Arcade Fire have scored their fourth UK Number One album with their sixth studio album ‘WE’.The Canadian collective shot straight to the top of the album chart and the vinyl albums chart, with their latest record beating Sigrid‘s ‘How To Let Go’ into second place, according to the Official Charts Company.It comes after their previous LPs – 2010’s ‘The Suburbs’, 2013’s ‘Reflektor’ and 2017 album ‘Everything Now’ also went to Number One.Frontman Win Butler recently told the NME Big Read, that the album title was inspired by the 1924 dystopian novel WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which itself inspired George Orwell’s 1984.“The seeds of everything that we’re ever going to do are within us,” he explained. “Reading that Zamyatin novel connected this dot in my childhood, then to Orwell, and then allowed me to be inspired by its own merits.“I didn’t know what ‘WE’ was, but I knew that it was in there and that I’d use it at some point.
Potter Payper's Gangsteritus with Tiggs Da Author becomes UK's Number 1 Trending Song
26.04.2022 - 09:39 / officialcharts.com
Potter Payper ascends to Number 1 on the UK's Official Trending Chart with Gangsteritus.
The track this week could jump more than 20 spots up of the Official Singles Chart to enter the Top 10 for the first time. It would become the first Top 10 for Potter and for Tiggs Da Author, who also features on the track.
Gangsteritus chronicles the struggles Potter has faced in his life - with Tiggs Da Author singing the hook on the chorus.
It's proved to be Potter's breakthrough hit on the UK, coming to mainstream attention after being used on the most recent series of Top Boy screened on Netflix.
There are also a whole host of new entries this week too; including from Ed Sheeran who enters with his = track 2 step, thanks to the release of a new remix with American rapper Lil Baby and Taylor Swift - whose folklore deluxe track The Lakes has received a massive uplift thanks to the issuing of a very special 7" vinyl for Record Store Day 2022.
Also debuting on the Official Trending Chart today are George Ezra's second Gold Rush Kid single Green Green Grass, Sigrid's link-up with Bring Me The Horizon, Bad Life and PinkPantheress' slinky collab with Willow, Where You Are.
Listen to the Official Trending Chart on Spotify below.
Rounding out the new entries we then have two tracks from Pusha T - Dreamin' of the Past and Rock N Roll - from his just-released new album It's Almost Dry (both feature Kanye West), Liam Gallagher's Better Days and West London/Moroccan viral star Benzz's Je M'Appelle.
Official Trending Chart Top 20 - April 26 2022©2022 .
⬆️ - Indicates a climb of 10 placesLW - Last week's Official Singles Chart positionCURRENT - Current position on today's Official Singles Chart sales flashDIFF - Number of places climbed
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