Mogwai beat Ghetts to claim their first Number 1 on Official Albums Chart: “It’s been an incredible journey”
Mogwai triumph on this week’s Official Albums Chart, scoring their first Number 1 with their tenth studio record As The Love Continues.
The Scottish rock group have been facing off with Ghetts for this week’s top spot, with the British rapper taking to the streets of central London in an armoured tank hoping to blast his third album Conflict Of Interest to the summit.
Mogwai finish the week 2,900 chart sales ahead of Ghetts, resulting in a landmark moment for the band, claiming their first Number 1 some 25 years after the release of their debut single.
Released independently through the band’s own label Rock Action, As The Love Continues is also this week’s best-seller on vinyl and the top seller in UK independent record shops. View Mogwai's Official Chart history in full here.
Celebrating the news, Mogwai told OfficialCharts.com: “We’re unbelievably happy to have the Number 1 album in the UK. We want to thank everyone at Rock Action Records - both of you - and mostly to thank everyone who has bought, downloaded and streamed the album, and supported us over the last week, and the last 25 years. It’s something we’re amazed by. We’re taken aback by everyone’s support, kindness and generosity.
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"It is 25 years this week since the release of our first single Tuner/Lower, the first release on our own label Rock Action Records. We didn’t start the band or the label to get into the charts. None of us ever envisaged either the band or the label being in a position where having a Number 1 record would be a possibility.
"We started the label with a loan of £400 from my now-brother in law. Martin’s folks generously helped us out by paying for the studio to record the songs. We were just kids that wanted to make an amazing noise and get our record played on John Peel. Amazingly John did play the record, and one thing led to another to get us to the point we’re at now. It’s been an incredible journey making music together over the last quarter century, taking us to places we never dreamed of and getting to play our music to more people than we ever imagined.”
Elsewhere in this week’s Top 10, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia continues its boost back up the chart, up one place to Number 3 following the release of its extended Moonlight Edition including new single We’re Good, and Ariana Grande’s former chart-topper Positions rebounds 28 places to Number 5 following a deluxe edition release.
Further down, Yorkshire indie band The Reytons make their Official Chart debut at Number 27 with their new EP May Seriously Harm You And Others Around.
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Marko
Smith & Burrows and SG Lewis released better albums. Mogwai is garbage.
Robert Feria
Congrats to Mogwai! This isn't even my favorite album! They deserve it though, they've made so much amazing music. Young Team, Come On Die Young, Happy Songs for Happy People, Mr. Beast, Rave Tapes.... this band is amazing.
Dennis Radaelli
UNBELIEVABLE, I'M SO HAPPY AAAAAA
Piran
I've never heard of this group before! Congratulations to them on their first ever UK #1 album though. :)
Frank Walters
You have a lot of catching up to do
thierry henon
Evening Piran..How are you? Ready for a sunny week end? My birthday is coming up on Monday so i will be baking cakes over the week end...and obviously listening to some Roxette and Alanis Morissette!! Have a great week end..Let's chat later on when the single chart is up..in 30 minutes?
Piran
I'll check them out over the weekend. :)
Piran
Hey Thierry! :)
I'm a bit under the weather today unfortunately, but I hope that you have a nice birthday on Monday.
Yeah, we'll talk there, although I'm obviously online a bit less for now due to the trolls!
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How on earth-? Maybe it’s just because of where I live, but I have no idea how that’s possible.
They’re pretty good though, especially their first album.
Piran
Which songs of theirs should I check out then? :)
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I’d probably say listen to the first album and the newest.
Or the This Is playlist on Spotify is fine as well. :)
Grumpy Old Gamer.
Take Me Somewhere Nice is probably their most well known song, maybe start there and then go exploring. There is a lot to discover.
Piran
I'm looking forward to it! :D
Augustus Doministrix
What trolls?
Piran
Oh, somebody was impersonating a few of the regulars on here. :/
Velvet Android
I don't know if you know this Piran as it's curiously almost never mentioned anywhere, like in this article, and indeed it took me years to realise (due to having heard of them for at least 15 years without ever actually hearing any of their music), but they're almost entirely an instrumental act.
A lot of their music is - or was - quite noisy, experimental and challenging, and by all accounts as a live act they're one of the loudest bands anywhere, due to the sometimes punishing sonic assault they're capable of creating, especially on the bass frequencies. Yet there's all sorts of different styles in their back catalogue.
If I could recommend one album of theirs I'd suggest Atomic, which is not something the fans are going to mention but which I think is fantastic. It's the soundtrack to a documentary by film critic and filmmaker Mark Cousins called Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise, which was a remarkable 'collage' of archive footage about nuclear power, the atom bomb, peace marches, the Cold War etc.
As an album it's powerful, evocative but accessible. Try for instance listening to the sequence of tracks Pripyat (named for the abandoned city near Chernobyl), Weak Force (my own favourite) and Little Boy (the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) - but really the album works brilliantly as a whole.
Piran
They sound very unique then! I'm really excited to discover more of their music. :)