Sales Report: W/E 19th November 2026

Source: Music Week

Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles

01 66,487 Jamie Miller - Babydoll [333 physicals, 3,334 downloads, 62,820 streaming]

02 36,023 Ashe - Stop the Wedding!

03 33,358 Tate McRae - Housewife

04 27,349 SIENNA SPIRO - Great Expectation

05 26,893 sombr - My Body Isn't Ready

06 22,317 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas

07 21,369 Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan - expectations

08 20,256 Olivia Rodrigo - take me home (4 christmas) [4,726 vinyl, 218 cassettes]

09 18,776 ADÉLA - Nicole Kidman

10 17,256 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

13 13,887 Noah Kahan - Orbiter

15 13,535 P!nk feat. Nate Ruess - Just Give Me a Reason

17 13,262 Noah Kahan - Willing and Able

19 12,322 Tame Impala - Dracula

22 11,214 Wham! - Last Christmas

23 11,113 Season 25 - Shotta's.

24 10,963 Harry Styles - Coming Up Roses

29 10,022 Kingfishr - The Sun Will Never Settle

32 9,240 Justice, Tame Impala, SZA & King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flower in a Hurricane

36 8,353 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

37 8,213 Grace - Not Over Yet

39 8,024 Sam Fender - You Can't Always Get What You Want

43 7,411 Faouzia - UNETHICAL

50 6,866 Skepta - Currency

53 6,623 Michael Jackson - Thriller

54 6,521 Skepta feat. Central Cee & Jorja Smith - Broken Hearts

59 6,137 Chris Lorenzo & Chromeo - Fancy Footwork

63 6,030 Steve Lacy - nothing

70 5,597 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree

71 5,588 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

73 5,483 Rihanna - Disturbia

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Babydoll is No.1 for the fourth week in a row for Jamie Miller, increasing its lead over its nearest challenger from 80.03% to 84.57%, even as its own consumption falls for the second week in a row, to 66,487 units (333 physicals, 3,334 digital downloads, 62,820 sales-equivalent streams).

Its new runner-up, after three non-consecutive weeks at its previous peak of No.3, is Stop The Wedding! by Ashe, which returns to growth adding 10.80% week-on-week to 36,023 units, and displacing Housewife – No.2 for Tate McRae for the last three weeks – which now dips to No.3 (33,358 sales).

The only new arrival in the Top 10 – and the highest of five debuts in the Top 75 - is the first new Christmas song to chart this year, Take Me Home (4 Christmas), which opens at No.8 (20,256 sales) for Olivia Rodrigo, becoming her 13th Top 10 and 22nd Top 75 hit. Clearly a salute to The Waitresses’ 1982 hit Christmas Wrapping, it is the earliest a new Christmas hit has arrived in the Top 10 so far this century, and was helped by its simultaneous release on 2 7-inch and one cassette variants, which contributed 4,726 and 218 sales, respectively.

The only existing Top 10 hit to achieve a new peak is My Body Isn’t Ready, which climbs 9-5 (26,893 sales) for Sombr.

The rest of the Top 10: Great Expectation (4-4, 27,349 sales) by Sienna Spiro, Choosin’ Texas (7-6, 22,317 sales) by Ella Langley, Expectations (6-7, 21,369 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan, Nicole Kidman (8-9, 18,776 sales) by Adéla and Rein Me In (10-10, 17,256 sales) by Sam Fender & Olivia Dean.

As Halloween becomes a spooky memory, most of the songs related to it retreat to their tombs, aside from Thriller – the only Top 10 departee this week, which falls 5-53 (6,623 sales) for Michael Jackson – Tame Impala’s Dracula, which makes a less dramatic 15-19 dip on consumption of 12,322 units, and Rihanna’s Disturbia (39-73, 5,483 sales).

Being selected to soundtrack the John Lewis Christmas commercial used to be a free pass to a hit single but it hasn’t been the case since 2020, when Celeste’s A Little Love reached No.59. Six years on, Sam Fender’s cover of The Rolling Stones song, You Can’t Always Get What You Want – the B-side of their 1969 chart-topper Honky Tonk Women – slips into the chart at No.39 (8,024 sales) to become his 17th hit. Despite not being one of their 55 hits, it is The Rolling Stones’ 10th most-consumed song of the Kantar (Millward Brown) era, with consumption of 464,024 units since 2004.

Skepta’s first full-length solo set in seven years, The Fork And The Knife, earns the London rap veteran a brace of new hits, namely Currency (No.50, 6,866 sales) and Broken Hearts (feat. Central Cee & Jorja Smith, No.54, 6,521 sales). Skepta has now had 44 hits, Smith 19 and Central Cee 48.

The last of the Top 75 newcomers is Nothing (97-63, 6,030 sales), the fifth hit for American singer/songwriter Steve Lacy. A track from his latest album, Oh Yeah?, its debut is a reward for 11 consecutive weeks of growth.

Noah Kahan’s current UK tour results in increased consumption of his catalogue across the board. The most obvious manifestation of this is the 26-13 sprint of Orbiter (13,887 sales), which eclipses its previous peak of No.18 set seven weeks ago. Willing And Able, meanwhile, rises 28-17 (13,262 sales) to equal the peak it set four weeks ago. Kahan’s albums The Great Divide (14-12, 7,217 sales) and Stick Season (18-16, 6,021 sales) move little but increase consumption considerably, with TGD up 22.01% and SS up 23.52% week-on-week.

Previously a little sluggish, Irish band Kingfishr’s maiden UK hit, The Sun Will Never Settle, is suddenly the fastest moving new hit in the chart, surging 51-29 (10,022 sales).

There are also new peaks for: Shotta’s (36-23, 11,113 sales) by Season 25, Coming Up Roses (34-24, 10,963 sales) by Harry Styles, Flower In A Hurricane (45-32, 9,240 sales) by Justice, Tame Impala, SZA & King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Unethical (53-43, 7,411 sales) by Faouzia, Fancy Footwork (72-59, 6,137 sales) by Chris Lorenzo & Chromeo.

The first Christmas oldie to return for 2026, Last Christmas, catapults 54-22 (11,214 sales) for Wham, and is now joined in the Top 75 by All I Want For Christmas Is You (82-36, 8,353 sales) by Mariah Carey, Underneath The Tree (No.70, 5,597 sales) by Kelly Clarkson and Fairytale Of New York (No.71, 5,588 sales) by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl.

Both Last Christmas and All I Want For You have made the chart for the 20th year in a row. It is the 132nd week in the Top 75 for the former, which first charted in 1984, the 133rd week in the Top 75 for the latter, which first charted in 1994. Last Christmas has thus far spent 12 weeks at No.1, and All I Want For Christmas Is You, three.

Elsewhere in a chart where there are lots of apparently random revivals, recent viral returnees Just Give Me A Reason (21-15, 13,535 sales) by Pink feat. Nate Ruess and Not Over Yet (48-37, 8,213 sales) by Grace achieve the highest placings of their current campaigns.

Overall singles consumption is up 0.72% week-on-week to 29,742,629 units, 4.23% below same week 2025 sales of 31,057,087 units. Paid-for sales are down 5.21% week-on-week at 232,944, 10.56% below same week 2025 sales of 260,455.

Albums

01 26,318 James Blunt - Airplane Mode [17,201 CDs, 4,396 vinyl, 2,761 downloads, 1,955 streaming]

02 22,527 Royal Blood - Dead Company

03 12,415 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

04 11,818 Skepta - The Fork and Knife

05 11,291 Kings of Leon - O My Beloved

06 10,430 Steven Wilson - Requiem for a Village

07 9,679 George Michael - The Faith Tour

08 8,815 Michael Jackson - The Essential

09 8,266 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

10 7,245 SIENNA SPIRO - Visitor

11 7,340 Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber

12 7,217 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide

16 6,021 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

18 5,687 Rex Orange County - Dream Fatigue

20 5,600 Tinie Tempah - The Night's Not Dead

21 5,566 Queen - Queen Budapest (Live)

24 4,749 Bryan Adams - How's It Goin'

25 4,285 Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

27 4,048 Passenger - Wild Love

31 3,913 Skerryvore - Beautiful Mistakes

34 3,829 Michael Jackson - Thriller

38 3,390 Johnny Flynn & Lillie Flynn - Beam Cottage

48 2,796 La Roux - Old Flames

74 2,194 Spice Girls - The Singles Collection

111 1,824 Queens of the Stone Age - Perfecth

123 1,716 Nickelback - Everything Under the Sun

143 1,555 Collabro - The Return

xxx 873 The Snuts - Joy in Short Moments

xxx 689 Editors - Surface, Echo & Sound

Compilations

01 5,004 The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2026 Mix) [3,950 CDs, 741 vinyl, 291 downloads, 22 streaming]

02 4,247 Now That's What I Call an Era: Ballroom Blitz 1967-1976 [3,677 CDs, 324 vinyl, 246 downloads]

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Back in the spotlight after his stint on The Celebrity Traitors, where he was banished in the endgame two weeks ago, James Blunt racks up his first No.1 album for more than 19 years, and third in his career, as his eighth studio set Airplane Mode makes a smooth landing at No.1.

Comprising a dozen new songs (16 in its deluxe edition) all co-written by the 52-year-old from Hampshire, it achieved first week consumption of 26,318 units (17,201 CDs, 4,396 vinyl albums, 2,761 digital downloads and 1,955 sales-equivalent streams), and is the star performer among 15 Top 75 debuts – the highest tally so far this year - which includes new studio albums from no fewer than seven other prior chart-toppers: Royal Blood, Kings Of Leon, Rex Orange County, Bryan Adams, Passenger, Tinie Tempah and Collabro.

Former army captain Blunt topped the chart with first two studio albums, Back To Bedlam (2004) and All The Lost Souls (2007), subsequently reaching No.4 with Some Kind Of Trouble (2010), No.2 with Moon Landing (2013), No.6 with The Afterlove (2017), No.3 with Once Upon A Mind (2019) and No.5 with Who We Used To Be (2023).

His unbroken run of Top 10 albums also includes his compilation The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021), which reached No.9 in 2021.

Home to the hits High (No.16), You’re Beautiful (No.1), Goodbye My Lover (No.9) and Wisemen (No.23), Back To Bedlam was very much a ‘sleeper’ when first released, with first week sales of 482 copies – but it reached No.1 37 weeks later and by 2007 was the biggest-selling album of the 21st century. Although it has subsequently slipped to 10th in that metric, it has substantial to-date consumption of 3,505,359 units, being by far his biggest seller, ahead of All The Lost Souls (974,259 units) and Moon Landing (448,248 sales). Airplane Mode’s first week sales are dwarfed by his best, the 117,966 launch of All The Lost Souls but are 172.61% above last album Who We Used To Be’s first frame of 9,654 units.

Airplane Mode trailed in most of the week’s sales flashes to Royal Blood’s fifth studio album, Dead Company, which ultimately debuts at No.2 (22,527 sales), ending an impressive opening sequence of four consecutive No.1 albums for the Sussex rock act, encompassing their eponymous 2014 debut, 2017 set How Did We Get So Dark?, 2021’s Typhoons and 2023’s Back To The Water Below. However, Dead Company eclipsed by 19.47% the latter album’s No.1 sale of 18,856 units.

London rapper Skepta’s first new solo album since 2019, The Fork And Knife debuts at No.4 (11,818 sales), becoming his seventh Top 75, and fourth Top 10 entry.

Kings Of Leon have had more No.1 albums – six – than any of the other six erstwhile chart champs who threw their hat into the ring this week, notching up a double hat-trick of consecutive chart-toppers starting with Because Of The Times in 2007 and ending with When You See Yourself in 2021. All their previous albums made their debuts in the top five and peaked in the top three, and their 10th studio album and 12th Top 75 entry, O My Beloved, opens at No.5 (11,291 sales). Their 2008 fourth album, Only By The Night, is their biggest-seller with to-date consumption of 3,278,264 units, more than three times any of their other releases.

Prog rock legend Steven Wilson’s ninth studio album, 11th Top 75 entry in a solo capacity and fifth Top 10 album, Requiem For A Village debuts at No.6 (10,430 sales). The 57-year-old singer, songwriter and producer is also the principal member of Porcupine Tree, who have had six Top 75 albums, with their most recent studio effort, Closure/Continuation, reaching No.2 in 2022.

The soundtrack to the new theatrically-released concert film, George Michael: The Faith Tour captures his 1988/1989 tour dates in support of his 1987 debut solo album Faith. Opening at No.7 (9,679 sales), it is the 15th Top 10 album for the late singer/songwriter, who died in 2016, including his Wham! collaborations with Andrew Ridgeley.

The rest of the Top 10: You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (2-3, 12,415 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Essential (3-8, 8,815 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Art Of Loving (8-9, 8,266 sales) by Olivia Dean and Visitor (9-10, 7,245 sales) by Sienna Spiro.

Last week’s No.1, Pefecth by Queens Of The Stone Age, plummets to No.111 (1,824 sales).

Also exiting the Top 10: Dopamine Chamber (5-11, 7,340 sales) by Fontaines DC, Thriller (10-34, 3,829 sales) by Michael Jackson, Everything Under The Sun (6-123, 1,716 sales) by Nickelback and two albums that are no longer in the Top 200: Joy In Short Moments (873 sales) and Surface, Echo & Sound (689 sales), No.4 and No.7 last week for The Snuts and Editors, respectively.

New releases debuting outside the Top 10 by artists who have had No.1s are: Dream Fatigue (No.18, 5,687 sales), the sixth studio album and fourth chart entry for 28-year-old Hampshire singer/songwriter Rex Orange County; The Night’s Not Dead (No.20, 5,600 sales), the fourth studio album and chart entry for London rapper Tinie Tempah, who reached No.1 with 2010 debut Disc-Overy, No.3 with 2013 album Demonstration and No.9 with most recent album Youth in 2017; How’s It Goin’ (No.24, 4,749 sales), the 17th studio album and 21st chart entry for 67-year-old Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams; Wild Love (No.27, 4,048 sales), the 16th studio album, and 10th chart entry for 42-year-old Brighton singer/songwriter Passenger; and – missing the Top 75 - The Return (No.143, 1,555 sales), the eighth album by Collabro, winners of Britain’s Got Talent in 2014.

Forty years after it was recorded for release to the then burgeoning home video market, Queen: Budapest has been restored and released not only in video formats but for the first time in audio formats, and duly debuts at No.21 (5,566 sales), becoming the band’s 38th chart album.

Marking the 30th anniversary of The Spice Girls’ first album, The Singles Collection (No.74, 2,194 sales) is a sprawling box set across 14 CD and 14 7-inch vinyl editions – the former housing 160 tracks including previously unreleased demos, the latter 28 – with a booklet and postcards.

Also new to the Top 75: Beautiful Mistakes (No.31, 3,913 sales), the second and highest charting-album by Scots Celtic rock veterans Skerryvore, whose last album, Tempus, reached No.36 in 2023; Beam Cottage (No.38, 3,390 sales), a folk-infused collaboration between siblings Johnny Flynn and Lillie Flynn, named after their childhood home, and delivering the fourth chart entry for 43-year-old Johnny, and the first for 40-year-old Lillie, both actors/singers; Old Flames (No.48, 2,796 sales), the fourth and lowest-charted album for In For The Kill/Bulletproof hitmaker La Roux.

Peaking at No.4 when first released in 1973, Roxy Music’s second album, For Your Pleasure, returns for the first time since, after being released in a massively expanded new deluxe edition, resurfacing at No.25 (4,285 sales).

Leadership of the compilation chart passes to The Phantom Of The Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 2026 Mix), a 40th anniversary remix of the 1986 Original London Cast album, which spent three weeks at No.1 in 1987, when compilations were in the main chart. The new version peaked at No.30 earlier this year but is propelled 82-1 (5,004 sales, including 3,950 CDs, 741 vinyl albums, 291 digital downloads and 22 sales-equivalent streams), after being released in new physical editions.

That’s tough on Now That’s What I Call An Era: Ballroom Blitz 1967-1976, which debuts at No.2 on pure sales of 4,247 units (3,677 CDs, 324 vinyl albums and 246 digital downloads) – the highest consumption for a No.2 compilation for 24 weeks.

Overall album sales are up 5.59% week-on-week to 2,530,345 units, 1.16% below same week 2025 sales of 2,560,042. Physical product accounts for 401,262 sales, 15.86% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals

464,024 The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Album Totals

3,505,359 James Blunt - Back to Bedlam

974,259 James Blunt - All the Lost Souls

448,248 James Blunt - Moon Landing

3,278,264 Kings of Leon - Only By the Night

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Sales are in!

So without ACR, we have two Christmas songs in the top 10 as Last Christmas out 'sold' Take me home (4 christmas) by around 2,000!

Babydoll miles head

‘Last Christmas’ would possibly scrape number 6 if it was allowed to be on SCR. That is a phenomenally high position for this early in the Christmas season.

‘Choosin’ Texas’ has declined by a minuscule number of units, but has probably earned another week on DCL and therefore might not be returning in the new year.

Faouzia has a new peak of 43 - but seems to have very similar sales to last week, so it’s touch and go whether she is on ACR next week! As she has increased on Spotify (thanks largely to a dip last week on Halloween Day) I predict that she has a marginal increase this week.

Thanks for the James Blunt totals.

Would be interested to see how his more recent albums stack up but Back to Bedlam was on 3,338,088 in January 2017, so has added 167,271 in those nearly ten years.

Meanwhile, Moon Landing was on 387,745 at the same time, so has since added 60,503.

Oh Ryan Air took it with ease in the end!

Nice to see Spice Girls managed to go top 75.

the chart on the OCC website doesn't match some of the positions from the Music Week article... looks like Sam Fender should be #53 instead of #38

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/

Edited 17 hours ago17 hr by maggotsforbrains

Just now, maggotsforbrains said:

the chart on the OCC website doesn't match some of the positions from the Music Week article...

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/

Sam Fender's #39 entry is now at #53, Hugel et al move up one to #39 and Robyn turns out to be in the Top 40 at #40, but below that seems to be all over the place compared to what the sales above led us to believe.

Sam only up to 17 on the sales chart so I'm guessing they've taken off his physicals, boo

Just now, gasman449 said:

Sam only up to 17 on the sales chart so I'm guessing they've taken off his physicals, boo

I guess he couldn't always get what he wanted (a top 40 debut)

Andrew Lloyd Webber stopping ballroom blitz from becoming the first eras compilation to top the compilation chart. I can see next weeks compilation chart go something like this

1. Now 125

2. Hunger Games

3. Demon Hunters

4. Now Legends

Just now, gasman449 said:

Sam only up to 17 on the sales chart so I'm guessing they've taken off his physicals, boo

Everything above Sam Fender (1-38) is unchanged, and from the positions we have here from below 53 (his new position) it looks like everything below him has also stayed the same, so only the trackss that are now 40-52 and thus went from below him to above him seem to be affected, so yes it looks very much like something about Sam Fender's numbers were found to be erroneous and were changed. I hope that record labels can't see the new chart first and then decide to retrospectively withdraw their pre-order physicals from that chart and save them for next week, or anything silly like that.

Edited 17 hours ago17 hr by DanChartFan

So Sam Fender cheated then, justice for Dai Dai at last.

Spice Girls are actually #75 not #74

4 minutes ago, jszmiles said:

Spice Girls are actually #75 not #74

And Johnny Flynn is #39 not #38. Has the album chart been recalculated too do we think?

Glad Olivia debuted top 10! I wonder if she'll get new peaks as we get closer to Christmas?

2 hours ago, Envoirment said:

Glad Olivia debuted top 10! I wonder if she'll get new peaks as we get closer to Christmas?

She has massively dipped across the week, but of course things could turn around as we get closer to Christmas.

Do we have the total sales for the Faith Album from George?

12 hours ago, braindeadpj said:

So without ACR, we have two Christmas songs in the top 10 as Last Christmas out 'sold' Take me home (4 christmas) by around 2,000!

No, because without ACR, 'Take Me Home (4 Christmas)' would be knocked out of the top 10