Ed Sheeran claims fifth Number 1 album in Ireland with Equals

Ed Sheeran’s new album = (Equals) charges straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart.

The singer-songwriter’s latest collection outperforms the rest of this week’s Top 10 combined, securing him a fifth chart-topping album, following + (2011), x (2014), ÷ (2017, and places at Number 10 this week), and No.6 Collaborations Project (2019).

There’s another big new entry this week from US rock band The War On Drugs – their fifth studio album I Don’t Live Here Anymore enters at Number 4, matching the peak of their last album, 2017’s A Deeper Understanding.

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Last week’s Number 1, Olivia Rodrigo Sour, drops to Number 2, and in anticipation of ABBA’s new album Voyage released today, the group’s Gold – Greatest Hits album places at Number 8.

Meanwhile, Christy Dignam’s The Man Who Stayed Alive re-enters at Number 19 after his moving performance of Down by the Salley Gardens on last week’s Late Late Show, and Richard Ashcroft’s retrospective Acoustic Hymns Vol.1 is new at Number 23.

Further down, two new releases land in this week’s Top 50: Hushed And Grim, the eighth album by US heavy metal band Mastodon at Number 27, and a 25^th anniversary reissue of Spice Girls’ debut album Spice at Number 32.

View this week's Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50 in full

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