Harry Styles secures Official UK Albums Chart Number 1 with his self-titled debut
Plus eight more new albums from the likes of Paramore, Paul Weller and J Hus enter this week's Top 40.
Congratulations to Harry Styles, whose debut album lands straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
The self-titled collection shifted just shy of 57,000 across physical, download and streaming equivalent sales to claim the top spot.
The record also tops this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart, with just over 3,000 copies on the format sold.
Harry becomes the second One Direction member to land at Number 1 solo album, following Zayn’s Mind Of Mine in April 2016.
Harry Styles’ album includes lead single Sign Of The Times, which debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart last month. The song rebounds to 6 this week, while another eight of the record’s ten songs land inside the Top 100.
Finishing behind Harry this week is Ed Sheeran’s ÷, which holds at 2, and Rag’n’Bone Man’s Human is at 3.
New entries and high climbers
Three more new albums debut inside this week’s Top 10: Paramore’s fifth collection After Laughter is at 4, Paul Weller’s 13th solo album A Kind Revolution at 5, and British rapper J Hus lands at 6 with his debut record Common Sense.
Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May re-enters the Top 10 following her appearance on The Graham Norton Show, up five spots to 10, while a 10th anniversary reissue of Manic Street Preachers’ Send Away The Tigers enters at 21.
British rockers Inglorious claim their first UK Top 40 album with II (22), US country music group Zac Brown Band are bag their highest charting album in the UK with Welcome Home (25), and the London cast recording of Dreamgirls bows at 40.
Check out this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full
Look back through every Official UK Number 1 of 2017 so far below:
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C Marie Gambel
One things for sure! These artists would not think highly of you! The individuals who are bashing each other as well as other hard working artists, artists your artist of choice may consider friends, are less than desirable fans who need to learn tolerance of others differing opinions and that music is made to bring joy while bringing people together. Music can be an emotional outlet of both good and bad feelings, music has the power to inspire us to be better people, can give us the ability to step outside of our comfort zone, To cleanse the soul or heart of bad feelings or thoughts by music that reflects the bad stuff inside and projects it outwards so it can be cathartically released or by uplifting music that pulls us out of our and into feeling good. Whatever music or artists people choose to like and listen too, we do so because it makes their lives feel better, which usually means their lives are better, which often means we treat other human beings better. So if you dont care for a certain type of music or an artist don't diss them or their fans, respect the musician for fullfilling a need and making someones life better and respect and care for the fans, who are just trying to find hapiness in a world that often doesn't make it easy to be a happy and caring human being because of the people out there, like Donald Trump, who are just to cold and selfish to even enjoy music, Donald Trump doesn't enjoy music, if he listens to any it is because he believes it makes him cooler or he gains prestige out of it somehow. One Direction, including Zahyn, have all engaged in solo music because they are all artists who have music that lives inside of them and was not allowed to fully discover what that was by management, Zahyn, because his sound maybe fits in less with what management would except out of 1d for 1d broke 1st and he really didnt have a choice to stay, it would have destroyed him if he had denied his soul. The other boys could, partially if not fully, give life to the music inside of themselves via what they did as One Direction, and I personally love the last two albums best from 1d, but they to needed the freedom to fully explore their souls. I love Harry's album best so far but stuff like Drag me Down, Infinity, Walking in the Wind etc speaks to my soul even more so. I would love it someday if the 5 of them get together and take what each of them have inside and play around blending different stuff, I bet they would find music that would be epic and different by marrying elements of all 5, They were meant to meet and become friends, I believe, because they were truly friends, but management, papparaz, and some immature fans fixation on shipping the boys, or just stalking them came pretty close to destroying all of them and maybe did damage Louis and Harry's friendship beyond what can be repaired, born out of ignorance of how wrong they were to force One direction to live their daily lives in a prison and Love for 5 admittedly pretty special human beings. I think they would come up with a new sound, the soul of all 5 and it would be amazing, we just have to keep them free to be them and "splain" somethings to shippers and stalker fans/papparaz. Ps I like ed Sheehan as well but Harry's voice is my sweet spot lol. Be good to each other and the artists that bring us our soul's food. Cheers😚
Mrs. Brooks
57k only? Wow! Even Zayn sold more than him.
H
HS
what are you talking about? Zayn sold around 25K in his first week.
Calvin Right
this is 2017. If this were 1997 this would be the equivelant of 780k.
erihskroy
great job harry
JJ
Jack James
Ed Sheeran's Divide out sold this album in its debut week in the UK.
I Am A Stegosaurus
I do agree with Alan though, I'm sick to death of reading these 'ED SHEERAN IS BETTER' comments on every single article
JJ
Jack James
It's not my fault you can't accept facts.
I Am A Stegosaurus
It's not a fact, it's an opinion you're posting WAY too much
JJ
Jack James
Who are you to tell someone how much they can and cannot post this is not your website mind your own business or I will block you.
Calvin Right
this is irrelevant. Its like saying adele outsold such and such. They are not realistic targets they are the megastars of record sales. Nobody expected Harry to compete with Ed.