{"id":39079,"date":"2025-07-04T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39079\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:33:10","slug":"lorde-celebrates-first-number-1-album-with-virgin-this-is-absolutely-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39079\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde celebrates first Number 1 album with Virgin: \u201cThis is absolutely insane!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, Lorde says:<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot believe that I’ve got Number 1 in the UK! This is absolutely insane. I felt so much love from the UK on Virgin. I cannot thank you enough and I cannot wait to see you on the tour very, very soon. Sending all my love. Love you guys so much!\u201d<\/p>\n

Virgin also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart<\/a>, the week\u2019s biggest seller on wax.<\/p>\n

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

Bruce Springsteen<\/a>\u202fbanks a 25th solo Top 10 record with Tracks II: The Lost Albums<\/a> (2). Featuring 82 previously unreleased songs, the collection comprises seven unheard Springsteen albums spanning 1983-2018.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s workin\u2019 late, \u2018cause she\u2019s a Record Breaker! Up two to Number 3, Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>\u2019s Short N\u2019 Sweet<\/a> now boasts the longest consecutive Top 5 streak for a solo artist LP in Official Albums Chart history. At 45 weeks, its Top 5 stint surpasses that of Elvis Presley<\/a>\u2019s G.I. Blues<\/a> and its 44-week run.<\/p>\n

This week, Official Charts named Short N\u2019 Sweet the Official biggest album of 2025 so far<\/a>; racking up 348,000 chart units in the UK this year alone, while also being crowned the most streamed album of 2025 to date.<\/p>\n

Off the back of his Glastonbury legends slot last weekend,\u202fRod Stewart<\/a>\u2019s first solo career-spanning compilation\u202fUltimate Hits<\/a>\u202fearns him a 39th solo Top 10 record (5).<\/p>\n

Mad fer it! Ahead of their first shows together in 25 years this weekend, Oasis<\/a>\u2019s enduring catalogue is already flying up the chart. Time Flies\u2026 1994-2009<\/a> jumps three (6), while further down (What\u2019s The Story) Morning Glory?<\/a> lifts four (14) and Definitely Maybe<\/a> leaps nine (26).<\/p>\n

\"Oasis<\/p>\n

Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> reaps the rewards of her headline Glastonbury Pyramid Stage performance: 2023 LP GUTS<\/a> is up 16 back into the Top 10 with a 60% week-on-week sales and streams uplift (8), as 2021 debut SOUR<\/a> vaults 14, up 48% week-on-week (11).<\/p>\n

Fresh from his surprise Glastonbury Pyramid Stage performance last weekend,\u202fLewis Capaldi<\/a>\u202fsees his two studio albums surge this week. 2019 debut\u202fDivinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent<\/a>\u202f rockets 198% and 95 places to Number 15, while sales and streams of 2023\u2019s\u202fBroken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent<\/a>\u202falso lift 284%, returning the record to the Top 40 (30).<\/p>\n

As she brings her stadium tour to the UK, Lana Del Rey<\/a>\u2019s 2012 debut Born To Die<\/a> slinks up six spots (32).<\/p>\n

Alanis Morissette<\/a>\u2019s seminal 1996 chart-topper Jagged Little Pill<\/a> finds itself back in the Top 40 for the first time in a decade following her acclaimed Glastonbury performance last weekend, at Number 39 today. The UK\u2019s most-downloaded album of the week, Jagged Little Pill tops the Official Download Albums Chart<\/a>, and experiences an incredible 250% uplift week-on-week overall across sales and streams.<\/p>\n

And finally, it\u2019s a 30th Top 40 LP for Barbra Streisand<\/a> with The Secrets of Life: Partners, Volume 2<\/a> this week (40). Streisand\u2019s latest duets collection includes collaborations with the likes of Ariana Grande, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Mariah Carey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

See the full Official Albums Chart here from 5.45pm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking exclusively to Official Charts, Lorde says: \u201cI cannot believe that I’ve got Number 1 in the UK!…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4580,185,171,17076,31339,4853,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-39079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bruce-springsteen","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-lorde","12":"tag-number-1-award","13":"tag-rod-stewart","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114797111057773893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}