Foo Fighters launch new album Your Favorite Toy at No. 1 on the U.K.’s iTunes Top Albums chart, and the set may debut atop the country’s albums ranking in a few days. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 30: (L-R) Ilan Rubin, Nate Mendel, Rami Jaffee, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett and Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters attend 2026 MusiCares Person of the Year Honoring Mariah Carey on January 30, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
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These days, album promotional campaigns sometimes only begin when the full-length drops. Thanks to the popularity of streaming platforms and digital download storefronts like iTunes, many major figures in the music industry choose not to share any music from an upcoming project until fans can purchase or stream it in its entirety.
Then there are other acts that stick to a more traditional path, one that involves multiple singles arriving before an album. Foo Fighters opted for the more well-worn trajectory with the group’s twelfth full-length Your Favorite Toy, which arrives today (April 24). The band dropped the set’s first single “Asking for a Friend” more than half a year ago, in October 2025, and since then the rockers have delivered another three hits – “Your Favorite Toy,” “Caught in the Echo” and “Of All People” in 2026 – and it appears that all of that work has paid off.
Foo Fighters’ Your Favorite Toy Launches at No. 1
Your Favorite Toy is an instant No. 1 on the iTunes Top Albums chart in the United Kingdom this Friday, which begins a new tracking period. Foo Fighters claim one of five new entries inside the top 10 on the list of the bestselling projects. As Your Favorite Toy enters at No. 1, new releases by Noah Kahan (The Great Divide, No. 3), Ringo Starr (Long, Long Road, No. 4), Demi Lovato (It’s Not That Deep [Unless You Want It to Be], No. 8), and even Michael Jackson (Michael, No. 9) also break into the loftiest tier as well.
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Foo Fighters’ Your Favorite Toy Eyes a No. 1 Debut
Your Favorite Toy is just getting started, but it already stands a good shot at debuting at No. 1 on the Official Albums chart, the main U.K. list of the top-performing full-lengths in the nation. The Grammy winners already claim half a dozen leaders, and the musicians may be on their way to a seventh.
Here are all of the No. 1 albums by Foo Fighters on the U.K.’s Official Albums chart.
- One by One
- Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
- Wasting Light
- Concrete and Gold
- Medicine at Midnight
- But Here We Are
Songs From Your Favorite Toy Flood iTunes in the U.K.
Foo Fighters fill two spots on the 200-space iTunes Top Albums chart in the U.K. as Your Favorite Toy beats every other release to the summit. The band’s simply-titled Greatest Hits compilation falls dozens of spots and settles at No. 81.
The group scores even more wins on the iTunes Top Songs chart in the U.K., where nine different tracks by Foo Fighters appear. All of those tunes come from Your Favorite Toy, with only the single “Caught in the Echo,” the first cut on the project, missing. Half a dozen songs launch within the top 40 this frame, led by “Window” which enters at No. 24. It’s quickly followed by “Unconditional” (No. 29), “Child Actor” (No. 31), “If You Only Knew” (No. 32), “Amen, Caveman” (No. 39), and “Spit Shine” (No. 40). Fellow Your Favorite Toy tracks “Of All People,” “Asking for a Friend,” and the title track are also bestsellers in the U.K. as well, though they sit in much lower spaces.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2026/04/24/the-new-foo-fighters-album-rocks-straight-to-no-1/
