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Lady Gaga dominates all on the albums chart, but she still cannot hold a carrot to Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club on the singles chart. Plus, let's not beat about the bush. Doechii is somehow the big breakout star of 2025.
Cheer up Chappell, it finally happened. After FIVE YEARS in the making Pink Pony Club is a No.1 single. Plus the Brits bounce takes effect. If you look really, really hard that is.
In Brits week it seems only right to have a British man with a No.1 album. And one which posts a six figure sale to boot. Meanwhile the singles chart remains in thrall to tracks release last year - and earlier.
Tweety Bird is top of the charts. Time to stop Not Liking it, because Kendrick Lamar's angry takedown of Drake is - to general surprise all around - the No.1 single of the week. Also we discover that Sabrina Carpenter can do absolutely anything. Except make Dolly Parton say the Oedipal compound.
