Week Ending May 22nd 2025
I've run out of inspiration for pictures to make Alex Warren's ninth week at No.1. And Official Charts haven't sent out an image of Sleep Token celebrating their chart-topping album. So here is a banana instead.
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Week Ending May 15th 2025
When Pink Floyd took enough drugs to decide that playing the Pompeii amphitheatre was a good idea, did they imagine people would still be buying records of it 53 years later? Yet here we are, and here they are with a No.1 album. Alex Warren is officially the new Elvis. In a chart record sense, anyway.
Week Ending May 8th 2025
Seven straight weeks Alex Warren has been No.1 on the Official UK Singles chart. So he's showing off his gong once more as he heads for double figures. Meanwhile the great Lorde comeback is on, and are The Stereophonics really one of the greatest album acts of all time? The stats say yes.
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.
