U.K. CHARTS: TAYLOR TIMES 10

Taylor Swift has scored a rare feat by claiming 10 weeks at #1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart with THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (EMI). On the singles tally, WHAM! returns to the top.

Swift is the first international solo artist to spend 10 nonconsecutive weeks at the top of the album chart in 25 years. The last act to do so was Shania Twain in 1999 with Come on Over (which spent 11 weeks total at #1).

Elsewhere on this week’s album chart, Michael Bublé’s Christmas (Reprise) is up one to #3, and ROSÉ’s debut solo set, rosie (Atlantic), lands at #4. She’s the first female K-pop artist to score a Top 5 album in the U.K.

Sabrina Carpenter’s 2023 Christmas-themed EP, fruitcake (Polydor), returns to #5 following her Netflix special, A Nonsense Christmas.

On the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart, “Last Christmas” (Epic) by WHAM! is up one to #1. The track returns to the top for an eighth nonconsecutive week in just under four years. It’s in the running to claim the U.K.’s Official Christmas #1 single for the second year in a row.

Crimbo lives large on the chart thereafter.

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (Columbia) is up two to #3. Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (MCA) climbs one to #5. (Gracie Abrams' "That's So True" [Interscope] falls from #1 to #2. ROSÉ and Bruno Mars' "APT." [Atlantic] is #4, down from #2.)

Tom Grennan’s Amazon Music Original, “It Can’t Be Christmas” (Insanity), is up 19 places to #6. Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (Geffen) rises three spots to #7, while “Fairytale of New York” (Warner Music U.K.) by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl ascends five to #8.

Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” (Republic) is up two to #9 and “Underneath The Tree” (RCA) by Kelly Clarkson enters the Top 10 for the first time, at #10.

Meanwhile, Lola Young’s breakthrough hit, “Messy” (Day One/Island), jumps 24 places to #11.