Lily Allen‘s fifth album West End Girl has quickly taken the internet by storm as the de facto breakup album of the season, and if the album’s Spotify figures are any metric, it doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon.
According to data Spotify shared exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter, streams on West End Girl doubled in the week since the album first came out on Oct. 24, affirming the album’s buzz given that new albums more often get their biggest numbers in the first couple days of release. (Spotify didn’t share specifics on exact number of streams, though on her page, “Pussy Palace” is the record’s most-popular track so far, earning about 9 million streams to date.)
West End Girl has introduced a wider swath of listeners to Allen’s music overall, Spotify said, with first-time listens for Allen on the platform going up 375 percent since release day. Since its release, Spotify said, there have been an average of 100,000 discoveries of Allen each day.
West End Girl came as a bit of a surprise, with Allen only announcing the record a few days before its release through BMG on Oct. 24. But it quickly caught fire, generating buzz as a tell-all screed about her separation from her ex David Harbour. The album has received considerable praise from critics as a late contender as one of the best albums of 2025, earning Allen some of the best reviews of her career so far.
While the Spotify numbers and numerous headlines in the press suggest intrigue and growth, West End Girl is far from a chart-topper yet. It debuted at just 118 on Billboard’s 200 albums chart in the U.S., but it fared much better in her native England, opening at no. 4. The question now becomes where the album lands on the charts next week.
Allen spoke about West End Girl in an interview with Interview Magazine’s Mel Ottenberg last week, opening up about making the album and shooting down the notion that it’s a revenge record. Allen married Stranger Things star Harbour in Las Vegas in 2020, separating last year.
“I mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December and I feel very differently about the whole situation now,” Allen said. “We all go through breakups, and it’s always fucking brutal. But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it.”
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