Liam Gallagher and John Squire blast to No. 1 with their first collaborative album.
In the top, it wasn’t even shut. The chief on the midway mark, Liam Gallagher & John Squire (through Warner Records) outsells its nearest rival by a ratio of 3-to-1, the Official Charts Company studies, chalking up 39,400 chart gross sales in its first week.
Of that whole, 94% are gross sales (bodily and downloads), in line with the OCC. Liam Gallagher & John Squire was the most-purchased album on wax, with vinyl accounting for 45% of its full-week tally.
Gallagher and Squire are members of Manchester rock royalty. Gallagher, as frontman of Oasis (eight No. 1s), Beady Eye and as a solo artist (5), now claims 14 U.Okay. No. 1 albums throughout a profession that launched within the ‘90s.
For Squire, chief guitarist with The Stone Roses, a first-ever U.Okay. No. 1 album. As a member of The Stone Roses, Squire has landed 4 high 10s, together with a number of appearances for the band’s seminal, self-titled debut from 1989, and a high 10 with the Seahorses’ Do It Yourself, peaking at No. 2 in 1997.
That distant, second-placed album is one other all-Britain collaboration, Rod Stewart and Jools Holland’s Swing Fever (EastWest/Rhino), which slips from the chart zenith, 2-1.
Another legendary British rocker, Bruce Dickinson, slots in at No. 3 on the Official Chart, printed Friday, March 8. Dickinson, finest often called lead singer of Iron Maiden, earns a solo chart finest with The Mandrake Project (BMG), his seventh solo report.
Leeds guitar band Yard Act enters the chart at No. 4 with Where’s My Utopia (Island), their sophomore studio album. It’s the followup to 2022’s The Overload, which peaked at No. 2.
After cleansing up on the Brit Awards, the place she collected a record-setting haul of six wins, RAYE returns to the highest 10 with My twenty first Century Blues (Human Re Sources), spiking 98 locations to No. 5. Winner of the Brit Award for British album of the yr, My twenty first Century Blues initially peaked at No. 2 following its launch in 2023.
Close behind is Kaiser Chiefs’ Easy Eighth Album (Kaiser Chiefs), new at No. 6. That’s the Leeds indie band’s eighth high 10 look, a profession tally that features a No. 1 for 2007’s Yours Truly, Angry Mob.
Manchester’s famend music scene produces one other title within the high 10 this week, Everything Everything’s Mountainhead (BMG), new at No. 9 for the rock act’s seventh studio album.
Finally, British rapper and songwriter Skrapz (actual identify: Christopher Kyei) scores a career-best together with his fourth studio assortment Reflection (1&Only). It’s new at No. 10, his first stint within the U.Okay. high 10.
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