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UK pop stars fail to reach global Top 10 albums and singles chart for first time since 2003
Global chart dominated by US acts including Benson Boone, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter, with K-pop bands also strong
The remainder of the list came from US superstars: Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish(No 2), Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter (No 3), SOS by SZA (No 5), One Thing at a Time by Morgan Wallen (No 7) and Stick Season by Noah Kahan (No 9). In the singles chart, only Irish songwriter Hozier, with Too Sweet at No 6, deviated from the otherwise total US dominance of the list, which spanned pop (Carpenter’s Espresso at No 2) to rap-country (Post Malone and Wallen’s I Had Some Help at No 7) and a five-year-old song by Swift, Cruel Summer, at No 9. The news comes ahead of the Brit awards this weekend, led by xcx with five nominations for Brat, followed by Lipa, the Last Dinner Party, Ezra Collective and Myles Smith with four.
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