U.K. MIDWEEKS: RECORD STORE DAY FUELS DEBUTS

Those Damn Crows and Bon Iver are in a tight battle for #1 on this week’s Official U.K. Album Chart, while Alex Warren is eyeing a fifth-straight week atop the Singles survey with “Ordinary” (Atlantic).

Those Damn Crows’ God Shaped Hole (Earache) would be the Welsh rock band’s first Album chart-topper following a #3 debut for their 2023 set Inhale / Exhale. Justin Vernon’s Bon Iver could open at #2 with SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar), which would be the act’s third U.K. Top 10.

Several releases from last weekend’s Record Store Day will likely storm the chart, including a four-LP edition of Oasis’ Time Flies... (1994-2009) compilation (Big Brother) at #3 and Sam Fender’s Me and the Dog EP (Polydor) at #5.

Oasis vocalist Liam Gallagher’s 2020 compilation Acoustic Sessions (Warner) might debut at #7 after its first release on vinyl and Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us—Live From Radio City (Interscope) is on track to begin at #8.

Two other Record Store Day goodies could land in the Top 15, with the late David Bowie’s Ready, Set, Go! (Live, Riverside Studios ’03) (Rhino) at #11 and Charli xcx’s 2017 mixtape Number 1 Angel (Atlantic) at #13.

On Singles, “Ordinary” would surpass Lola Young’s “Messy” (Island) as the longest-running chart-topper of 2025. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone (EMI) could re-enter at #2 following its release on a Record Store Day vinyl single.

Likewise, the new RSD vinyl single of Charli xcx’s “Guess” remix featuring Billie Eilish, which topped the chart last summer, could return at #11.

Lana Del Rey’s new single “Henry, come on” (Interscope) is on track for the week’s top debut at #18, while the Jack Black-sung “Steve’s Lava Chicken” from the Minecraft movie (WaterTower Music) could explode 77-27 after trending on TikTok.