Wet Leg react to bagging first UK Number One album: “We are lost for words”

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Mark Sutherland British indie rock sensations Wet Leg famously sang about having “a pack of warm beer that we can consume” on breakout hit “Chaise Longue”. But the duo – Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – might be upgrading to chilled champagne after their eponymous debut album went straight in at Number One in the U.K. charts this month.“Wet Leg” sold an impressive 28,972 copies in its first week, according to the Official Charts Company, becoming the fastest-selling debut album since Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour.” And Wet Leg manager Martin Hall of Hall or Nothing, tells Variety there is much more to come from the Isle of Wight-based band.“It’s not just the No.

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Wet Leg fly in at Number 1 with their self-titled debut album, fronting a spectacular hat-trick of chart success for independent record labels who dominate all top three places on this week’s Official Albums Chart for the first time in more than a decade.

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Wet Leg are currently leading the pack in the race for this week’s Number One album in the UK.On Friday (April 8), the Isle of Wight indie duo – comprising Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – released their self-titled debut LP.The 12-track project featured the singles ‘Chaise Longue’, ‘Wet Dream’, ‘Too Late Now’, ‘Oh No’, ‘Angelica’ and ‘Ur Mum’.In the midweeks, the Official Charts Company has revealed that ‘Wet Leg’ is outselling its closest competition – Father John Misty’s ‘Chloë And The Next 20th Century’ – 4:1. If it holds on until Friday (April 15), it will be the band’s first UK Number One album.There are three other new entries – including Father John Misty at Number Two – that have cracked the Top Five in the midweeks: Jack White’s ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ (Three) and Kae Tempest’s ‘The Line Is A Curve’ (Four).Rounding out the rest of the Top Five is last week’s Number One, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘Unlimited Love’.Elsewhere in the Top 10, Camila Cabello’s third album ‘Familia’ sits at Number Seven, while Joe Santriani‘s latest release, ‘The Elephants Of Mars’, is Number Nine.Pavement also look set to make a return to the chart for the first time in 23 years with a reissue of their 1999 album ‘Terror Twilight’.