Dance music duo Disclosure have taken the top spot in the UK album charts with their debut Settle.
Guy and Howard Lawrence who make up the band fought off stiff competition from US rockers Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA) to eventually beat them to the top spot by 7,000 copies, the Official Charts Company (OCC) revealed.
At the start of the week, the American guitar band’s …Like Clockwork album was comfortably ahead of the British electronic act but by Thursday only 50 copies separated the pair.
The brothers said: ‘We're absolutely delighted with the result. Proudest moment of our lives. We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has bought the record.’
…Like Clockworks’s second place is QOTSA’s highest album chart placing to date finishing two places higher than 2002’s Songs For The Deaf or 2005’s Lullabies To Paralyze.
Elsewhere in the charts Daft Punk and their recent number one album Random Access Memories slipped to number three.
Rod Stewart’s Time fell to number four while Passenger’s All the Lights rounded off the rest of the top five.
In the British singles charts, Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines FT TI and Pharrell remained at number one after selling 199,000 copies in the second week alone. This figure is the largest one-week sale of the year.
According to the OCC, the average sales for a UK number one over the past eight weeks is 150,000 copies. The average number one in 2012 sold an average of 106,000 copies.
Guy and Howard Lawrence who make up the band fought off stiff competition from US rockers Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA) to eventually beat them to the top spot by 7,000 copies, the Official Charts Company (OCC) revealed.
At the start of the week, the American guitar band’s …Like Clockwork album was comfortably ahead of the British electronic act but by Thursday only 50 copies separated the pair.
The brothers said: ‘We're absolutely delighted with the result. Proudest moment of our lives. We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has bought the record.’
…Like Clockworks’s second place is QOTSA’s highest album chart placing to date finishing two places higher than 2002’s Songs For The Deaf or 2005’s Lullabies To Paralyze.
Elsewhere in the charts Daft Punk and their recent number one album Random Access Memories slipped to number three.
Rod Stewart’s Time fell to number four while Passenger’s All the Lights rounded off the rest of the top five.
In the British singles charts, Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines FT TI and Pharrell remained at number one after selling 199,000 copies in the second week alone. This figure is the largest one-week sale of the year.
According to the OCC, the average sales for a UK number one over the past eight weeks is 150,000 copies. The average number one in 2012 sold an average of 106,000 copies.
