{"id":1066510,"date":"2026-07-03T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1066510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T19:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:32:18","slug":"muse-bag-eighth-number-1-album-with-the-wow-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1066510\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse\u202fbag eighth Number 1 album with The Wow! Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"

They also top this\u202fweek\u2019s\u202fOfficial Vinyl Album Vinyl Chart<\/a>, with The Wow! Signal shifting the most copies on wax over the past seven days. Well in, lads!<\/p>\n

\"Muse
\n MORE:\u00a0Snow Patrol honoured with first-ever Official Charts Hall of Fame Award<\/a><\/p>\n

Olivia Dean<\/a>‘s enduring The Art of Loving<\/a> holds steady at Number 5 this week. Olivia is the first British female to spend 40 consecutive weeks in the Albums Chart Top 5 since Emeli Sande in 2012, and is only the third British female to ever do this, alongside Emeli and Adele, in 2011.<\/p>\n

Congratulations go to\u202fThe Pretty Reckless<\/a>, as\u00a0Dear God<\/a>\u00a0matches Taylor Momsen and\u00a0co\u2019s\u00a0previous\u00a0Official Chart best and becomes their fourth Top 10 LP\u00a0(6).\u00a0The album also tops the\u00a0Official Record Store Chart<\/a>, named the best-seller in UK independent record shops this week.<\/p>\n

Katy Perry<\/a>\u2019s\u202fThe Ones That Got\u202fThe\u202fPlays<\/a>\u202fsneaks into the Top 10 for the very first time, marking her sixth in all, as she plays the classics at festivals across the UK\u202f(10).<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny<\/a>\u202ffever\u202fis back!\u202fFollowing his\u00a0acclaimed Tottenham Hotspur Stadium shows last\u00a0weekend,\u00a0which\u00a0included a special\u202fappearance\u202ffrom\u202fGorillaz<\/a>\u202fand\u202fBlur<\/a>\u202ffrontman\u202fDamon Albarn<\/a>,\u00a0the Puerto Rican\u00a0superstar\u00a0finds\u202fDeB\u00cd\u202fTiRAR\u202fM\u00e1S\u202fFOToS<\/a>\u202f\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0main\u00a0standings\u202fonce\u00a0again\u00a0(27).<\/p>\n

And finally, for the first time\u202fsince 1997,\u202fMetallica<\/a>\u202fsee their seventh LP\u202fReload<\/a>\u202fmake a welcome\u202freturn to the chart\u202fwith the release of an expanded\u202flimited-edition\u202fboxset\u202f(39).<\/p>\n

All this month, we’re celebrating 70 years of the Official Albums Chart with a season of special features and interviews on the beloved format We\u2019re asking artists, music fans and media alike to claim their all-time favourite long player \u2013 get involved using the hashtag\u00a0#MyFavouiteAlbum,\u00a0plus the Official biggest albums of all time will be unveiled and more.<\/p>\n

See the full Official Albums Chart Top 100 here from 5.45pm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They also top this\u202fweek\u2019s\u202fOfficial Vinyl Album Vinyl Chart, with The Wow! Signal shifting the most copies on wax…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1066511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,19158,102837,269,12,292519,16,15],"class_list":["post-1066510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-metallica","tag-muse","tag-music","tag-news","tag-pretty-reckless","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116857717944687012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1066511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}