U.K. CHARTS: SWIFT SECURES SECOND WEEK AT #1

Taylor Swift’s evermore (EMI) has topped the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart for a second week, while RCA’s Little Mix has its fifth #1 single, “Sweet Melody.”

Elsewhere on the album chart, Harry StylesFine Line (Columbia) is up eight places to #2 this week following the release of “Treat People With Kindness” and its accompanying video.

Little Mix’s Confetti is up one to #3, followed by Pop Smoke, also up one, to #4 with Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (Polydor). Dua Lipa completes the Top 5 with Future Nostalgia (Warner Records).

Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (EMI)—the U.K.’s biggest album of 2020—makes a return to the Top 10, up six places to #6 as rising star The Kid LAROI vaults 12 places to #10 with mixtape F**k Love (Columbia).

On the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart, “Sweet Melody” rises eight places this week to award Little Mix its first #1 in more than four years and first as a trio following the departure of Jesy Nelson.

Ed Sheeran’s “Afterglow” (Atlantic) is up 11 places to #2, while “Whoopty” (Warner Records) from New York rapper CJ also climbs 11, to #3.

This week’s highest-entering song is Justin Bieber’s “Anyone” (EMI), which lands at #4. Lipa’s “Levitating” is up to #5 from #68, and Irish DJ/producer Shane Codd charts at #6 with “Get Out My Head” (Polydor).

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