UK charts

The Weeknd Pushes Back World Tour For Third Time

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The Weeknd has pushed back his ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ world tour for a third time.

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Dave Grohl Foo Fighters at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday 30 January 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Dave Grohl Wants To Turn ABBA Into GrABBA

by Paul Cashmere

Dave Grohl has offered to play drums for ABBA after he “wept like a baby” listening to their comeback single.

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UK Charts: Its Lorde Vs Olivia Rodrigo Battling This Week

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Olivia Rodrigo’s record-breaking debut album Sour is on course to return to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart following its release on vinyl.

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UK Charts: The Weeknd Is Heading For No 1

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The Official Chart: First Look offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead of Friday’s Official Singles Chart Top 100. The chart is based on preliminary sales and early streaming reports.

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UK Charts: Olivia Rodrigo Has Biggest Selling Single and Album of 2021 So Far In UK

by Paul Cashmere

Olivia Rodrigo cements her status as the year’s biggest breakthrough star as she claims the UK’s biggest song and album of 2021 so far.

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Paul Weller Set For No 1 UK Album This Week

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Paul Weller is leading the race for Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with Fat Pop.

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Tom Jones Heads For His First UK No 1 in Two Decades

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

Sir Tom Jones is on course for his first UK Number 1 album in two decades with Surrounded By Time.

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Rolling Stones On Track For UK No 1 With Goats Head Soup Reissue

by Paul Cashmere

All change! The Rolling Stones have pulled ahead of Declan McKenna in the nail-bitingly close race for this week’s Number 1 album.

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UK Charts: Its A Declan McKenna vs Rolling Stones Week

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It’s youth vs experience on this week’s Official Albums Chart Update as Declan McKenna and The Rolling Stones go head-to-head for the UK’s Number 1 album.

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Hayley Williams Is Heading For A UK No 1

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Hayley Williams leads today’s Official Chart Update, ahead in the race for this week’s UK Number 1 with Petals For Armor.

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Ed Sheeran Ordered To Disclose Income In Copyright Dispute

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Ed Sheeran has been ordered to disclose his concert earnings from his Divide Tour amid his ongoing Thinking Out Loud copyright lawsuit.

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Ed Sheeran Says He Is Taking A Break

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Ed Sheeran is taking a break from music as he wants to “go out and see some more of the world”.

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UK Charts: Robbie Williams Equals An Elvis Chart Record

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Robbie Williams has tied Elvis Presley’s record for the most U.K. album number ones among solo artists after landing his 13th chart-topper.

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UK Charts: Coldplay Land Number One Album Ahead of Robbie Williams

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Congratulations to Coldplay, who land straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with Everyday Life, fending off competition from Robbie Williams’s new festive collection The Christmas Present.

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Foals and James Arthur Battle It Out For No 1 This Week in UK

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Foals and James Arthur are involved in a close race Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

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UK Charts: Jonas Brothers look like scoring no 1 album this week

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Seven new entries are heading for this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 10, but it looks like Lewis Capaldi will claim a fourth week at the top.

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UK Charts: Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus set to return to no 1

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After six consecutive weeks at Number 2, it looks Lil Nas X will gallop back to the UK Number 1 spot.

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UK Charts: The Greatest Showman continues album chart dominance

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The Greatest Showman brings in the New Year as 2019’s first Number 1 album, extending its record as the album with the most chart-topping weeks this century.

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UK Charts : The Greatest Showman end 2018 as no 1 album

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The Greatest Showman caps off a phenomenally successful year by keeping its place at Number 1 for the final Official Albums Chart of 2018.

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UK Charts: The Greatest Showman is the no 1 album for Christmas week 2018

by Paul Cashmere

It’s a very Merry Christmas for The Greatest Showman – the film’s hugely successful cast recording takes this year’s Christmas Number 1 album with its strongest week of sales yet.

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UK Charts: The 1975 score third no 1 album

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Congratulations to The 1975, who land straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.

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Richard Ashcroft May Beat A Star Is Born On UK Chart This Week

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Richard Ashcroft could take out his second UK Number 1 album this week.

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Rod Stewart Claims No 1 Album For UK

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When it comes to the Official Albums Chart Number 1, Rod Stewart certainly wears it well. The legendary singer has scored his ninth chart-topper with Blood Red Roses, beating fellow icon Cher into second place.

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Electric Light Orchestra May Have A UK No 1 This Week

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Two things may be coming together to give ELO (or Electric Light Orchestra, for those not up on the latest lingo) their first number 1 album in Britain in 35 years.

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UK Stream 500 MIllion Streams Per Week

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With audio streaming in the UK continuing to grow at an exponential rate, music body the BPI today reveals that, according to Official Charts Company data, the landmark of 500 million weekly streams has been breached for the first time.

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UK Chart Allows Streams To Count For Gold And Platinum Awards

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The BPI’s famous Platinum, Gold and Silver Awards Programme, which recognises achievement in respect of sales of albums, singles and long-form music video in the UK, is to include audio streaming data in its album certifications from this week.

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