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Liam Gallagher's MTV Unplugged earns him a third Number 1 and fastest-selling vinyl album of 2020 so far
"Not bad for an unsophisticated parka monkey..."
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Liam Gallagher’s MTV Unplugged album enters straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart, earning the Britpop legend his third solo chart-topping record.
The album debuts at the top with 21,000 chart sales, 10,000 of which were on vinyl, making it the fastest-selling vinyl album of 2020 so far.
Recorded live at Hully City Hall in August 2019, MTV Unplugged marks the first live album to reach the UK top spot in six years, since George Michael’s Symphonica in March 2014.
Celebrating the news, Liam told OfficialCharts.com: "Nobody told me there’d be days like these, strange days indeed. Most peculiar mama. 3 number 1 albums in 3 years… not bad for an unsophisticated parka monkey. Thanks to everyone who made it happen LG x".
MORE: Every Official Number 1 album ever
Liam’s previous solo Number 1 albums are 2017’s As You Were and 2019’s Why Me? Why Not. View Liam Gallagher's Official Chart history in full here.
Last week’s Number 1, Lady Gaga’s Chromatica, drops to 2, and there is a big new entry for singer-songwriter Jack Garratt, landing at Number 8 with his second album Love, Death & Dancing.
Outside the Top 10, Thin Lizzy retrospective The Essential is new at Number 16, marking the Dublin band’s first Top 40 album in 16 years, and a reissue of Manic Street Preachers’ 1993 album Gold Against The Soul re-enters at 17.
Finally, the fourth album by Irish indie-folk quartet Kodaline, One Day At A Time, opens at Number 33. Read our interview with the band about going indepdendent on their latest record here.
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Chig
'Hully City Hall', 'indepdendent'. Does no one proof this stuff, either before or after you post it?
Marko
Kodaline at 33 is a disgrace!
It's a great album.
Paula Wilkinson-Jones
Gallagher might be number 1, but it's hardly big sales though, and during a week when there wasn't any serious competition to speak of.
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Jez
It doesnt matter, he was still the number 1 selling artist of the week!
Mark Convey
Always someone ready with a put down. Whether there was "serious competition" or not, he has enough fans to make it a hit, which it would have been in any case.
Lloyd Boon
Paula Wilkinson-Jones, and if Liam wasn't at #1 Lady Gaga would still be #1 with less sales so whats your point?
Paula Wilkinson-Jones
Being "no.1" is only relative to that particular week. For example, Adele's third album entered at no.1 with sales over 800,000 copies in its first week. Meanwhile Gallagher's album sold 21,000 and chances are this will never even go platinum (his last album still hasn't achieved platinum and that's been out since last year). Chart positions aren't particularly relevant, sales are. This album came out at a quiet time with no serious competition. Had this come out late in the year, it probably wouldn't have even been top 5. Gallagher just isn't a major player anymore.
Paula Wilkinson-Jones
The point is his sales are less than impressive and he only got to no.1 because its a quiet time with no serious competition.
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Jez
What do you define as a major player these days ? You say his last album hasn’t gone platinum. It was released in October 2019. How many albums released at the same time or onwards have gone platinum? Even Coldplay’s last studio hasn’t gone platinum yet. Oh and this is a live album which in general are not as popular with people outside of the fanbase.still he has managed to record the fastest selling Sales on vinyls this year so far.
Voodoo Stevie
Several albums released in the second half of last year have gone platinum. Billie Eilish, Tom Walker, Ed Sheeran (double platinum). Lewis Capaldi's album was released in May last year but was already double platinum by December, and went triple platinum last month. These are the current major players, not Liam Gallagher. Coldplay's sales are indeed dwindling too, though they haven't toured for their latest album. Gallagher did tour for his last studio album though and it still hasn't gone platinum. He just isn't the big star he used to be, no matter how much he loves to talk himself up.
And the having "fastest vinyl sales" of the year so far is no big whoop either since vinyl accounts for less than 3% of music consumption in the country and is still a niche market for posers.
thierry henon
KOdaline only at 33!! and the great LADY GAGA dropping at number 2...
Piran
Haha, I've always found Liam Gallagher's banter to be hilarious, but I've really enjoyed a lot of his solo music too, so it's cool to see him have the #1 album by himself for a third time! :)
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
“not bad for an unsophisticated parka monkey”... lol. This is why I like Liam Gallagher, congrats on getting #1 with your MTV Unplugged album! :)