The excitement surrounding Charli XCX’s amazing new LP Brat is real, but it’s apparently not enough to give Charli a #1 album, either in the US or the UK. In the US, where Charli has always been more of a cult figure than a proper mainstream pop star, Brat is currently projected to debut at #4. If that happens, it’ll be Charli’s best showing over here. (Previously, her highest-charting album was her last one, 2022’s Crash, which debuted at #7.) The UK chart race was much closer, and it did not break Charli’s way.