Stacey Solomon's Tap to Tidy sweeps to the top

Stacey Solomon's Tap to Tidy (Ebury) has cleaned the floor with the competition, sweeping straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one in its first week on sale.

Nielsen BookScan was once again unable to report sales data as the UK is under lockdown. However Penguin Random House has confirmed Tap to Tidy's volume at 104,000 copies for its first three days on sale in hardback, which would make it one of the fastest-selling non-fiction titles since BookScan records began.

Tap to Tidy became the first 2021-published title to top the Hardback Non-Fiction top 20, as fellow new entries including Jordan Peterson's Beyond Order (Allen Lane), Amanda Owen's Tales from the Farm (Macmillan), Anna Jones' One Pot, Pan, Planet (HarperCollins) and Monty Don's The Complete Gardener (DK) all debuting in the chart's top half.

This marks the second year in a row that a World Book Day title has not topped the chart for the week of World Book Day itself. The previous week's number one, Jonny Duddle's Gigantosaurus: Dino Spot (Templar), headed the 2021 WBD tranche, but dropped to second place overall, after notching up a number one in the previous week. Last year, Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) thundered into the number one spot, leapfrogging Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet's WBD title Supertato: Books are Rubbish (S&S).

Of course, the World Book Day titles ruled the Children's charts, with all 12 books charting in the kid's top 13—only Cassandra Clare's non-World Book Day title Chain of Iron (Walker) broke up the party in 10th place. Gigantosaurus: Dino Spot reigned atop the Pre-School top 20 for a second week, while Katherine Rundell and Marie-Alice Harel's Skysteppers (Bloomsbury Children's) soared into the Children's and YA Fiction number one slot.

Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (Faber & Faber) debuted in the Original Fiction top spot, ending the 16-week streak of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) at the top.

Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin) topped the Paperback Non-Fiction top 20, two and half years after its hardback edition charted at the top of the Hardback Non-Fiction chart. The hardback sold over 700,000 copies, including the 2018 Christmas number one, and spent eight weeks atop the category chart.

Matt Haig's The Midnight Library (Canongate) clocked in at the top of the Mass Market Fiction chart for a third week running. Stephen King's Later (Hard Case Crime) and Lesley Pearse's Liar (Penguin) debuted in fourth and sixth place respectively.

Tap to Tidy also heads non-fiction in the Amazon charts.