06 September 2024
Newsdesk
Oasis take Definitely Maybe back to the top of the Official Albums Chart this week, as the iconic debut album celebrates its 30th anniversary with 408% week-on-week uplift.
The record, which debuted at Number 1 on its release in September 1994, returns to the summit for the first time in three decades, bolstered by the release of a 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. The reissued version of Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan and Tony McCaroll’s first includes the group’s originally discarded Monnow Valley sessions, plus outtakes from their Sawmills recordings and an alternative demo version of Sad Song.
It marks the first time in 14 years the group have topped the Official Albums Chart together.
Definitely Maybe also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, with over 50% of its weekly total made up of vinyl sales, and the Official Record Store Chart, the most popular album in UK independent record shops over the past seven days.
Oasis see two further records inside the Top 5 this week: 2009 hits compilation Time Flies… (1994-2009) (3) and 1995 release (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (4).
Congratulating Oasis, Martin Talbot, Chief Executive Officer, Official Charts, says:
“As if the huge demand for their tour dates wasn’t evidence enough, the enduring power of Oasis is underlined by the success of Definitely Maybe this week. Congratulations to Liam and Noel - topping the Official Charts together for the first time in 14 years.”
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, comments:
“Congratulations to Oasis on Definitely Maybe’s return to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart.
“Greater Manchester is in a different moment now with a thriving economy, and Oasis returning and playing shows in their home city will only boost this. Manchester often has a tendency to talk about its past glories, of which Oasis were very much a part, but I think this is a fantastic opportunity for a new generation of Greater Mancunians to celebrate some of its most famous sons.
“I was delighted to hear the news of Liam and Noel getting back together to reform as I never actually got the chance to see them live. There has been a palpable buzz in Manchester since the news of Oasis reforming broke and it very much feels like the city is having another big moment.”
Last week’s chart-topper, Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth studio record Short n’ Sweet, holds strong in the Top 5, down one (2).
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds net a seventh UK Top 10 album with 18th studio release Wild God (5). Meanwhile, English rockers Wunderhorse secure their first with Midas (6).
And finally, Vegas-formed Palaye Royale score a second Official Top 40 record with fifth studio album Death or Glory (38). The band previously saw success with 2022 release Fever Dream (37).
