Kylie Minogue’s Tension (BMG) is her ninth U.K. Official Albums #1. Over on singles, Doja Cat makes it a month at the top.
Tension earned 53k sales this week, outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined. Minogue is now level with Bob Dylan and Coldplay on the list of acts with the most #1 albums, each with nine to their name. The only female solo artists with more are Taylor Swift and Madonna with 10 and 12 respectively.
STRENGTH TO STRENGTH (One Thousand8) by Headie One and K-Trap debuts at #3. Doja Cat has her second U.K. Top 5 album with Scarlet (Ministry of Sound) landing at #5. Bakar’s Halo (Black Butter) is new at #15, while Teenage Fanclub’s Nothing Lasts Forever (PEMA) lands at #30.
On the U.K.’s Official Singles chart, Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” is still #1. The track tallied 6m streams over the last seven days.
“Strangers” (FFRR) by Kenya Grace continues to rise, moving up one to #2. cassö, RAYE and D-Block Europe’s “Prada” (Ministry of Sound) is up one to #3, and “greedy” (RCA) by Tate McRae rises three to #5.
The highest new entry today is Nines’ “Daily Duppy” (Zino Records) for GRM Daily, which debuts at #20.
