Foo Fighters secure their 6th Official Number 1 album with But Here We Are, following a closely-fought race versus Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
The American rock titans – making up Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee and Pat Smear – reach the top with their 11th studio album, and initially considering that the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March 2022. Over the last 7 days they acquired 44,500 chart systems.
Prior to this, Foo Fighters topped the Official Albums Chart with One By One (2002), Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007), Wasting Light (2011), Concrete And Gold (2017) and Medicine At Midnight (2021).
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At Number 2, Council Skies offers Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds a 5th Top 5 album. Under his solo name, Noel formerly saw chart-topping success with eponymous launching Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (2011), Chasing Yesterday (2015), Who Built The Moon (2017) and collection album Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2021).
Across a profession covering 29 years, Noel held an Official Chart record for his unbroken streak of all 10 previous studio albums – launched both as part of Oasis and High Flying Birds – reaching Number 1, the most for any artist, although this run concerns an end today.
Council Skies does launching atop the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, along with the Official Record Store Chart, the very popular album of the previous 7 days in UK independent record stores.
Elsewhere, Sophie Ellis-Bextor commemorates her 5th UK Top 10 LP with HANA (8). Previously, the singer-songwriter saw Top 10 success with 2001 launching Read My Lips (2), 2007 release Trip The Light Fantastic (7), 2014’s Wanderlust (4) and 2020 collection Songs From The Kitchen Disco (8). HANA likewise debuts inside the Top 5 of both the Official Record Store Chart (2) and Official Vinyl Albums Chart (5) today.
Read our unique interview with Sophie here.
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Louise commemorates thirty years in music with her Greatest Hits collection, a brand-new entry at Number 11 today. Greatest Hits likewise debuts at Number 4 on today’s Official Record Store Chart.
Meanwhile, Bob Dylan’s landmark 40th album Shadow Kingdom, a re-recorded collection of tunes from his early profession, debuts at Number 14 to end up being the famous singer-songwriter’s 67th Top 40 LP.
Wrexham indie-pop attire The Royston Club, making up Tom Faithfull, Ben Matthias, Sam Jones and Dave Tute, make their Official Chart launching with Shaking Hips And Crashing Cars (16), while Jake Shears’ 2nd studio album Last Man Dancing offers him a solo career-best (18). Last Man Standing likewise debuts inside the Official Vinyl Albums Chart Top 10 (6).
United States heavy metal five-piece Avenged Sevenfold’s 8th studio record Life Is But A Dream… offers the group a 6th UK Top 40 collection (21), as Nashville-based rockers Rival Sons score their 5th with Darkfighter (30).
Finally, K-pop group Stray Kids – making up Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin and I.N – make their Top 40 launching today with 3rd studio album 5-Star (40).
