The rise of The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, originally scheduled for release in September 2023, was boosted this week by its vinyl release, with physical sales accounting for over half of its total seven-day sales.
Featuring their latest wax pressing, ‘Popstar Edition’, the LP tops this week’s Official Vinyl Album Chart, the most popular vinyl release of the week, and the Official Record Store Chart, the best-selling album of the week in independent UK record stores.
Read more about Chappell’s spectacular rise to success in the official charts here.
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The ‘BRAT Summer’ reaches its peak as Charli xcx’s Mercury Prize-nominated song BRAT jumps back to No. 2 this week. With the country in the grip of the ‘green lifestyle’, could the song be a future chart-topper?
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign secure the highest new entry of the week: VULTURES 2 lands at number 7. The record is the follow-up to their first album together, VULTURES, which landed at number 2 in February.
With the release of a 10-year anniversary edition, Sam Smith’s ‘In The Lonely Hour’ jumps back into the top 40, rising 76 places to number 32. Their 2014 debut album went straight to number 1 on its original release and spent eight consecutive weeks at the top.
And finally, former White Stripes frontman Jack White lands his seventh solo top 40 LP with “No Name” (33).
Previously, White had similar success with Blunderbuss (1) in 2012, Lazaretto (4) in 2014, Acoustic Recordings – 1998-2016 (12) in 2016, Boarding House Reach (5) in 2018, and the LPs Fear of the Dawn (3) and Entering Heaven Alive (4) in 2022.
