Phoebe Bridgers becomes the fourth female singer/songwriter to debut at No.1 in the last five weeks, with her long-awaited third solo album, Lost Weekend, opening at the apex on consumption of 34,239 units (8,893 CDs, 16,577 vinyl albums, 249 cassettes, 786 digital downloads and 7,734 sales-equivalent streams) – this despite most of her sell-out ‘Intimate Shows’ this week being cancelled after she was hospitalised with appendicitis. 

Comprising 17 new songs, all of which the 32-year-old Californian wrote or co-wrote, it ...