18th May, 2018 - 24th May, 2018

Top albums of the week:

1) Post Malone - 'beerbongs & bentleys' (=)
2) Anne-Marie - 'Speak Your Mind' (=)
3) Post Malone - 'Stoney' (+1)
4) Various Artists - 'Black Panther: The Album' (+2)
5) Various Artists - '13 Reasons Why (Season 2)' (Debut)

With his 3rd studio album released today, Shawn Mendes manages to rack up his 3rd #1 on my chart, a total that he has now matched with another very successful artist on my charts: Anne-Marie. The only artists with a higher total are Ed Sheeran & The Weeknd (both with 5) and Camila Cabello (8). 'Youth' becomes his 1st #1 to not debut in the Top 10 as it debuted at #11 2 weeks ago, but the speed that it managed to climb to #1 matches that of 'Mercy', which also reached #1 on its 3rd week on the chart. The climb of 6 places also makes 'Youth' good for this week's highest climber. Last week's entire Top 6 fall down a single place, while the highest new entry of the week comes from OneRepublic & Logic with 'Start Again' at #8. OneRepublic bag their 1st Top 10 hit with this, while Logic bags his 2nd following the #5 peak of 'Pray' by Sam Smith, on which he is featured. Since both 'Start Again' and 'Back To You' (stationary at #9) feature on the '13 Reasons Why (Season 2)' soundtrack, this marks just the 2nd time that 2 songs from a soundtrack have charted in the Top 10 simultaneously, following the 6 consecutive weeks where both 'Pray For Me' and 'All the Stars' from 'Black Panther: The Album' charted in the region.

The 2nd highest new entry of the week comes from Clean Bandit & Demi Lovato with 'Solo', new at #14. With such a high entry this becomes the highest ever entry on my chart for both artists, beating the #18 peak of Clean Bandit's 'Rockabye' and the #17 peak of Demi's feature on Cheat Codes' 'No Promises'. Just 3 places lower Tiësto, Dzeko, Preme & Post Malone make an entry with 'Jackie Chan', new at #17. This is the 1st entry on my chart for all artists involved with the exception of Post Malone, who just adds yet another entry to his name (more on that later). M-22's 'First Time' manages to climb 1 place to #19 following its debut last week, as do 'She Loves Control', 'Can I Get Your Number', 'Paranoid' and 'All the Stars'.

Right at the bottom of the chart Post Malone sees 3 re-entries and 2 debuts from 'beerbongs & bentleys', which is enough for him to break records for the 4th week in a row, and these may be the most significant yet. Firstly, Post Malone manages to chart all 17 full tracks from 'beerbongs & bentleys' on the chart this week, which makes it only the 2nd full-length album, and 3rd album overall, to chart in its entirety, following 'Camila' and 'My Dear Melancholy,'. 'beerbongs & bentleys' is also the longest album by far to achieve this with its 17 tracks dwarfing the 10 tracks of 'Camila' and 6 tracks of 'My Dear Melancholy,'. He also manages to break his own record of 13 for the most simultaneous entries from an album, and with 'Jackie Chan' bringing his total entries up to 18 he also breaks the all-time record for the most simultanous entries from an artist, which was previously held by Camila Cabello with 17! Lastly, his massive amount of entries this week ensure that he can extend his record for the longest consecutive run of charting 10 or more songs simultaneously, up to 4 weeks now.

Thanks for reading everyone! :D

Early predictions for next week's Top 10 (new entries to the Top 10 in bold):

Dropouts (notable dropouts in bold):