ANALYSIS The Official UK Singles & Albums Charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on a sample of more than 15,000 physical and digital outlets. They count actual sales and audio streams from last Friday to Thursday, based on sales of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other physical formats and audio streams weighted using SEA2 methodology.


Back to the Future: Dua Lipa rebounds to the top of the chart


n BY JAMES MASTERTON


fter a week away Dua Lipa returns to the top of the albums chart with Future Nostalgia posting a sale of 10,532. That’s the lowest weekly sales total for a No.1 album since Blossoms’ eponymous album sat at the summit with barely 8,000 sales to its name in August 2016. Lipa is the first British solo female to have an album spend as many as three weeks at the top of the charts for a startlingly long time - Adele the last person to achieve this way back in 2015. Lewis Capaldi is at No.2 once more with Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (7,620 sales) leaving fellow countryman and last week’s champion Gerry Cinnamon to slide to No.3, The Bonny watching its sales slide 79.2% from last week at 6,021. Mind you, that’s a spectacular performance in contrast to the record he held off seven days ago, Enter Shikari’s Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible sliding 88.4% week on week, tumbling 2-77 with 1,348 sales.


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The highest new entry of the week is What Kinda Music, a collaborative work by musician Tom Misch and drummer Yussef Dayes. The album lands at No.4 (5,946 sales) to give Misch a second Top 10 album, following in the footsteps of his 2018 debut Geography which charted at No.8 and which has sold 62,153 copies to date in its own right. Dayes is here making his album chart debut, although he reached No.45 on the singles chart in February with his solo single Duality.


Also taking advantage of a quiet week to sneak a high new entry are Florida heavy metal act Trivium, who land at No.12 (3,364 sales) with What The Dead Men Say. That’s slightly disappointing given midweek flashes suggested they were on course for a second Top 10 album following 2006 release The Crusade which peaked at No.7. The group’s biggest-selling release to date is their second studio album Ascendancy from a year earlier. It has never made the Top 100 albums chart but has sold 155,399 copies to date, including 754 so far this year. Their other top sellers: The Crusade (101,741 sales), Shogun (60,935 sales) and In Waves (45,272 sales).


He’s made a splash on the singles chart following his ground-breaking Fortnite live performance, and Travis Scott also enjoys an albums chart rebound as Astroworld enjoys a 113.8% surge in sales and streams to rocket 78-16 (2,959 sales), a chart position it last scaled in September 2018 in its sixth week on release. The album has accumulated 191,190 sales to date. Also notably on the rise: Foo Fighters’ Greatest Hits which enjoys an uptick in attention thanks to the presence at the top of the charts of the all-star cover version of their own Times Like These. Originally released in 2009, the hits collection has sold 1,344,300 copies to date and this week surges 55-18 (2,855 sales) to claim its highest chart placing since October 2017.


Brand new at No.30 is veteran American folk-rock performer musicweek.com


Dua lipa – Future Nostalgia (Warner Records) This week’s sales: 10,532 | Physical: 1,874 | Downloads: 1,865 | Streams: 6,793 | Total sales to date: 82,405 |


Lucinda Williams with Good Souls Better Angels, her first chart entry since The Ghosts Of Highway 20 charted at No.33 in 2016. The new album accumulated 2,183 sales last week and is only the third Top 30 album of her career, her best chart performance since Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone charged to No.23 in October 2014.


Flaming Lip-a: Dua Lipa is the first female artist to spend three


weeks at No.1 since Adele


American multi-instrumentalist BC Camplight has been resident in the UK (on and off) since 2012 and this week makes the album chart for the very first time with his fifth collection Shortly After Takeoff. It is the third in what fans view as the “Manchester trilogy” of albums recorded in the city since he relocated on the advice of fans online. It lands at No.78 with 1,322 sales, a significant jump on the mere 410 copies shifted by its predecessor Deportation Blues upon release in 2018 although that album is for now his biggest seller to date, with 4,795 copies to its name.


Best known on these shores for her contribution to Louis Tomlinson’s Polaroid single, Canadian singer and actress Lennon Stella makes her album chart bow this week with Three Two One, which makes a low-key bow at No.91 with 1,127 sales. After four weeks of consecutive growth the artist albums market dips -1.72% to 1,740,937, a 7% drop in physical sales (to 220,691) meaning streams shoulder slightly more of the burden and creep back up to an 81.15% share of the market overall. The compilations sector posts its own fourth straight week of growth, the market total of 93,861 up 1% week on week and the highest it has climbed for six weeks. The delayed release next week of the 105th volume in the Now That’s What I Call Music series will hopefully be the boost that pushes the total back over 100,000.


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