Top 20 Albums Worldwide
Week 30'26 · Jul 24 – Jul 30, 2026
15 debuts, and most of them are older than the chart itself. That is the shape of this week: a countdown almost entirely made of new arrivals, almost none of which are new music. An album from 2001, back on vinyl for the first time since 2001. A mixtape recorded in a Belfast attic in 2018. 13 Beach Boys songs run through a wall of fuzz. A rarities collection emptying 25 years of tape vaults. A debut album that took its band 43 years to finish. Meanwhile the two records that ran the top of this chart seven days ago have both spent the week walking downstairs. Let us count them down.
This Week's Story
15 debuts, and the newest thing in the top 2 was recorded in 2018. A 2001 album at number 1. A Belfast mixtape at 6. A grandmother's EP at 2. The two records that ran this chart seven days ago spent the week going the other way. Britain and America split the countdown almost down the middle and met at the summit, where the map was wider than anywhere else on it. Next week the release schedule catches up, and the balance tips again. We count them down again in seven days.