Saturday 22 May 2021

Paul Weller scores sixth Number 1 on Official Albums Chart: "I never take it for granted"

 

Congratulations to Paul Weller, who lands straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with Fat Pop.

The Modfather’s new record racks up 26,005 chart sales – 91% of which were physical sales – to become his sixth chart-topping record.

Celebrating the news, Weller told OfficialCharts.com, “To have people like an album and want to buy it is never taken for granted by me, so to have it go to Number 1 makes it even more special.”

Weller’s new entry extends his run of Number 1 success across five decades, first topping the chart in 1982 with The Jam before landing solo Number 1s in the 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s.

With six solo Number 1s, Weller joins acts including Pink Floyd, Blur, Phil Collins and The Killers, who have all landed six chart-topping albums.

Weller holds off strong competition from J. Cole’s The Off-Season which opens at Number 2, claiming the most album streams in a single week of 2021 so far. The entry marks his third Top 10 album in the UK and matches the peak of Cole’s previous album, 2018’s KOD. Last week’s Number 1, Rag’n’Bone Man’s Life By Misadventure, drops to 3.

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