Ed Sheeran overtakes Lewis Capaldi as fastest-selling album of 2019

The Official Charts Company Midweek Sales Flash is in, and Ed Sheeran’s No.6 Collaborations Project has become the fastest-selling album of the year so far.

Overtaking Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent – which posted 89,506 sales on debut in May – Sheeran’s new LP has sold 89,845 units so far this week. Fittingly, Capaldi’s debut is Sheeran’s closest challenger, on 11,167 sales. Kylie Minogue’s Step Back In Time – The Definitive Collection (4,900 sales), Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (4,580 sales) and A Star Is Born (3,900 sales) complete the Top 5.

In the singles chart Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s Señorita (38,226 sales) breaks up Sheeran’s monopoly of the Top 4. Khalid collaboration Beautiful People (42,078 sales) is at No.1, Take Me Back To London (feat. Stormzy, 32,576 sales) is at No.3 and Eminem and 50 Cent hook up Remember The Name (32,364 sales) is at No.4. Below them, four new Sheeran songs are ‘starred out’, before Capaldi’s Hold Me While You Wait comes in at No.5 with 21,582 sales. All remaining tracks from No.6 collaborations Project are ‘starred out’ of the Top 20.

You can view the full Top 40 singles and albums charts below.

SINGLES:

LW POSN	POSN	TITLE	ARTIST	LABEL	WKS
3	1	BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE	ED SHEERAN FT KHALID	ASYLUM/COLUMBIA	3
1	2	SENORITA	SHAWN MENDES/CAMILA CABELLO	EMI/SYCO MUSIC	4
NEW	3	TAKE ME BACK TO LONDON	ED SHEERAN FT STORMZY	ASYLUM	1
NEW	4	REMEMBER THE NAME	ED SHEERAN FT EMINEM & 50 CENT	ASYLUM	1
4	5	HOLD ME WHILE YOU WAIT	LEWIS CAPALDI	EMI	11
7	6	OLD TOWN ROAD	LIL NAS X	LIL NAS X	17
9	7	WISH YOU WELL	SIGALA & BECKY HILL	MINISTRY OF SOUND	8
11	8	SO HIGH	MIST FT FREDO	SINCE 93/WARNER RECORDS	2
6	9	CROWN	STORMZY	MERKY/ATLANTIC	4
12	10	LADBROKE GROVE	AJ TRACEY	AJ TRACEY	20
5	11	GOODBYES	POST MALONE/YOUNG THUG	REPUBLIC RECORDS	2
10	12	MAD LOVE	MABEL	POLYDOR	6
23	13	BAD GUY	BILLIE EILISH	INTERSCOPE	16
13	14	SOMEONE YOU LOVED	LEWIS CAPALDI	EMI	29
38	15	LOCATION	DAVE FT BURNA BOY	DAVE NEIGHBOURHOOD	19
19	16	3 NIGHTS	DOMINIC FIKE	COLUMBIA	11
26	17	HIGHER LOVE	KYGO & WHITNEY HOUSTON	COLUMBIA/KYGO	3
NEW	18	I SPY	KREPT/KONAN/HEADIE ONE/K-TRAP	VIRGIN	1
20	19	HOME P*SSY	D-BLOCK EUROPE	D BLOCK EUROPE	2
17	20	YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN	TAYLOR SWIFT	EMI	5
21	21	STRIKE A POSE	YOUNG T & BUGSEY FT AITCH	BLACK BUTTER	6
18	22	VOSSI BOP	STORMZY	MERKY/ATLANTIC	12
14	23	NEVER REALLY OVER	KATY PERRY	VIRGIN	7
15	24	SOS	AVICII FT ALOE BLACC	POSITIVA	14
16	25	NO GUIDANCE	CHRIS BROWN FT DRAKE	CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC/RCA	6
24	26	ONE TOUCH	JESS GLYNNE & JAX JONES	ATLANTIC	8
34	27	CASTLES	FREYA RIDINGS	GOOD SOLDIER	5
22	28	MONEY IN THE GRAVE	DRAKE FT RICK ROSS	CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC RECORDS	5
25	29	GRACE	LEWIS CAPALDI	EMI	35
31	30	FIND U AGAIN	MARK RONSON FT CAMILA CABELLO	COLUMBIA	7
30	31	PANINI	LIL NAS X	LIL NAS X	4
28	32	MOCKING IT	JAY1	GRM RECORDS/PARLOPHONE	4
33	33	SUMMER DAYS	MARTIN GARRIX/MACKLEMORE/STUMP	COLUMBIA	11
27	34	BOUNCE BACK	LITTLE MIX	RCA	5
NEW	35	LOVE OF MY LIFE	REMEDEE FT NOT3S & YOUNG ADZ	COLUMBIA	1
32	36	PIECE OF YOUR HEART	MEDUZA FT GOODBOYS	POLYDOR	18
29	37	MOTHER'S DAUGHTER	MILEY CYRUS	RCA	7
35	38	THE LONDON	YOUNG THUG/J COLE/TRAVIS SCOTT	ATLANTIC	8
37	39	TRUTH HURTS	LIZZO	ATLANTIC	12
41	40	RITUAL	TIESTO/JONAS BLUE/RITA ORA	POSITIVA	7

ALBUMS:

LW POSN	POSN	TITLE	ARTIST	LABEL	WKS
NEW	1	NO 6 COLLABORATIONS PROJECT	ED SHEERAN	ASYLUM	1
1	2	DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT	LEWIS CAPALDI	EMI	9
2	3	STEP BACK IN TIME - THE DEFINITIVE	KYLIE MINOGUE	BMG/RHINO	3
4	4	WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO	BILLIE EILISH	INTERSCOPE	16
25	5	A STAR IS BORN	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING	INTERSCOPE	41
6	6	THE GREATEST SHOWMAN	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING	ATLANTIC	83
5	7	DIRECT HITS	KILLERS	VERTIGO	229
9	8	DIVIDE	ED SHEERAN	ASYLUM	124
10	9	STAYING AT TAMARA'S	GEORGE EZRA	COLUMBIA	69
7	10	BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - OST	QUEEN	VIRGIN	39
11	11	DIAMONDS	ELTON JOHN	MERCURY/UMC	88
8	12	WESTERN STARS	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN	COLUMBIA	5
14	13	GOLD	HANK MARVIN	CRIMSON	3
NEW	14	(NO12KLG17MIF) NEW ORDER & LIAM GILLICK	NEW ORDER	MUTE	1
19	15	WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE	TOM WALKER	RELENTLESS	20
33	16	ERRATIC CINEMATIC	GERRY CINNAMON	LITTLE RUNAWAY	53
17	17	50 YEARS - DON'T STOP	FLEETWOOD MAC	RHINO	35
13	18	HURTS 2B HUMAN	PINK	RCA	12
16	19	ALWAYS IN BETWEEN	JESS GLYNNE	ATLANTIC	40
41	20	X	ED SHEERAN	ASYLUM	265
12	21	LATE NIGHT FEELINGS	MARK RONSON	COLUMBIA	4
21	22	1	BEATLES	APPLE CORPS	592
20	23	DON'T SMILE AT ME	BILLIE EILISH	INTERSCOPE	63
3	24	BLUE SKY IN YOUR HEAD	LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY	POLYDOR	2
22	25	DUA LIPA	DUA LIPA	WARNER RECORDS	111
27	26	THANK U NEXT	ARIANA GRANDE	REPUBLIC RECORDS	23
52	27	SNACKS	JAX JONES	POLYDOR	37
29	28	TIME FLIES - 1994-2009	OASIS	BIG BROTHER	432
18	29	INDIGO	CHRIS BROWN	RCA	3
38	30	GOLD - GREATEST HITS	ABBA	POLYDOR	1217
NEW	31	MTV UNPLUGGED - LIVE	DMA'S	INFECTIOUS MUSIC	1
49	32	YESTERDAY	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING	POLYDOR	4
31	33	BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS	POST MALONE	REPUBLIC RECORDS	64
45	34	THE PLATINUM COLLECTION	QUEEN	VIRGIN	383
26	35	PSYCHODRAMA	DAVE	DAVE NEIGHBOURHOOD	19
84	36	+	ED SHEERAN	ASYLUM	397
37	37	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC	RHINO/WARNER RECORDS	584
42	38	LEGEND	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS	TUFF GONG	1126
36	39	CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS	EMINEM	INTERSCOPE	571
32	40	DOOM DAYS	BASTILLE	VIRGIN	5

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