U.K. CHARTS: ABBA, UNABATED
The soundtrack to Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Polydor) holds onto the #1 slot for a second week on the U.K. Official Albums Chart, topping #2, Atlantic’s The Greatest Showman, by almost 15,000 units. Drake’s “In My Feelings” (YMCMB) has scored a third week at #1.
ABBA-mania continues to grip the Top 10 as the soundtrack to the 2008 original Mamma Mia! holds at #5 and Gold—Greatest Hits rises a slot to #6.
Halestorm’s Vicious (Atlantic) is the week’s top new entry, settling in at #8. Northern Irish country singer Catherine McGrath scores her U.K. chart debut at #13 with Talk of This Town (Warner Bros.) and Daughtry’s fifth album, Cage to Rattle (RCA), is #14. All Saints’s Testament (AS) opens at #15.
On singles, George Ezra’s former #1 “Shotgun” (Columbia) rides shotgun for the fourth week in a row. The week’s highest new entry is “No Brainer” from DJ Khaled f/Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and Quavo (We The Best/Epic); it’s #4.
Benny Blanco f/Halsey and Khalid’s “Eastside” (Interscope) is this week’s biggest mover, rising 17 slots to #23.
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