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Eminem scores Official UK Chart Double as Music To Be Murdered By and Godzilla debut at Number 1
It was one of the closest races for the Number 1 single in UK chart history.
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Congratulations to Eminem, who scores the Official Chart Double, debuting at Number 1 on both the Official Albums and Singles Chart.
The rapper’s eleventh studio album Music To Be Murdered By, surprised-released last week, debuts at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with 36,000 chart sales, while Godzilla ft. Juice WRLD tops the Official Singles Chart.
It means Eminem extends his record-breaking run of consecutive Number 1 albums to ten – no other act in UK chart history has managed to land as many chart-topping albums in a row.
View Eminem’s Official UK Chart history in full
Meanwhile Godzilla achieves the rare feat of debuting at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. Just three acts managed it last year: Stormzy’s Vossi Bop, Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber’s I Don’t Care, and LadBaby’s I Love Sausage Rolls. Godzilla is also Eminem’s tenth Number 1 single.
Juice WRLD's contribution makes him the first act to posthumously score a UK Number 1 single in over 12 years. Eva Cassidy was the last artist to claim a chart topper after their death with her Katie Melua collaboration What A Wonderful World in December 2007.
Official Albums Chart
Eminem saw off a strong challenge from The Courteeners, who finish at Number 2 with their sixth studio album and first in four years More. Again. Forever. It’s still the band’s highest-charting album of their career, and was the week’s best-selling album on vinyl, placing them at Number 1 on this week's Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
Another indie band making a grand return this week are Bombay Bicycle Club, who after a six-year absence, land at Number 4 their fifth album Everything Else Has Gone Wrong. Elsewhere in the Top 10, US singer-songwriter Halsey opens at Number 6 with her third album Manic, and posthumous Mac Miller album Circles is at Number 8.
Louise's comeback album Heavy Love - her first record in 20 years – just misses out on a Top 10 debut at Number 11, and UK drill rapper DigDat makes a strong debut at Number 12 with his first mixtape Ei8ht Mile. In terms of chart sales, the South London rapper now claims the UK’s biggest drill breakthrough to date.
Further down, Michael Kiwanuka's Kiwanuka rebounds 47 places to 17 following his appearance on BBC's The Graham Norton Show; R.Y.C by multi-instrumentalist Mura Masa opens at 23; British singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin debuts at 24 with Dear Happy; and Birmingham rockers Magnum are Number 36 with 21st album The Serpent Rings.
View this week's Official Albums Chart Top 100
Official Singles Chart
Finishing behind Eminem by just 93 chart sales is rising 21 year-old Compton rapper Roddy Ricch who has shot to viral fame on Tik Tok with The Box.
The Box climbs from 5 to Number 2 this week, thanks in part to the Roddy Ricch dance challenge where thousands of Tik Tok users have now filmed themselves showing off their moves.
Missing out on the top spot to Eminem’s Godzilla by less than 100 units this week, it’s one of the tightest finishes for Number 1 ever; the closest ever recorded was in 2007, when Timbaland’s The Way I Are pipped Kate Nash’s Foundations to Number 1 by just 16 sales. See Roddy Ricch’s UK chart history to date.
MORE: Get to know Roddy Ricch
Meanwhile, The Weeknd lands his fifth Top 5 song with Blinding Lights, rising four places to Number 4, and South London rapper Digdat claims his first ever Top 10 single with Ei8ht Mile ft. Aitch at 9.
Eminem has two further entries in this week’s Top 40 with Those Kinda Nights ft. Ed Sheeran (12) and Darkness (17).
Further down, Halsey leaps 11 places to Number 26 with You Should Be Sad, and two more songs make their Top 40 debut: Jonas Brothers’ What A Man Gotta Do at 33 and The 1975’s Me & You Together Song at 35.
View this week's Official Singles Chart Top 100
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Martijn
The closest ever recorded was 16 copies?
What about The joker (Steve Miller Band) and Groove is in the heart (Deee-Lite) in the charts of september 9th, 1990?
Both singles had equal sales, but because of no more "ties" The joker became number one because of more increasing sales that week.
Piran
Hold on, didn’t ‘7 Rings’ & ‘Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored’ debut at #1 for Ariana Grande last year?
The article says that only ‘I Don’t Care’, ‘Vossi Bop’ & ‘I Love Sausage Rolls’ debuted at #1 in 2019!
Marcothedonjuan
Yep, Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored went No. 1 in the UK last year along with 7 Rings. :)
Piran
I'm surprised OCC forgot to mention either song, given how much they post about Ariana Grande, haha! :P
col0362
If you count official studio releases only, and don't include compilations or imports, then the Beatles had 11 consecutive number Ones.
Brian Quinn
The only reason the album is No.1 is because it is a very slow time of year for releases. Any big name act would be No.1. Hopefully Eminem will wait five years before releasing another album.
JD
Jon Doe
big name artist? are you aware Eminem is the best-selling hip hop artist of all-time and the best-selling artist of the 2000s?
etin
but we are in 2020s
JD
Jon Doe
i'm not sure if that comment is a joke or not, but incase you are serious. you know the 2000's includes 2020 right? it's another way of saying the biggest selling artist since the turn of the century.
etin
I was counting 10 years.. & for feminem he reaches the top spot and stay in charts couple of months , then leaves without hit single. he sells his name anymore
David Eve
Despite officially falling to 14 Dance Monkey is still the most consumed track, so that's 5 consecutive weeks of fake no.1s. Incidently Dance Monkey would be no.1 with a lead of around 4,000 without ACR.
Rog Lan
It's not fake no. ones. The chart rules are the chart rules and they have always been arbitrary, and streams have just increased the arbitrariness as there's no 'real' number to convert streams to paid sales.
David Eve
Yes it is. When the chart rules mean that the most consumed song is not no.1, then whatever is there is a fake. I wonder when we will get a real no.1 in 2020?
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Vikingman
It IS fake, on an even playing field this would not be No.1. The rules should be the same for all songs. How can a chart be credible when the No.1 has less consumption than the No.14?
Piran
We all expected Eminem's surprise album to be #1 the moment we knew it was being released, but I don't think many people saw a #1 single coming with it too! :O
While those milestones for Eminem are iconic (the fact that he can still do the chart double after over 20 years in the music industry is jaw-dropping), but what captures my attention just as much is that this is also Juice WRLD's first ever chart-topper in the UK! It's a shame he wasn't alive to see this, but still, it's an incredible tribute to the late rapper.
'The Box' being less than 100 combined sales behind it also makes this one of the closest chart races ever, so it looks highly likely that'll be the next song to take the top spot, which I honestly don't have a problem with!