Bruce Springsteen has scored his 12th #1 on the U.K. Official Albums Chart with Letter to You (Columbia) becoming the first credited solo artist to have a #1 album in five consecutive decades. Over on singles, Ariana Grande has the top spot with “positions” (Island).
Letter to You outsold the rest of the Top 5 combined and claims the fastest-selling title of 2020 so far with 51,800 sales, 95% of which were physical and download. Springsteen has now topped the album chart in the 1980s, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s and ‘20s.
Gorillaz’s Song Machine, Season One: Strange Times (Parlophone) is new at #2, followed by Nothing But Thieves, who have the most streamed release of the week, Moral Panic (EMI), at #3.
Blossoms claim their second Top 5 album this year with lockdown covers project, In Isolation (EMI), at #5.
Faithless’ first album in 10 years, All Blessed (BMG), enters at #6, Joe Bonamassa’s Royal Tea (J&R Adventures) debuts at #7, and Russell Watson’s anniversary album, 20 (UMG), comes in at #10.
Harry Styles’ Fine Line (Columbia) flies up nine places to #9 following the release of the album’s latest single, “Golden.”
On singles, “position” awards Grande her seventh U.K. #1 with 61,000 sales, including 7.6m streams.
