The Cure's Songs Of A Lost World becomes band's first Number 1 album in 32 years

The Cure celebrate their first Number 1 album in 32 years with 14th studio LP Songs Of A Lost World this week. 

The English rock legends, whose current line-up comprises Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Roger O’Donnell, Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper and Reeves Gabrels, last topped the Official Albums Chart with 1992 record Wish. 

16 years in the making, Songs Of A Lost World outsells the rest of the Top 5 combined to reach the summit, and earns the group a 23rd Top 40 album overall.

Reacting to the news, The Cure’s Robert Smith says: 

“It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album. 

“To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years - THANK YOU!”

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Song Of A Lost World also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the week’s biggest seller on wax, and the Official Record Store Chart, proving the most popular LP of the past seven days in independent UK record shops. 

The record’s release reignites interest in The Cure’s back catalogue, too. 2001’s Greatest Hits returns to the Top 40 for the first time in five years, vaulting 76 spots (30). 

Elsewhere, Ed Sheeran’s +–=÷× (Tour Collection) rebounds to its previous Number 5 peak following its release on physical formats, lifting seven. 

Bolstered by the recent release of its Deluxe Edition, Gracie Abrams’ former chart-topper The Secret Of Us is also on the up, jumping seven in a return to the Top 10 (8). Billie Eilish’s Number 1 LP HIT ME HARD AND SOFT shows some staying power, too; also up seven (9). 

Further down, ABBA’s chart stalwart ABBA Gold finds itself back inside the UK Top 40 (19), a week after latest compilation The Singles (The First Fifty Years) become the pop pioneers’ 19th Top 40 LP. 

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