-2, 14,469 sales) by Michael Jackson, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-3, 14,125 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Art Of Loving (4-5, 8,538 sales) by Olivia Dean, Visitor (6-6, 8,208 sales) by Sienna Spiro, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-9, 7,315 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Highlights (10-10, 6,762 sales) by The Weeknd.After debuting at No.1 last week, Daughter From Hell slides to No.18 (4,926 sales) for Gracie Abrams.Also exiting the Top 10: The Ones That Got The Plays (9-11, 6,625 sales) by Katy Perry, The Great Divide (8-12, 6,489 sales) by Noah Kahan and Foreign Tongues (5-19, 4,755 sales) by The Rolling Stones.London rapper Nines made the top five with each of the six full-length studio albums he released between 2017 and 2024, when he signalled his retirement with Quit While You’re Ahead. He now returns to the chart with Lost Tapes – a collection of 18 previously unreleased tracks from across his career – which debuts at No.14 (5,842 sales).Also new to the Top 75: A*Pop (No.43, 3,270 sales), the second album by South African pop/R&B singer Tyla, whose eponymous 2024 debut peaked at No.24; and What If I Say No? (No.66, 2,425 sales), the sixth studio album and second chart entry by Berkshire rapper Songer, who previously reached No.30 with fourth album, Skala, in 2023.Country star Luke Combs performs the first of three concerts at Wembley Stadium tonight (July 31), ahead of which his latest (sixth) album The Way I Am and 2017 debut This One’s For You, jump 44-31 (4,011 sales) and 86-47 (2,961 sales), respectively. This One’s For You is 36-year-old Combs’ most-consumed album, with a to-date tally of 341,374 units, and eclipses its previous peak of No.83, set in 2023. The Way I Am reached No.4 on debut in March, and has to-date consumption of 57,986 units.The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack set is No.1 for the ninth week in a row and 52nd time in total on the compilation chart, on consumption of 3,788 units (281 Yoto cards, 47 digital downloads and 3,460 sales-equivalent streams).Overall album sales are up 1.27% week-on-week to 2,427,838 units, 0.56% below same week 2025 sales of 2,441,542. Physical product accounts for 280,617 sales, 11.56% of the total.Bonus InformationAlbum Totals80,600 Charli xcx - CRASH7,289 Charli xcx - Brat and it's completely different but also still brat (standalone vinyl editions)1,849,296 Snow Patrol - Final Straw1,326,325 Snow Patrol - Up to Now899,221 The Strokes - Is This It474,593 The Strokes - Room on Fire270,801 The Strokes - First Impressions of EarthNotes- 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.
19 hours ago19 hr Not that close in the end. I wouldn't be surprised if Shakira was never really ahead when accounting for missing data in the mids.
19 hours ago19 hr Author 3 minutes ago, Paramore said:Not that close in the end. I wouldn't be surprised if Shakira was never really ahead when accounting for missing data in the mids.Sam sold 3303 downloads on Thursday, and was 2404 ahead in the end. The missing data's nothing to do with the difference, it was the download campaign that put Sam ahead.
19 hours ago19 hr 1 minute ago, DanielCarey said:RMI has increased this week, and now we're back to zero weeks of decline.It's streams went down so it's on 2 weeks of decline. ACR relates to streaming figures only.
19 hours ago19 hr I mean I wouldn’t put it past RMI to increase this week purely off the back of all the social media posts etc about it breaking the record and people checking it out.
19 hours ago19 hr Impressive that the campaign generated 3,303 sales - shows that campaigns can and do work and made the difference this week!
19 hours ago19 hr Yeah there was no way they were going to let it slip away so no shock, but leaving the campaign to Thursday was bad management. Shame for Shakira but over 40k is still impressive, especially now the World Cup is a memory.Happy for Charli on a respectable sale and another No.1 album. And nice to see Ella Langley top three finally in the singles.
19 hours ago19 hr 2 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:Now they have the record surely there's no more pushing this.In fairness this is the first/only week they’ve pushed it.They havent been doing weekly posts for it or done any TV/radio promo.It’s on 2 weeks of decline, I think it might get a boost due to the news of it breaking the record but hopefully it will start to decline naturally now (or someone actually releases something that the GP want to stream in big numbers!)
19 hours ago19 hr Devastated I hope Ariana's album helps RMI decrease next week to finally go on ACR and we can get Ariana #1 next week with Shakira the week after if "Dai Dai" holds on well. Charli's "Camera" going top 40 is nice to see at least. I believe that's her 27th? top 40. Getting up there in terms of British female artists for total top 40 hits. In fact I think she's #1 now tied with Dua Lipa and Shirley Bassey with 27 for solo artists or tied 2nd to Little Mix at #1 with 32.
19 hours ago19 hr 5 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:Now they have the record surely there's no more pushing this.before Rein Me In goes off to ACR, we need it to occupy number 3 to become the 4th song in chart history to have a top 10 sweep of chart positions.
18 hours ago18 hr Isn't this in contravention of their own rules?Rein Me In emerged triumphant after a short, sharp and successful social media campaign for fans to download the track on Thursday (30 July) boosted its digital sales from 562 to that point, to 3,865 just 24 hours later. The incentives to do so before the chart deadline, at a 59p price point, included prizes of Official Charts Fan Awards and T-Shirts with, appropriately, 19 of each available.Or are they covered if they say Purchase not required...?If it is in contravention i wouldn't be surprised if Shakira's management kick up a fuss about that... Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by braindeadpj
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