To no surprise, Taylor Swift’s, ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ dominated the UK charts. The highly anticipated album was 2025’s biggest seller amounting to an eye watering 642,000 chart sales since its October release. In such a short amount of time, the Swifties displayed their dedication to supporting their favourite artist.

‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ is Swift’s 12th studio album and in modernity she is still racking up insane streaming numbers shortly after release, the album continues to remain on the top UK charts as we are verging on the second week of the new year, you are bund to have heard it being played in local supermarkets.

The intriguing figures have been revealed by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the BPI primarily collects the vast majority of their data from streaming platforms. The BPI are in charge of running the BRIT awards and co own the Official Charts Company.

They stated that streaming accounts for 89% of the overall music market. The list of the top 10 selling albums in the UK of 2025 is as follows:

1. ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ – Taylor Swift

2. ‘Short N’ Sweet’ – Sabrina Carpenter

3. ‘+-=÷x (Tour Collection)’ – Ed Sheeran

4. ‘Time Flies…(1994-2009’  – Oasis

5. ‘50 years: Don’t Stop’ – Fleetwood Mac

6. ‘The Highlights’ – The Weeknd

7. ‘(Whats The Story) Morning Glory?’ – Oasis

8. ‘Mans Best Friend ‘- Sabrina Carpenter

9. ‘You’ll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1)’ – Alex Warren

10. ‘People Watching’ – Sam fender

Coming in with the second most popular album of 2025, Sabrina Carpenter has had a huge year. Carpenter successfully withheld the spot for having the biggest opening week for an album in the UK by an international artist in 2025. ’Man’s Best Friend’ sold 85,500 units in its initial seven days.

Oasis fans were dusting off their Adidas jackets and breaking out the old records last summer as the 1995 album, ‘(Whats the story) Morning Glory’ rose to the charts almost 30 years since its release. This was no doubt surged on by the announcement of bands incredibly successful reunion tour that touched the hearts of countless Brits. The bands reunion not only dominated charts but made a noteworthy impact on the music industry. The number of streams amassed over the bands discography rose by 30% globally shortly after their reunion announcement.

We are extremely excited to see which artists overtake this top ten spots in 2026, make sure to keep your eye peels for exclusive new music.

In an interview with NME, Fender has discussed the single, stating:

“[The song] originally came from one of those magic moments where you’re just messing around, and a song literally falls out of the sky. It’s about being avoidant and flighty. But also, just a simple pop song, which I love.”

The song marks Fender’s third release off ‘People Watching‘. The artist had announced the album in October 2024, and since he has released the title track, which peaked at number four on UK charts, and ‘Wild Long Lie’ which did not appear on UK charts. The former is currently charting at number twenty, nine weeks after its first debut on charts.

‘People Watching’ marks Fender’s third release of a full-length album. In 2019, he released his debut album titled ‘Hypersonic Missiles‘ which peaked at number one on UK charts ands pent 123 weeks on charts so far, currently charting at number 94. Off of the record, four songs appeared on charts: Fender’s chart debut with ‘Play God‘ which peaked at number 89, the record’s title track which peaked at 48, ‘Will We Talk’ which peaked at 43 and ‘The Borders‘ which peaked at 59.

Following his successful debut with ‘Hypersonic Missiles‘, Fender went on to release ‘Seventeen Going Under‘ in 2021; the album marked the artist’s second consecutive number one record. ‘Seventeen Going Under‘ spent one week at number one and an overall of 97 weeks in the top 100, and is currently charting at number 92. After becoming a viral sensation on social media, the record’s title track peaked at number three in the UK, marking Fender’s highest peak so far as well as his longest-charting single with 93 weeks.

Shortly after announcing the release of his third album Fender embarked on a tour in anticipation of it, which took him around the UK. Highly anticipated is also Fender’s upcoming stadium tour which is set to take place this summer and will stop in London and in Newcastle.

Fender was nominated today for two BRITs awards and has invited his fans to vote for him in the ‘Best Rock/Alternative Act’ Category over his social media profiles.

Super surprised to be nominated for two @BRITs. Best Alternative/Rock act is voted for by the fans. Info on how to vote here https://t.co/CQTiSraJMF
Big love legends – you know what to do pic.twitter.com/W0sV4oqpZQ

— Sam Fender (@samfendermusic) January 23, 2025