Rag'n'Bone Man's Life By Misadventure charges in at Number 1 on Official Albums Chart
Rag’n’Bone Man’s new album Life By Misadventure charges straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
With 42,000 chart sales - including 33,000 on physical formats - the blues-rock musician outsells the rest of the Top 5 combined and claims the biggest opening week for a British act in 2021 so far, and the fastest-selling album by a solo artist this year too.
The entry follows Rag’n’Bone Man’s moving performance at the BRIT Awards on Tuesday, which saw him perform Anywhere Away From Here with P!nk and the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir.
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Life By Misadventure is Rag’n’Bone Man’s second Number 1, following his hugely successful debut Human in 2017, which has gone on to shift over 1 million UK chart sales. That album also impacts this week’s Top 40 at Number 35.
Rag’n’Bone Man leads an all-new Top 5 this week; in second place is Michael Ball’s We Are More Than One, the singer, actor and broadcaster’s 24th Top 40 and his sixth Top 3 entry in the last five years.
Singer-songwriter and Youtuber Dodie is new at 3 with her debut album Build A Problem, which follows two Top 10 EPs released 2017 and 2019, and Brighton post-punk band Squid enter at 4 with their debut Bright Green Field - this week's best-seller on vinyl.
Rounding out the Top 5 is music icon Van Morrison, whose new collection Latest Record Project Volume 1 enters at Number 5 to earn the Northern Irish musician his 16th Top 10 album.
Outside the Top 10, US rock band Weezer claim their first Top 40 album in 13 years with Van Weezer at 30, and New Order live album Education Entertainment Recreation is new at 32. Finally, Amy Winehouse collection Amy At The BBC enters the Top 40 at 33.
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Piran
I think this album had more than three times the combined sales of it's nearest competitor! :O
I haven't heard the album in full yet, but 'All You Ever Wanted' & 'Anywhere Away From Here' were very both promising singles.
Blank
Still struggling to comprehend that you can get a top 3 place with just 10,000 (or so) sales. Despite the fact I've been seeing those sort of stats periodically for years (almost 20 years of digital era now) and it's so long since you'd struggle to get a top 40 place with sales like that, and you'd need a good 100k+ for a top 10.
Piran
I think that they're going to put more emphasis on streaming in this chart too, whether we like it or not. :/
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
this result doesn’t surprise me at all but i didn’t exactly care for rag’n’bone man’s new album all that much. it’s not at all bad, just didn’t care for it as much as others did. congrats to him tho!
Alfred Lock
Let's see if he can.finally break the one week wonder streaknat the top this year..He'll have the legendary Modfather Paul Weller himself to contend with and he's no slouch with his track record.