The sixth studio LP from the New York native, which includes collaborations with the likes of Dolly Parton, Hank Williams Jr. and Tim McGraw, joins 2018’s beerbongs & bentleys and 2019 record Hollywood’s Bleeding in Posty’s hat-trick of UK chart-toppers.
F1-Trillion also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the most-purchased record on wax this week.
It’s an eighth Top 5 album for The Script this week, as latest LP Satellites makes its debut (2). The Dublin-formed group’s seventh studio album, and first since the sad loss of lead guitarist Mark Sheehan last year, also debuts atop the Official Record Store Chart, the best-selling physical album of the week in the UK’s independent record shops.
With Taylor Swift returning to London’s Wembley Stadium on The Eras Tour this week, former chart-topper The Tortured Poets Department lifts one (3). It’s one of no less than seven Taylor records occupying this week’s Top 40, where we also find Lover (10), folklore (11), reputation (12), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (13), Midnights (14) and Red (Taylor’s Version) (37).
Congratulations are in order for South Wales five-piece Scarlet Rebels, who secure their second Official Top 40 album with Where the Colours Meet (15). The Llanelli-formed rockers previously saw similar success with 2022 release See Through Blue (7).
With the release of a special 10th Anniversary Edition, Royal Blood’s eponymous 2014 debut returns to the Top 40 for the first time in seven years (21). The record topped the Official Albums Chart on its original release back in 2014.
Edinburgh-born singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Hamish Hawk earns a career-best this week, as A Firmer Hand becomes his first-ever Top 40 record (22).
Navada natives Falling In Reverse also earn a brand-new best this week, as latest release Popular Monster nets the rockers their first UK Top 40 (29).
And finally, live LP Fifty Years in Black – The Anniversary Tour 2024 sees The Stranglers secure a landmark 20th Top 40 album this week, new in at Number 36.
