Noel Gallagher claims 12th Number 1 album of his career with best-of album: “It’s an absolute honour”
Noel Gallagher flies straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with his greatest hits album Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021), earning him an impressive 12th chart-topper across his career.
The best-of, which chronicles his post-Oasis career under Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, lands at the summit with 28,000 chart sales. 9,300 of that figure is vinyl sales, including a limited edition release for Record Store Day, which took place last Saturday.
With a cardboard cut-out of his pal, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, at his side, Gallagher told OfficialCharts.com: “What? I’m Number 1? Again?! Thanks very much for this, I’m running out of Manc-lepiece space for these things, but it’s an absolute honour. Thank you very much.”
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Back The Way We Came is Gallagher's fourth chart-topper with the High Flying Birds, and 12th when you add in his eight Number 1 albums with Oasis.
Meanwhile, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour holds at Number 2 and is the UK's most-streamed album for a fourth consecutive week, while US rapper Polo G is new at 3 with his third album Hall Of Fame.
Last week’s Number 1 album Blue Weekend by Wolf Alice slips to 4, and Garbage close out the Top 5 with No Gods No Masters, their highest charting record since 2005’s Bleed Like Me.
Comedian Bo Burnham enters at 6 with Inside (The Songs), a collection of comedic tracks that appear in his new Netflix stand-up special, while a deluxe Platinum Pleasure edition of Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure? sends the album back into the Top 10 at 7. Rap trio Migos land at 9 with their fourth collection Culture III.
Further down, Marina claims her fifth Top 20 album with Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land at 17, and Maroon 5 open at 19 with their seventh record Jordi.
Following limited edition releases from last week’s Record Store Day, Little Mix’s Confetti rebounds 11 places to Number 23, and Linkin Park’s chart-topping 2003 album Meteora re-enters at Number 30.
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Noel Campbell
Garbage deserves to be No 1 not a rehash of Noels less than best songs
thierry henon
Totally agree with you Noel...Furthermore who does release a best of after releasing only 3 albums?!! Noel is just greedy and want to make cash out of it obviously!!
Marko
Olivia Rodrigo - trash album
Wolf Alice - trash
Garbage - 1 good song
Marina - 1 good song
Maroon 5 - 2 good songs
Marko
Noel is one of the best UK musicians ever.
Liam's solo career has been terrible.
DM
Daniel Mccarthy
To be honest...no 1 used to mean hundreds of thousands of sales.....Noel will make pocket money for his kids from them figures..the days of 1 hit millionaires are long gone
Niall Cunniffe
ANCIENT DREAMS IN A MODERN LAND at #17? Deserves to be top-5! Suppose the vinyl is yet to be released.
Piran
I'm surprised that Polo G didn't do better on the singles chart this week!
Congratulations to Noel Gallagher too. :)
thierry henon
Very happy to see WOLF ALICE still in the Top 5 this week as we had so many Top 5 entries over the last few months that dropped completely of the Top 100 on their 2nd week!! Jessie Ware if back into The TOP 10 for a third time...Still very surprised to see MAROON 5 only at 19?! Great album as always and no idea why they no longer have much success in the UK: they used to be huge!
Niall Cunniffe
I don't even like MAROON 5 anymore but that is surprising!