Kylie Minogue can’t be stopped within the U.Ok. chart race, as Pressure (through BMG) blasts to No. 1.
Australia’s “princess of pop” baggage a ninth chief with Pressure, which earns 53,000 chart gross sales in its first week (together with market-leading vinyl gross sales), to outsell the remainder of the highest 5 mixed, the Official Charts Firm studies.
The runaway chief on the midway stage, Pressure options the U.Ok. prime 10 single “Padam Padam” and is Kylie’s sixteenth studio album.
Pressure joins Minogue’s earlier U.Ok. leaders, which embody 1988 debut Kylie, 1989’s Take pleasure in Your self, 1992’s Biggest Hits, 2001’s Fever, 2010’s Aphrodite, 2018’s Golden, 2019’s Step Again in Time: The Definitive Assortment and 2020’s Disco.
With that feat, Kylie levels-up with Bob Dylan and Coldplay on the record of acts with essentially the most No. 1s albums on the Official Chart, with 9 apiece.
The one feminine solo artists forward of Kylie on the all-time record are Taylor Swift (with 10) and Madonna (12).
In the meantime, Olivia Rodrigo’s former chief Guts (Geffen) holds at No. 2 on the Official U.Ok. Albums Chart, revealed Oct. 29, and the Weeknd’s career-retrospective Highlights (Republic Data/XOis unchanged at No. 3, in its 138ths week on the survey.
Homegrown hip-hop stars Headie One and Ok-Entice and Ok-Entice bow at No. 4 with their first collaborative album, Energy to Energy (through One Thousand8). It’s Headie One’s (actual identify: Irving Ampofo Adjei) third prime 5 look following 2019’s Music x Highway (No. 5 peak) and 2020 chart-topper EDNA; whereas Ok-Entice (actual identify Devonte Kasi Martin Perkins) scores a profession peak, beating 2022’s The Final Whip II, which topped out at No. 12.
Doja Cat’s nabs her third prime 40 look with Scarlet (Ministry of Sound), new at No. 5. Doja’s earlier appearances on the nationwide albums chart included 2021’s Planet Her (No. 3) and 2019’s Scorching Pink (No. 38).
Lastly, North London-born experimental artist Bakar (actual identify: Abubakar Baker Shariff-Farr) earns a profession finest with No one’s Residence (Black Butter), new at No. 15, whereas Scottish different rock legends Teenage Fanclub bag a tenth prime 40 album with Nothing Lasts Eternally (Pema), new at No. 30.
