Concluding a week-long nail-biting race to the highest, the Wigan-formed rock group – comprising Alex Moore, Scott Concepcion, Ryan Durrans and Matty Murphy – attain the summit with simply 700 chart models in it. Beforehand, the foursome loved chart-topping success with 2021 launch How Stunning Life Can Be.
Talking solely to Official Charts, The Lathums say: “Hi there loves! This can be a group effort, however it’s largely come from [the fans].
“We write the songs, however they wouldn’t have the place that they’ve on this planet with out you lot. This can be a thanks to our neighborhood that we’ve created and introduced collectively. You don’t perceive the ability that we maintain collectively. It’s going to be one of the best trip ever!
“One other Official #1 album. We’re the folks, we’re the actual folks, we’re the neighborhood. We’re going to take over this factor. Come on!”
Celebrating a Quantity 2 debut as we speak is slowthai, together with his third studio album UGLY. The Northampton rapper, born Tyron Frampton, beforehand noticed High 10 success with Quantity 9-peaking, Mercury Prize-nominated Nothing Nice About Britain (2019) and #1 follow-up Tyron (2021).
Probably the most-purchased bodily launch in impartial document retailers over the previous seven days, UGLY tops this week’s Official Document Retailer Chart. The document additionally proves the most well-liked album on wax this week; straight in at #1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
Elsewhere, Mimi Webb enjoys her first-ever High 5 assortment with debut studio album Amelia (4). The Canterbury-born singer-songwriter final loved Official Albums Chart success with 2021’s Quantity 9-peaking EP Seven Shades of Heartbreak.
I Can Solely Be Me gives the late, nice Eva Cassidy her highest Official Albums Chart place in 12 years as we speak (9). The posthumous document, which sees the singer-songwriter’s property collaborate with the London Symphony Orchestra and Australian-British composer Christopher Willis, turns into Eva’s sixth High 10 LP so far.
A re-release of US hip-hop outfit De La Soul’s 1989 debut 3 Toes Excessive and Rising sees it clinch a brand new peak this week (12). The reissue varieties the group’s first launch because the unhappy dying of member Trugoy the Dove (born David Jude Jolicoeur) final month.
Not far behind, Glaswegian indie four-piece Tide Strains bag themselves a second High 20 LP with An Ocean Filled with Islands (13). In the meantime, Genesis mark their twenty fifth High 40 assortment with dwell recording BBC Broadcasts (23).
The Weeknd sees his chart-topping 2020 launch After Hours rebound into the High 40 this week (37) and, lastly, US nation celebrity Morgan Wallen makes his High 40 debut with third studio album One Factor at a Time (40).
