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Nines beats Metallica and Katy Perry to number one


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Crabs In A Bucket is the rapper’s 1st quantity 1

London rapper Nines has beaten some of music’s greatest stars – including Metallica and Katy Perry – to land his 1st quantity 1 album.

The musician’s 3rd album, Crabs In A Bucket, was the most streamed and downloaded document of the week.

His document experienced been driving Metallica’s S&M2 all week, but overtook the US metal band in the last 24 hours to declare the top rated location.

Much less than 2,000 sales separated the two, claimed the Formal Charts Business.

Crabs In A Bucket is Nines’ 3rd studio album, and his 1st on a major label, and reflects on his journey from London’s Church Highway housing estate to nationwide recognition.

The title alludes to the difficulties of leaving his previous driving. Previous June, the musician was stabbed in Maida Vale, a number of miles from his childhood property in north-west London.

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“After that accomplishment I could have been anyplace in the world,” he advised The Guardian last thirty day period. “I could have booked a flight and been chilling on a beach, but I am hanging on the estate every single working day, top rated of the charts, and search, I ended up finding stabbed.”

He additional that he felt like a crab in a bucket who kept making an attempt, and failing, to climb out.


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The rapper’s most up-to-date album topped the download and streaming charts, but Metallica offered additional on CD and vinyl



The twenty-calendar year-aged, actual identify Courtney Leon Freckleton, celebrated going to quantity 1 by posing with his Formal Chart award outside the estate.

“Many thanks to absolutely everyone that set me in this posture,” he claimed. “Lastly received a golden boot – I am up there with Alan Shearer, Andy Cole and the relaxation of the golden boot winners!”

The result marks Nines’ 3rd top rated 5 album, with his 2017 debut A person Foot Out landing at quantity four, and 2018’s comply with-up Crop Circle debuting at 5.

His triumph arrived in a week of large releases, where every single album in the top rated 5 was a new entry.

Lewis Capaldi milestone

Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter’s sixth album All Rise debuted at three, adopted by dance duo Disclosure – whose lengthy-awaited 3rd document, Strength, charted at four.

Pop star Katy Perry scored her fourth consecutive top rated 10 album with Smile – improving slightly on her last document, Witness, which debuted at six in 2017.

Previous week’s quantity 1, The Killers’ Imploding The Mirage, dropped to quantity 7.


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Lewis Capaldi is the 1st British artist to have a million-providing debut considering that Rag ‘N’ Bone person in 2017.

Meanwhile, Lewis Capaldi’s debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, offered its millionth duplicate this week, a major milestone for the Scottish star.

That includes the hit singles Maintain Me Even though You Hold out and Anyone You Loved, the album has put in 68 consecutive months in the Top rated 10, including 10 at quantity 1.

It is the 1st British debut to sell a million considering that Rag ‘N’ Bone Man’s Human in 2017.

In the singles chart, rap divas Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion scored their 1st quantity 1 with their X-rated duet WAP.

The song’s accomplishment ended Joel Corry and MNEK’s six-week reign at the top rated of the charts with the club hit Head & Heart.

Calvin Harris and The Weeknd scored the greatest new entry at 33, with their new collaboration Around Now – marking Harris’s thirty fifth entry in the top rated 40.

Blackpink and Selena Gomez debuted at quantity 39 with the shimmering pop observe Ice Cream – which has racked up 176 million views on YouTube in the room of a week.



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