Red Hot Chili Peppers Lead The 1975 In The U.K. Chart Race
The U.K. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are putting pressure on the 1975 in the albums chart battle.
According to the Official Charts Company’s midweek data, the 1975 is on top with Being Funny In A Foreign Language (Dirty Hit), the British alternative rock act’s fifth studio album. If it maintains its position, Being Funny will be Matt Healy and co.’s fifth U.K. release. leader, following their self-titled debut in 2013; I like it when you sleep, because you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it (from 2016); A Brief Enquiry Into Online Relationships (2018) and Notes On A Conditional Form (2018).
With Return Of The Dream Canteen, the veteran California rockers debut at No. 2 on the Official Chart Update. It’s their 13th studio album and the follow-up to Unlimited Love, which topped the UK charts. This chart was created in April of this year.
RHCP should secure a tenth U.K. with their return. top ten appearances, with five No. 1s on his resume
Rounding out an all-new top five on the chart blast is U.S. band Alter Bridge’s Pawns & Kings (Napalm), at No. 3; Atlanta rapper Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me (Motown/Quality Control), at No. 4; and Dexys Midnight Runners’ Too-Rye-Ay (Mercury), a reissue of the Birmingham, England band’s sophomore album from 1982, which featured the classic single “Come on Eileen”. The LP, which peaked at No. 2 upon its initial release, is set to return to the top 10 for the first time in 40 years, according to the OCC.
Also charging to the top ten is English indie rock act Big Moon, with Here Is Everything (Fiction), which is on track for a career-best No. 6, while Lightning Seeds should bolt into the top tier with See You In The Stars (BMG), the Britpop era band’s first LP in 13 years. It is expected to debut at No. 7, becoming the band’s highest-charting studio album in their 32-year career.
Close behind is the Vamps’ career retrospective Ten Years Of The Vamps (UMR/Virgin), which is expected to debut at No. 5 and become the British pop band’s fifth top 10 album.
Finally, veteran artist and production mastermind Brian Eno’s 22nd studio album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Universal Music Recordings) has debuted at No. 10 on the midweek chart, putting him on track for a career solo high.
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