Top 20 Albums Worldwide
Week 18'26 · May 1 – May 7, 2026
Sixteen new entries. For the third consecutive week, the chart has rebuilt itself almost from scratch. Sophia holds two positions with two different albums. Trance lands at fourteen and at three. Poland sends two acts from opposite ends of the genre map. But the week's sharpest story is at the bottom: Stormkeep, at number two last week, have fallen eighteen places to twenty — the steepest drop this chart has recorded in months. At the top, Boards of Canada have been displaced after two weeks at number one. The new summit belongs to a man who recorded six tracks on a cassette four-track with everything turned all the way up. We start at twenty.
This Week's Story
A Neapolitan groove sung in five languages. A 1978 demo tape on vinyl for the first time. A malfunctioning Mellotron from 1998 reissued in 2026. Two Polish records on opposite ends of the genre map. A Belfast trio climbing seven spots in a single week. A Scottish duo sliding from the summit after two weeks at the top. A Denver black metal project falling eighteen places in seven days. And at number one, six songs on a cassette four-track, limited to 250 copies, nine out of ten listeners from one country. Sixteen new entries for the third week running. Next week the chart rebuilds itself again. The question is no longer whether anything survives. It is what arrives next.