Top 20 Albums Worldwide
Week 31'26 · Jul 31 – Aug 6, 2026
16 debuts, and the number is not the story. The dates are. Nine of these 20 records carry autumn release dates - September, October, November - and seven of them nobody has heard at all. Nothing climbed this week either. Not one entry on the whole chart moved up a single place. Everything here is either brand new or on its way down. And at 20 sits a record from 2010 by a man who died two weeks ago at his home in Paris, three days short of his 51st birthday. Kavinsky opens the countdown. Let us begin there.
This Week's Story
16 debuts, four survivors, and not one record on this chart moved up a place. The story is the calendar. Nine of these 20 are dated to September, October and November, and the number 1 is seven weeks from existing. At the other end, Kavinsky: a record made in 2010, by an artist who died two weeks before it landed here. The chart's oldest voice and its newest are both sitting at the edges, and almost everything between them is still waiting to arrive. We count them down again in seven days.