Noah Kahan has secured his second No. 1 album in the U.K. as The Great Divide debuts at the summit of the Official Albums Chart dated May 1.
The fourth studio LP from the Vermont singer-songwriter marks the biggest first-week debut for an international artist in 2026 to date. It joins 2023’s Stick Season as a chart-topper; the lead single from that album spent seven consecutive weeks at the summit in 2024 and was No. 1 on the U.K.’s year-end Singles Charts in 2024.
Kahan is followed by Foo Fighters, whose 12th studio album, Your Favorite Toy, enters at No. 2 and marks the band’s 14th top 10 LP in the U.K. The Dave Grohl-led band has hit the No. 1 spot in the U.K. six times over the past three decades, and recently appeared as musical guest on SNL U.K.
As she kicks off her global arena tour, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving closes at No. 3. Her U.K. leg launched in Glasgow, Scotland, on April 22 before hitting Manchester’s Co-op Live over the past weekend; she’s set to play six nights at London’s O2 Arena over the coming month.
Following the record-breaking box office numbers for Michael Jackson’s new biopic, two MJ collections moonwalk into the top five this week. Michael – Songs From the Motion Picture lands at No. 4, while his Number Ones collection closes at No. 5.
New releases from Paul Weller (Weller at the BBC, Vol. 2, No. 19) and Billboard Women in Music honoree Kehlani (Kehlani, No. 28) also debut inside the top 40.
