Lana’s ninth studio album joins her earlier UK chart-toppers Born to Die (2012), Ultraviolence (2014), Lust for Life (2017), Norman F*cking Rockwell! (2019) and Chemtrails Over the Nation Membership (2021).
Do you know that there’s a tunnel… surpasses the opening week of Pink’s current chart-topper TRUSTFALL for the perfect first-week gross sales of an album this 12 months, in addition to Lana’s strongest first week since Ultraviolence in 2014.
The self-analytical LP additionally sees Lana tie with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Blur on the record of acts with essentially the most UK No 1 information to their identify; boasting six apiece.
Lana now additionally ranks as the feminine solo artist with the fifth-most No 1 albums within the UK. Solely Madonna (12), Taylor Swift (9), Kylie Minogue (8) and Barbra Streisand (7) have extra.
Martin Talbot, Chief Govt, Official Charts Firm says: “The achievement of Lana Del Rey in scoring six No 1 albums in simply 11 years is sort of one thing, particularly given she has performed so with the most important first week numbers of any album this 12 months. She is a real famous person of our period.”
Do you know that there’s a tunnel underneath Ocean Blvd additionally tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, proving the preferred document of the week on wax, and is the week’s most-purchased LP in unbiased document retailers, too.
Elsewhere within the all-new Prime 5, Essex-formed synth-pop pioneers Depeche Mode earn their highest-charting album in a decade with Memento Mori (2). Essentially the most digitally-downloaded album of the week, it nets the duo – Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – an eighteenth UK Prime 40 LP throughout a profession spanning over 40 years.
Illinois rockers Fall Out Boy clinch a fifth Prime 5 document with So A lot (for) Stardust (3), 20 years after the group launched their debut document Take This to Your Grave.
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their seminal prog-rock opus Darkish Facet of the Moon, Pink Floyd make a return to the Prime 5 this week. A vinyl urgent of The Darkish Facet of the Moon – Dwell at Wembley 1974 lands at Quantity 3, whereas a The Darkish Facet of the Moon – 50 Years reissue sees the unique 1973 studio LP rebound to Quantity 17. The album final appeared within the Prime 20 virtually 12 years in the past, again in October 2011.
Rounding out the all-new Prime 5 is North Carolina-born nation singer-songwriter Luke Combs. His fourth studio album Gettin’ Previous – the follow-up to 2022’s Growin’ Up – earns him a UK career-best inserting (5).
As viewers proceed to benefit from the Amazon Prime Video adaption of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel Daisy Jones & the Six, the fictional band of the identical identify – comprising forged members Riley Keough, Sam Claflin and Suki Waterhouse – declare a brand new peak with Aurora, up 14 spots (26).
Japanese kawaii metallic group BABYMETAL have fun their third UK Prime 40 LP with THE OTHER ONE touchdown at Quantity 32, whereas a fiftieth anniversary reissue of Elton John’s Honky Chateau sees it return to the Prime 40 for the primary time in 5 many years, at Quantity 33. The album peaked at Quantity 2 upon its authentic launch in 1972.
And, lastly, Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua enjoys an eleventh UK Prime 40 album with Love & Cash this week (35).
