These are the UK’s largest singles and albums of 2024 to date
The largest singles and albums of 2024 within the UK to date have been revealed this week by the Official Charts Firm this week.
Noah Kahan‘s ‘Stick Season’ continues to be the largest single of 2024 to date after touchdown the Quantity One spot on the Official Singles Chart for seven consecutive weeks originally of this yr. The track stays the longest-running Quantity One single of the yr to date.
In accordance with the Official Charts Firm knowledge, ‘Stick Season’ has shifted 1.37million chart items, together with 160million mixed audio and video streams in 2024 to date. Initially launched in 2022, the track’s lifetime whole presently stands at 1.9million chart items and 218million streams within the UK.
Beforehand chatting with NME concerning the origins of the track’s title, Kahan shared: “Stick season is between fall and the snow. It’s a time of transition within the climate, but in addition in lots of people’s lives.”
‘Free Management’ by Teddy Swims follows Kahan because the Quantity Two largest single of the yr to date. The track additionally earned the achievement of essentially the most digitally downloaded single of 2024 to date with 51,300 downloads.
Sabrina Carpenter additionally appeared on the singles listing along with her monitor ‘Espresso‘ which has garnered 763,000 mixed chart items together with 85.7million streams since its launch again in April.
Others to make it to the listing of largest singles to date embody Benson Boone with ‘Stunning Issues’, Hozier‘s ‘Too Candy’, Beyoncé‘s ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em’, Cassö, D-Block Europe, and Raye‘s collab monitor ‘Prada’, Taylor Swift‘s ‘Merciless Summer time’, Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s ‘Homicide On The Dancefloor’ and Tate McRae‘s ‘Grasping’.
As for albums, Swift stays supreme along with her eleventh studio album ‘The Tortured Poets Division‘. Upon its launch, the album spent seven of its 10 chart weeks at Quantity One, and the remaining at Quantity Two.
In accordance with Official Charts Firm knowledge, Swift’s LP has collected over 542,200 chart items, together with 251,000 bodily gross sales, making it essentially the most physically-purchased LP of the yr to date.
In a three-star evaluation of ‘The Tortured Poets Division’, NME wrote: “Swift appears to be in tireless pursuit for superstardom, but the unfavorable public opinion it will probably include irks her, and it’s a drained theme now plaguing her discography and leaving little room for the poignant lyrical observations she excels at.
“It’s why the pitfalls that mire her eleventh studio album are all of the extra disappointing — she’s confirmed time and time once more she will do higher. To a Melbourne viewers of her Eras Tour, Swift mentioned that ‘The Tortured Poets Division’ got here from a “want” to put in writing. It’s simply that perhaps we didn’t want to listen to it.”
Coming in at Quantity Two is The Weeknd‘s biggest hits album ‘The Highlights‘. Kahan’s album ‘Stick Season’ bagged the Quantity Three spot whereas Olivia Rodrigo’s second LP ‘Guts‘ arrived at Quantity 4.
In a 5 star evaluation of Rodrigo’s sophomore effort, NME shared: “‘Guts’ doesn’t simply really feel transitional in a musical sense. It marks the top of Rodrigo’s teenage years, a second that has gravity provided that she just lately mentioned in an announcement that she felt like she grew “10 years” between the ages of 18 and 20. Right here, she presents blunt self-analysis whereas reflecting on wider cultural concepts of efficiency and swallowing anger so as to adjust to the desires and desires of others. It really works as a show of actual energy, vary and flexibility – all of which Rodrigo possesses in abundance.”
Billie Eilish scored the Quantity 5 spot along with her newest launch ‘Hit Me Exhausting and Mushy‘. In a four-star evaluation of the singer’s third studio launch, NME mentioned: “Billie got here into this course of with aspirations to search out herself, creatively and personally: ‘Hit Me Exhausting and Mushy’ stays distinctly distinctive, a portrait of a singular expertise getting into younger maturity, exploring her queerness and experiencing the emotional thrill and (generally) disaster of chasing ardour or falling in love. In attempting to put in writing an album for herself, she’s made one that may resonate more durable than something she’s performed earlier than.”
The UK’s largest songs of 2024 to date are:
1. ‘Stick Season’ – Noah Kahan
2. ‘Lose Management’ – Teddy Swims
3. ‘Stunning Issues’ – Benson Boone
4. ‘Espresso’ – Sabrina Carpenter
5. ‘Too Candy’ – Hozier
6. ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em’ – Beyoncé
7. ‘Prada’ – Cassö/Raye/D-Block Europe
8. ‘Homicide On The Dancefloor’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
9. ‘Merciless Summer time’ – Taylor Swift
10. ‘Grasping’ – Tate McRae
The UK’s largest albums of 2024 to date are:
1. ‘The Tortured Poets Division’ – Taylor Swift
2. ‘The Highlights’ – The Weeknd
3. ‘Stick Season’ – Noah Kahan
4. ‘Guts’ – Olivia Rodrigo
5. ‘Hit Me Exhausting And Mushy’ – Billie Eilish
6. ’50 Years – Dont Cease’ – Fleetwood Mac
7. ‘1989 (Taylor’s Model)’ – Taylor Swift
8. ‘Curtain Name: The Hits’ – Eminem
9. ‘ABBA Gold: Biggest Hits’ – ABBA
10. ‘Diamonds’ – Elton John
You possibly can see the full top 40 songs here and the full top 40 albums here courtesy of Official Charts.