Courteeners make Official Chart history as ‘St. Jude’ reaches Number 1 15 years after its release – Fakazakamp

Courteeners safe their first-ever Official Number one album this week, breaking Official Chart information within the course of.

The group’s 2008 debut St. Jude turns into the album with the longest time between launch and charting at Number one in Official Albums Chart historical past, a staggering 14 years, 9 months and 14 days after its launch. That is due to a fifteenth Anniversary Version of the LP that includes remastered tracks, rarities and previously-unreleased materials. The document reaches the summit with over 97% bodily gross sales, and tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.

The Manchester-formed rock trio – comprising Liam Fray, Michael Campbell and Daniel ‘Conan’ Moores – additionally grow to be solely the third band in Official Chart historical past to chart a re-issued album at Number one. They be part of The Rolling Stones (Goats Head Soup, Exile On Primary St.) and The Beatles (Abbey Street, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band) as the one teams to have achieved the feat.

St. Jude consists of three Official Prime 40 singles (Not Nineteen Perpetually, No You Didn’t, No You Don’t and What Took You So Lengthy?), and beforehand peaked at Quantity 4 upon its preliminary 2008 launch.

Talking solely to OfficialCharts.com, Courteeners’ Liam Fray says: “Good Issues come to thems that wait. God bless the followers.”

Elsewhere, London rapper Clavish scores a Prime 5 debut along with his mixtape Rap Recreation Terrible, new at Quantity 4. The 28-track document consists of collaborations with the likes of D-Block Europe, Fredo and MoStack.

Former Supergrass guitarist Gaz Coombes secures his first solo Prime 10 with fourth studio album Flip The Automobile Round (6). The album tops the Official Report Retailer Chart, and lands at Quantity 2 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart. Beforehand, Gaz loved Prime 40 success with 2015 launch Matador (18) and 2018’s World’s Strongest Man (12).

Liverpool-formed indie rockers Circa Waves declare their fifth Prime 40 LP with By no means Going Underneath, debuting at Quantity 15. The group – comprising Kieran Shudall, Sam Rouke, Colin Jones and Joe Falconer – beforehand charted with 2015 debut Younger Chasers (10), 2017’s Totally different Creatures (11), 2019 launch What’s It Like Over There? (10) and 2020 document Unhappy Blissful (4). By no means Going Underneath additionally lands contained in the Official Vinyl Albums Chart Prime 10 (6).

Scottish singer-songwriter Joesef celebrates his first-ever Prime 40 look with debut LP Everlasting Injury (18), additionally scoring a Prime 5 putting on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart (5). In the meantime, fellow Scottish indie group Belle & Sebastian safe their twelfth Prime 40 album with Late Builders (30).

And at last, Dua Lipa’s former Number one album Future Nostalgia lifts eight spots again into the Prime 40 as she baggage a Finest Pop/R&B nomination on the 2023 BRITs (38).