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Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department dethrones Pet Shop Boys for a second week at number one

Entertainment — 05/04/2024

Taylor Swift holds the top spot on the Official Albums Chart for a second week with TҺе TσɾtuɾеԀ Pσеts Dеρаɾtmе𝚗t. edging out Pet Shop Boys. Có thể là hình ảnh về 2 người

Taylor’s 11th studio album, which shattered Official Chart records in its first seven days of sales, spends a second week at number one. It is the superstar’s fifth studio album to spend more than one week at the top, following 2020’s Folklore (three weeks) and Evermore (two weeks), 2022’s Midnights (five weeks), and 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (three weeks). 

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Pet Shop Boys, London-based synth-pop icons, gain this week’s highest new entry with their 15th studio album (2). The album is Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s 19th Top 10 album and their highest-charting LP in 31 years, when Very topped the charts in 1993. 

Nonetheless, it debuts at Number 1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, selling the most vinyl this week, and the Official Record Store Chart, as the biggest seller in independent UK record stores during the last seven days. 

St. Vincent, an Oklahoma-born alt-pop performer, scores her third Top 10 album this week with her eighth studio album, All Born Screaming (3). The singer-songwriter, real name Anne Erin Clark, has already had UK Top 10 success with 2017’s Masseduction (6) and the 2021 release Daddy’s Home (4). 

Jess Glynne’s third Top 10 album, JESS (6), follows the chart-topping success of her 2015 debut I Cry When I Laugh and 2018 follow-up Always In Between. 

The Big Decider, the Zutons’ first studio album in 16 years, is their fourth Top 10 album (5). Previously, the Liverpool-based rock quartet achieved comparable results with their 2004 debut, Who Killed…The Zutons? (6), Tired of Hanging Around (2) (2006), and You Can Do Anything (6) (2008).

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Laufey, an Icelandic singer-songwriter, achieves a career-best and a new high with her Bewitched LP, which was released this week (13). The album, which debuted at Number 89 upon its release in 2023, has risen courtesy to a deluxe Goddess Edition reissue. 

Luke Hemmings of 5 Seconds of Summer also sets a solo career high with his EP boy (22). Luke’s first album, When Facing The Things We Turn Away From, debuted in the Top 100 in 2021 (51). Taylor Swift

PARTYNEXTDOOR, a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer, achieves his third UK Top 40 record with PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (PT4) (26). He previously had Top 40 success with the 2016 album PARTYNEXTDOOR3 (PT3) (11) and the 2020 release PARTYMOBILE (7). PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO (2014) peaked at number 66 on the overall Top 100. 

Teddy Swims. I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1) climbs 62 spots to Number 33 thanks to a deluxe version that includes the brand-new single The Door.  

Finally, French electronic music duo Justice achieves their second Top 40 album and career high with Hyperdrama (34). The pair had previously charted with the 2011 album Audio, Video, Disco. (35).