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Noah Kahan achieved his second number one in the Official Albums Chart UK with “The Great Divide”, also scoring the best weekly debut of the year for an international artist.
The fourth studio album by the Vermont singer-songwriter arrives after the success of Stick Season, a title that continues to maintain a stable presence in the annual charts.
Behind him, i Foo Fighters they enter directly at number 2 with Your Favorite Toythe twelfth studio album and fourteenth Top 10 entry for the band.
Strong impact also for the catalogue Michael Jackson, which returns to the charts following the release of the biopic dedicated to the artist.
Five titles make the Top 40: Michael: Songs from the Motion Picture is the highest (4), followed by the collection Number Ones (5). Thriller returns to the Top 10 at eighth place after seventeen years, while Bad rises to 13 and The Essential Michael Jackson ranks at 14.
SINGLES
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean with Rein Me In they return to number one singles at the expense of Olivia Rodrigo with drop dead which slips into second place.
VINYLS
Noah Kahan with “The Great Divide” also debuts at the top of the Official Record Store Chart and the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, becoming the best-selling album in British independent stores and on vinyl format in the last week.
