Phoebe Bridgers earns first solo UK number one album
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Phoebe Bridgers has claimed her first solo UK number one album, with Lost Weekend topping the Official Albums Chart on its opening week, as published on Friday 21 August 2026. The milestone marks a significant step up for the singer-songwriter, whose 2020 album Punisher peaked at only number six, and it also delivers the first UK chart-topper for her label, Dead Oceans, home to acts including Mitski and Japanese Breakfast. The success came just days after Bridgers was forced to cancel the remaining dates of her intimate UK tour due to illness, revealing she had developed appendicitis around her birthday.
Bridgers had previously topped the UK chart in 2023 as part of the supergroup boygenius with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, whose album The Record peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. Elsewhere on the same week's chart, KATSEYE achieved a career-best number two with their EP Wild, Irish band The Script scored their ninth UK top 10 at number three with The User's Guide to Being Human, British group Jungle reached number four with Sunshine, and Michael Jackson's The Essential closed at number five, while Kris Barras and Marilyn Manson notched top-40 debuts.
- Phoebe Bridgers' Lost Weekend hits UK number one, her first solo chart-topper
- First-ever UK number one for her label, Dead Oceans
- Came days after she cancelled UK tour dates due to appendicitis
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Phoebe Bridgers is an American singer-songwriter known for introspective, folk-influenced indie rock. She released her debut album in 2017 and built a wider following with 2020's Punisher, which was widely acclaimed but only reached number six in the UK. She has also performed as part of boygenius, a trio with fellow musicians Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker.
The UK Official Albums Chart, compiled weekly by the Official Charts Company, tracks the best-selling and most-streamed albums in Britain and is one of the most closely watched measures of an artist's commercial success there. Reaching number one is seen as a significant milestone, both for the artist and for their record label. Dead Oceans, the independent label behind Bridgers's music, had not previously had a UK chart-topping album.
The chart also reflects a busy week for new and established acts, with a mix of pop groups, established rock bands and a catalogue release from the late Michael Jackson also featuring in the top five.
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Originally published by Billboard as “Phoebe Bridgers Scores Her First U.K. Solo No. 1 Album With ‘Lost Weekend’”.