Update: also debuts at #1 in Scotland, Germany and on these other UK charts - Vinyl, Record Store, Physical Albums and Album Downloads. #3 in Ireland.
From Official Charts:
The Cure's Songs Of A Lost World becomes band's first Number 1 album in 32 years
The band's 14th studio LP outsells the rest of the Top 5 combined to reach the summit
By Carl Smith
The English rock legends, whose current line-up comprises Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Roger O’Donnell, Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper and Reeves Gabrels, last topped the Official Albums Chart with 1992 record Wish.
16 years in the making, Songs Of A Lost World outsells the rest of the Top 5 combined to reach the summit, and earns the group a 23rd Top 40 album overall.
Reacting to the news, The Cure’s Robert Smith says:
“It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album.
“To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years - THANK YOU!”
Song Of A Lost World also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the week’s biggest seller on wax, and the Official Record Store Chart, proving the most popular LP of the past seven days in independent UK record shops.
The record’s release reignites interest in The Cure’s back catalogue, too. 2001’s Greatest Hits returns to the Top 40 for the first time in five years, vaulting 76 spots (30).
