Liam Gallagher on course for fourth UK Number 1 album with C’Mon You Know
30.05.2022 - 19:01
/ officialcharts.com
Liam Gallagher is on course to claim his fourth UK Number 1 album with C’Mon You Know this week.
The former Oasis frontman currently leads the charge with his third solo studio album, having previously topped the Official Albums Chart with 2017’s As You Were, 2019 release Why Me? Why Not. and 2020 live LP MTV Unplugged.
All of Oasis’ seven studio albums hit Number 1, while Noel has a further three chart-topping studio albums under Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (plus a Number 1 greatest hits), and Liam has two chart-topping studio albums (plus one Number 1 live album). Liam will draw level with Noel on Friday if C’mon You Know lands him his tenth studio album to top the Official Albums Chart.
Liam also looks set to claim two Top 5 albums simultaneously this week as Down By The River Thames, a recording of his December 2020 lockdown livestream, sits at Number 3 midweek.
Meanwhile, Def Leppard’s twelfth studio album Diamond Star Halos is on track to give them their first Top 5 album in 26 years. Should it hold on to its Number 4 midweek position, it’ll prove the Sheffield rockers’ highest-charting album since 1996 record Slang (5).
At Number 5 after a weekend of sales is Will Young’s 20 Years: The Greatest Hits. The collection looks set to become Will’s tenth Top 10 album to date. See Will Young’s full Official Charts history here.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, Canadian pop star Tate McRae looks set to debut at Number 7 with I Used to Think I Could Fly. Read our exclusive interview with Tate McRae here.
Sex Pistols’ The Original Recordings, a collection of the anarchic English punk band’s 1976-1978 works, eyes a Number 8 entry. This comes as the group ready a re-release of 1977 Number 2 hit God Save The Queen this