Elbow claim their third UK Number 1 album with Giants of All Sizes: "We're over the moon"

Plus new releases from Baby Metal, Freddie Mercury and Gary Numan land in this week's Official Albums Chart Top 40.
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Elbow claim this week’s Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart as their latest collection Giants of All Sizes lands straight in at the top spot.

The record – which outperformed its closest competition, Ed Sheeran’s No.6 Collaborations Project, by more than double - marks the band’s third chart-topping record following 2014's The Take Off and Landing of Everything and 2017's Little Fictions. Giants of All Sizes is also this week’s best-selling album on vinyl.

Celebrating the news, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey tells OfficialCharts.com: “We're over the moon. It never stops being amazing having a Number 1. I'll be singing 'Lucky Number One' all day'."


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Meanwhile, two albums bounce back into this week’s Top 10: Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody jumps five places to 7 and The Greatest Showman rebounds six spots to 9.

A new definitive Freddie Mercury solo collection Never Boring debuts at 18, ahead of Metal Galaxy by Japanese kawaii metal band Babymetal at 19. US rapper Lil Tjay’s True 2 Myself lands at 22 with his debut album True 2 Myself.

British singer-songwriter Becky Hill returns to the Top 40 with her Get To Know album, up 20 places to 24 following the release of her new collaboration with Meduza Lose Control, and after the broadcast of his BBC Two documentary From The Heart, Mark Ronson’s Late Night Feelings vaults 42 places to 25.

Gary Numan occupies two slots in this week’s albums Top 40: early recordings of his albums Replicas – The First Recordings, recorded with former group Tubeway Army - and The Pleasure Principle, his chart-topping debut solo album from 1979, land at 31 and 36 respectively.

Finally, Two Hands by Big Thief is new at Number 34, earning the US indie band their first UK Top 40 album. 

View this week's Official Albums Chart Top 100

Article image: Peter Neill

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Amver Risune

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Download here https://tinyurl.com/Elbowgiantsalbum2019new

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thierry henon

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ELBOW really deserves to be at number 1 this week but i would have never expected Dermot Kennedy to drop out of the top 10 that fast!! It is a great album...

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Piran

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Really awesome seeing Elbow still landing #1 albums, especially with such a big lead over Ed this week! :)

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Rob Parkinson

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Everytime I look at the album charts I'm just amazed that Fleetwood Macs 'rumours' album is still in the top 40. There are so many greatest hits that stick around but this is an actual studio album from the 70s that is still going strong, I wonder if in 40 years time Ed Sheeran's albums will be doing the same as they all seem to be sticking in the top 100?

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Piran

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In that case, it's essentially the 'Mr Brightside' equivalent of the albums chart, haha!

That is a good question regarding Ed Sheeran! I don't know about the Top 40, but I expect at least one of his albums to make an appearance every now & then, even in 2040 probably...