Music · 23 August 2026

Phoebe Bridgers earns first solo UK Number 1 with Lost Weekend

Phoebe Bridgers Lost Weekend number one is now official, giving the Californian singer-songwriter her first solo album to top the UK chart. The record entered at the summit of the Official Albums Chart on Friday 21 August and completed a particularly eventful release week, during which Bridgers also had to postpone several intimate UK performances after developing appendicitis.

Lost Weekend did more than lead the main albums ranking. According to the Official Charts Company, it also reached number one on both the Official Vinyl Albums Chart and the Official Record Store Chart. The result makes it the first chart-topping UK album for Dead Oceans, the independent Indiana label that has released Bridgers’ solo records.

The achievement is a new solo milestone, although Bridgers has previously appeared on a UK number-one album as part of boygenius. The trio she formed with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus reached the top with the record in 2023. This time, the award belongs to a project released under Bridgers’ own name, six years after her previous solo studio album.

Bridgers marked the result from hospital, sharing an image of herself holding the Official Number 1 Album Award while recovering. Her health issue had already forced the postponement of a run of small UK shows planned around the album’s arrival. She told fans that the dates would be made up, while reporting from NME and Entertainment Weekly confirmed that revised arrangements were being worked on.

The circumstances gave the chart announcement an unusual contrast: a major UK career high arriving during an enforced pause from performing. Official Charts acknowledged the situation while confirming the result, and Bridgers’ own post kept the tone characteristically dry. The important confirmed update for ticket-holders remains that the affected performances were postponed rather than cancelled outright.

Released on 14 August, Lost Weekend is Bridgers’ third solo studio album and contains 16 tracks. Its sequence begins with “The Outside” and includes “Lost Boys”, “The Governor’s Waltz”, “Still Standing”, “I Can’t Wait” and the title track, before closing with “Lost Weekend (Reprise)”. Dead Oceans released a video for “I Can’t Wait” alongside the album.

The number-one placing also confirms a significant step forward from Bridgers’ earlier solo chart results. Her previous album reached number six in the UK, while Lost Weekend has converted anticipation for her return into a first-week lead across the principal albums ranking and two specialist formats. Billboard independently reported the new UK number one following the chart’s publication.

That breadth matters because the three rankings measure different parts of the release. The main Official Albums Chart combines eligible consumption across formats, while the vinyl and record-store tables highlight physical buying and independent retail. Leading all three shows that the launch was not carried by a single route alone, even though detailed sales figures were not included in the chart announcement.

For UK listeners, the result follows a concentrated period of activity around the record. Bridgers performed two intimate shows at London’s Union Chapel before illness interrupted the remaining dates. Those appearances brought the new material into smaller rooms ahead of the larger tour already listed on her official website, including UK and Irish arena dates later in the year.

The story is therefore firmly about the album’s confirmed reception rather than a forecast of what it might do next. Lost Weekend has debuted at number one, topped the UK vinyl and record-store rankings, and delivered a first solo chart crown for Bridgers. Future chart movement and rescheduled performances will be confirmed separately when official information becomes available.

For now, the Phoebe Bridgers Lost Weekend number one result stands as a clear UK breakthrough. It connects the scale of her boygenius success with her individual catalogue and gives Dead Oceans its own first UK chart-topper, all during a release week that unfolded very differently from the one originally planned.

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