THE MUSIC OF CLIVE COMES ALIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL
That's what friends are for. (5/1a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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JAMES KING: THE HITS INTERVIEW (PART ONE)
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.
