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U.K. CHARTS: BIFFY CELEBRATES THIRD #1

August 21, 2020

Biffy Clyro have scored their third #1 on the U.K.'s Official Albums Chart with A Celebration of Endings (Warner Records) on 26k sales. Over on singles, Joel Corry and MNEK remain on top for a fifth week.

Biffy Clyro have scored their third #1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart with A Celebration of Endings (Warner Records) on 26k sales. Over on singles, Joel Corry and MNEK remain on top for a fifth week.

Taylor Swift’s Folklore (EMI) drops down to #2 on albums while Sea Girls’s are new at #3 with Open Up Your Head (Polydor). Even in Exile (Montyray) from Manic Street Preachers’ frontman James Dean Bradfield ends the week at #6, followed by Brighton folk-punk outfit LevellersPeace (On The Fiddle) at #8.

Burna Boy’s fifth studio album, Twice as Tall (Atlantic), is new at #11, followed by Kate Rusby’s Hand Me Down (Pure Records) at #12.

On the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart, “Head & Heart” by Corry f/MNEK (Atlantic) maintains the top spot with 68,000 sales this week, including 8.2m streams. The track now claims the longest consecutive run at #1 of 2020—The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (Island) still leads overall with eight total weeks at the top. 

Drake f/Lil Durk’s “Laugh Now Cry Later” (Island) has the week’s highest new entry at #4.

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion climb to #2 with “WAP” (Atlantic), “Mood Swings” by the late Pop Smoke f/Lil Tjay (Republic) rises two to a new peak of #6, and Paul Woolford & Diplo f/Kareen Lomax’s “Looking For Me”  (Ministry of Sound) is up 15 places to #14.

Miley Cyrus debuts at #15 with “Midnight Sky” (Sony) and Jason Derulo’s “Take You Dancing” (Atlantic) rises 15 spots to #19.