After You makes it two as Moyes holds the number one spot

Jojo Moyes has scored a second week in the Official UK Top 50 number one spot as After You (Penguin) sold 47,872 copies for £180,513.

Volume sales have now surpassed 100,000 copies in under two weeks in the mass market format, making it the fifth fastest-selling title of 2016 to date and the second fastest Adult Fiction title, after Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Black Swan). After You is now the ninth bestselling Fiction title of the year, with predecessor Me Before You (Michael Joseph) six places above in third.

Both the 2012 paperback and 2016 film tie-in editions of Me Before You charted in the top 10, taking Moyes’ total Top 50 haul to 76,327 copies last week. Across all editions, the combined volume of the Me Before You duology is now just a whisker below the one million copies sold milestone, at 968,019 units.

Just a whisker over the one million mark is Joe “The Body Coach” Wicks, who has now shifted 1,006,523 copies of Lean in 15 and Lean in 15: The Shape Plan (Bluebird), for nearly £8m. Though The Shape Plan dropped to fourth overall with a bruising 26.8% fall in volume, it held the Paperback Non-Fiction number one for Wicks’ 25th week. He is now level with the Hairy Bikers, who, incredibly, still hold the number one bestselling Health, Dieting and Wholefood Cookery title of all time with The Hairy Dieters: How to Love Food and Lose Weight (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Lean in 15 is now just 20,944 copies away from overtaking them.

The Top 50 was awash with fiction titles—36 charted last week, with Non-Fiction and Children’s represented by seven titles apiece. Wicks and David Walliams were the only non-paperback fiction authors in the upper half of the chart. It was an almost equal split between General & Literary Fiction (15 titles) and Crime, Thriller & Adventure (13 titles).

Jessie Burton became the first female Original Fiction number one since S J Parris’ Conspiracy (HarperCollins) hit the top spot eight weeks ago, as The Muse (Picador) jumped 10.1% in volume on its first week on sale and leapfrogged Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's The Long Cosmos (Doubleday).  On the other side of the coin, After You’s second week atop Mass Market Fiction chart marked a 12th straight week of female-authored number ones.

David Walliams' The World's Worst Children (HarperCollins Children's) spent an eighth week as Children's number one, despite an onslaught of Zoella Book Club titles in the Children's chart. The World's Worst Children is now his second-longest running number one, but has a long way to go to beat the 21 weeks racked up by Gangsta Granny—which featured in the Top 50 again last week, over three years since publication.

Despite Brexit woes, the market has remained buoyant, posting a 3% increase on the week before and a stunning 14.6% boost year on year.