George Ezra earns highest new entry on the Official Irish Albums Chart with Gold Rush Kid

Porcupine Tree - comprising members Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri and Gavin Harrison - see their eleventh studio album Closure / Continuation enter at Number 2, just behind reigning chart supremo Harry Styles - becoming the group’s first-ever UK Top 5 record.   Prior to this, the English experimental rockers enjoyed two UK Top 40 albums; 2007’s Fear of a Blank Planet (31) and 2009 release The Incident (23) and a further three Top 100 outings. The band’s new LP also tops this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart. See Porcupine Tree’s full Official Charts history here. 

Harry Styles is going absolutely nowhere, securing his sixth consecutive week at Number 1 on the Irish Albums Chart with Harry’s House.

George Ezra took to the John Peel Stage for a well-received secret set at Glastonbury Festival on Sunday afternoon. The musician managed to overcome his recent ‘nasty’ bout of laryngitis well enough to go ahead with his rumoured performance, after he was forced to pull out of the Tinderbox Festival in Odense, Denmark on Friday. The Shotgun singer, whose last major UK gig was the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert earlier this month, as well as Capital’s Summertime Ball, announced the news to fans ahead of time, sharing a photo of the John Peel Stage tent on Twitter on Sunday.

George Ezra played a secret set on the final day of Glastonbury today (June 26), as a surprise guest on the John Peel Stage. Watch footage of the set, see photos and check out the full setlist below.Ahead of his festival appearance this afternoon, the BRIT Award-winning artist took to Twitter to confirm the performance.

George Ezra has confirmed himself for a secret set at Glastonbury 2022 today (Sunday June 26).The singer-songwriter has been rumoured for an appearance after an image of a sign revealing his set appeared online. Now, Ezra has taken to Twitter to confirm that he’ll be performing on the John Peel Stage at 2pm today, promising “a big old party”.Another act to perform surprise secret sets across the weekend was IDLES, who played their debut album ‘Brutalism’ in full on the BBC Introducing Stage yesterday.

Harry Styles continues his reign at Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with Harry’s House, denying Drake his third chart-topping collection.

George Ezra has announced the cancellation of of his performance at Tinderbox Festival in Denmark today (June 24) ahead of his rumoured secret set at Glastonbury Festival.Ezra took to social media on Thursday (June 23) to apologise to his Danish fans, revealing that he has “come down with a nasty bout of laryngitis” and is undergoing “full vocal rest for 48 hours” per doctor’s orders.“I hate having to cancel shows but sadly this one is out of my control,” he added.Read Ezra’s statement below.So sorry to everyone who was planning to come and see me and the band at @Tinderbox_dk x pic.twitter.com/KWz6hgfKOS— george E Z R A (@george_ezra) June 23, 2022The news comes two days ahead of his rumoured secret set at the John Peel tent at Glastonbury on June 26 at 2pm. While his 48 hours of vocal rest will wrap up by the time June 26 rolls around, it remains uncertain if the supposed set will still take place.Last Sunday (June 19), rumours began circulating on social media that Ezra would be making a surprise appearance at Glastonbury after signs emerged online from Worthy Farm teasing that the ‘Gold Rush Kid’ would perform on June 26.‘Gold Rush Kid’ is notably the name of Ezra’s latest album, which he released earlier this month.In a three-star review of ‘Gold Rush Kid’, NME’s Sophie Williams wrote: “The effusive ‘Gold Rush Kid’ sees Ezra marvel at his status as one of the UK’s most successful singer-songwriters of the past decade – his debut recently went five times Platinum – with a title track that sees him awed by the unexpected nature of his situation.”George Ezra’s rumoured secret set at Glastonbury isn’t the only performance in jeopardy at the festival this year.

One week after scoring his most recent Number 1 album, George Ezra could be celebrating the only way a pop star knows how...by (possibly) playing a secret set at Glastonbury this weekend.

George Ezra could be playing a secret set at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.A sign from Worthy Farm revealed that the ‘Gold Rush Kid’ would be on stage in the John Peel tent from 2pm on Sunday June 26.‘Gold Rush Kid’ is the latest album by Ezra and was released earlier this month. The sign has led fans to speculate that Ezra may be the act now appearing in the John Peel tent on Sunday in the ‘TBC’ slot.You can see the sign here:pic.twitter.com/xy3kB4gFIF— The Glasto Thingy (@TheGlastoThingy) June 18, 2022A review of Ezra’s album from NME said: “The effusive ‘Gold Rush Kid’ sees Ezra marvel at his status as one of the UK’s most successful singer-songwriters of the past decade – his debut recently went five times Platinum – with a title track that sees him awed by the unexpected nature of his situation.“‘I’m the gold rush kid / Robbing the bank,’ he sings giddily over a caffeinated drumline so demanding and bouncy it could spur on a conga line.

George Ezra has struck gold with his third consecutive UK Number 1 album, Gold Rush Kid, which today debuts at the top of the Official Albums Chart.

Kate Bush triumphs on the Official Irish Singles Chart this week, as her 1985 single Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) reaches Number 1.

Good Morning Britain fans couldn't help but notice that an interview with George Ezra on the show appeared a little awkward on Wednesday (June 15). The singer appeared via video link on the ITV news programme to chat with Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley.

George Ezra is heading for a hat-trick of Number 1s on the Official Albums Chart, with Gold Rush Kid on course to claim the top spot this week.

In what has been a remarkably high turnover year at the top of the Official Albums Chart so far with no less than 21 different albums gracing the Number 1 spot in 21 weeks so far, Harry Styles this week becomes the first artist of 2022 to bag himself a second week at the top with Harry’s House. The record for the highest number of unique Number 1 albums in a calendar year ever was set in 2020, with 43 albums hitting the top of the Albums Chart between January and December. 

Post Malone’s fourth studio album Twelve Carat Toothache earns a Number 3 debut this week, becoming the rapper and singer’s fourth Top 10 album in Ireland.

As Harry Styles earns a landmark tenth week at Number 1 with As It Was, Kate Bush sprints into the Top 3 with Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).

George Ezra has revealed that he was told to change the lyric "dying" while performing his tune Green Green Grass for his Jubilee performance.The 29 year old missed out some lyrics in his song Green Green Grass during his performance at the Jubilee celebrations for The Queen. Part of the chorus to the undeniably catchy tune usually goes: "Green green grass, blue blue sky.

George Ezra ascends to Number 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart with Green Green Grass.