Luke’s Top Tracks - Lorde shows huge early signs of success as “What Was That” charts for a tenth week at #1

After a huge 6 days of streams, and a lot of change, the new chart is here! Even though last week’s chart came slightly late, there’s nonetheless been a lot of change since the start of the week so let’s take a look.

Lorde’s “What Was That” spends its tenth consecutive week at #1 following the release of her fourth studio album “Virgin”. After just two days of streams, all eleven songs debut within the top thirty, with six of the album’s tracks occupying the top ten! Expect even more movement up the chart for these songs next week. Of these, “Shapeshifter” is this week’s highest new entry at #5 which seems to be the current breakout hit of her album. Following closely behind is a non-mover for Ethel Cain’s “Nettles”, sitting firmly at #2. Her highly anticipated second studio album comes out in just over a month and is set to have huge impact! And rounding off this week’s top three is a climb of two places for the album opener for “Virgin”, “Hammer”; reaching a brand new peak!

Other new/re-entries:

• Sam Fender - People Watching (re, #39)
• The Human League - Don’t You Want Me (#48)