There are two new Top 10 invitees this week, however, and they may as well be on different sides of the universe in terms of sound and quality. Just let her take the top spot you cowards. Even though I'm pretty sure Sophie Ellis-Bextor is just cursed at this point. I'd certainly take it over the banal and exhausting waste of space that is Teddy Swims. Look, if you had to pick a song to be No.1 for months on end, I could think of about a thousand better examples than this. 6 weeks and counting now for what is slowly but surely getting on people's nerves. But for now, I might as well get this over with. It's sickening, sometimes, staring at how stagnant the 40 best-sellers are, and wondering if revelling in previous years of music charts isn't such a bad idea. That's not a good sign, especially for people like me who long for the days of the in-out in-out performances of the 2000s. Yeah, you could probably repeat that phrase for the past eight years, but this week is a lot more stagnant than the others. Welcome to the charts, blah blah blah, you know the drill by now, except NOTHING has happened. Maybe that explains why I'm devoid of excitement. zz- AAAHHHH!!! WHAT DAY IS IT!? WAS I IN A COMA OR SOMETHING!? WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT Every Number 1 debut album on the Official Chart since 2000 DATE* The eponymous album by Warrington band Viola Beach entered at Number 1 six months after they were tragically killed in a car crash, and US rapper Pop Smoke landed the first ever posthumous Number 1 debut by a solo artist with 2020's Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon.Īt least one debut album has topped the Official Albums Chart every year since 2000, except in 2018, when three Motion Picture Cast Recording albums from hit films dominated the chart for much of the year: The Greatest Showman, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again and A Star Is Born. Other notable debuts in recent years include Billie Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which made her the youngest ever female solo artist to land a Number 1 album when it debuted at the top in April 2019. MORE: Every Number 1 album by a female solo artist Other huge debuts over the past 20 years include Dido's No Angel, a seven-week Number 1 in 2001 Justin Timberlake's first record away from NSync, Justified, also logged seven weeks at the summit in 2003 Beyoncé's debut Dangerously In Love was a five-week chart-topper that same year and Leona Lewis's world-conquering debut Spirit - a seven-week Number 1 in 2007. In that same year, debut albums from Coldplay, Ronan Keating and Craig David all hit Number 1. The first new album of the 2000s to reach Number 1 was Richard Ashcroft's Alone With Everybody, the musician's first solo record outside of The Verve. MORE: Every Official UK Number 1 album ever The following year saw the launch of British singer-songwriter Sam Smith, whose first collection In The Lonely Hour debuted at Number 1 in June 2014 and notched up eight weeks at the top over the space of nine months. Lewis's stint at the top is the longest for a debut album in seven years, since Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events, a record which proved an unstoppable force in 2012/2013.
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