Dave scores second UK Quantity One album with greatest opening week since 2019
Dave has scored his second consecutive UK Quantity One album with ‘We’re All Alone In This Collectively’ and has claimed the largest opening week on the chart since 2019.
The rapper’s new album, which arrived final week (July 23), debuted on the prime spot with over 74,000 chart gross sales – 56 per cent of which have been bodily copies – making it the best opening week of the yr. The document’s gross sales far surpassed earlier holder Olivia Rodrigo, whose debut album ‘Bitter’ picked up 51,000 chart gross sales in June.
In addition to being the chart’s greatest opening week since November 2019, when Coldplay’s ‘On a regular basis Life’ opened with 81,000 chart gross sales, Dave’s newest providing has additionally claimed the largest opening week for a UK rap album since Tinie Tempah’s debut ‘Disc-Overy’ in October 2010.
‘We’re All Alone In This Collectively’ – which follows 2019’s Mercury Prize-winning ‘Psychodrama’ – was certainly one of two new releases to land contained in the High 5, alongside Anne-Marie‘s ‘Remedy’ which took the Quantity Two spot.
“Second Quantity One album. Lots of feelings however that is the work of the individuals, the very best supporters on earth… my household and pals however most significantly God,” Dave mentioned after discovering out he had bagged the highest spot. “For this we give God the glory. 74,000 album gross sales in a single week and it’s God’s doing. It’s our Quantity One. Historical past.”
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Elsewhere, final week’s Quantity One, KSI’s ‘All Over The Place’, dropped to Quantity 4, whereas the remainder of the High 5 consists of Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Bitter’ and Doja Cat‘s ‘Planet Her’.
The High 10 noticed new entries from The Child Laroi’s ‘F*ck Love’ mixtape, which leaped 46 locations to a brand new peak at Quantity Six following the discharge of the gathering’s ultimate chapter ‘Over You’, and Amy Winehouse’s ‘Again To Black’, which vaulted 29 locations to Quantity Seven – its first High 10 look in a decade – after the 10-year anniversary of her demise and launch of recent documentary Reclaiming Amy.
In the meantime, Dave lately revealed that composer Hans Zimmer helped encourage the title for his new album, ‘We’re All Alone In This Collectively’.