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Sue Lynn Tan's Immortal debuts in first place
Sue Lynn Tan’s Immortal (HarperVoyager) has debuted at the top of the Official UK Top 50, according to the latest data from Nielsen Bookscan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).
It is a standalone fantasy novel from Tan and the author’s biggest sales week ever, outstripping November 2022’s Heart of the Sun Warrior by more than 5,000 copies. Immortal is featured in a couple of different subscription boxes for January – most notably FairyLoot – and is one of three subscription titles to appear in the Top 50 this week.
Water Moon (Bantam) – a debut from Samantha Sotto Yambao – makes it to fourth place in this week’s Top 50, managing to achieve an average selling price 46p higher than its recommended retail price. Yambao featured in multiple subscription boxes, though it is likely an appearance in Illumicrate’s first box of 2025 that has driven its 8,681 copies this week.
It is a subscription box takeover in the Original Fiction chart with Tan and Yambao taking first and second, with fourth going to AS Webb’s Daughter of Chaos (Michael Joseph) thanks to an exclusive Goldsboro edition.
Last week’s official number one The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey (Cornerstone) drops to second place, but with sales of 11,226 copies – up 2.4% against the previous seven days – it keeps hold of the Mass Market Fiction (MMF) number one. In fact, there is no move in the Top 3 at all with the Samantha Harvey and Rebecca Yarros keeping second and third place.
The week’s highest new entry in the MMF chart is Mark Billingham’s The Wrong Hands (Sphere). It is the second entry in the crime writer’s Detective Miller series with sales down 9.5% compared to the paperback of The Last Dance – Miller’s debut appearance – released in the same week in 2024.
One other fiction paperback of note this week is Sarah J Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses (Bloomsbury) – the first in the ACOTAR series sees a volume drop of 8.9% this week, but the 5,533 copies through the tills in the past seven days is enough to push the book over the half a million mark having now sold 500,504 copies since it was first released in 2020 – more than three-fifths of that were sold in the past 12 months.
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The biggest Hardback Non-Fiction (HBNF) release of the week is Simon Squibb’s What’s Your Dream? (Century) – the entrepreneur and TikTok influencer has sold 10,037 copies of his debut title taking him to third place in the UK Top 50. Julie Smith’s Open When… (Michael Joseph) sees sales jump 78.3% to take second place in the HBNF chart – and ninth in the overall TCM – while Mel Robbins’ The Let Them Theory (Hay House UK) returns to the charts after a two-week absence with sales of 5,513 – providing us with a Self-Help Top 3.
The Glucose Goddess Method from Jessie Inchauspé (New River Books) – first published in 2023 – experiences a sugar rush of 45.4% to take sixth place in the TCM Top 50, while Inchauspé’s 2022 title The Glucose Revolution (Short Books) also sees a bump this week of 9.4% taking it to 14th place in the PBNF chart.
Previous Children’s number one Big Jim Begins by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic) has enjoyed a 2.8% increase in sales but is powerless to defend against Young Adult fantasy author Lauren Roberts. Roberts’ Powerless (Simon & Schuster) jumps 136.1% to take the top spot – possibly thanks to renewed interest in the series after the release of a Deluxe Collector’s Edition hardback of short story Powerful, which makes it to fifth place on the Children’s chart this week with sales of 2,902 copies.
This week’s strong set of new releases has helped volume sales grow 2.2% week-on-week to 3.2 million books, while value has grown 3.4% to £29.8m. It is a similarly strong performance compared with the same week last year – volume is up 2.9%, while value has risen 1.5%.
