2nd November, 2018 - 8th November, 2018

Top albums of the week:

1) Post Malone - 'beerbongs & bentleys' (=)
2) Khalid - 'Suncity' (=)
3) Eminem - 'Kamikaze' (=)
4) Post Malone - 'Stoney' (+1)
5) Dua Lipa - 'Dua Lipa' (-1)

With a massive 17 place climb, Lauren Jauregui's 'Expectations' climbs to become her 1st #1, following her #3 debut and peak on the Steve Aoki assisted 'All Night' almost a year ago. The 17 place climb makes it good for this week's highest climber, though this week was full of big climbers, and it also becomes the 1st song to reach #1 on its 2nd week after debuting outside of the Top 10! It becomes the 10th #1 for former Fifth Harmony members, though all 9 previous #1s came from Camila Cabello. Last week's #1, 'Funky Friday', drops 1 to #2, while 'God is a woman' spends a record-extending 16th consecutive week in the Top 3. Halsey's 'Without Me' rebounds 1 place to #7, while Eminem gets a record-extending 21st Top 10 hit with 'Mockingbird', up 7 to #8. Just missing out on a Top 10 placement is XXXTENTACION & Lil Pump's 'Arms Around You', which climbs 3 places to #11.

While there aren't many debuts this week, there are many huge climbers, and following on from 'Expectations' and 'Mockingbird' Khalid's 'Motion' climbs 9 places to a new peak of #16. While previous #1 'Better' is now making its way down the chart, dangerously close to falling out of the Top 10 this week as it drops 5 places to #10, 'Motion' and another of Khalid's tracks, 'Suncity', which is another huge climber as it ascends 11 places to #23, are both climbing up the chart at a rapid pace to make up for it. The 1st of the 3 debuts comes from Skepta with 'Neighbourhood Watch' at #19, which becomes his 1st ever chart entry. Yet another huge climber rounds off the Top 20 as Rudimental & Tom Walker's new track 'Walk Alone' climbs 9 places to #20. This becomes both artist's 2nd Top 20 hits, after Rudimental's 'Sun Comes Up' peaked at #10 and Tom Walker's 'Leave a Light On' peaked at #16.

At #22 is the 2nd highest climber of the week, as Kygo & Sandro Cavazza climb a whopping 15 places with 'Happy Now' to #22, closing in on Kygo's peak of #14 on 'First Time' with Ellie Goulding and Sandro's peak of #7 on Avicii's 'Without You'. The previously mentioned 'Suncity' by Khalid climbs 11 places to #23, while Post Malone's '92 Explorer' rebounds 2 places to #24, and parent album 'beerbongs & bentleys' spends a 19th non-consecutive week at #1 on the albums chart. The 2nd of the 3 new entries comes from Clean Bandit with their new track 'Baby', new at #27. The track marks their 5th entry on my charts, and is their 3rd highest peaking song so far, trailing 'Solo's #14 and 'Rockabye's #18. The final of the new entries, 'Photographs', debuts at #33 and is a collaboration between Professor Green & Rag'n'Bone Man. The former has never before charted, while the latter spent 1 week at #35 with 'Skin', so this is a highest ever chart position for both of them.

Thanks for reading everyone! :D

Early predictions for next week's Top 10 (new entries to the Top 10 in bold):

Dropouts (notable dropouts in bold):