Noah Kahan Achieves Second No. 1 UK Album with ‘The Great Divide’

Noah Kahan has secured his second No. 1 album in the U.K. as The Great Divide debuts at the summit of the Official Albums Chart dated May 1.

The fourth studio LP from the Vermont singer-songwriter marks the biggest first-week debut for an international artist in 2026 to date. It joins 2023’s Stick Season as a chart-topper; the lead single from that album spent seven consecutive weeks at the summit in 2024 and was No. 1 on the U.K.’s year-end Singles Charts in 2024.

Kahan is followed by Foo Fighters , whose 12th studio album, Your Favorite Toy, enters at No. 2 and marks the band’s 14th top 10 LP in the U.K. The Dave Grohl-led band has hit the No. 1 spot in the U.K. six times over the past three decades, and recently appeared as musical guest on SNL U.K .

As she kicks off her global arena tour , Olivia Dean ’s The Art of Loving closes at No. 3. Her U.K. leg launched in Glasgow, Scotland, on April 22 before hitting Manchester’s Co-op Live over the past weekend; she’s set to play six nights at London’s O2 Arena over the coming month.

Following the record-breaking box office numbers for Michael Jackson’s new biopic, two MJ collections moonwalk into the top five this week. Michael – Songs From the Motion Picture lands at No. 4, while his Number Ones collection closes at No. 5.

New releases from Paul Weller ( Weller at the BBC, Vol. 2 , No. 19) and Billboard Women in Music honoree Kehlani ( Kehlani , No. 28) also debut inside the top 40.

_Originally reported by [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/noah-kahan-the-great-divide-number-1-uk-albums-chart-1236236914/)._