LONDON, July 18 — The Rolling Stones have pulled level with The Beatles for number one records after landing their 15th chart-topping album, PA Media/dpa reported, citing the Official Charts Company.

The 14-track record, titled Foreign Tongues, follows on from their 2023 release Hackney Diamonds, and has been widely praised by critics as a late-career peak.

The record was released on Friday and has already shot to the top of the charts, meaning the Grammy-winning group has now earned the same amount of number one albums as fellow 1960s rockers The Beatles.

The group is widely regarded as one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time, and is made up of singer Mick Jagger and guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.

The official albums chart has also seen December 10 secure the highest-charting debut for a British boy band in six years with On Your Side — which is at number five.

The English-Irish pop group were formed by music mogul Simon Cowell in 2025 as part of his Netflix documentary The Next Act, which saw him on the hunt for the next hit boy band.

The seven-member ensemble said their top 10 feat is “still hard to get our heads around,” adding: “Seeing our name in the official albums chart alongside artists like The Rolling Stones is a proper pinch-me moment.

“Then you go to a record shop signing and there are hundreds of people waiting to meet you and get their record or CD signed.

“Those are the moments that make you stop and think, ‘Wow... this is really actually happening.’”

December 10, comprising Cruz Lee-Ojo, Hendrik Christoffersen, John Fadare, Josh Olliver, Nicolas Alves, Sean Hayden, and Danny Bretherton, also described their new album as a “huge milestone for us.”

“We hope there’s a song on there that everyone can connect with, whatever they’re going through,” they said.

Elsewhere on the official albums chart, United States (US) rock band My Chemical Romance sits at number two with a remastered version of their 2010 record Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys.

Following at number three is Olivia Rodrigo with her chart-topping album You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, which landed her the biggest opening week of her career after its release last month.

Michael Jackson’s compilation album The Essential is at four, amid an ongoing resurgence of the late singer sparked by the release of a biopic film depicting the King of Pop’s life.

Over on the UK singles chart, Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s award-winning hit Rein Me In is enjoying a 17th non-consecutive week at the summit.

The track has overtaken Bryan Adams’ long-running number one (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, which sat at the top of the charts for 16 consecutive weeks in 1991.

It is one week away from equalling Frankie Laine’s 1953 hit I Believe in enjoying the most weeks at number one ever, and was recently crowned the longest-running number one single of all time by a British act.

Oasis’s Wonderwall, which has been adopted by England fans throughout the 2026 Fifa World Cup as an unofficial anthem for the men’s national team, sits at two.

It comes after Thomas Tuchel’s men suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 loss against Argentina during the semifinal match on Wednesday, dashing England’s hopes of ending a 60-year wait for World Cup glory.

Three Lions by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, and the Lightning Seeds, which has been a football anthem since its 1996 release, is at three as World Cup fever takes over the charts.

It is followed by Talk To You by Anotr/54 Ultra at four, while the official anthem of the football tournament Dai Dai by Shakira and Burna Boy rounds off the top five. — Bernama-PA Media/dpa