Top 20 Albums Worldwide
Week 27'26 · Jul 3 – Jul 9, 2026
Seventeen debuts. For the second week running, the chart has turned itself almost completely over, and for the second week running a record nobody was tracking a week ago sits at the top of it. The two names that ruled this chart all spring - a reclusive Scottish duo and a Greek Orthodox priest - are both still here, both sliding, both a long way from the summit they used to own. Everything else is new. An industrial band re-recording its 30-year-old breakthrough. A hardcore document older than most of the people buying it. A Dutch producer, a Munich dub obsessive, a Chicago teenager's mod covers. The map splits hard down the Atlantic, America on one side and Britain on the other. Twenty records, almost none of them the same as last week. Let us count them down.
This Week's Story
Seventeen new arrivals. Two old rulers sliding quietly toward the door. And a summit built almost entirely from the past - re-recorded, reissued, covered, remade - crowned by a band revisiting an album it made 30 years ago. The map split cleanly down the Atlantic, America on one side and Britain on the other, with a handful of records too international to pick a side. Next week the whole thing empties out again, and someone we have not mentioned yet takes the top. That is the arrangement now. We count it down again in seven days.