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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