Chappell Roan takes her debut record The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess back to the top today, scoring a second non-consecutive week at the Official Albums Chart summit.
The Missouri-born pop auteur – winner of the BBC Sound Of 2025 prize – released the LP back in September 2023, spending 40 weeks and counting on the Official Albums Chart since.
One of 2024’s Official biggest albums, The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’s uplift this week comes following the release of a limited edition Blood Records version of the album, sending it straight to the top of the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
This week’s highest new entry comes courtesy of Glasgow-formed rockers Franz Ferdinand, whose sixth studio LP The Human Fear lands at Number 3; their highest-charting collection in 16 years.
The group’s first album with drummer Audrey Tait, The Human Fear joins 2004’s Franz Ferdinand (3), 2005’s You Could Have It So Much Better (1), 2009 release Tonight (2), 2013’s Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (6), 2018 LP Always Ascending (6) and 2022 compilation Hits To The Head (7) in Franz Ferdinand’s tally of Top 10 albums.
The Human Fear comes in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Record Store Chart; the most popular album of the week in UK independent record shops.
Congratulations to Puerto Rican multihyphenate Bad Bunny, who secures his first-ever Official Albums Chart entry with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (13). His sixth full-length collection, the title translates to ‘I should take more photos.’
Also celebrating their UK Albums Chart debut are Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls, made up of Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira. Their unapologetic sociopolitical statement Who Let The Dogs Out lands at Number 16 this week.
Sending a message to fans, Lambrini Girls’ Phoebe Lunny tells Official Charts:
“It’s so nice people have come out to buy the album, going to their independent record shops. Thanks for supporting us! Make sure to look out for each other at shows, call your friends out if you hear something dodgy, try to empathise with things that you can’t directly relate to and text your mates when you get home safe!”
Further down, Teddy Swims’ enduring debut I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1) is once again on the ascent, up 17 (29).
And finally, Hozier’s 2014 self-titled LP Hozier finds itself back in the Top 40 for the first time in nine years, lifting 39 (35). This comes as his 2014 BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge cover of Arctic Monkeys’ Do I Wanna Know? Goes viral on social media.
