To top it all off, he placed three songs from the work, the maximum allowed by local rules, in the top 5, including “Anti-Hero”, at no. After spending four weeks it moved to second place. “Lavender Haze”, number three, and “Snow on the Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey)”, number four, were other Taylor songs that Brits loved the most.
Alex Turner’s band took second place and, at least for now, are off the restricted list of artists who have had all of their studio albums top the UK bestseller charts. After all, there’s nothing stopping the album from appearing in the first place, be it next week or whatever.
The Monkeys managed to chart three tracks from the LP: “Body Paint”, which rose from No. 60 to No. 22, “Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am”, which was No. 23, and “There’s Better Be a Mirrorball”, which returned to the chart at No. 25.
Eight other albums debuted in the top 40, all in the top 20. These are the Christmas records recorded by Loyle Garner (third), Simple Minds (fourth), Dry Cleaning (11th), A-Ha (12th), Carly Rae Jepson (14th), and Andrea Bocelli. His family (17th) and youngest among architects (18th). Kylie Minogue’s 25th anniversary special edition of “Impossible Princess” took fifth place.
The top 10 were as follows:
1 – “midnights” – Taylor Swift (intro)
two-“Car” – Arctic Monkeys (intro)
3 – “Hugo— Loyle Garner (Introduction)
4 – “direction of the heart“Simple Minds (Intro)
5 – “The Impossible Princess– Kylie Minogue (intro)
6-“=” – Ed Sheeran (Two Levels Abandoned)
7 – “Having fun in a foreign language” – 1975 (six levels dropped)
8″Harry’s house” – Harry Styles (Three Levels Abandoned)
9-“Highlights” – Weekend (dropped two stages)
10 – “love” – Arctic Monkeys (two levels dropped)
Singles ranking
Aside from the aforementioned songs by Taylor Swift and the Arctic Monkeys, there were only two releases in the top 40 on the singles chart: “Made You Look”, by Meghan Trainor, at number 28, and “Lionheart (Peerless) (feat. Tom Grennan)”, by Joel Corey, at number 37. .
Here are the top 10 places:
1 – “Anti-Hero” – Taylor Swift (intro)
2 – “Unholy (feat. Kim Petras)” – Sam Smith (Lost One Place)
3 – “Lavender Haze” – Taylor Swift (intro)
4 – “Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey)” – Taylor Swift (intro)
5 – “I’m Good (Blue) (with Bebe Rexha)” – David Guetta (dropped three levels)
6 – “Forget Me” – Luis Capaldi (fell three places)
7- “Hide & Seek” – Storm (Same Stage)
8- “Miss You (feat. Robin Schulz)” – Oliver Tree (One Level Up)
9 – “I Don’t Care” – One Republic (dropped five spots)
10 – “Psycho (Ft. Aitch)” – Anne Marie (fell four levels)
