Shed Seven have cemented one of many greatest chart comebacks in British rock, scoring their second UK No 1 album of the yr – over 20 years on from their Britpop heyday.
The band, who fashioned in York in 1990 and launched their debut album in 1994, stay finest recognized for hits equivalent to Going For Gold and Chasing Rainbows, which channelled the more and more symphonic fashion of Britpop within the wake of Oasis, Blur and Pulp’s mid-90s success.
After 4 albums they break up in 2003, then reformed to play exhibits in 2007. In 2017, their comeback album Instantaneous Pleasures took them again to the Prime 10. Followers continued to flock again, sending A Matter of Time to No 1 within the opening week of 2024 – admittedly a low-competition interval for brand new releases – and now once more with new album Liquid Gold.
They could solely have a fraction of the streaming viewers of the artist at No 3 within the chart – 294,000 month-to-month listeners on Spotify, in comparison with Sabrina Carpenter’s 82 million – however a sensible gross sales marketing campaign, together with the vinyl copies which are all-important for chart positions, meant their fanbase might carry them to the highest spot.
The band known as the achievement “completely mindblowing … We’d prefer to dedicate this to our departed family members: our 4 dads and Max’s mum.”
Shed Seven change into the twentieth act to attain two UK No 1 albums in a calendar yr, becoming a member of the likes of Abba, Queen, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.
They held off one other Yorkshire band, Sheffield’s Convey Me the Horizon, who’re at No 2 with Put up Human: Nex Gen. The album initially charted at No 5 in June when it was first launched, however the launch of bodily editions has despatched them again up the rankings.
UK rapper Nines and Mercury prize-winning jazz group Ezra Collective additionally attain the Prime 10 with their new albums, as does Ed Sheeran with a best-of.
Sabrina Carpenter in the meantime continues to dominate the singles chart this yr: Style spends its sixth week on the high, including to seven weeks for earlier hit Espresso and 5 for Please Please Please.
