J Hus's Big Conspiracy debuts at Number 1 on the Official UK Albums Chart
Thanks J Hus storms to Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart as his brand-new album Big Conspiracy sees off competition from Pet Shop Boys and Eminem.
The London singer-songwriter and rapper’s second record takes the top spot with 24,000 chart sales, 96% of which came from streaming.
Big Conspiracy follows J Hus’s debut album Common Sense, which peaked at Number 6 in 2017 and spent over 100 weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 100. View J Hus's full Official UK Chart history.
Three songs from Big Conspiracy feature in this week's Official Singles Chart: Play Play ft. Burna Boy is the week's highest new entry at 11, the album's title track ft. iceè tgm is new at 19, and and Repeat ft. Koffee, is in at 21.
Last week’s Number 1, Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By, drops to Number 2, and Pet Shop Boys’ 14th studio album Hotspot is new at Number 3, earning the duo an impressive 17th Top 10 record. Hotspot is this week’s best-selling album on vinyl, landing at Number 1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
M Huncho enters at Number 5 with Huncholini The 1st, the trap wave artist’s first Top 10 album; Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? lifts three places to Number 7 after cleaning up at the Grammys earlier this week, and Dave Clark Five retrospective All The Hits lands at Number 10, marking their first Top 10 appearance in 41 years.
Further down this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 40, Scottish rockers Twin Atlantic narrowly miss out on a Top 10 debut for their fifth album Power at 11, James Blunt’s Once Upon A Mind re-enters at Number 15 following the success of its latest single Monsters, and Scottish trio Peat & Diesel make their Official UK Chart debut at 27 with Light My Byre.
View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart
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Ami Shaw
Find songs here https://tinyurl.com/J-Hus-s-Big-Conspiracy-debuts
Steven Bain
‘Charts’ are a joke. Free streams more important than people putting their hands in their pockets and buying physical music.
Their really needs to be TWO charts now. Not one that reflects TRUE sales and one that reflects freebie listens.
Just having a category saying that The Pet Shop Boys HOTSPOT is number one in ALL physical formats but Number Three in ‘actual’ charts is a joke.
Some other company should compile a chart based on all physical sales. Another company should set up a separate chart for download sales and a third independent company for streams.
It’s a joke that an album that hasn’t even been released is No.1 and it’s number 1 because it was listened to basically for free.
Given none of this will happen. The chart compilers should show how many actual sales regardless of medium a song or album SOLD to achieve its chart position.
They should also show how many streams or partial streams counted too.
At the moment it’s a farce. Artist sell new albums at a fiver or less on Amazon/iTunes etc just so they can then charge full price when it hits No.1.
So an American style chart is what we need. One that has continuity so that acts who DESERVED to be No.1 can sit alongside genuine pre-internet stars like the Beatles, Madonna, ABBA etc and don’t have their ‘reputations’ tarnished by this marketing ploy that’s at the moment is supposedly the ‘Official Charts’
Jamie Crampton
Another album only number 1 because of streaming. Hopefully now they've finally removed Soundtrack albums from the charts they might do something about streams. One can only hope so because so many better albums (which actually SELL COPIES) are missing out because of this farcical way of measuring "popularity".
Alfred Lock
Frankly the Radio 1 generation today have no proper sense in real meat and potatoes acts and would rather be tight fisted in listening for free on Radio 1's Grime/ Rap/Dance obsessed playlist show..Acts like The Blossoms and Jack Savoretti among many others will never have chart hits.
Geoffrey Etoru
Just because alot if people like a sound that you do not and would prefer to stream because it is alot easier and accessible aswell as cheaper to pay £10 a month rather that 20 pounds for 1 vinyl is not a reason to be angry
1 physical sale= 1 sale
1000 streams= 1 sale
Fair to me
thierry henon
I was expecting and hoping PET SHOP BOYS will be our number 1 this week! It would have been their first number 1 album in over 25 years i think...
Piran
Honestly, while I mostly enjoyed his earlier music, nothing has really clicked with me from J Hus’ new album so far. Still, congratulations to him on his first #1 here! :)
I’d certainly take anything he puts out over M Huncho, who is responsible for one of my least favourite songs of all-time (‘Thumb’).
Shame that Twin Atlantic missed the Top 10 though, as they’re a rock duo I’ve really been liking a lot lately!