UK Charts: Animal Crossing returns to winning ways with a New Year’s number one

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

UK physical map data is now in for the week ending January 2, showing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has returned to the number one spot.

Nintendo’s big hit managed to get past last week’s number one, FIFA 21, and kicked off 2021 with even more success. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe also continues to perform well in third place, up from last week.

Other exclusive Nintendo items can also be found in the top ten, including a surprise return for New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe in the tenth; in recent weeks, the two-year game has been up and around 29th place.

Here’s a rundown of this week’s top ten of all formats:

[Compiled by GFK]

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