Top 20 Albums Worldwide
Week 24'26 · Jun 12 – Jun 18, 2026
For most of its run, Boards of Canada sat at the top of this chart and refused to move. This week it sits at 5, and everything above it arrived in the last seven days. The whole top four is new - 13 debuts in all - and the four that matter most pushed the chart's longest-running fixture off its perch. Two of them belong to the same act: a masked duo from Quebec who speak an invented language and tune their guitars to notes that aren't on a piano. At number one, an album sung entirely in Lithuanian and bought almost entirely inside Lithuania, by a band most of the world has never heard. The middle of the chart leans American, the way it usually does. The top and the bottom had other plans. Let us count them down.
This Week's Story
A chart that came apart and rebuilt itself in a week. Boards of Canada, number one for a month, slipped to 5, and four debuts took everything above it. A masked Quebec duo claimed two of the top three with a pair of microtonal records. At the very top, a Lithuanian band the rest of the world has barely noticed, carried there by one country's devotion. The middle stayed American; the summit went somewhere nobody expected. Next week, almost any of it could change again. We count them down in seven days.