Beyonce's Lemonade fizzes to Official Albums Chart Number 1

Plus Prince makes a major impact on this week's Top 40.
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Following its surprise release last Sunday, Beyonce’s Lemonade enters straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

The superstar’s sixth studio collection racked up 73,000 chart sales, making Lemonade the second-fastest selling artist record of 2016, behind David Bowie’s Blackstar.

MORE: Take a look at Beyoncé’s complete singles and albums UK chart history

The record also enjoyed a strong week on streaming, accounting for 10,000 equivalent sales (14%) of its overall sales figure – the biggest streaming sales for a Number 1 album since streaming was introduced into the chart last year

Lemonade is Queen Bey’s third Number 1 album in the UK, following her debut Dangerously In Love and her fourth studio collection 4. 

New Entries and High Climbers

Occupying the next 3 places behind the Formation singer is Prince, following his untimely death last week. The Very Best Of is at 2, Ultimate sits at 3 and Purple Rain – OST from Prince & The Revolution climbs 51 places to Number 4. A further three Prince albums enter this week’s chart: The Hits/The B-Sides (13), Sign O’ The Times (15) and 1999 (28). Click here for a full rundown of Prince’s impact on this week’s Official Singles and Albums Charts.

Adele’s 25 is at 6 this week, marking the first time the record has dropped from the Top 5 since its release last November. Just behind Adele is Katherine Jenkins; Celebration, her album commemorating Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday debuts at 7. Katherine also enjoys a record 12th UK Number 1 over on the Official Combined Classical Albums Chart today, overtaking Andre Rieu’s eleven classical Number 1s.

In addition to Katherine, there are another three new entries in this week’s Top 40. Katy B’s third studio album Honey is at 22, Sandy Denny’s I’ve Always Kept A Unicorn – Acoustic begins at 31, and Julian Ovenden’s Be My Love starts out at 37.

MORE: The Official Top 40 Biggest Albums of 2016 so far revealed

View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full

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Tina Cohen-Chang

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YES! QUEEN B IS BACK! She absolutely deserved this #1 so much, I hope next week all of her songs rise in the singles chart, Hold Up and Formation deserve to be in the top 10. So happy for her!!!!

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Eric Erwin

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Formation sold over 200k so I think it should hit the top 10. Prince is the only one with songs that sold more this past week. I hope at least Hold Up and Formation reach the top 10... maybe Sorry will too :)

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James Agg

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Not being funny Queen Bey 73,000 with streaming don't think that's very impressive

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Tina Cohen-Chang

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It's only on Tidal streaming wise, so it's actually quite impressive considering nobody really uses it.

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James Agg

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For a world wide superstar I think 73k is quite poor to be honest but fair enough she is No1 be interesting to see her US sales and how they compare to rihanna Taylor swift or Adele

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Eric Erwin

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73,000 isn't that bad at all. Beyonce has never had huge first week sales in the UK like she has in the US. One of her bigger debuts I think. Anyway, even 1D and JB failed to get even 20k more than her. I think Lemonade was released off-cycle too :)

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ANTHONY

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its no longer a tidal exclusive

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imbruglia

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this is sales for 3.5 days and 7 days as tidal exclusive streaming.
so its' great actually.

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Ronnie

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GOOD FOR HER! Now Calvin harris & Rihanna will be #1 next week on the singles chart woooo hooo!

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Eric Erwin

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That new Rihanna song isn't good :( I love her but that song is really weak

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Servemyego

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Rihanna sounds like a dying goat.