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The 1975 score fourth Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart after fierce battle with KSI
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The 1975 claim victory on this week’s Official Albums Chart after a fierce week-long battle with KSI.
The band claim their fourth consecutive chart-topper with Notes On A Conditional Form, scoring 34,000 chart sales. 71% of that figure is physical sales, including 7,000 copies on vinyl – making it the fastest-selling album on vinyl of 2020 so far.
All four of The 1975’s albums have topped the Official Albums Chart, meaning they keep their place in an elite club of acts who have reached Number 1 with all of their studio albums. They're only the sixth band to reach the top spot with their first four albums in the UK, alongside Coldplay (8), Oasis (7), Arctic Monkeys (6), The Killers (5) and Keane (4).
MORE: Look back at every Official Number 1 ever on the Official Albums Chart
It means KSI settles for second place with his debut album Dissimulation, which racked up 27,000 chart sales this week, 70% of which came from streams. The news may come as a relief to the YouTuber, boxer and rapper, who jokingly asked fans to support his chart rivals after he offered to shave his head if he hit the top spot. View KSI's full Official Chart history so far here.
Elsewhere in this week’s Top 10, US rapper Gunna enters at Number 5 with his second studio album Wunna, marking his first UK Top 10 record, and Agust D, better known as Suga from South Korean boyband BTS, lands at Number 7 with his latest D-2. The entry marks the first ever solo Korean artist to land a UK Top 10 album.
Further down, Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess enters at Number 31 with his fifth solo album I Love The New Sky (read our interview with him about the record here), and Badly Drawn Boy’s Banana Skin Shoes, his first album in a decade, lands at Number 34.
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Marko
This album is terrible.
0 good songs.
Their previous album was great.
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Rip Baldski
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
“Stream Dissimulation, we need JJ to go bald.”
Well his hair is going nowhere, so hahaha to you! 😂
Piran
Yeah, keep your hair on guys... KSI will be after all! :D
Piran
By the way, I must stress that my last post wasn’t targeted at all KSI fans, just those who were spamming hate messages to The 1975 or Agust D!
To all of his supporters out there who did stream ‘Dissimulation’ because of the music & were considerate of other fanbases, #2 is still a massive achievement (#1 in Ireland, may I add), especially when you’re going up against some of the biggest names in the word like Dua Lipa & Lewis Capaldi. :)
Piran
A group of KSI stans back on Tuesday, 1) bullied or were being homophobic to fans of The 1975, 2) spammed NOW! 105 with one-star reviews or “stream Baldski” comments, 3) made racist remarks about Agust D... & all for their album to get blocked by an indie-pop group who have been around for nearly a decade.
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Piran
This is proof that kindness & respect for others always wins in the end! :)
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
Tell me, it’s beyond immature. How will opinions affect the charts? I don’t know, they’re just being babies. Also, The 1975 were way ahead (according to BuzzJack) so it wasn’t gonna happen lol. And I’m posting a review, and something tells me they won’t be happy seeing what I have to say about Cap (I do really enjoy Killa Killa though).
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Zayn
KSI promoted both Agust D's & 1975's album to his millions of subscribers, some showed love whereas some were being toxic as expected, he is not accountable for that, if anything he verbatim asked his fans to buy and stream their album.
Also may I add, most of them were literally just simple jokes. There are better things to get offended by like this -
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Piran
Yeah, now take a look, they're nowhere to be seen! I'd still have come here & supported The 1975 if they weren't #1. Something tells me they're not even real fans... :P
Oh yeah, there was still a difference of 7k between the two overall, so it's not like it was incredibly close!
Piran
Again, as I keep saying but nobody seems to understand, it's not KSI himself that I was getting mad at it, it was the people on that article.
Also, how can most of the comments be "just simple jokes", when they lashed out at people who personally weren't into KSI's music?!
nevernotmaybe
I saw many 1975 fans being way worse across youtube - many, many more especially earlier in the week. The KSI fans that are less pleasant were always going to lash out and go full troll more than ever as a result. And it worked, trolls just say what will get a reaction very few think anything they say is true (some will though), they just want the reaction. Any reaction is a win, and here you are letting them win. Just like anyone engaging those 1975 morons being toxic allowed them to win.
Piran
What?! I saw videos or audios for both the 'Notes On A Conditional Form' & 'Dissimulation' tracks, but didn't see one hateful post in the comments there.
This was the article I was referring to: https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-1975-and-ksi-go-head-to-head-for-this-week-s-number-1-album__29845/
Also, I couldn't care less what the KSI stans who were trolling back on Tuesday said to me, nor do I care what I said to them in order to shut them down when they were bullying other fanbases.
I care more about the charts & no matter how butthurt anyone is about what actually happened, the result remains the same... The 1975 earn their fourth consecutive #1 album & I couldn't be happier for them! :)
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Zayn
You see what you chose to see, there were toxicity on both sides, you only saw one side coz you're biased towards that side. I think the more important thing to point out is how 1975 went from number 1 to number 8 to number 31 to now straight up number 62 in this week's midweek charts whereas KSI has stayed in top 5 (or top 10). Makes me doubt the legitimacy of 1975's first week sales. Seems a bit sus ngl.
Piran
Oh man, do we seriously have people still sulking about the result nearly three weeks down the line?!
What do you mean "the legitimacy of 1975's first week sales"? A lot of groups have a strong first week debut & then fall fast! The reason being is that a lot of indie & rock albums are bought physically, which means they'll inevitably have less chart stability, especially during lockdown.
Regarding the comments, I already posted a link above where KSI stans were trolling all other fanbases, yet nobody has told me exactly where on what article/video that The 1975 fans were being nasty to others!
Besides, it's not like The 1975 have anything more to prove! They already had three #1 albums in the UK before this one, can sell out stadiums full of tens of thousands of people worldwide, won three BRIT Awards, nominated for the Mercury Prize & a Grammy twice, can consistently chart internationally & have sold well over a million pure copies in the UK with all their albums combined.
Meanwhile, KSI has tens of millions of subscribers across all online platforms (probably the biggest social following of any Brit), has a massive streaming presence in the UK & has even won of the most anticipated boxing matches of the past few years!
So yeah, both The 1975 & KSI are making some awesome achievements & doing our country's music industry proud! Why do you feel the need to compare them in such a negative way, especially when their demographics & genres are completely different to one another? :/