The Tortured Poets Department is set to top its ninth week at the top
Taylor Swift is poised to return to the top spot after nearly five months in the UK with her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. The global pop star has logged eight non-consecutive weeks on the Official Sales Chart, with a ninth set for this week following the release of the expanded Anthology version on CD and vinyl.
Upon its release in April, The Tortured Poets Department opened with 2024’s biggest first-week sales, with Swift shifting an extraordinary 270,000 chart units, the biggest opening week for any album in the UK in seven years.
Juice Wrld’s latest posthumous album The Party Never Ends is leading for this week’s highest new entry at No. 4. The feat would mark the late rapper and singer’s third Top 10 album, following 2020’s chart-topping Legends Never Die and 2021’s Fighting Demons which debuted at No. 8.
Michael Bublé’s chart-topping festive LP Christmas continues its seasonal ascent back into the Top 10 at No. 6.
Billie Eilish is also looking forward to securing a fourth Top 10 album this week with Hit Me Hard and Soft (Isolated Vocals), an off-shoot from her No. 1 third LP, Hit Me Hard and Soft, featuring just her isolated vocals, receiving a physical release for Record Store Day Black Friday.
Another Record Store Day Black Friday drop, Olivia Rodrigo’s former chart-topper Guts is predicted to bounce up 15 places at 11, thanks to the release of a special edition colored LP of its deluxe edition Guts (Spilled).
Fontaines D.C’s fourth album Romance plots a rise back inside the Top 20 at 15 after starting their UK and Ireland 2024 tour. Romance originally peaked at No. 2 this summer.
Eminem’s The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) is on track to break back into the Top 40, vaulting up 46 places to No. 20. The project originally peaked at No. 1 for three consecutive weeks earlier this year.
Welsh rockers Bullet For My Valentine celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album The Poison with a special reissue, which could net the album a re-entry at No. 23. Upon release in 2005, it originally peaked at No. 21.
