Jessie Ware and The Lottery Winners stoke excitement for next week's UK Number 1 album race
29.04.2023 - 08:39
/ officialcharts.com
The race for next week's Official Albums Chart Number 1 hasn't even started yet, and already the battle lines are being drawn!
As Enter Shikari celebrate their first-ever chart-topping album in the UK, eyes are already on the albums looking to supplant them at the top next week, and let's just say, we're already hearing a lot of fighting talk.
Two of the biggest acts in with a chance of securing their first Number 1 LP next week are London-based, Mercury Prize-nominated disco diva Jessie Ware with her exuberant fifth record That! Feels Good! (and it sounds just as good too) and Leigh indie-rock natives The Lottery Winners.
At a special fan launch party for That! Feels Good! Jessie apparently took to the stage to encourage fans to purchase the record - her second that dips its toe into the lush world of post-disco handbag house, following 2020's revelatory What's Your Pleasure? - and help her get to the top of the charts.
"Thank you to everyone who has supported me and who is continuing to support me," Jessie said. "Buy the record, please, because I really want to beat The National but I want to f*cking take them down.
"And there's a band called The Lottery Winners, so we have The National Lottery winners this week. I want to take all these f*ckers down. Please buy the record. It's all fair in love and war."
Jessie is of course referencing US-based, alt-pop group The National, headed by Aaron Dessner, who is now best known as the architect for Taylor Swift's lockdown opuses (and UK Number 1 albums!) folklore and evermore.
The National just released their ninth studio album The First Two Pages of Frankenstein, which also handily includes a collaboration with none other than Ms. Taylor Alison Swift herself, the Alcott.