Lady Gaga Occupies Finland Twice While Radiohead Refuses to Leave

Lady Gaga claims both the top position and its shadow this week, with MAYHEM and its live requiem sitting at #1 and #2. The requiem arrives from 2026, which raises questions about release strategies or data anomalies that nobody seems interested in answering. Either way, Finland has committed.

Tame Impala's Deadbeat sits at #3, followed by Linkin Park's From Zero at #4. The pop infrastructure then takes over: PinkPantheress, Charli XCX, and a peculiar Rihanna Smurfs soundtrack entry at #9. The latter deserves mention for its sheer oddness, wedged between actual albums and what appears to be contractual obligation.

Radiohead's KID A MNESIA at #8 demonstrates that archival releases maintain equal footing with contemporary output here. It's from 2021, but the Finns are treating it like new stock. Madonna appears twice—once with a 2021 theater experience, again with something called I Feel So Free. The duality suggests either devotion or algorithmic confusion.

The chart's lower half reveals geographic anxiety more than musical preference. Metallica's 72 Seasons lingers at #19, a Nordic metal anchor that refuses to sink completely. Kendrick Lamar's GNX holds at #17, doing the work American exports typically do. The Weeknd, Drake, Bieber—all present, all middling.

What's absent: anything Finnish. Not a single domestic entry across twenty positions, which either signals colonized listening habits or suggests local artists exist in parallel ecosystems that don't register on this particular measurement. As Eastern Europe contends with threats that make foreign nationals reconsider their geography, Finland's charts remain determinedly elsewhere.