Bullet Train builds momentum to claim Number 1 on the Official Film Chart this week in a high-speed race to the top.
10.10.2022 - 19:01 / officialcharts.com
The race for this week’s Official Number 1 album is on, as Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott take the lead midweek against Easy Life.
Former Beautiful South singers Paul and Jacqui take an early lead at the midweek mark, with their fifth studio album N.K-Pop currently tracking for the top. Should it hold on, it’ll provide the pair with their second Number 1 album as a duo. Their last work, Manchester Calling, topped the chart in 2020. See Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott’s full Official Chart history here.
But could Easy Life present a challenge with their second studio LP Maybe In Another Life...?
The Leicester-formed indie alt-pop outfit are hot on their heels and eyeing a Number 2 debut. Comprising Murray Matravers, Oliver Cassidy, Sam Hewitt, Lewis Berry and Jordan Birtles, Easy Life previously enjoyed success with 2020 mixtape Junk Food (7) and 2021 debut studio album Life’s A Beach (2).
Three weeks since its last stint in the Top 5, Pink Floyd’s Animals (2018 Remix) rockets 97 places back into the top flight midweek thanks to the release of a deluxe gatefold edition (3). The album achieved a Number 2 peak upon its original release in 1977. Explore Pink Floyd’s extensive Official Chart history here.
Bradford-born rock group The Cult could claim their first Top 5 record in 29 years with Under The Midnight Sun this week, as they track for Number 4. The band, made up of Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy, John Tempesta, Charlie Jones and Damon Fox, last achieved Top 5 success with 1993 chart-topper Pure Cult.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, the viral success of Beyoncé’s latest single CUFF IT could see its parent album RENAISSANCE return to the Top 10 (7), while Sam Fender’s 2021 chart-topper Seventeen Going Under looks set to vault 45
Bullet Train builds momentum to claim Number 1 on the Official Film Chart this week in a high-speed race to the top.
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Stormzy blazes straight into the Official Trending Chart at Number 1 this week with latest cut Hide & Seek.
Jack Black put his big heart on display while singing to a teenage “School of Rock” fan who is receiving palliative care.
The 1975 lead an all-new Top 5 in the race for this week’s Official Albums Chart Number 1 with Being Funny In A Foreign Language.
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Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott enjoy a second Number 1 album as a duo with their fifth studio record N.K-Pop.
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott enjoy a second Number 1 album as a duo with their fifth studio record N.K-Pop.
Joshua Bassett just dropped a new song, and it's all about this «complicated» love life. «SHE SAID HE SAID SHE SAID» is an upbeat departure from the singer and actor's recent run of ballads.Telling the story of a toxic relationship, Bassett sings, "You starting rumors, it's nothing new, yeah. We're on this sh*t again.
Prime Video has sent the Italian instalment of the Russo Brothers’ global sci-fi event series Citadel into production and cast Matilda de Angelis (The Undoing, Leonardo) as its lead, as Amazon Italy execs today touted the streamer’s local growth here at the MIA Market in Rome.
Anne-Marie and Aitch's brilliantly-unhinged bop PSYCHO claims the Number 1 spot on this week's Official Trending Chart.
Bad Bunny of taking advantage of his home country’s tax breaks.During a recent appearance on Philip DeFranco’s YouTube show, Paul responded to Bad Bunny’s September music video for ‘El Apagón’, which was accompanied by a documentary about inequality in Puerto Rico due to the government’s foreign tax scheme.“Bad Bunny is a Puerto Rican living in Puerto Rico who is privately taking advantage of the same tax program that he is publicly condemning,” Paul told DeFranco.“I know this and I see things like this and it hurts. There are local Puerto Ricans who know about this.
Sam Smith and Kim Petras look set to secure a third consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, with Unholy leading the charge at the midway mark.
Easy Life have shared the final single from their forthcoming album ‘Maybe In Another Life’, which is out later this week.The downbeat track, ‘Fortune Cookie’, which you can listen to below, follows previous singles ‘Antifreeze’, ‘OTT’ (feat. BENEE), ‘Dear Miss Holloway’ (feat. Kevin Abstract) and ‘BEESWAX’.“‘FORTUNE COOKIE‘ is the last song on our new album and was written as a message to the band,” they said. “Over the last few years, we’ve had a lot of ups and downs and sometimes we all need reminding of what’s important.
Former Emmerdale star Jake Roche has revealed that he is currently living off Universal Credit and staying in his mum's garage amid the current cost of living crisis.
Roaring up to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart is Jurassic World Dominion, which rises two to claim the top spot for the first time.
A.D. Amorosi Forever defined by the ethos of “Coal Miner’s Daughter” — the No. 1 country hit of 1970 that lent its title to her bestselling autobiography and the 1980 film that gave Sissy Spacek an Oscar — Loretta Lynn’s voice and music could never be confined. Lynn could be sweetly naturalistic and dewy on a song such as 1965’s “Blue Kentucky Girl,” then turn around and be curt and forceful on politicized tracks such as 1966’s Vietnam-themed “Dear Uncle Sam” and 1975’s birth-control anthem “The Pill.” She saved some self-assured cockiness for any track she rollickingly recorded with the words “honky tonk” in its name – including the seminal “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl,” which she re-recorded for her final 2021 album.
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Beyoncé has cuffed herself to Number 1 on the Official Trending Chart today, and she's throwing away the key.