Posted Yesterday at 17:521 day Sales Report: W/E 22nd October 2026Source: Music WeekCommentary: Alan JonesSingles01 55,413 Taylor Swift - Patient Zero [33,692 CDs, 1,591 downloads, 20,130 streaming] [total CDs: 44,632]02 34,389 Jamie Miller - Babydoll03 32,176 Ashe - Stop the Wedding!04 28,483 SIENNA SPIRO - Great Expectation05 22,702 ADÉLA - Nicole Kidman06 21,795 STELLA LEFTY - Boston07 21,225 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas08 20,633 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure09 17,807 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In10 17,097 sombr - My Body Isn't Ready15 13,180 P!nk feat. Nate Ruess - Just Give Me a Reason [total: 2,758,915]17 12,344 Noah Kahan - Willing and Able22 10,630 Cloonee, Prospa & Tristan Henry - Good Girl25 10,273 DJ Goja, Jason Derulo & Melody - Mi Chico34 8,592 Morrisson - COS OF YOU35 8,218 Olivia Rodrigo - expectations37 8,119 Dua Lipa - Training Season38 8,081 Season 25 - Shotta's.50 7,132 Faouzia - UNETHICAL57 6,615 Fontaines D.C. & ROSALÍA - Where Is Gone?61 6,332 Digga - Girls All Around the World66 6,134 Kingfishr - The Sun Will Never Settle67 6,128 Chase & Status feat. Little Simz - Carnage QuoteIn the week that her UK track consumption surpasses 125 million, and Karma becomes her 31st song to pass the million mark, Taylor Swift is No.1 for the third time in a row with Patient Zero, the introductory single from the expanded Encore edition of her album, The Life Of A Showgirl. Patient Zero is the third of Swift’s eight No.1s to spend its first three weeks on the chart at No.1, emulating Anti-Hero (2022) and The Fate Of Ophelia (2025). After first week consumption of 46,993 units, and second week consumption of 38,456 units, Patient Zero turned in its best tally yet, with a tertiary frame of 55,413 units, with 1,591 digital downloads and 20,130 sales-equivalent streams dwarfed by sales of 33,692 CDs. In three variants, the CDs started to ship last week, when they contributed 10,940 sales. Their latest contribution raises the overall CD sales of Patient Zero to 44,632 units. Earlier this year, Swift’s seventh No.1, I Knew It I Knew You shifted 42,492 CDs in a week, on its way to overall CD sales of 47,764, making it the biggest selling CD since X Factor winner Ben Haenow’s 2014 coronation single, Something I Need, which sold 47,001 on its first week, and 92,040 overall. Among 2020s singles, The Beatles’ Now And Then is the only other track to exceed 40,000 sales on CD, with a to-date tally of 47,484. Swift has now spent 23 weeks at No.1 in her career, all but two of them in the 2020s. Without CDs, Patient Zero would have spent only one week at No.1 without CDs, and this week’s No.1 would be Babydoll, which instead jumps 3-2, for Jamie Miller, with consumption growing 22.66% week-on-week to 34,389 units. A finalist in the 2017 series of The Voice UK, Miller has had to wait nine years to achieve his first hit but Babydoll is currently the second-highest charting song by a contestant in the long-running show, trailing only Gecko (Overdrive), a 2014 No.1 hit for first season (2012) finalist Becky Hill and Dutch DJ Oliver Heldens. Also ascending to a new peak, Stop The Wedding! is growing at a faster rate, increasing consumption 25.40% week-on-week at it climbs 4-3 (32,176 sales) for Ashe.The rest of the Top 10: Great Expectation (2-4, 28,483 sales) by Sienna Spiro, Nicole Kidman (8-5, 22,702 sales) by Adéla, Boston (6-6, 21,795 sales) by Stella Lefty, Choosin’ Texas (5-7, 21,225 sales) by Ella Langley, The Cure (7-8, 20,633 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Rein Me In (11-9, 17,807 sales) by Sam Fender & Olivia Dean and My Body Isn’t Ready (10-10, 17,097 sales) by Sombr.Exiting the Top 10 after falling into ACR is Training Season (9-37, 8,119 sales) by Dua Lipa. Stella Lefty will move to ACR next week.There are four new entries to the Top 75, none of which come near to matching the re-entry position of Just Give Me A Reason. Uncharted since its original 2013 chart run, which saw it peak at No.2, the track has been blowing up on social media for Pink and featured vocalist Nate Ruess for weeks. It achieves critical mass this week, escaping ACR, and surging 78-15 (13,180 sales). The track’s to-date consumption of 2,758,915 units makes it the 224th biggest song of the 21st century That means it is bigger than any other Pink track, although - fronting the band Fun - Pink’s co-vocalist Ruess has an even bigger 21st century hit in the form of We Are Young, a 2012 chart-topper (feat. Janelle Monae), which ranks 195th with consumption of 2,914,192 units. Opening at No.38 (8,081 sales), the week’s highest new entry is Shotta’s, the very first hit for UK R&B/rap artist Season 25.Where Is Gone? (No.57, 6,615 sales) is the third single from Irish band Fontaines DC’s new album, Dopamine Chamber – which dropped today (16 October 16) – following Marianne (No.19) and Tongue (No.51). Their eighth chart entry in total, it is a collaboration with Spanish singer Rosalía, becoming her seventh hit. Also new to the Top 75: Girls All Around The World (No.61, 6,332 sales), the 25th hit for London rapper Digga; and Carnage (No.67, 6,128 sales), a track from the new No.2 album Generic Everything by Chase & Status, delivering their 22nd hit and the second for featured vocalist Little Simz.Olivia Rodrigo scores her 18th Top 40 hit as Expectations – a track from her album You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love newly-released in a Chappell Roan duet version – jumps 46-35 (8,218 sales). There are new peaks for Willing And Able (20-17, 12,344 sales) by Noah Kahan, Good Girl (25-22, 10,630 sales) by Cloonee & Prospa feat. Tristan Henry, Mi Chico (30-25, 10,273 sales) by DJ Goja, Jason Derulo & Melody, Cos Of You (40-34, 8,592 sales) by Morrisson, Unethical (58-50, 7,132 sales) by Faouzia and The Sun Will Never Settle (72-66, 6,134 sales) by Kingfishr. Overall singles consumption is down 1.20% week-on-week to 29,566,787 units, 4.74% below same week 2025 sales of 31,039,026 units. Paid-for sales are up 6.67% week-on-week at 271,140, 6.60% above same week 2025 sales of 254,358.Albums01 18,494 Jamie T - Ghosts (100 Days of Morning) [9,866 CDs, 6,565 vinyl, 461 cassettes, 379 downloads, 1,223 streaming]02 18,010 Chase & Status - Generic Everything03 10,910 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love04 9,578 Michael Jackson - The Essential05 8,156 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving06 8,007 SIENNA SPIRO - Visitor07 7,150 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop08 6,751 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-200909 6,742 Troye Sivan - She's the Best10 6,690 The Weeknd - The Highlights11 6,545 The Temperance Movement - New Promise Land Incorporated12 6,485 The Lilacs - Keeping Up with the Joneses14 5,773 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl19 4,812 Pet Shop Boys - A man from the future20 4,895 Cameron Winter - Live at Carnegie Hall28 3,899 Basht. - Poor Advice34 3,419 The Beatles - Rubber Soul40 2,953 Greta Van Fleet - Palace for the People62 2,430 unpeople - we are unpeople69 2,258 Blossoms - Songs from the Wedding Cakexxx 986 Johnny Marr - The Age of EverythingCompilations01 2,832 KPop Demon Hunters [373 Yoto cards, 14 CDs, 10 vinyl, 16 downloads, 2,419 streaming]02 2,782 Now Yearbook Extra 1971 QuoteNearly 20 years after his chart debut and more than four years since his last album, Jamie T maintains his record of making the Top 5 with every release and reaches No.1 for the second time, with sixth studio album, Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning) debuting at the summit.First week consumption of 18,494 units – 9,866 CDs, 6,565 vinyl albums, 461 cassettes, 379 digital downloads and 1,223 sales-equivalent streams – is enough for the 40-year-old singer/songwriter (real name Jamie Treays) to effect the 16th change of leadership at the top of the chart in as many weeks.The album’s first week consumption is 8.95% below the 20,311 units that earned his last album, The Theory Of Whatever, a No.1 debut in 2022. In fact, only one of Jamie T’s previous albums has had a smaller first week tally. His introductory album, Panic Prevention, debuted and peaked at No.4 and did so with his highest first week sale of 42,041 in 2007. Follow-up Kings & Queens debuted at No.2 on sales of 27,807 copies in 2009; third album Carry On The Grudge, debuted and peaked at No.4 while selling 19,925 copies in 2014; and fourth album Trick managed just 10,684 units when debuting at No.3 in 2016. Panic Prevention is his most successful album with to-date consumption of 322,546 units, followed by Kings & Queens on 188,480 sales, Carry On The Grudge on 132,183, Trick on 48,725 and The Theory Of Whatever on 42,928 units.Although Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning) has the lowest consumption for a No.1 for four weeks, it is just enough to see off the challenge of Generic Everything which, had it performed a little better, would have been the first No.1 for veteran drum & bass duo Chase & Status, but instead becomes the third of their seven albums to debut at No.2, on consumption of 18,010 units. Their second and third albums, No More Idols and Brand New Machine, also reached at No.2, in 2011 and 2013, though on much higher first week sales of 52,224 and 26,900 units, respectively.Opening at No.9 (6,742 sales), She’s The Best, is the fourth studio album, sixth Top 75 and fourth Top 10 entry for South African-born Australian singer/songwriter Troye Sivan.The rest of the Top 10: You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-3, 10,910 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Essential (4-4, 9,578 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Art Of Loving (7-5, 8,156 sales) by Olivia Dean, Visitor (6-6, 8,007 sales) by Sienna Spiro, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-7, 7,150 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Time Flies: 1994-2009 (10-8, 6,751 sales) by Oasis and The Highlights (11-10, 6,690 sales) by The Weeknd.It had a higher first week sale than any of its predecessors but Blossoms’ fifth No.1 makes a bigger second week tumble too, freefalling 1-69 (2,258 sales).The Life Of A Showgirl (8-14, 5,773 sales) by Taylor Swift, Rubber Soul (2-34, 3,419 sales) by The Beatles and last week’s No.5, The Age Of Everything by Johnny Marr – now uncharted (986 sales) – also vacate the Top 10.Non-alcoholic champagne all round! The Temperance Movement’s first album in eight years, and fourth studio set in all, New Promise Land Incorporated, debuts at No.11 (6,545 sales). The blues rock band, formed in 2011, reached No.12 with their eponymous 2013 debut; No.18 with second album, White Bear in 2016; and No.6 with third album, A Deeper Cut, in 2018. They also got to No.38 with Covers & Rarities in 2021, and No.35 with Caught On Stage: Live & Acoustic the following year.Wigan indie/rock quartet The Lilacs’ first full-length album, Keeping Up With The Joneses, debuts at No.12 (6,485 sales), building on the interest attracted by their 2025 EP, The 395 (To Forever), which peaked at No.120.Far from being a regular Pet Shop Boys album, A Man From The Future is an electronic/orchestral concept album of songs and spoken word tracks exploring the work of pioneering mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing, who committed suicide at the age of 41 in 1954 after being found guilty of homosexual offences. Debuting at No.19 (4,812 sales), the album earns The Pet Shop Boys their 31st Top 75 and 28th Top 40 entry.Also new to the Top 75: Live At Carnegie Hall (No.20, 4,895 sales), the first charted solo album by Geese frontman Cameron Winter, consisting primarily of piano-based versions of songs from his only solo studio album, Heavy Metal, which reached No.154 last year and has to-date consumption of 31,819 units; Poor Advice (No.28, 3,899 sales), the debut concept album by Dublin alt-rock/indie quartet Basht, which debuts at No.7 in their native Ireland; Palace For The People (No.40, 2,953 sales), the fourth album by Michigan hard rock quartet Greta Van Fleet, who previously reached No.12 with 2018 debut Anthem Of The Peaceful Army and No.8 with both second album The Battle At Garden’s Gate in 2021 and Starcatcher in 2023; and We Are Unpeople (No.62, 2,430 sales), the debut album by London rock/metal quartet Unpeople.Racking up its 112th consecutive week in the Top 75 – it has never actually dropped below No.44 – Sabrina Carpenter’s breakthrough sixth album Short N’ Sweet surges 38-21. Increasing consumption 60.53% week-on-week it is indebted to its new Collector’s Anniversary vinyl edition, which is not cheap, at £69.99, but is effective, securing first week consumption of 1,836 units to propel the album to a 22-week high. Short N’ Sweet’s to-date consumption: 1,072,790 units.Increasing its own consumption by seven units week-on-week, and defeating the challenge of Now Yearbook Extra 1971 by just 50 units, the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack is No.1 on the compilation chart again (2,832 sales including 373 Yoto cards, 14 CDs, 10 vinyl albums, 16 digital downloads and 2,419 sales-equivalent streams). It is a landmark 60th week at No.1 for the album, which thus establishes a new record for the compilation chart, surpassing the 59 weeks that The Greatest Showman spent in 31 different runs at the summit, between 2021 and 2025. The Greatest Showman previously spent 28 weeks at No.1 on the main album chart before being relegated to the compilation chart by a rule change. Overall album sales are down 1.96% week-on-week to 2,412,445 units, 6.27% below same week 2025 sales of 2,573,931. Physical product accounts for 303,854 sales, 12.60% of the total. Bonus InformationSingle Totals2,914,192 fun. feat. Janelle Monáe - We Are YoungCD Single Totals92,040 Ben Haenow - Something I Need47,764 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You47,484 The Beatles - Now and ThenAlbum Totals322,546 Jamie T - Panic Prevention188,480 Jamie T - Kings & Queens132,183 Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge42,928 Jamie T - The Theory of Whatever31,819 Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal1,072,790 Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet [1,836 vinyl this week]Notes- 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.
3 hours ago3 hr Oh wow so close between Jamie and C&S in the end!23 hours ago, JosephStyles said:Earlier this year, Swift’s seventh No.1, I Knew It I Knew You shifted 42,492 CDs in a week, on its way to overall CD sales of 47,764The wording of this somewhat obfuscating that nearly all of the rest of its CD total "came from" the week before. (It seems to have somehow managed to add another ~200 CD sales since then, some must have really taken their time to ship as afaia it was never restocked (and surely would have sold a lot more if it was)).
3 hours ago3 hr If there were 3 CD variants then the vinyl might not be chart eligible depending on how the OCC interpret their own rules about a maximum of 3 physical formats (But as we can't have nice things watch them count anyway and she somehow gets a third extra week at #1 leeching off the same FOMO pre-order x)
3 hours ago3 hr Shame Demon Hunters blocked extra 1971 from the top and I hope the 1994 yearbook can disrupt Demon Hunters run at the top. If it doesn’t, then Now 125 should disrupt it
2 hours ago2 hr Taylor would have been #6 behind Stella without the CDs...Stella and Ella are definitely heading to ACR with those declines. Looks like 'the cure' fell by less than the market, but 'Great Expectation' fell by marginally more than it (1.3% compared to 1.2%) so may still move to DCL-2.
2 hours ago2 hr Taylor Swift UK track consumption surpasses 125 million, and Karma becomes her 31st song to pass the million mark.Has any other UK artist surpassed 125 million tracks? Sheeran?The track’s to-date consumption of 2,758,915 units makes it the 224th biggest song of the 21st century.Just ridiculous!
1 hour ago1 hr 1 hour ago, jimwatts said:Taylor would have been #6 behind Stella without the CDs...Stella and Ella are definitely heading to ACR with those declines. Looks like 'the cure' fell by less than the market, but 'Great Expectation' fell by marginally more than it (1.3% compared to 1.2%) so may still move to DCL-2.Taylor's track without CDs would've been 1-3-6.Also, Choosin' Texas is officially on ACR next week.
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