Week Ending May 1st 2025
"Give me your money" demands Taylor Swift of her fans. And they do so on command, every single time. In a week of nothing else taking place, Tortured Poets Department is back on top of the pile.
James Masterton's Chart Watch UK
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Week Ending April 24th 2025
It is a week for the ages. A particularly notable chart record that has stood for almost 18 years is shattered. And it is hard to see it ever being broken again. Lava Chicken anyone?
Week Ending April 17th 2025
Elton John proudly shows off his collection. Stop that now, his collection of ten No.1 albums awards. He's top of one chart, Alex Warren the other. But Ed Sheeran's new single sounds like a sneeze and somehow just isn't as big as his other ones. Yet.
Week Ending April 10th 2025
Something out of the Ordinary is another year-to-date sales high for Alex Warren's No.1 single. Meanwhile Ariana spits out some bonus tracks and peppers the chart with more hits for her tally. And has Drake really landed his biggest hit for two years? It appears so.
