Sales Report: W/E 24th September 2026

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 27,216 SIENNA SPIRO - Great Expectation [711 downloads, 26,505 streaming] [total: 222,304]

02 24,043 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas

03 23,865 HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin' to the Sun

04 23,451 STELLA LEFTY - Boston

05 19,243 Dua Lipa - Training Season [total: 1,008,526]

06 19,051 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure

07 18,946 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [SCR: 37,641]

08 17,035 Olivia Dean - Man I Need [SCR: 33,883]

09 16,344 Ashe - Stop the Wedding!

10 15,684 SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill

11 14,988 Tame Impala - Loser

12 14,746 Alyssa Grace - bloodstream

13 14,715 ADÉLA - Ain't in LA

15 12,261 ADÉLA - Nicole Kidman

17 12,231 Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

22 11,214 Noah Kahan - Orbiter

23 10,817 TLC - No Scrubs [SCR: 3,472,933]

24 10,497 Jamie Miller - Babydoll

30 10,043 Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger

35 9,224 Noah Kahan - Willing and Able

39 9,001 SIENNA SPIRO - Pure

41 8,712 Tove Lo - Talking Body

42 8,632 Cloonee, Prospa & Tristan Henry - Good Girl

54 7,758 Olivia Rodrigo - expectations

59 7,322 KETTAMA - Comes and Goes

75 5,973 Wxoda - Vibin

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Five of six solo No.1s this year by female soloists spent just one week at the summit but Sienna Spiro’s Great Expectation does something only Taylor Swift’s I Knew It, I Knew You has managed thus far in 2026 by spending a second week on top.

It does so comfortably, despite its consumption falling 3.31% week-on-week to 27,216 units (711 digital downloads and 26,505 sales-equivalent streams) as former incumbent, Choosin’ Texas by Ella Langley suffers a greater 9.45% diminution to 24,043 units, even as it holds at No.2.

Spiro’s only previous Top 10 hit, Die On This Hill peaked at No.9 last November but has attracted a lot of new admirers in the wake of Great Expectation’s success, and improves its chart position for the sixth week in a row, as it climbs 11-10 (15,684 sales), returning to the Top 10 after an absence of 33 weeks.

Although her third concurrent hit, and seventh chart entry in total, Pure, slips 36-39 (9,001 sales), her debut album, Visitor – on which all are featured - is in rude health, climbing two places to No.4 That is its highest placing since debuting at No.2 10 weeks ago, and raises its cumulative consumption to 107,398 units to go gold. Great Expectation simultaneously becomes Spiro’s sixth gold single, on consumption of 222,304 units (note: gold certification is 200,000 for singles, 100,000 for albums).

Six years after her introductory hit, Moral Of The Story, peaked at No.31, Californian singer/songwriter Ashe’s second, Stop The Wedding!, climbs for the fifth straight week, and is the only new entry to this week’s Top 10, moving 16-9 (16,344 sales).

No.4 on debut in 2024, Dua Lipa’s Training Season achieves its highest chart placing since. Its ongoing viral revival sees the track improve 7-5 (19,243 sales), while becoming the singer’s 16th song to achieve consumption in excess of a million units, with a to-date tally of 1,008,526.

The rest of the Top 10: Movin’ To The Sun (3-3, 23,865 sales) by Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté, Boston (4-4, 23,451 sales) by Stella Lefty, The Cure (6-6, 19,051 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Rein Me In (5-7, 18,946 sales) by Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, and Man I Need (8-8, 17,035 sales) by Olivia Dean. Handicapped on the main chart by ACR, Rein Me In is, in reality, the most-consumed track for the 13th week in a row, and 22nd week in total, with unadjusted consumption of 37,641 units, with Man I Need (33,883 units) following in its wake.

9 To 5 exits the Top 10, falling 9-17 (12,231 sales), a fortnight after reaching its posthumous peak of No.5 for Dolly Parton. Loser (10-11, 14,988 sales) by Tame Impala is also relegated from the top tier.

The only new entry to the Top 75, securing the final rung of the ladder after five weeks of sustained growth on social media is Vibin (5,973 sales), the debut hit by Wxoda, a US hip-hop artist, also known as Wooda.

Slovakian singer Adéla’s introductory hit, Ain’t In LA, dashed 46-26-12 in the last two weeks but now slips to No.13 (14,715 sales), with impetus passing to her second hit, Nicole Kidman, which is the biggest climber in the chart, surging 50-15 (12,261 sales).

There are also new peaks for Bloodstream (14-12, 14,746 sales) by Alyssa Grace, Orbiter (26-22, 11,214 sales) by Noah Kahan, Babydoll (46-24, 10,497 sales) by Jamie Miller, Willing And Able (38-35, 9,224 sales) by Noah Kahan, Good Girl (47-42, 8,632 sales) by Cloonee & Prospa feat. Tristan Henry, Expectations (55-54, 7,758 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo and Comes And Goes (70-59, 7,322 sales) by Kettama. Jamie Miller’s single, incidentally, is helped by a new mix of the song featuring Antonio Cipriano.

The ninth and biggest of a dozen hits for female R&B trio TLC, No Scrubs reached No.3 in 1999 and returns to the chart for the first time since, thanks to its inclusion in new Amazon streaming hit, The Last Sunrise, and subsequent social media usage. Re-entering at No.23 (10,817 sales) as it escapes ACR, the track has to-date consumption of 3,472,933 units, making it the 91st biggest song of the Kantar (Millward Brown) era dating from 1994, and the biggest by an all-female group in that period, ahead of 1996 No.1 Wannabe (No.166, 3,032,623 units) by The Spice Girls and 2000 No.3 Say My Name (No.483, 2,122,942 sales) by Destiny’s Child.

Meanwhile, with the Oasis documentary in cinemas, and their 2027 tour dates announced, Don’t Look Back In Anger returns at No.30 (10,043 sales); and, on the day her sixth album, Estrus, is released, viral live footage of Swedish singer Tove Lo’s 2015 No.17 hit, Talking Body, from her 2014 debut album, Queen Of The Clouds, earn the track a return to the chart at No.41 (,712 sales).

Overall singles consumption is up 0.81% week-on-week to 29,447,675 units, 1.31% below same week 2025 sales of 29,839,208 units. It is the sixth week in a row they have been below same week 2025 levels. Paid-for sales are down 1.76% week-on-week at 245,834, 4.03% below same week 2025 sales of 256,170.

Albums

01 13,181 Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope [6,457 CDs, 5,004 vinyl, 106 cassettes, 723 downloads, 891 streaming]

02 10,358 Michael Jackson - The Essential

03 10,276 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

04 8,162 SIENNA SPIRO - Visitor [total: 107,398]

05 8,045 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009

06 7,950 Bloc Party - Anatomy of a Brief Romance

07 7,637 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

08 7,310 RØRY - BLOODLETTING

09 7,263 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

10 6,991 The Weeknd - The Highlights

11 6,777 Bonobo - Distance in Static

12 6,458 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

17 4,516 Oasis - Definitely Maybe

25 3,790 Green Lung - Necropolitan

36 3,172 ADÉLA - PRIMA

41 2,898 Jhené Aiko - Westside Whimsy

42 2,873 The Meffs - Business

142 1,471 PRESIDENT - Blood of Your Empire

200 1,148

xxx 970 Kasabian - ACT III

Compilations

01 2,931 KPop Demon Hunters [135 Yoto cards, 16 CDs, 8 vinyl. 20 downloads, 2,752 streaming]

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The culmination of more than a decade of gigging, including selling out Wembley Arena; a solid back catalogue; MOBO, Mercury Prize and BRIT Awards; and its own rave reviews all coalesce to catapult Here Because Of Hope, the fourth full-length album by Ezra Collective, to a No.1 debut.

The 12th album to open at the summit in as many weeks, it racked up first week consumption of 13,181 units (6,457 CDs, 5,004 vinyl albums, 106 cassettes, 723 digital downloads and 891 sales-equivalent streams) to become their first No.1 album.

Ezra Collective’s 2019 debut You Can’t Steal My Joy, peaked at No.70, 2022 follow-up Where I’m Meant To Be reached No.24 and last album, Dance, No One’s Watching, gave them their highest chart placing and highest previous first week sale, opening and peaking at No.7 on consumption of 9,966 units in 2024.

The latter album is marginally their biggest seller, with to-date consumption of 42,090 units, followed by Where I’m Meant To Be (41,601 units) and You Can’t Steal My Joy (19,070 units).

A London-based quintet comprising 31-year-old drummer and bandleader Olufemi (Femi) Koleoso, 30-year-old bassist Toyosi (TJ) Koleoso (his brother), 26-year-old trumpeter Ifeoluwa (Ife) Ogunjobi, 33-year-old keyboards player Joe Armon Jones and 33-year-old saxophonist James Mollison, Ezra Collective’s eclectic blend of music is jazz-based, and largely instrumental, with Here Because Of Hope featuring guest vocals from rapper Pa Salieu, Cameroonian singer Libianca and X Factor alumnus Leona Lewis.

The album is the first No.1 categorised as jazz by OCC since Dutch singer Caro Emerald topped with The Shocking Miss Emerald in 2013 (none of Michael Bublé’s No.1s since then met the criteria for jazz) – but has the lowest consumption for a No.1 album since Ed Sheeran’s +-=÷× Tour Collection topped for the second and last time on consumption of 9,908 units, 67 weeks ago.

Indie rock veterans’ Bloc Party’s first album in more than four years, Anatomy Of A Brief Romance (No.6, 7,950 sales) is their eighth to chart, and sixth to make the Top 10.

After releasing a number of uncharted singles and EPs, some under her real name of Roxanne Emery, alt-pop singer/songwriter and producer Røry reached No.10 last year with her debut album, Restøration. The 41-year-old from Southampton tops that with follow-up Bloodletting (No.8, 7,310 sales).

The release of their new documentary Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger last week, and the announcement this week of their Live ’27 tour dates combine to give a major boost to Oasis’ back catalogue for the second week in a row, with Time Flies: 1994-2009 (15-5, 8,045 sales), (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (24-12, 6,458 sales) and Definitely Maybe (49-17, 4,516 sales) increasing consumption 51.55%, 50.60% and 58.13%, respectively.

The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (4-2, 10,358 sales) by Michael Jackson, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-3, 10,276 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Visitor (6-4, 8,162 sales) by Sienna Spiro, The Art Of Loving (7-7, 7,637 sales) by Olivia Dean, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-9, 7,263 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Highlights (9-10, 6,991 sales) by The Weeknd.

2026 is the first year in which three albums have debuted at No.1, only to plummet out of the Top 200 the following week. Act III by Kasabian is the latest to do it, with consumption of 970 units in the latest frame leaving it short of the anchor position tally of 1,148 units. It comes five weeks after A Love Letter To A Broken Town by The Reytons, and 21 weeks after You Got This by Skindred suffered the same fate.

Adéla and President also exit the Top 10 with their debut albums but make lesser falls, her Prima sliding 2-36 (3,172 sales), and their Blood Of Your Empire tumbling 5-142 (1,471 sales).

Twenty-six years after he adopted the simian pseudonym of Bonobo, ahead of his first release, Brighton-born California-based 50-year-old musician, DJ and producer Simon Green secures his fourth chart album and third straight Top 20 album with eighth studio set, Distance In Static (No.11, 6,777 sales), which – the downtempo electronica artist teases – might be his last.

Seven years after their uncharted debut, Woodland Rites, and three years after their third album, This Heathen Land reached No.89, London metal band Green Lung make their Top 75 debut, with fourth album, Necropolitan, opening at No.25 (3,790 sales).

The big three record companies – Universal, Sony and Warner Music – command a 75.53% share of the album market this week (about par for the course) but for the first time ever, the five highest debuting albums are on indie labels, with no major affiliation. Green Lung are on Nuclear Blast, Bonobo is on Ninja Tune, Røry is on Sadcore, Bloc Party are on Contagious and Ezra Collective are on Partisan – a 19-year-old American label which has previously had No.1s with Idles’ Ultra Mono in 2020 and Tangk in 2024; and Fontaines DC’s Skinty Fia in 2022.

Also new to the Top 75: Westside Whimsy (No,41, 2,898 sales), the fourth album and chart entry for 38-year-old Californian R&B singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko, destined to become her first No.1 in America this weekend; and Business (No.42, 2,873 sales), the second album of frantic punk (eleven songs in less than 25 minutes) and first chart entry for punk duo The Meffs, from Essex, comprising singer, guitarist and songwriter Lily Hopkins, and drummer Lewis Copsey.

The Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack is No.1 on the compilation chart for the second week in a row, and 57th week in total, on consumption of 2,931 units (135 Yoto cards, 16 CDs, 8 vinyl albums. 20 digital downloads and 2,752 sales-equivalent streams). It is the first time the No.1 compilation has had consumption of fewer than 3,000 units in 69 weeks, and the lowest weekly tally of Kpop Demon Hunters’ 65-week chart career.

Overall album sales are down 1.58% week-on-week to 2,317,536 units, their lowest level for 88 weeks, and 6.91% below same week 2025 sales of 2,489,509. Physical product accounts for 245,334 sales, 10.59% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

3,032,623 Spice Girls - Wannabe

2,122,942 Destiny's Child - Say My Name

Album Totals

42,090 Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching

41,601 Ezra Collective - Where I'm Meant to Be

19,070 Ezra Collective - You Can't Steal My Joy

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Sales are in!

So does that mean the evil has been defeated and movin to the suno is ACR bound?

Movin' To The Sun ACR confirmed!!!

(it's down over 700 units from last week and was DCL -2)

'Movin' To The Sun' down by 2.95%, looks like it's movin' to the ACR indeed!

Let's hope the decline wasn't from pure sales for Movin'. Seems like Self Aware has avoided though 😬

we might not be rid of Self Aware tho - it was on at least 10,230 units last week and could be anywhere 10,496 to ~10,100 - it might've dodged unfortunately

Edited Friday at 17:481 day by maggotsforbrains

Poor Now Eras only getting number 4 on the compilation chart. It’s a shame it didn’t go number 1 as it would’ve been good to finally see one of their eras albums topping the compilation chart but at the same time, that’s what happens when they cater to the casual market

"The album is the first No.1 categorised as jazz by OCC since Dutch singer Caro Emerald topped with The Shocking Miss Emerald in 2013 (none of Michael Bublé’s No.1s since then met the criteria for jazz) – but has the lowest consumption for a No.1 album since Ed Sheeran’s +-=÷× Tour Collection topped for the second and last time on consumption of 9,908 units, 67 weeks ago."

Alan forgetting about the 12.585 Oliva Dean topped the charts with back in April 26.

15k needed for top 10 and not even 9k for a top 40 these days 😮😮

Edited Friday at 18:021 day by 777666jason

Shame that Westside Whimsy couldn't hold into top 40. It's a good album, especially So Good is lovely r&b throwback featuring Kendrick.

Edited Friday at 18:071 day by Sour Candy

ouch at that Kasabian -~93.25% drop

Edited Friday at 18:291 day by maggotsforbrains

SIENNA!!! So happy she gets a second week!

Her album being top 5 is equally fantastic and well over 100k sales now!

Great sales for No Scrubs, Wannabe, & Say My Name.

Some totals:

2,526,120 Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

2,415,697 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

Alan mentioning that Caro album two weeks in a row for different reasons 😂

I wonder if the market drop at the top this year will apply to Christmas songs too when they return, or if they will instead be even more dominant than before. It won’t take much effort to wash away the current hit parade.

Love that Alan Jones provided the figure for the threshold of the albums chart at 1,150 sales, does anyone have any idea how this compares with say 3/4 years ago?

Isn’t gold for singles 400,000?

1 minute ago, reissus123 said:

Isn’t gold for singles 400,000?

Yep! It is...

Wow can't see Wannabe ever catching up with TLC again now unless it has some major viral boost. I didn't realise No scrubs was in an Amazon thing, explains it's sudden boost in the charts, (although it already streams very well thanks to it's inclusion in numerous playlists too tbf).

23 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Wow can't see Wannabe ever catching up with TLC again now unless it has some major viral boost. I didn't realise No scrubs was in an Amazon thing, explains it's sudden boost in the charts, (although it already streams very well thanks to it's inclusion in numerous playlists too tbf).

'No Scrubs' is just gonna keep extending its lead as time goes on, even if that did get a brief viral boost.

I think in all honesty 'No Scrubs' is timeless sounding, whereas 'Wannabe' is a very of its time thing so that probably works in its favour.