The Official biggest albums of 2024 so far

Check out the Official Top 40 biggest LPs of the year to date

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is officially the biggest album of 2024 so far in the UK.

The eleventh studio album from the US superstar, Tortured Poets has dominated the Official Chart ever since its debut in May, spending seven of its 10 chart weeks at Number 1, and the rest at Number 2.

Accordingly, Official Charts Company data reveals that, despite being available for less than two full months, Tortured Poets has already accumulated over 542,200 chart units, including 251,000 physical sales, making it the most physically-purchased LP of the year so far.

Upon its record-breaking Number 1 debut in the UK, Tortured Poets became Taylor’s 12th UK Number 1 album, matching Madonna’s long-held all-time chart record, putting Taylor and Madonna in joint lead as the female artists with the most UK Number 1 albums. As well as the biggest opening week sales of Taylor’s career, Tortured Poets was the biggest opening week of any artist since Ed Sheeran’s Divide in 2017.

Proving that Taylor is the most popular artist in pop right now, five albums from her back catalogue are present in the Top 20: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (7), Lover (12), Midnights (14), folklore (15) and reputation (18).

The Weeknd’s long-charting greatest hits collection The Highlights lands at Number 2, with Noah Kahan’s Stick Season at Number 3.

The Top 5 is completed by Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS (4) and Billie Eilish’s experimental, ultra-personal third record HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (5), which was released in May and awarded Eilish the biggest opening week of her career upon its Number 1 debut.

Ariana Grande’s seventh studio album eternal sunshine enters the year-to-date chart at Number 11, while Beyoncé’s acclaimed reclamation of country, COWBOY CARTER lands at Number 16. Both records topped the Official Albums Chart, earning each artist their respective fifth UK chart-topper.

Other 2024 albums making their mark include Dua Lipa’s chart-topping third record Radical Optimism (26), Prelude To Ecstasy, the acclaimed Number 1 debut album by British art-rock five-piece The Last Dinner Party (37) and Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 (40).

The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2024 so far

POS	TITLE	ARTIST	PEAK
1	THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT	TAYLOR SWIFT	1
2	THE HIGHLIGHTS	WEEKND	2
3	STICK SEASON	NOAH KAHAN	1
4	GUTS	OLIVIA RODRIGO	1
5	HIT ME HARD AND SOFT	BILLIE EILISH	1
6	50 YEARS - DON'T STOP	FLEETWOOD MAC	5
7	1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT	1
8	CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS	EMINEM	1
9	GOLD - GREATEST HITS	ABBA	1
10	DIAMONDS	ELTON JOHN	2
11	ETERNAL SUNSHINE	ARIANA GRANDE	1
12	LOVER	TAYLOR SWIFT	1
13	SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	1
14	MIDNIGHTS	TAYLOR SWIFT	1
15	FOLKLORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	1
16	COWBOY CARTER	BEYONCE	1
17	THE ESSENTIAL	MICHAEL JACKSON	1
18	REPUTATION	TAYLOR SWIFT	1
19	THE DIAMOND COLLECTION	POST MALONE	14
20	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS	1
21	LEGEND	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS	5
22	SOS	SZA	2
23	GREATEST HITS	QUEEN	2
24	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC	3
25	TIME FLIES - 1994-2009	OASIS	1
26	RADICAL OPTIMISM	DUA LIPA	1
27	CURTAIN CALL 2	EMINEM	3
28	DIVIDE	ED SHEERAN	1
29	SINGLES	MAROON 5	28
30	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY	1
31	HAZBIN HOTEL - SEASON ONE - OST	ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING	1
32	I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THERAPY - PT 1	TEDDY SWIMS	21
33	BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT	LEWIS CAPALDI	1
34	DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT	LEWIS CAPALDI	1
35	BEST OF	50 CENT	31
36	WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY	OASIS	1
37	PRELUDE TO ECSTASY	LAST DINNER PARTY	1
38	TEENAGE DREAM	KATY PERRY	1
39	MY 21ST CENTURY BLUES	RAYE	2
40	VULTURES 1	KANYE WEST/TY DOLLA SIGN	2

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STICK SEASON
NOAH KAHAN

THE HIGHLIGHTS
WEEKND

1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION)
TAYLOR SWIFT

GUTS
OLIVIA RODRIGO

CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS
EMINEM

50 YEARS - DON'T STOP
FLEETWOOD MAC

DIAMONDS
ELTON JOHN

GOLD - GREATEST HITS
ABBA

ETERNAL SUNSHINE
ARIANA GRANDE

MIDNIGHTS
TAYLOR SWIFT

FOLKLORE
TAYLOR SWIFT

LOVER
TAYLOR SWIFT

SOUR
OLIVIA RODRIGO

REPUTATION
TAYLOR SWIFT

PRELUDE TO ECSTASY
LAST DINNER PARTY

AM
ARCTIC MONKEYS

LEGEND
BOB MARLEY

THE DIAMOND COLLECTION
POST MALONE

BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT cover art

BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT
LEWIS CAPALDI

VULTURES 1
KANYE WEST/TY DOLLA $IGN

SOS
SZA

LIAM GALLAGHER JOHN SQUIRE
LIAM GALLAGHER/JOHN SQUIRE

itsnoodleszn_

5th July 2024

as for the rest of the chart, it’s awesome to see hit me hard and soft in the top 5 (i think it’ll retain that) along with the hazbin hotel soundtrack in the top 40!! that was a very pleasant surprise. something really needs to be done about these compilations though, they’re not studio albums. the weeknd was the biggest album of last year with a greatest hits and not fresh material. surely it gets boring right?

itsnoodleszn_

5th July 2024

the only reason tortured poets has that lead is because taylor plugged so many different variants to prevent other albums from reaching that number 1 spot. i’m still salty about brat not getting it because that’s an absolutely incredible album + aoty for me (along with hit me hard and soft)

swifties can send me death threats all they want, i don’t care, just know you are giving your fandom a bad name. i love taylor swift and a lot of her music but im not part of this hivemind or taylor’s shameless ways of making sure she’s always winning.

as a taylor enjoyer, i wish she would just focus on the music and not meaningless numbers. would make supporting her so much easier for me.