Top 20 Albums Worldwide
Week 28'26 · Jul 10 – Jul 16, 2026
19 of the 20 entries on this chart sell mostly in one country, and in a dozen cases it is not close. America has taken this week almost outright. There are exactly two exceptions, and they are sitting next to each other at 7 and 6, which is either a coincidence or a small British conspiracy. The other news is that the chart has started remembering things. After a month of near-total turnover, 4 records have come back, one of them after a longer absence than any returning record here has ever managed. And at the summit, an album that will not be released until the end of August, by a band that has never held this position before. 20 records. From the bottom.
This Week's Story
America took this week almost outright, and the whole of the resistance came down to 2 records sitting next to each other at 7 and 6. Four albums came back from somewhere, one of them after longer away than any before it. Exactly one climbed. And at the summit, a band 26 years old reaching number one here for the first time with a record nobody can hear yet, sharing a label with the album at 2. On Friday the shelves refill and most of this gets pushed downward. We count it again in seven days.