ANALYSIS The Official UK Singles & Albums Charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on a sample of more than 15,000 physical and digital outlets. They count actual sales and audio streams from last Friday to Thursday, based on sales of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other physical formats and audio streams weighted using SEA2 methodology.
Highway to hell: Lewis Capaldi returns to top spot with debut album
BY ALAN JONES D
ethroned by Bruce Springsteen last week, and trailing Will Young for much of the latest frame, Lewis Capaldi edged past the latter to return to No.1. The Scot’s debut, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, bounces 3-1 to secure its fifth week at the summit, although its sales are off 21.00% week-on-week to 19,003 (including 11,085 from sales-equivalent streams) its lowest haul yet. Denied his fifth No.1 album at the death, Will Young’s seventh studio set, Lexicon, opens at No.2 on sales of 16,706 copies. He thus remains tied with Cheryl (two solo, two with Girls Aloud), One Direction and Olly Murs as the reality TV graduates with most No.1 albums. Lexicon is No.1 on both physical sales (11,752) and paid-for downloads (4,274), being let down only by streaming. Recording Young’s lowest first week sale for a studio album yet, it is the successor to 85% Proof, which previously held that record with 21,320, but which nevertheless opened at No.1 in 2015, and has sold 96,356 copies. Opening at No.4 (10,800 sales), Late Night Feelings is producer Mark Ronson’s fifth album as an artist, and home to the hits Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus) and Find U Again (feat. Camila Cabello). It follows Uptown Special, which opened at No.1 in January 2015 on sales of 34,338, hot on the heels of No.1 hit, Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars). Northern Irish indie trio Two Door Cinema Club, rack up their third straight Top 5 album, with False Alarm debuting at No.5 (9,607 sales), matching the debut/peak of its predecessor, Gameshow, which achieved the same result on lower sales (7,988). The band’s second album, Beacon, debuted and peaked at No.2 on sales of 33,306 copies in 2012, while their first album, Tourist History, debuted at number 46 (5,071 sales) in March 2010, and peaked 62 weeks later at number 24. A chart regular since 1999 when he was 50% of The White Stripes alongside former wife Meg, Jack White has charted with The Raconteurs, Dead Weather and solo. The Raconteurs released two Top 10 albums in less than two years, reaching No.2 with May 2006’s Broken Boy Soldiers and No.8 with March 2008 follow-up Consolers Of The Lonely. They never really broke up, and return after an 11-year hiatus to claim their third Top 10 with Help Us Stranger (No.8, 5,758 sales). Pink has just wrapped a UK tour, and is rewarded by a Top 10 re-entry for latest album Hurts 2B Human (11-9, 5,705 sales) and improved standings for Greatest Hits: So Far (67-34, 2,529 sales) and Beautiful Trauma (150-56, 1,768 sales). The rest of the Top 10: Western Stars (1-3, 13,898 sales) by Bruce Springsteen, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (6-6, 7,235 sales) by Billie Eilish, The Greatest Showman (8-7, 6,390 sales) and Diamonds (7-10, 5,448 sales) by Elton John. Veteran synth-pop band Hot Chip’s seventh studio
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Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (Virgin EMI) This week’s sales: 19,003| Physical: 5,902 | Downloads: 2,016 | Streams: 11,085 |Total sales to date: 229,340|
set, A Bath Full Of Ecstasy provides their fifth Top 20 entry, opening at No.11 (5,409 sales). Only their third album – 2008’s Made In The Dark, home to their sole Top 10 single, Ready For The Floor – has gone higher (No.4).
Captain Scot:
Lewis Capaldi returns to No.1 to seal five weeks out of six in top spot
Also new to the chart; Rise (No.17, 4,040 sales), the second album by occasional trio Hollywood Vampires, whose eponymous 2015 debut reached No.12 and whose members are 71-year-old Alice Cooper, 68-year-old Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and 56-year-old actor Johnny Depp; Originals (No.21, 3,556 sales), a selection of previously unreleased Prince demos of songs he gave away that posthumously provide his 37th Top 75 album; 7 (No.23, 3,416 sales), the debut album by 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X, whose introductory single Old Town Road is the year’s fourth biggest seller (930,137 sales); Schlagenheim (No.43, 2,053 sales), the debut album of London quartet Black Midi; Good Love (No.48, 1,950 sales), an EP that provides a chart debut for rapper Nafe Smallz; and Yesterday (No.68, 1,581 sales), the soundtrack to the new Danny Boyle film, largely consisting of Himesh Patel’s Beatles’ covers. Its sales are down for the 10th week in a row but Now That’s What I Call Music! 102 rebounds 5-1 (6,183 sales) on the compilation chart, which it previously topped for seven weeks. Overall album sales are down 8.95% week-on-week at 1,743,661, 4.99% above same week 2018 sales of 1,660,768. Sales-equivalent streams accounted for a record 1,192,174 sales, 68.37% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are down 25.04% week-on-week at 551,487, 19.64% below same week 2018 sales of 686,275.
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