05-03-2016, 12:50
UK chart overview for 4th March 2016:
albums:
The 1975 have gone straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, fending off Adele, who enjoys strong post BRIT Awards sales.The Manchester band's second album I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It scored combined chart sales of 58,000, some 6,500 ahead of Adele's 25.
Speaking to OfficialCharts.com, the band told us: "Thank you so much to everyone involved, weâre very very humbled by it. Weâre finding it a bit surreal and weird, we didnât expect it to go to Number 1, weâre up against people like Adele, so weâre really really proud. And you get a trophy now, so we feel like weâve actually won something too!â
I Like It When You Sleep... is The 1975's second consecutive Number 1, following the release of their self-titled debut back in 2013.
Looking to the rest of the Top 5, Justin Bieber's Purpose rises one place to 3, as David Bowie's hits retrospective Best of Bowie drops two slots to Number 4. Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams holds firm at 5.
[h=4]New entries and high climbers[/h]In addition to The 1975, there are eight new entries on the chart. Britain's Got Talent finalists Richard & Adam score their third Top 10 album; Believe â Songs of Inspiration lands at 9.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis achieve a new Official Albums Chart best at 16 with This Unruly Mess I've Made. Their debut album The Heist peaked at 19 back in 2014. At 21, there's another new entry for thrash metal group Anthrax, with For All Kings.
The nation is still enjoying reflecting on David Bowie's career, with reissues of his work climbing the chart. Hunky Dory has climbed 11 places to 26 and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust has risen 12 places to 29. A new entry from Steve Mason (Meet The Humans) is sandwiched in between at 28.
Magnum's Sacred Blood Divine Lies and Raleigh Ritchie's You're A Man Now, Boy are new entries at 31 and 32 respectively, whilst Bonnie Raitt's Dig In Deep and Hills End by DMA's debut at 35 and 36.
And The 1975 find themselves bookending the Top 40 â with their second album at the top, their self-titled debut climbs back up to land at Number 40 today.
Elvis Presley reaches new milestone:
The King of rock n' roll Elvis Presley claims a massive Official Chart feat today, as the latest album from the late legend, If I Can Dream, passes one million sales in the UK.
The collection of orchestral reworkings of some of Elvis' best known hits has just tipped past one million sales (not including streams) on Friday, March 4 - more than 36 years after his death.
If I Can Dream was a staple at the top end of the Official Albums Chart last Christmas, logging two weeks at Number 1 and 12 weeks in the Top 10.
It's taken just 18 weeks for the record to reach the milestone, and remains inside the UK Top 20 this week at Number 11.
Executive producer and Elvis' former wife Priscilla Presley said: "Once again the UK has shown how much they love and adore Elvis. This is an album that Elvis always really wanted to do and he would be so pleased to know that we have touched one million fans. I want to thank you with all my heart, helping us realise an unfulfilled dream."
If I Can Dream gave Elvis at 12th UK Number 1 album and set a new chart record when it debuted at the top last November, giving him more chart-topping albums than any other male solo artist in UK chart history.
The record logged 79,000 chart sales in its opening week, but its biggest sales week came seven weeks after, which it notched up just under 175,000.
If I Can Dream joins an elite club of albums to have passed one million sales in the UK. Recent records that have also managed it in the last two years are "25" by Adele (the UK's fastest million selling album), George Ezra with his debut "wanted on voyage", Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour and Ed Sheeran's x.
There are reports that a follow-up to If I Can Dream is on the way later this year; but in the meantime, a massive 60-CD boxset of his complete works plus rarities is being released on March 18
albums:
The 1975 have gone straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, fending off Adele, who enjoys strong post BRIT Awards sales.The Manchester band's second album I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It scored combined chart sales of 58,000, some 6,500 ahead of Adele's 25.
Speaking to OfficialCharts.com, the band told us: "Thank you so much to everyone involved, weâre very very humbled by it. Weâre finding it a bit surreal and weird, we didnât expect it to go to Number 1, weâre up against people like Adele, so weâre really really proud. And you get a trophy now, so we feel like weâve actually won something too!â
I Like It When You Sleep... is The 1975's second consecutive Number 1, following the release of their self-titled debut back in 2013.
Looking to the rest of the Top 5, Justin Bieber's Purpose rises one place to 3, as David Bowie's hits retrospective Best of Bowie drops two slots to Number 4. Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams holds firm at 5.
[h=4]New entries and high climbers[/h]In addition to The 1975, there are eight new entries on the chart. Britain's Got Talent finalists Richard & Adam score their third Top 10 album; Believe â Songs of Inspiration lands at 9.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis achieve a new Official Albums Chart best at 16 with This Unruly Mess I've Made. Their debut album The Heist peaked at 19 back in 2014. At 21, there's another new entry for thrash metal group Anthrax, with For All Kings.
The nation is still enjoying reflecting on David Bowie's career, with reissues of his work climbing the chart. Hunky Dory has climbed 11 places to 26 and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust has risen 12 places to 29. A new entry from Steve Mason (Meet The Humans) is sandwiched in between at 28.
Magnum's Sacred Blood Divine Lies and Raleigh Ritchie's You're A Man Now, Boy are new entries at 31 and 32 respectively, whilst Bonnie Raitt's Dig In Deep and Hills End by DMA's debut at 35 and 36.
And The 1975 find themselves bookending the Top 40 â with their second album at the top, their self-titled debut climbs back up to land at Number 40 today.
Elvis Presley reaches new milestone:
The King of rock n' roll Elvis Presley claims a massive Official Chart feat today, as the latest album from the late legend, If I Can Dream, passes one million sales in the UK.
The collection of orchestral reworkings of some of Elvis' best known hits has just tipped past one million sales (not including streams) on Friday, March 4 - more than 36 years after his death.
If I Can Dream was a staple at the top end of the Official Albums Chart last Christmas, logging two weeks at Number 1 and 12 weeks in the Top 10.
It's taken just 18 weeks for the record to reach the milestone, and remains inside the UK Top 20 this week at Number 11.
Executive producer and Elvis' former wife Priscilla Presley said: "Once again the UK has shown how much they love and adore Elvis. This is an album that Elvis always really wanted to do and he would be so pleased to know that we have touched one million fans. I want to thank you with all my heart, helping us realise an unfulfilled dream."
If I Can Dream gave Elvis at 12th UK Number 1 album and set a new chart record when it debuted at the top last November, giving him more chart-topping albums than any other male solo artist in UK chart history.
The record logged 79,000 chart sales in its opening week, but its biggest sales week came seven weeks after, which it notched up just under 175,000.
If I Can Dream joins an elite club of albums to have passed one million sales in the UK. Recent records that have also managed it in the last two years are "25" by Adele (the UK's fastest million selling album), George Ezra with his debut "wanted on voyage", Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour and Ed Sheeran's x.
There are reports that a follow-up to If I Can Dream is on the way later this year; but in the meantime, a massive 60-CD boxset of his complete works plus rarities is being released on March 18
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.