Sabrina Carpenter has secured her spot as the U.K.’s Christmas No. 1 Album for 2024.
Her sixth album, Short n’ Sweet, first hit the summit of the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart in August, and this is the 25-year-old’s second non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the charts this year.
Over the course of the year, the LP spawned three No. 1 singles on the Official Singles Chart, including “Taste” (nine consecutive weeks), “Espresso” (seven non-consecutive weeks) and “Please Please Please” (five non-consecutive weeks), totaling 21 weeks across the whole of 2024. Next year, she’ll head to U.K. arenas for a run of shows before headlining London’s BST Hyde Park in July.
Carpenter beat competition from Michael Bublé, whose 2011 collection Christmas finishes the week at No. 2. Since its release, the LP has spent four non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart, and in 2021, was named the bestselling holiday album in the U.K.
Elsewhere, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess rises three places to finish the week at No. 3. The album previously hit the No. 1 spot in August, almost a year on from its original release in September 2023.
South Yorkshire band The Reytons secured a third top 10 album on the U.K. Albums Chart with its live LP Clifton Park, while Teddy Swims’ debut I Tried Everything But Therapy – Pt. 1 reaches a new peak at No. 12.
Billboard UK cover star Dua Lipa enters the top 40 with Live From the Royal Albert Hall following the airing of her TV special on ITV on Dec. 8. Speaking to Billboard UK for the title’s inaugural cover, she discussed heading to the iconic London venue to record her first-ever live LP with a 53-piece orchestra.
“When we were in rehearsals, there was nothing quite like it: Those orchestral instrumentations just shook me to the core,” Lipa said. “Feeling my music in such a way that was so moving, it made me fall in love with music all over again.”
See the full Official Albums Chart here.
