May 3 2024 – She may be working late (because she’s a singer), but we hope Sabrina Carpenter will at least take the night off to celebrate her first UK Number 1 single, Espresso.

The frothy, funk-infused banger completes its climb to the top of the Official Singles Chart today – despite a last-minute photo-finish run to the line with ex-tourmate Taylor Swift, with fewer than 500 chart units separating Espresso from fortnight ft. Post Malone (2). The UK’s most-streamed track of the week, Espresso racked up 8.8 million streams, according to Official Charts Company data.

Now one of the first major contenders to soundtrack this summer, Espresso only debuted on the Official Chart two weeks ago, becoming Sabrina’s first Top 10 single in the process. She’d previously logged three Top 40 entries; Nonsense (32), Skin (28) and feather (19).

Fun chart fact - Espresso is the first caffeine-based UK Number 1 single in 24 years, since All Saints’ Black Coffee topped the charts in 2000.

Huge congratulations are also in order for rising hip hop-country star Shaboozey, who claims his first UK 10 hit today with A Bar Song (Tipsy), which rises ten to Number 6. Read more about the story behind Shaboozey’s success here.

Taylor Swift scores a 29th UK Top 10 single, with I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (8), becoming the fourth single from The Tortured Poets Department to reach the Top 10 in two weeks; following former Number 1 fortnight, The Tortured Poets Department (3) and Down Bad (4).

Mark Ambor’s Belong Together is up one to another new peak (11), as Lay Bankz’s Tell Ur Girlfriend rises three (15).

Chappell Roan’s wistful Good Luck, Babe! becomes her first Top 20 single in the UK, up three (18), while David Guetta & OneRepublic’s I Don’t Wanna Wait also enters the Top 20 for the first time, up seven (20).

Natasha Bedingfield’s 2024 remix of These Words with producer Badger jumps 13 to Number 22. The original track memorably reached Number 1 in 2004.

Virginia singer-rapper Tommy Richman claims his first entry into the Official Singles Chart with Million Dollar Baby, debuting straight in at Number 31.

As UK audiences continue to enjoy Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, two classics tracks from the late, great UK legend re-enter the Top 40; Valerie with Mark Ronson (38) and Back to Black (39).

Official Albums Chart

Taylor Swift fends off competition from Pet Shop Boys to secure a second week atop the Official Albums Chart with The Tortured Poets Department.

Taylor’s 11th studio album, which broke Official Chart records in its first seven days on sale, spends a second consecutive week at Number 1. It becomes the superstar’s fifth studio LP to spend more than one week at the summit, joining 2020’s folklore (three weeks) and evermore (two weeks), 2022 release Midnights (five weeks) and 2023 record 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (three weeks).

London-formed synth-pop legends Pet Shop Boys earn this week’s highest new entry with their 15th studio album nonetheless (2). The record becomes Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s 19th Top 10 album, and their highest-charting LP in 31 years, since Very topped the chart in 1993.

nonetheless also debuts at Number 1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, shifting the most copies on vinyl this week, and the Official Record Store Chart, as the best seller in independent UK record shops over the past seven days.

It’s a third Top 10 album for Oklahoma-born alt-pop artist St. Vincent this week, as her seventh studio release All Born Screaming makes its mark (3). The singer-songwriter, real name Anne Erin Clark, previously enjoyed UK Top 10 success with 2017’s Masseduction (6) and 2021 release Daddy’s Home (4).

Jess Glynne also secures a third Top 10 album with JESS (6), following the chart-topping success of 2015 debut I Cry When I Laugh and 2018 follow-up Always In Between.

The Big Decider, The Zutons’ first studio release in 16 years, becomes their fourth Top 10 album (5). Previously, the Liverpool-formed rock group saw similar results with 2004 debut Who Killed……The Zutons? (6), 2006’s Tired Of Hanging Around (2) and 2008 release You Can Do Anything (6).

Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey’s celebrates a career-best, and a brand-new peak, with her Bewitched LP this week (13). The album, which originally landed at Number 89 on its release in 2023, surges thanks to a deluxe Goddess Edition reissue.

5 Seconds of Summer star Luke Hemmings also secures a solo career-best with his EP boy (22). Luke’s first release, When Facing The Things We Turn Away From, landed inside the Top 100 in 2021 (51).

Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer PARTYNEXTDOOR earns his third UK Top 40 record with PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (PT4) (26). Previously, he enjoyed Top 40 success with 2016’s PARTYNEXTDOOR3 (PT3) (11) and 2020 release PARTYMOBILE (7). 2014’s PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO charted inside the wider Top 100 (66).

Teddy Swims’ I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1) vaults an impressive 62 spots to Number 33 thanks to a deluxe reissue featuring brand-new single The Door.

And finally, French electronic music duo Justice claim their second Top 40 album, and a career-best, with Hyperdrama (34). The pair had previously peaked with 2011 release Audio, Video, Disco. (35).