Phoebe Bridgers Scores First Solo U.K. No. 1 With 'Lost Weekend'

In the quiet arithmetic of cultural achievement, Phoebe Bridgers has reached the top of the U.K. Albums Chart with her third solo record, Lost Weekend — a summit she had approached before, through collaboration, but never claimed entirely as her own. The milestone belongs not only to her but to Dead Oceans, the independent label that has long trusted in artists who resist easy categorization, and which now holds its first British number one. That this moment arrives while Bridgers recovers from appendicitis, unable to perform the songs live, is a reminder that triumph and interruption rarely w