official chart UK: Familia #9, Wet Leg #1

[B-Luke]

 

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Wet Leg fly in at Number 1 with their self-titled debut album, fronting a spectacular hat-trick of chart success for independent record labels who dominate all top three places on this week’s Official Albums Chart for the first time in more than a decade.

Isle of Wight indie-rock duo Wet Leg comfortably land a Number 1 debut today, outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined to earn the second-biggest opening week for any chart-topping album in 2022 so far after Central Cee’s 23.

The week’s best seller on vinyl and in UK independent record shops too, Wet Leg top the Official Vinyl Albums Chart and the Official Record Store Chart.

Celebrating their success, Wet Leg told OfficialCharts.com:

“We just want to say thanks to all of our fans that have bought the record, and that means we can be Number 1. Thank you for this!”

 

Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers (l-r) with their Official Albums Chart Number 1 Award. Credit: Official Charts

Wet Leg’s release on Domino Records (home of Arctic Monkeys) continues a recent run of form for independent record labels, Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers are the fourth independent label act to earn a UK Number 1 album this year; following Stereophonics’ Oochya!, Central Cee’s 23 and Don Broco’s Amazing Things.

A landmark day for the Official Albums Chart as the Top 3 is made up solely of independent label releases, the first time this has occurred in 11 years; Father John Misty (released by Bella Union) debuts at Number 2 with Chloe and The Next 21st Century – earning a new UK chart career-peak – and Jack White’s Fear Of The Dawn (Third Man) enters at Number 3.

The last time three indie releases occupied the Top 3 was back in May 2011 - Adele’s 21 (1) and 19 (3) and Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues (2).

 

Elsewhere in the Top 10, Little Mix rise five with greatest hits collection Between Us (7) following the kick-off of Jade, Perrie and Leigh-Anne’s final tour as a trio this week, before the band enters a hiatus for its members to pursue solo careers. See Little Mix’s Official Charts history in full here.

Spoken-word poet and rapper Kae Tempest earns their first Top 10 entry with This Line Is A Curve (8), while Camila Cabello’s third album Familia (9) becomes her second Top 10 hit.

Finally, English singer-songwriter Passenger debuts at Number 35 with Birds That Flew and Ships That Sailed. It’s the artist’s (real name Michael Rosenberg) eighth album to enter the UK Top 40.

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[EtherealCat]

an improvement from romance, her second peak 

[West Coast]

6 minutes ago, EtherealCat said:

an improvement from romance, her second peak 

A smash it seems 

[tbhmatt]

Between Us Top 10 again and they haven’t yet done any shows in England or Wales 

 

Newcastle tonight! Hope the album can snatch a new peak before the Confetti tour finishes. 

[Antisocialites]

Wet Legends

[Bloodflowers.]

Camila is now a peer with Rita Ora with these spectacular numbers

[halcyonday]

[Navyofbadgals]

Maybe next era she can outdo blockbuster acts like Wet Leg ! 

[Polgg48]

great debut for FJM, well deserved 

[truthteller]

the ur mum duo did THAT

 

 

FJM too  the UK has TASTE this week

Edited April 15, 2022 by truthteller

[drivers license]

oh wow her second peak! this era is more of a global SMASH. sorry atrl it must suck to lose again 

[Alak96]

Another debut OUT of the top 5 

[Blank]

she couldn't get top 5 in the UK even with an ed collab? 

[Jude]

The UK has been supportive of her.

[FAN]

Album and single top 10  

[Letemtalk]

Wet Leg, #1 UK, #1 AU, #4 NZ and #8 in Germany.

Not to mention having an acclaimed album with more than 35 reviews.

[rta1913]

Considering Bam Bam streams do

not count for the album chart, this is not a bad debut at all. 
 

I blame her PR team, for some reason her image has never recovered. The album is not bad. 

[Xtripped]

Not a bad debut at all.

[Carrie-is-no-1]

LM scoring another top 10 week 

[simmnfierzig]

14 hours ago, Blank said:

she couldn't get top 5 in the UK even with an ed collab? 

Those streams dont count 

[Wonderland]

22 hours ago, Letemtalk said:

Wet Leg, #1 UK, #1 AU, #4 NZ and #8 in Germany.

Not to mention having an acclaimed album with more than 35 reviews.

Not everyone has that  

[Zaynsus]

Behind Little Mix's 5 month old best of compilation ?

[Lovett]

Camila bombing in the UK as well.