{"id":978680,"date":"2026-05-22T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/978680\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:14:16","slug":"drake-becomes-first-artist-ever-to-debut-three-studio-albums-inside-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/978680\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake becomes first artist ever to debut three studio albums inside Top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s\u00a033 years since\u00a0a similar\u00a0feat was last achieved, when\u00a0Prince<\/a>\u00a0debuted three\u00a0compilation\u00a0records \u2013\u00a0The Hits \/ The B-Sides,\u00a0The Hits\u00a01\u00a0and\u00a0The Hits 2\u00a0–\u00a0inside the Top 10 back in 1993.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Drake
\n MORE: Where every Drake song and album has charted in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Jackson<\/a>\u2019s catalogue continues to\u00a0benefit\u00a0from the popularity of his\u00a0Michael\u00a0biopic, with four LPs in this week\u2019s Top 40:\u00a0The Essential Michael Jackson\u00a0(2),\u00a0Thriller<\/a>\u00a0(4),\u00a0Bad<\/a>\u00a0(8) and\u00a0Off\u00a0The\u00a0Wall<\/a>\u00a0(37).<\/p>\n

Congratulations go to\u00a0Freya Skye<\/a>, who celebrates her first-ever Official Albums Chart entry with\u00a0stardust<\/a>\u00a0(35). The record also tops this week\u2019s\u00a0Official Vinyl Albums Chart<\/a>, the best-selling\u00a0release of wax over the past seven days.<\/p>\n

And finally,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a second Top 40 LP for\u00a0London-formed five-piece\u00a0The Karma Effect<\/a>, with\u00a0Cruel Intentions<\/a>\u00a0new in at Number 39.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s\u00a033 years since\u00a0a similar\u00a0feat was last achieved, when\u00a0Prince\u00a0debuted three\u00a0compilation\u00a0records \u2013\u00a0The Hits \/ The B-Sides,\u00a0The Hits\u00a01\u00a0and\u00a0The Hits 2\u00a0–\u00a0inside the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":978681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[25144,77,272376,272375,12,16,15],"class_list":["post-978680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-drake","tag-entertainment","tag-freya-skye","tag-karma-effect","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116620773486430074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}