Jamie T Scores Second Consecutive U.K. No. 1 Album With ‘Ghosts (100 Days of Morning)’

Jamie T has earned his second consecutive chart-topping album as Ghosts (100 Days of Morning) enters the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart at No. 1.

The indie icon first hit the top of the charts in 2022 with The Theory of Whatever, his fifth studio album. All six of Jamie T’s studio albums have all peaked inside the top five following Panic Prevention (2007, No. 4), Kings & Queens (2009, No. 2), Carry on the Grudge (2014, No. 4) and Trick (2016, No. 3).

British drum’n’bass duo Chase & Status end the week at No. 2 with their eighth studio album, Generic Everything. The placing matches their previous best with 2011’s Idols and 2013’s Brand New Machine. 

Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love holds its position at No. 3, followed by Michael Jackson’s The Essential greatest hits collection. 

Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving lifts two places to No. 5; the album will compete at the Mercury Prize ceremony this Thursday (Oct. 22) in Newcastle upon Tyne alongside RAYE’s This Music May Contain Hope, Paul McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane and more.

Troye Sivan earns a fourth top 10 placing on the Official Albums Chart with new LP She’s The Best (No. 9), following 2015’s Wild (No. 5), 2018’s Bloom (No. 10), 2023’s Something To Give Each Other (No. 4).

Pet Shop Boys score a 28th top 40 album with their Alan Turing tribute record, A man from the future (No. 19). Geese frontman Cameron Winter, meanwhile, earns his first solo project inside top 40 with his acclaimed Live At Carnegie Hall LP at No. 20.