chart week was a game of two halves as Taylor Swift’s Folklore started slow but pulled away to snag a second successive week at No.

3 in the first half of the week, with Irish rockers Fontaines D.C.

When all streams and sales were tallied up, Folklore finished 3,500 chart sales ahead of Fontaines D.C.’s second set, which starts at No.

Albums Chart and is the market-leader in vinyl sales.

1 album in the U.K., according to the OCC, as her previous chart-topping albums, Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017) and Lover (2019) all held the chart crown for just one week.

Singles Chart, Joel Corry and MNEK's “Head & Heart" (Asylum/Perfect Havoc) rules for a third week, clocking up 79,000 chart sales, including 9.5 million streams, according to the OCC.

That’s 24,000 sales ahead of the No.