Trailing Jack Harlow’s First Class in the first three of the week’s six sales flashes, Harry Styles’ As It Was clawed its way back, and emerges as No.1 for the second straight week, on consumption of 70,389 units. That’s a 25.23% dip week-on-week, although its newly released CD format boosted its tally by 980 sales, with 2,266 digital downloads and 67,143 sales-equivalent streams completing its consumption profile.

While its title retention is not unusual in the overall scheme of ...