In short order: Sabrina Carpenter
ANALYSIS
Music Week digs into the month’s top chart stories...
SECOND TO NONE SABRINA CARPENTER Short ’N Sweet (Polydor) SALES: 45,660
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Sabrina Carpenter was challenging Sparks in the battle for the weekly No.1 album as Music Week went to press. But for the majority of May, Short ’N Sweet was stuck at No.2 – a position it has held for 25 of its 39 weeks on the chart. The album has also spent four weeks at No.1 (with a fifth in contention) and has never been out of the Top 5, with just four of its 39 chart weeks so far being outside the Top 3. Those incredible chart stats explain why, even without a No.1 on the weekly rundown for the four weeks of our May rankings, Sabrina Carpenter still had the streaming consistency to top the monthly chart with consumption of 45,660 units. Now well beyond double-platinum status, Short ’N Sweet has total consumption of 673,971 units.
AMERICAN DREAM
SLEEP TOKEN Even In Arcadia (RCA) SALES: 36,612
LAUGH TRACKS STEREOPHONICS
Sleep Token’s fourth studio album, and first since moving to RCA, has been a global triumph for the British band. Its international chart success includes a US No.1 with a record-breaking streaming week for a hard rock act. Sleep Token’s impact on DSPs was also evident in the UK, where Even In Arcadia debuted at No.1 with 28,223 units, including 15,603 physical copies, 1,433 downloads and 11,187 sales-equivalent streams.
ROOT OF SALES: 19,474
US country star Morgan Wallen earned his first UK No.1 last month with I’m The Problem. His fourth studio album opened with consumption of 19,474 units (including 10,472 CDs, 1,326 vinyl LPs, 600 downloads and 7,076 sales-equivalent streams). It far exceeds Wallen’s previous best of No.40 for 2023’s One Thing At A Time, although that album has now amassed consumption of 176,442 units.
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Big Sleep: Sleep Token
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MORGAN WALLEN I’m The Problem (EMI)
ROCK HISTORY PINK FLOYD
At Pompeii - MCMLXXII (Sony Music CG)
SALES: 18,066 Following Sony’s acquisition of Pink Floyd’s catalogue in
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2024, the rock legends returned to No.1 with their seventh chart-topper. Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII is the remastered edition of their performance at the ancient amphitheatre. It made No.1 with consumption of 13,870 units (5,083 CDs, 3,691 vinyl LPs, 3,650 Blu-rays, 755 audio DVDs, 384 downloads and 307 sales-equivalent streams).
Make ’Em Laugh, Make ’Em Cry, Make ’Em Wait (EMI) SALES: 35,554
Holding off a strong challenge from Swedish metal band Ghost, Stereophonics secured their ninth No.1 album with Make ’Em Laugh, Make ’Em Cry, Make ’Em Wait. They are now the 20th act in UK chart history to rack up nine or more No.1 LPs. With opening sales of 31,195 units, Stereophonics improved on the opening week’s tally for previous album Oochya! in 2022 by 29.6%.
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Flight of Fancy: PinkPantheress
CAT POWER PINKPANTHERESS Fancy That (Warner Records)
SALES: 13,751 PinkPantheress made her Top 10 breakthrough with new mixtape Fancy That, which opened at No.3 on the weekly chart with consumption of 11,126 units (including 7,767 physical copies, 50 downloads and 3,309 sales-equivalent streams). The UK singer, songwriter and producer previously charted at No.20 in 2021 with her first mixtape, To Hell With It, and No.28 in 2023 with studio album Heaven Knows. Gold-certified To Hell With It leads the way with 106,398 units so far.
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PHOTOS: Official Charts, A Ford
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