The Rolling Stones' Blue & Lonesome claims UK's Number 1 on this week's Official Albums Chart with massive opening week sales
Congratulations to The Rolling Stones, who claim this week’s Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with their latest album Blue & Lonesome – their first new studio album to hit the top spot in more than 20 years.
The iconic band’s first studio record in more than a decade
shifted a massive 106,000 combined sales to claim the top spot –
the second-highest opening sales week for an album this year, behind David Bowie’s Blackstar, which logged 146,000 sales in its first week back in January.
The Rolling Stones commented: “We are absolutely delighted with the success of Blue & Lonesome in the UK and around the world.”
99% of Blue & Lonesome's sales were either physical purchases or downloads, with 1% attributed to streams. In terms of digital vs. physical sales, physical accounted for 95,000 of it's overall total.
The record, which is also certified gold today by the BPI, is The Rolling Stones’ 12th Official UK Number 1 album. Their last new studio collection to reach the summit was Voodoo Lounge in 1994, though a re-release of their 1972 album Exile On Main St also reached Number 1 in 2010.
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