Wolf Alice score first UK Number One album with biggest opening week for a British group in 2021

Måneskin have entered the UK singles charts this week, scoring two simultaneous Top 10 singles.After it was reported earlier this week that the Italian band were on for high chart positions, it has now been confirmed that their track ‘I Wanna Be Your Slave’ has climbed one place to Number Six from last week’s seventh place finish.Elsewhere, the band’s cover of Madcon track ‘Beggin” has also risen over 60 places to Number 10 in the charts following its viral success on TikTok.Olivia Rodrigo,

Yard Act has spoken out on the devastating impact that the post-Brexit touring mess is set to have on independent artists.Today sees the launch of the #LetTheMusicMove campaign, with the likes of Wolf Alice, IDLES, Poppy Ajudha, Radiohead among the 200 artists calling upon the UK government to urgently take action to resolve the ‘No Deal’ that has landed upon the British music when it comes to touring the continent after they to negotiate visa-free travel and Europe-wide work permits for

Wolf Alice, IDLES, Poppy Ajudha, Radiohead and many other music industries have come together for the new #LetTheMusicMove campaign – calling upon the UK government to urgently take action on the post-Brexit touring fiasco.The row over the government’s failure to negotiate visa-free travel and Europe-wide work permits for musicians and crew in their post-Brexit deal continues to rumble on with no visible end in sight.

Wolf Alice have shared a new video for their track ‘Safe From Heartbreak (If You Never Fall In Love)’ – you can watch it below.The song appears on the North London band’s new album ‘Blue Weekend’, which went to Number One in the UK charts following its release earlier this month.Having screened a special short film in London to accompany the record, the group have been releasing a series of Jordan Hemingway-helmed visuals for each of the 11 songs as separate chapters.Arriving tonight (June 22),

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis are vying for the UK Number One album spot this week against Olivia Rodrigo, whose album ‘Sour’ is hoping to top the chart for a third week.Griff is also in the running for the top spot with ‘One Foot In Front Of The Other’, which the most downloaded album of the week so far.According to OfficialCharts.com, Cave & Ellis are sitting at Number Two in the midweek charts with their new album ‘Carnage’, while Griff’s debut mixtape follows at Number Four.Rodrigo, who is

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and Griff are challenging Olivia Rodrigo for the Number 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart this week.

Latitude Festival has announced a host of new acts to its 2021 lineup, after confirming that it will go ahead next month.Earlier this week, festivals boss Melvin Benn has said he’s “very confident” that the festival will go ahead this year, making it the first major UK festival to take place following the removal of all lockdown restrictions.The four-day event, which is set to be headlined by Bastille, Bombay Bicycle Club, Wolf Alice and The Chemical Brothers, is scheduled to take place at

Olivia Rodrigo continues her reign over the Official Singles Chart as Good 4 U claims a fourth consecutive week at the top, becoming the longest-reigning Number 1 rock single in 18 years.

Wolf Alice have shared the latest instalment of the visual accompaniment to their most recent studio album, ‘Blue Weekend’.The music video for ‘Lipstick on the Glass’ is presented as ‘Chapter III’ in its introductory sequence, alluding to its place as track three on the albumIn the video, the band exits a taxi – which directly follows the video for ‘Delicious Things’ – and walks through an otherwise empty street.

Wolf Alice have announced details of a European tour that will take place early next year.The band will head to the continent in February 2022 for a number of live dates in support of their recently released third album ‘Blue Weekend’.Set to be Wolf Alice’s first European tour since 2018, the band will visit France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and more next year.

Wolf Alice celebrate their first chart-topping record as their new album Blue Weekend lands straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

Wolf Alice have continued to share videos from their latest album ‘Blue Weekend’, dropping a cinematic clip for ‘Delicious Things’.The video for ‘Delicious Things’ comes just days after the band shared dramatic visuals for album track ‘The Beach’, starring singer and guitarist Ellie Rowsell.The ‘Delicious Things’ clip sees Rowsell sitting in a cab as a revolving cast of characters argue, passionately kiss, cry and more, as the vision becomes increasingly blurry.

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Wolf Alice have shared a new video for their song ‘The Beach’ – you can watch the dramatic clip below.The track is the latest to be taken from the four-piece’s new album ‘Blue Weekend’, which was released last Friday (June 4).‘The Beach’ video, which was released last night (June 7), features singer and guitarist Ellie Rowsell in the starring role, with the clip following the musician at home.After taking a bath, a distressed Rowsell collapses onto a bed as water from the bath seeps over the

BBC reported. “Today’s musicians receive very little income from their performances — most featured artists receive tiny fractions of a US cent per stream and session musicians receive nothing at all,” the letter — which is also signed by Van Morrison, Paul McCartney, Jessie Ware, the estate of Joe Strummer, rapper Kano and the rock band Wolf Alice — goes on. A fix to the situation would be simple, they write: “Only two words needs to change” in the 988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act to

Wolf Alice are on course for a UK Number One album this week after outselling all of their top five rivals combined.According to an update from the Official Charts, Wolf Alice’s critically acclaimed new album, Blue Weekend, has garnered the most physical and download sales across the first three days of the chart tracking period.Wolf Alice’s debut My Love Is Cool and follow up Visions Of A Life both reached Number Two in the Official Album’s Chart.Elsewhere in the charts, James are on course for

Wolf Alice are heading for Number 1 on this Friday’s Official Albums Chart with their third studio album Blue Weekend.

Wolf Alice’s new album ‘Blue Weekend’ is currently 2021’s highest-rated album on Metacritic.The London band’s third studio album, their first since 2017’s ‘Visions Of A Life’, was released today (June 4), featuring the singles ‘How Can I Make It OK?’, ‘No Hard Feelings’, ‘The Last Man On Earth’ and ‘Smile’.‘Blue Weekend’ has been met with acclaim by music critics, and review aggregator Metacritic — which “distils the opinions of the most respected critics writing online and in print to a single

Olivia Rodrigo has claimed her second week at Number One on the official UK albums chart for ‘Sour‘ alongside ‘Good 4 U‘ in the singles chart.The US singer-songwriter first scored the chart double last week (May 28), and became the youngest ever artist to do so, beating top-spot album competition in the midweeks from Easy Life and Texas.As OfficialCharts.com reports, Rodrigo closed out the week today (June 4) with 17,000 chart sales ahead of her closest competitor, which was Easy Life with their