Damaged By Need To Be Heavenly Despatched has outsold the remainder of the Official Albums Chart High 20 mixed within the course of. It surpasses the earlier greatest opening week of the 12 months – Ed Sheeran’s Subtract shifted 76,000 chart items in its first seven days on sale earlier this month – Lewis now claims the title together with his second Number one album.
This week, Damaged By Need To Be Heavenly Despatched nets in extra of 95,000 chart items, it’s probably the most streamed, downloaded and bodily bought launch of the week, and in addition the most effective vendor of the previous seven days within the UK’s impartial file retailers.
What’s extra, the file outperforms the opening week of Lewis’s debut Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, which totalled 89,000 chart items in its first seven days of launch in 2019.
Lewis additionally claims the most important opening week of any album since Taylor Swift’s Midnights in October 2022 (204,000 chart items), and the most important first week for a male solo artist in 12 months, since Harry Types’ Harry’s Home reached the summit in Might 2022 (114,000 chart items).
Damaged By Need… tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, too, proving the week’s hottest file on wax.
Talking completely to Official Charts, Lewis Capaldi says: “What doth revenue a person if he beneficial properties the world, however loses his soul? A f**king Number one album, child!
“Thanks very a lot for those who went on the market and bought the album this week. Damaged By Need To Be Heavenly Despatched is Number one on the Official Albums Chart. Lovely stuff! Thanks everyone, I really like you a lot.
“Quickest-selling album of the 12 months…it feels good! Thanks very a lot, guys – I’ll see you on the market. A number of exhibits, numerous smiles, numerous excessive fives. It means the world, I really like you a lot.”
In the meantime, London-formed metallic outfit Sleep Token declare their first-ever High 5 album with Take Me Again to Eden (3). The group, comprising members Vessel, II, III and IV, final noticed High 40 success with 2021’s This Place Will Develop into Your Tomb (39).
Elsewhere, Def Leppard’s team-up with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Drastic Symphonies, nets the British rock group a ninth High 10 LP (4), whereas the UK leg of Harry Types’s Love On Tour sees his former Number one file Harry’s Home elevate 4 this week (5).
As she wows UK audiences on her RENAISSANCE World Tour, Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE ascends seven (7), whereas Phantomime earns Swedish rockers Ghost their first-ever UK High 10 album (8).
Forward of her UK exhibits subsequent month, SZA sees her second studio LP SOS rebound 10 spots again into the High 10 (9).
Legendary New Jersey-born singer-songwriter Paul Simon nets a twenty second High 40 album with Seven Psalms (28), as file producer Metal Banglez claims his first with The Playlist (29).
English prog-rock outfit Sure safe their twenty first High 40 LP with Mirror to the Sky (30) and, lastly, The Smiths’ hits compilation The Sound of The Smiths returns to the High 40 for the primary time in 15 years following the unhappy information of bassist Andy Rouke’s dying final week, aged 59 (39).
