The sequel to her chart-topping 2023 record Tension, Tension II joins Kylie (1988), Enjoy Yourself (1989), Greatest Hits (1992), Fever (2001), Aphrodite (2010), Golden (2018), Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (2019), DISCO (2020) and Tension (2023) in Kylie’s tally of chart-toppers.
The only female artist to have secured chart-topping LPs in five consecutive decades, Kylie edges up the list of artists with the most UK Number 1 albums; now sitting alongside ABBA, Coldplay, Queen and Michael Jackson, also with 10 to their names.
Tension II also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, this week’s most popular LP on wax, and the Official Record Store Chart, the biggest-selling album of the past seven days in independent UK record shops.
Rag’n’Bone Man secures his third consecutive Top 5 record with What Do You Believe In? this week. The Uckfield-born singer-songwriter previously topped the Official Albums Chart with Human (2017) and Life By Misadventure (2021).
Following the release of its deluxe edition, Gracie Abrams’ former Number 1 record The Secret of Us returns to the Top 10, up 29 (7). Meanwhile, Aussie electro-pop outfit Confidence Man earn their first-ever Albums Chart entry with third studio release 3AM (LA LA LA) (9).
One Direction return to UK Top 40 as fans mourn the loss of Liam Payne
All five of One Direction’s studio albums return to the UK Top 40 as fans mourn the loss of member Liam Payne, who tragically died last week aged 31.
Chart-topping 2013 record Midnight Memories leads the group’s uplift. With combined UK sales and streams increasing 517% week-on-week according to Official Charts Company data, the album returns to the Top 40 for the first time in 10 years (13).
It’s followed by 2015’s Made In The A.M. (21), 2014 release FOUR (22), 2012’s Take Me Home (25) and 2011 debut Up All Night (38).
Our thoughts are with Liam’s family, friends and fans at this time.
