Top 20 Albums Worldwide

16 new entries. Again. For the second consecutive week, the chart has torn itself down to the studs and rebuilt with almost entirely fresh material. What filled that space is wider than a single description can hold: a Nottingham EP rescued from an Oxfam bin for forty-nine pence, a Belfast trio reclaiming a sectarian slur as an album title, a 60-minute ambient score from a death metal band recorded at the same Berlin studio where Bowie made *Heroes*, and a collective re-enacting the mythology of The KLF in village halls along a ley line from Stonehenge to Liverpool. Two holdovers survived. One of them is still at number one. Denver, Colorado places two acts in the top five, connected by a single drummer.