Top 20 Albums Worldwide
Week 21'26 · May 22 – May 28, 2026
One record has not moved in three weeks, and everything around it has. Boards of Canada sit at the top of this chart for a sixth straight week while 14 fresh arrivals reshuffle the floor beneath them - and the new faces do not agree on much. A four-piece named after toxic mining waste opens the count. A Greek Orthodox priest who was at number 2 last week has slid most of the way back down. There is death metal here, and Viennese downtempo, and Turkish goth sung in Turkish, and a jazz love letter addressed to Miles Davis. Most of the buying is American, the way it usually is, but Britain and Australia keep interrupting the pattern. Twenty records, one immovable summit. Let us count them down.
This Week's Story
A chart that emptied and refilled itself in seven days, with one corner that would not budge. Heavy music ran through it from bottom to top, Chat Pile to The Ocean, while the American tide kept breaking on British, German, and Australian shores. The priest who sat second last week is back among the new arrivals. Boards of Canada hold a third straight week at number 1. Next week, most of these debuts could rise, fall, or vanish entirely. The summit, on current evidence, will be where we left it. We count them down again in seven days.