Charli Xcx secures Number 1 album hat-trick with Wuthering Heights
charli xcx has secured a hat-trick of Number 1 albums as the Wuthering Heights soundtrack tops the albums chart, a milestone that arrives the same day her Aidan Zamiri-directed mockumentary The Moment opens in UK cinemas.
Charli Xcx secures third chart-topper
Wuthering Heights joins 2022's CRASH and 2024's BRAT in charli xcx's tally of chart-topping albums, marking her third time at Number 1. The new entry is counted as her eighth UK Top 40 album overall, listed alongside SUCKER (2015, 15), Number 1 Angel (2017, 37), Charli (2019, 14), how i'm feeling now (2020, 33) and the 2025 remix record Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat.
Wuthering Heights soundtrack impact
The album is the soundtrack to Emerald Fennell’s movie adaptation of Emily Brontë’s transcendent gothic tragedy. The release also topped the vinyl albums chart, shifting the most copies on wax over the last seven days. The chart movement has given BRAT a secondary lift this week, with that title rising seven places to sit at 38.
On the singles front, charli xcx has also scored a second Number 1 single through a team-up with Sam Fender on the track Rein Me In. Meanwhile, Olivia Dean's The Art Of Loving is in its 21st consecutive week inside the Top 5 at position 2, and attention will turn to whether that album can secure Album of the Year at next weekend's BRITs.
Broader chart movements this week
Other notable entries this week include a rebound to Number 3 for the 2018 hits compilation 50 Years – Don't Stop from Fleetwood Mac. Kylie Minogue's Tension Tour 2025 makes its albums chart debut at Number 19 following its release on physical formats and tops the record store chart as the biggest seller in independent UK record shops this week.
Bruno Mars' 2010 debut Doo-Wops & Hooligans climbed five places to 29 ahead of his fourth solo studio album The Romantic, due February 27. Fred again..'s USB vaults also returned to the Top 40, vaulting 58 spots to 31 in the wake of a four-night London Alexandra Palace residency.
Analysis and forward look: the simultaneous release of Wuthering Heights and the mockumentary The Moment has created a concentrated moment of visibility for the artist's work across film and music formats. With the BRITs ceremony scheduled for next weekend and a major album due from Bruno Mars later this month, the coming days are likely to remain active for catalogue movement and attention on newly released material.
