World News – CA – Lewis Capaldi and The Weeknd lead UK’s biggest albums and singles of 2020 so far

Lewis Capaldi’s debut album’ Divinely Uninspired To A Heavenly Extent ‘has been revealed as UK’s most popular album of 2020 so far after shifting more than 300,000 copies this year

As Official Charts reports, the Scottish singer’s debut album in 2019 also recently had a million chart sales in the UK, and has yet to leave the Top 10 since its release in May of the last year

Harry Styles’ second album, Fine Line, also peaked in 2020, despite arriving at the very end of last year It had 219,000 chart sales (281,000 in total) and now occupies second place, thanks to the release of the single « Watermelon Sugar »

When it comes to releases in 2020, Dua Lipa’s second album Future Nostalgia leads the pack with 195,000 sales and sits in fourth place after taking first place for four weeks in April and May.

In the singles charts, The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” has been confirmed as the biggest hunk of 2020 so far with 189 million graphics sales, or 177,000 downloads and 211 million streams. weeks at number 1 between February and April and appears on her fourth studio album « After Hours »

At number 2 is Tones & I « Dance Monkey », with chart sales this year of 139 million and 25 million in total

The late Pop Smoke also scored the UK’s biggest debut album of 2020 to date with ‘Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon’, which debuted at number one and has continued to perform 120,000 sales

Other big releases include Stormzy’s « Heavy Is The Head » at number five, « When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? » by Billie Eilish at number two and Eminem’s « Music To Be Murdered By » ‘at number seven

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