Paul Weller scores sixth Number 1 on Official Albums Chart: "I never take it for granted"
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.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, alt-pop icon St Vincent debuts at Number 4 with sixth album Daddy's Home, which becomes her highest-peaking LP in the UK yet. Right behind, US rockers The Black Keys debut at Number 5 with Delta Kream, which becomes their fourth UK Top 10 album.
Another new entry at Number 9, BRIT Award-winning soul singer Jorja Smith's languid new project Be Right Back becomes her second Top 10 record.
Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj's re-release of her 2009 debut mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty, featuring collaborations with Lil Wayne and Drake, is straight in at Number 19. Myles Kennedy arrives at Number 20 with solo record The Ides of March.
Finally, debuting at Number 31 is Brixton rapper Deno, who earns his first Top 40 entry with debut mixtape Boy Meets World.
Official Albums Chart Top 5
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LW |
TW |
TITLE |
ARTIST |
LABEL |
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NE |
1 |
FAT POP |
PAUL WELLER |
POLYDOR |
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NE |
2 |
THE OFF-SEASON |
J COLE |
INTERSCOPE |
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1 |
3 |
LIFE BY MISADVENTURE |
RAG'N'BONE MAN |
COLUMBIA |
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NE |
4 |
DADDY'S HOME |
ST VINCENT |
LOMA VISTA |
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NE |
5 |
DELTA KREAM |
BLACK KEYS |
NONESUCH |
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Marko
How is this guy Paul Weller so popular in the UK I'll never know.
His albums are garbage, all of them.
Blank
With such high physical sales, I don't see it being in the top 75, possibly not even in the top 100 next week.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
congrats to paul weller! this man is a legend, especially on the albums chart. here’s to another number 1 album!
next week, it’s olivia rodrigo vs twenty one pilots. i REALLY hope it’s olivia, sour is one of the best albums i’ve heard.
thierry henon
Congrats to an amazing legend! Well deserved and happy to see as well Jorja Smith having scored her 2nd Top 10 album!
Piran
Congratulations Paul Weller!
Hoping to see Olivia Rodrigo & Twenty One Pilots as new entries in the Top 5 next week. :)
Alfred Lock
Congratulations to the living legend that is the Modfather bit predictably any guesses to the new no.1 album next Friday?
thierry henon
I think OLIVIA RODRIGO has a big chance to be our next number 1 album...
Mark Willmott
I would love to see Twenty One Pilots at number one but expect it will be Olivia Rodrigo
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
i hope so!!! i mean, i love twenty one pilots and all, but sour is such an amazing album. :)
Alfred Lock
Could be and we'll see if she has any.staying power though I cannot se it as she's more a singles act..Roll on Coldplay and Adele as I cannot see anyone else staying at the top slot longer than these two acts other than Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capalsi.
Blank
Can you really say she's more of a singles act before she's even released an album to prove herself?
Alfred Lock
We'll see but generally Pop isn't as successful in the album charts as the singles charts. There are exceptions like Ed Sheeran and Adele obviously and off course the number of fans who will stream more than physically buy which is for the old school crowd like the Paul Weller fans who prefer that way to spend than not at all in streaming..I would still physically buy today if I had the time and reasonable money..But I still pick Adele to blow everyone away this year if she finally releases her eagerly awaited 4th album or I'll eat my John Deere work cap.
Blank
True pop has more of a home on the singles chart. Streaming has divided the album chart further though. Artists heavily dependent on physical formats don't do so well now. That tends to be any artist who had a debut in the 20th century (with the exception of greatest hits albums), indie and rock acts, in complete contrast to the physical era when they proved the best for longevity (Bat Out Of , Dark Side, Rumours etc.) Only one of those has continued to sell well in the 20th century.. Queen, Bowie and the aforementioned Fleetwood Mac are doing well with greatest hits.
I see Olivia to be a particularly streaming-friendly which will keep the album alive for while yet. Today (apart from maybe Little Mix) there are very few traditional pop acts. Pop is now more rap/r'n'b/urban oriented. The likes of J Cole, Central Cee, Doja Cat and countless drill rappers (Xxxtentation, Juice Wrld, Pop Smoke).
In summary:
New rock drops like a stone, old rock still sells well
Pop does well if it's got rap connotations
Rap/Hiphop/R&B etc. streams well keeping it album chart but less strongly than singles, it is generally replacing traditional programmed pop.
I think Olivia will be a bit of an exception: a pop act doing well without rap or hiphop feel. She will be more of a singles act, but mostly due to the rare level of singles success she has had. About to get her 10th week at #1 this year with a 2nd #1, and we aren't even half way through the year! Albums sales as good as other artists who would be considered 'albums' acts.
Alfred Lock
That just about sums the music scene now past and present.