The Final Dinner Celebration feasts on the U.Ok. chart as Prelude to Ecstasy (by way of Island) blasts to No. 1.
The outright chief on the midweek level, Prelude to Ecstasy clocks 32,800 chart models in its first week, the Official Charts Firm experiences.
That’s the most important opening week for a debut album by a band since 2015, when digital pop act Years & Years accrued 55,000 with their debut, Communion.
Additionally, in accordance with the OCC, the Final Dinner Celebration’s first-week end result consists of greater than 14,000 vinyl copies, for the fastest-selling debut album by a gaggle on vinyl of the century, and the best gross sales week for a vinyl album since Oasis’ The Masterplan remaster dropped final November.
Based mostly in London, the indie-rock five-piece (Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci) has some critical hype behind it.
The group snagged this yr’s BRITs Rising Star Award and the BBC Sound Of 2024 ballot, a brace that assures the Final Dinner Celebration standing as the subsequent huge factor in music.
Prelude to Ecstasy options “Nothing Issues,” their breakthrough debut single which charted on the Billboard Scorching 100 and the Official U.Ok. Singles Chart.
Additionally new to the Official U.Ok. Albums Chart, revealed Friday, Feb. 9, is Jamie Webster’s 10 For The Individuals (Fashionable Sky), at No. 2. With that effort, the Liverpool, England singer and songwriter boasts a brand new profession excessive, outdoing 2022’s Moments, which peaked at No. 3.
Glasgow, Scotland singer and songwriter Dylan John Thomas enjoys a high 40 begin along with his self-titled debut album (by way of Ignition), new at No. 21, whereas Britpop-era psychedelic rock act Kula Shaker nabs a fourth U.Ok. high 40 with their newest LP Pure Magick (Unusual Folks), new at No. 22.
Lastly, Taylor Swift fever spreads on the U.Ok. chart following the announcement of The Tortured Poets Division, her forthcoming eleventh studio album. A number of of Swift’s recordings spike on the tally, together with 1989 (Taylor’s Model) (up 8-5), Midnights (up 15-6), Folklore (up 18-10), Lover (up 17-13), fame (up 20-14), and Evermore (up 51-40), all via EMI. Introduced through the 2024 Grammys broadcast, The Tortured Poets Division is due out April 19.
