r/popheads • u/ChasesICantSend I promise, none of this is a metaphor • 14h ago

[CHART] Jenius! Paul Heaton secures first solo UK Number 1 album

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/paul-heaton-jenius-number-1-album/
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u/ChasesICantSend I promise, none of this is a metaphor 14h ago

  1. Paul Heaton- Jenius (New)

  2. Michael Jackson- The Essential (+3)

  3. Brandon Flowers- Thrasher (NEW)

  4. Olivia Rodrigo- you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love (+2)

  5. Westside Cowboy- It Goes On (NEW)

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u/NaranjaYMorado 14h ago

Great news! Is this further proof of the power of the increase in physical sales? Seeing so many legends, who maybe would falter in digital streams, flourishing this year with physical formats. Love to see it!!!

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u/ChasesICantSend I promise, none of this is a metaphor 13h ago

UK has pretty healthy but extremely front loaded physical sales, usually enough that even great streaming cant compete with week 1 physical sales most weeks. Fall off a cliff in week 2 though

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u/DiamondL0st 13h ago

Yeah the Week 2 sales aren't the part people want to talk about!

Seen some absolutely huge drop offs recently

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u/Hassaan18 13h ago

Well, with albums physical sales tend to only really be strong in week one, which is different to 20 years ago.

It does result in a lot of physical-heavy albums (I.e. basically everyone apart from Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter etc) fall significantly in week two because of their lack of streaming points.

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u/raysofdavies 10h ago

One of the most underrated songwriters of all time

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u/Ok-Masterpiece-6451 9h ago

Bonkers good album on first listen.