The record week does not leave any great news, nor too many entries. Quevedo, to no one’s surprise, maintains number 1 with ‘EL BAIFO’. Bad Bunny and Olivia Rodrigo, at 2 and 3 respectively, swap positions, while Rosalía’s ‘LUX’ returns to the top 10 after leaving it for the first time since its release last November.
The main novelty within the top 40 is Muse, who placed their new album, ‘The Wow Signal’, at number 4. The album, which has been number 1 in the United Kingdom and in other markets such as Scotland, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands, in addition to reaching number 2 in Finland and number 3 in Germany, provides Matt Bellamy’s band with one of its best European results in recent years. More discreet data has been obtained in Greece (14), Japan (39) or Lithuania (76).
In Spain, ‘The Wow Signal’ slightly worsens the result of Muse’s previous album, ‘Will of the People’, which debuted at number 2, although it equals the record of ‘Simulation Theory’, which also reached number 4. You have to go back more than a decade to find ‘Drones’ (2015), which debuted at number 5. Previously, both ‘The 2nd Law’ and ‘The Resistance’ were top 2, while ‘Black Holes and Revelations’ reached number 20 and ‘Absolution’ reached number 13.
Let’s return to the United Kingdom because the data is especially interesting: Muse become the first group and the second artist in the history of the British charts to debut at number 1 with 8 consecutive albums. ‘The Wow Signal’ opens at the top with a consumption of 34,933 units, broken down into 14,848 CDs, 15,256 vinyl, 563 cassettes, 1,756 digital downloads and 2,510 streaming equivalent units. Naturally, the enormous weight of sales in physical format drives the group, which is why the album also reaches number 1 on the Spanish vinyl chart.
After Muse, BTS appears with their fifth album, ‘ARIRANG’, which rises from number 8 to number 5 after the group’s tour of Spain.
As for the entries, to find the next novelty after Muse you have to go down to position 51. There the Sevillian Juicy BAE debuts with ‘Perreando ahidas’, published by Sonido Muchacho.
Finally, Miss Caffeina place the reissue of ‘Detroit’, published on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, in position 68.
