Lewis Capaldi scores biggest opening week of his career so far with Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent
26.05.2023 - 16:03
/ officialcharts.com
Lewis Capaldi’s fears and worries going into his second album can be officially cast aside, as the Scottish singer-songwriter lands straight in at Number 1 with the biggest opening week of his career to date, and the fastest-selling album of 2023 so far, the Official Charts Company can confirm.
Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent has outsold the rest of the Official Albums Chart Top 10 combined in the process. It surpasses the previous biggest opening week of the year – Ed Sheeran’s Subtract shifted 76,000 chart units in its first seven days on sale earlier this month – Lewis now claims the title with his second Number 1 album.This week, Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent nets in excess of 95,000 chart units, it’s the most streamed, downloaded and physically purchased release of the week, and also the best seller of the past seven days in the UK’s independent record shops. See the Official Record Store Chart Top 40 here.
What’s more, the record outperforms the opening week of Lewis’s debut Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, which totalled 89,000 chart units in its first seven days of release in 2019.
Lewis also claims the biggest opening week of any album since Taylor Swift’s Midnights in October 2022 (204,000 chart units), and the biggest first week for a male solo artist in 12 months, since Harry Styles’ Harry’s House reached the summit in May 2022 (114,000 chart units).
Broken By Desire… tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, too, proving the week’s most popular record on wax.
Speaking exclusively to , says: “What doth profit a man if he gains the world, but loses his soul? A f**king Number 1 album, baby!
“Thank you very much if you went out there and got the album this week. Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly