COLDPLAY CROWNS U.K. CHARTS WITH HUGE DEBUT WEEK

Coldplay has the biggest sales week for a U.K. act in three years as Moon Music (Parlophone) tops the Official Albums Chart with sales of 237k. It posted the biggest first week for a British release since Adele’s 30 (Columbia) debuted at #1 in 2021 on 261k.

Moon Music is enjoying the second-biggest opening week this year, beaten only by Taylor Swift’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (EMI), which shifted 270k this spring.

Coldplay's 10th studio album is also its 10th consecutive chart-topper.

Elsewhere on today’s album chart, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet (Island) is up one to #2. Public Service Broadcasting has its third Top 10 LP, with The Last Flight (SO Recordings) landing at #3. James Bay is at #4 with Changes All the Time (EMI), while Radiohead offshoot The Smile secures its second Top 10 of 2024 and third overall as Cutouts (XL) lands at #7. Alison Moyet has her highest-charting release in 11 years; Key (Motley Music/Cooking Vinyl) debuts at #8.

On the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart, Carpenter's “Taste” scores its seventh consecutive week at the top, which means it's achieved the most ever weeks at #1 in a single year by a female act. Combined with the seven nonconsecutive weeks “Espresso” spent at #1 and the five tallied by “Please Please Please," Carpenter has now logged 19 weeks at the top in 2024. Olivia Newton-John takes second place with 16 weeks in 1978. Sabrina draws level with Ed Sheeran for the most weeks at #1 in a calendar year this century. “Taste,” once again the most-streamed track in the country, with 6m, matches Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” (Mercury/Republic) for the longest-running #1 of the year.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” (Atlantic/Interscope) is up to a new peak of #3. “Sailor Song” (Island) by Gigi Perez scores her a first U.K. Top 10 single after jumping five to #6. “Somedays” (Solotoko) by Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D is up two to #8, Gracie Abrams rises eight to #11 with “I love you, I’m sorry” (Interscope) and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” (Island) vaults four to #13.

KSI and Trippie Redd have the week’s highest new entry, with “Thick of It” (Atlantic) debuting at #14.