01 November 2024
Marco Gandolfi
Tyler, The Creator pips Courteeners to the post to land his first-ever Official Number 1 album this week.
CHROMAKOPIA, the eighth studio album from the Californian multihyphenate, edged ahead of its competition in the final 24 hours to secure its spot at the summit. Tyler Gregory Okonma previously saw Official Albums Chart success with 2011 debut Goblin (21), 2013’s Wolf (17), 2015 LP Cherry Bomb (16), 2017’s Flower Boy (9), 2019 release IGOR (4) and 2021’s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (4).
Fewer than 800 chart units behind Tyler are Middleton-formed rockers Courteeners, whose seventh studio album Pink Cactus Café debuts at Number 2.
The band, comprising Liam Fray, Michael Campbell, Daniel ‘Conan’ Moores, Joseph Cross and Elina Lin, now claim eight Top 10 LPs to their name: 2008 debut St. Jude (1), 2010’s Falcon (6), 2013 record Anna (6), 2014’s Concrete Love (3), 2016’s Mapping The Rendezvous (4), 2018 album St. Jude Re:Wired (5) and 2020’s More. Again. Forever. (2).
Pink Cactus Café tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the week’s best-seller on wax, and The Official Record Store Chart, the most-purchased LP of the past seven days in independent UK record shops.
“&” (Ampersand), a project of story songs by frontman Dan Smith of Bastille, is new in at Number 4 this week. To date, Bastille boast four Top 10 albums, including three chart-toppers.
Tears For Fears net a seventh Top 10 record with Songs For A Nervous Planet; a collection of live recordings and four brand-new tracks (6). It’s Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith’s second Top 10 LP since their 2022 reunion, following The Tipping Point (2).
Eminem’s former chart-topper The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) makes a return to the Top 10 with the physical release of its Expanded Mourner’s Edition, up 28 (8).
Congratulations are in order for Aussie rock outfit Amyl and The Sniffers, who score their first-ever Top 10 album with Cartoon Darkness this week (9). The band – previously enjoyed Albums Chart success with self-titled LP Amyl and The Sniffers (91) and 2021’s Comfort To Me (21).
A Super Deluxe Edition boxset of Queen’s 1973 release Queen I sees it enter the Official Albums Chart for the first time ever today; a new entry at Number 10. It becomes the legendary group’s 11th Top 10 LP in the UK.
English singer-songwriter Laura Marling earns a seventh Top 40 record with studio album Patterns In Repeat (13), as Andrea Bocelli’s career-spanning collection Duets (30th Anniversary) net the Italian tenor his 24th.
ABBA’s The Singles (The First Fifty Years), which includes additional tracks not available across their other compilations, sees the Swedish pop icons secure a 19th Top 40 album (17).
New Jersey native Halsey celebrates a fifth Top 40 LP with The Great Impersonator (19), having previously seen success with 2015 debut BADLANDS (9), 2017’s hopeless fountain kingdom (12), 2020 release Manic (6) and 2021’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (5).
Boston-born alt-rockers Pixies’ 10th studio record The Night The Zombies Came becomes their 11th UK Top 40 (22)
Finally, Green Day’s 2004 classic American Idiot is back in the Top 40 for the first time in 18 years following the release of a multi-format 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (32). The record spent two non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 on its original release.
