David Bowie dominates UK album charts as latest album hits No 1

This week’s UK charts are dominated by the albums and singles of David Bowie. More than half a million of his records were sold after his death on Sunday, with an entire quarter of the top 40 commandeered by the pop pioneer.

His new album, Blackstar, debuts at No 1, making it his 10th chart-topping LP. With combined sales across formats of almost 150,000, the album was already on course for the top spot before the news of his death.

Elsewhere, 19 Bowie albums and 13 singles have entered the top 100. His 2014 best of, Nothing Has Changed, entered at No 5, with The Best of 1969/1974 at No 11 – contributing to the 241,000 posthumous Bowie album sales in total. Of his standard albums, Hunky Dory sits at No 14, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust is at No 17, Aladdin Sane is at No 23 and The Next Day at No 25.

The rest of the album chart top five features Elvis Presley’s If I Can Dream at No 2, Adele’s 25 at No 3, and Justin Bieber’s Purpose at No 4.

A number of Bowie’s vintage tracks also reentered the charts. He sold 167,000 singles, and streams reached more than 19m across a number of services. This week, his 1977 track Heroes was his best performing single, at No 12, with Life on Mars at No 16 and Starman at No 18. Let’s Dance and Space Oddity also crack the top 40.

Bieber conquers the UK singles charts this week: Love Yourself remains at the top of the UK singles list for its sixth week. Shawn Mendes’s Stitches currently sits at No 2, with Bieber’s Sorry and What Do You Mean at No 3 and 4 respectively. Sigala and Bryn Chistopher’s Sweet Lovin’ caps off the top 5.