Miley Cyrus achieves UK chart double

Miley Cyrus has achieved a comparatively uncommon illustration feat successful the UK - topping some the singles and medium illustration successful the aforesaid week.

Her eighth workplace medium Endless Summer Vacation enters the illustration successful rod position, portion her azygous Flowers spends a ninth week astatine fig one.

It's the star's archetypal fig 1 medium since 2013's Bangerz.

That grounds besides scored the illustration double, alongside the multi-platinum-selling single, Wrecking Ball.

Flowers, which is said to beryllium astir the end of her matrimony to histrion Liam Hemsworth, is present tied with Olivia Rodrigo's Drivers License arsenic the longest-running fig 1 azygous by a pistillate solo creator this decade.

Last Friday's merchandise of Endless Summer Vacation (which includes 2 versions of Flowers) ensured that the opus reclaims its rubric arsenic the most-streamed opus of the past 7 days, overtaking the viral smash Boy's A Liar Pt. 2 by PinkPantheress and Ice Spice.

Reviews for the medium person been broadly positive, praising Cyrus's vulnerability and songcraft, portion lamenting that immoderate of her rougher edges person been sanded off.

"The existent of honesty that runs done Endless Summer Vacation encourages the listener to property play connected the grounds again, and the stories present get adjacent amended connected a 2nd oregon 3rd listen," wrote Consequence Of Sound. "It's cohesive without feeling repetitive."

The medium "holds your afloat attraction adjacent if it isn't Cyrus's boldest oregon astir visionary," said the NME, calling the songs a "remarkably intriguing" penetration into her post-divorce authorities of mind.

Pitchfork noted that the grounds is divided into "AM" and "PM" sections, with the former, written alongside Harry Styles' collaborator Kid Harpoon, outshining the "maddening" and "grating" 2nd half.

Two of the album's stand-out tracks, River and Jaded, besides marque this week's Top 40.

Elsewhere, Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding claimed this week's highest caller entry, with their trancey caller collaboration Miracle.

The opus enters the illustration astatine fig three, marking becoming Calvin's 29th and Ellie's 12th apical 10 hit. It's besides their 3rd arsenic a duo, pursuing 2012's I Need Your Love and 2014's Outside.

Miracle is simply a beardown contender for adjacent week's fig one... but it lone gets 1 changeable astatine the top. Ed Sheeran's comeback single, Eye's Closed, is retired the pursuing week.

Meanwhile, UK Eurovision entrant Mae Muller gets her run disconnected to a beardown start, arsenic her azygous I Wrote A Song enters the illustration astatine fig 30.

That's already an betterment connected past year's contestant, Sam Ryder, who lone cracked the apical 40 aft taking 2nd spot successful Turin.

In fact, Muller is the archetypal UK enactment to participate the illustration successful beforehand of Eurovision since Blue successful 2011.

I Wrote A Song is her archetypal Top 40 azygous arsenic a solo artist. She antecedently reached fig 32 successful 2021, arsenic the vocalist connected Better Days, a collaboration with shaper Neiked and US rapper Polo G.

"It was hard due to the fact that I'm a spot of a chatterbox and I'm rather open," she said.

"But I did archer my parents due to the fact that I thought I can't springiness them that overmuch of a shock."