The chart-topping track was released on 1st April 2022 and is the lead single from Styles’ third solo album Harry’s House. The single’s long running chart success began soon after its release, debuting as the UK’s number one single. The track was co-written by Styles and the release’s producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, American producer and engineer Johnson worked with Styles on his debut self-titled solo album. Styles’ recently released track is the singer’s second song to place at number one, in 2017 the singer scored his first number one single with “Sign Of The Times”.

Elsewhere within the charts, “First Class” by American rapper Jack Harlow has also remained in the top 5, placing at number two for the fifth consecutive week. Released on 8th April 2022 via Atlantic and Generation Now, the single is the second track to be released from the singer’s second studio album Come Home The Kids Miss You. The album was released on 6th May 2022 and garnered Harlow two further chart placements, “Churchill Downs” featuring Drake charted at 19 and “Dua Lipa” placed at number 33.

Placing at number three within this week’s singles charts is “Go” by London based musician Cat Burns, after spending seventeen weeks on the charts the single reached its peak position this week. Lizzo and Styles recently made headlines with their surprise duet at this year’s Coachella festival, both artists have placed within this week’s top five. The lead single taken from Lizzo’s upcoming album has placed at number four, “About Damn Time” was released on 14th April 2022 and went viral earlier in the year through the app TikTok.

Closing the top five this week is Mercury Prize award winning artist Dave, the British rapper’s single “Starlight” was released on 3rd March 2022. The track debuted at number one within the UK singles charts and remained at the top spot for four weeks. The single features a sample of the 1954 canonised track “Fly  Me To The Moon” and was self-produced by the artist.

Along with the singer’s chart success, Styles has also been tipped to win an Oscar for his role in the drama My Policeman. The former One Direction bandmember first broke into acting in 2017 with his debut role in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. Styles’ career making role in My Policeman marks the singer’s fourth acting credit and is set to be released later this year. Based on a novel with the same title, Styles stars as a Brighton based policeman who struggles with sexuality and relationships during the 1950s.

The official update by the OCC confirmed 85% of the sales in the first week came from physical copies, half of which bought at independent stores, and showed frontman Josh Franscechi thank both their fans and haters, and say: “A truly incredible moment for our band. Our love for our fan base, and their support, is endless. They have been the light at the end of a tunnel of a pretty rough time. The support of our loved ones, family, partners, friends. Everyone who worked on this record. Dan Austin and the rest of our studio family who worked relentlessly to make this with us. Our second number one almost seven years later is just madness. Sixers for life.”

Congratulations to @youmeatsix on their second Number 1 album SUCKAPUNCH! https://t.co/WaOiviD8xd pic.twitter.com/Bc6pB5e1Fu

— Official Charts (@officialcharts) January 22, 2021

In its strong debut week SUCKAPUNCH beat Barry Gibb’s third solo release Greenfields for the top spot, with Eminem’s acclaimed eleventh album Music To Be Murdered By left at third place with 35 consecutive weeks in the charts. At number 4 this week is Sleaford Mods’ Space Ribs that also premiered last week and is their first ever top 5 record, followed by The Good Times And The Bad Ones by Why Don’t We. The rest of the Top 10 album include Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, Harry Styles’ Fine Line, Shame’s Drunk Tank Pink, Taylor Swift’s Evermore and Little Mix’s Confetti.

SUCKAPUNCH came out last Friday via Underdog Records and AWAL, and includes a total of 11 tracks, composed and performed entirely by the band and produced by Dan Austin (Twin Atlantic, Pulled Apart By Horses, Maximo Park). The record features the previously released ‘What’s It Like‘ from 2019, their three 2020 singles ‘MAKEMEFEELALIVE‘, ‘Beautiful Way‘, ‘SUCKAPUNCH‘ all accompanied by official videos, as well as their latest New Year’s Day track ‘Adrenaline‘.

 

 

 

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Straight upon its release, SUCKAPUNCH received predominantly positive reviews from all rock outlets, and huge praise from their loyal fan base. Clash points out that the passion and experimentation behind the record “could be what allows them to continue to brave the storm of the music industry for another fifteen years, should they still want to“. Giving it a solid 4/5, Kerrang! states that it “jabs with style, and demonstrates that, far from running out of ideas, this band remain intent on staying at the cutting edge of modern British rock“. Similarly, NME states that “it’s rare for a rock record to feel this exciting, especially coming from a band seven albums deep and, y’know, from Surrey, but every track ‘SUCKAPUNCH’ feels inspired in some way […] and you’d be hard-pressed not to keep the faith too“.

In addition to their admirable physical sales performance, the record also passed 10 million streams on Spotify, with similar achievement across all other major digital platforms. If government guidelines allow live events to go through later in the year, You Me At Six will embark on a busy Summer tour across the UK and Europe, with more information and tickets available at their website.

SUCKAPUNCH: Our new album has been streamed 10,000,000 on @Spotify thank you for the love. https://t.co/BNkVodNIvr

— You Me At Six (@youmeatsix) January 22, 2021

The iconic British band beat K-pop girl group, Blackpink to the number 1 spot after receiving the most album sales following their release. The challenge was met after the Korean girl band had a late surge of downloads for their debut album. This makes it Queen’s 10th number 1 album making them equal to the likes of Eminem, Rod Stewart, U2 and Michael Jackson.

Brian May, Queens guitarist tells officialcharts.com, ‘Thank you folks for making us Number 1 after all these years. So Queen and Adam Lambert’s very first release is Number 1…amazing. God bless you all.’

Lambert first sung with drummer original Queen band members Roger Taylor and guitarist May in 2009 after securing a place in the finals on the eighth season of American Idol. Their new album is the first without former lead singer, Freddie Mercury who died in 1991. The album features live performances from around the world of their chart hits such as ‘We Will Rock You’ ‘Don’t stop Me Now’ ‘Radio Gaga’ and ‘We Are the Champions.’ The album was released as a thank you to fans following the cancelation of their  2020 tour due to the virus pandemic.

May told BBC News “As we all grapple with the challenge of creating live shows in a world dominated by a formidable viral enemy, it seemed the perfect time for us to create a collection of hand-picked live highlights.”

The new singer, Lambert commented to officialcharts.com about the new album’s success, “I am beyond thrilled that we are Number 1!!!!!! As I always say, I am the luckiest person in the world to be able to work with Brian and Roger, and I’m so glad people are enjoying this album so much! The fact that we can celebrate the iconic music of Queen all these years later is incredible. We are hoping to be back on the road at venues across the globe again very soon!”

Drummer Roger Taylor commented on the album to officialcharts.com, ‘Number 1, my favourite number. It’s been 25 years since Queen have had a Number 1 album and it’s a thrill, still! Thanks to everybody who went out and bought it. I hope you love it and get a lot of kicks out of it.”

The album concludes with a live performance in Sydney where the band played their classic live set to raise money for the Australian bush fire crisis.

Album Songlist:

1. Tear It Up
2. Now I’m Here
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. Don’t Stop Me Now
6. I Want To Break Free
7. Somebody To Love
8. Love Kills: The Ballad
9. I was Born To Love You
10. Under Pressure
11. Who Wants To Love Forever
12. The Show Must Go On
13. Love Of  My Life
14. Bohemian Rhapsody
15. Radio Gaga
16. Ay-Ohs
17. Hammer to Fall
18. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
19. We will Rock You
20. We Are The Champions

The BBC Sound of 2014 winner has officially knocked Coldplay out of the lead a week after he scored his third number one single ‘Stay with Me’. The 22 year old Londoner, and third cousin of Lily Allen, first rose to fame in October 2012 after being featured on Disclosures single ‘Latch’ which hit number 11 on the UK charts. It was then in February 2013 that his first single ‘Lay Me Down’ hit the charts only later to be dethroned by Robin Thicke with ‘Blurred Lines’ featuring Pharrell Williams, which came in at number 14 and became the most downloaded song of all time in the UK.

Smith was followed by Paolo Nutini’s ‘Caustic Love’, Paloma Faith’s ‘A Perfect Contradiction’ and Michael Jacksons belated album ‘Xscape at Five’ as runners up but as this evening (1st of June) he received the fastest selling debut album of 2014 to date.