Bring Me The Horizon lead Bicep on UK Record Store Chart
Bring Me The Horizon lead Bicep on UK Record Store Chart 30 January, 2021
Bring Me The Horizon and Bicep provide a neat correlation between the UK’s main album chart and the latest UK Record Store Chart.
Bring Me The Horizon have a made it a chart double in the UK this week, topping the Record Store Chart with Post Human Survival Horror.
It’s now nine years since The Official Charts Company launched this chart as vinyl sales surged during the last decade, a trend which continued in 2020 as the format grew for the 13th consecutive year. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
Bring Me The Horizon take top spot in album chart
Bring Me The Horizon (Ian West/PA)
Bring Me The Horizon have landed their second UK number one album with Post Human: Survival Horror.
The Sheffield rockers last topped the chart in 2019 with Amo.
Their album, which was first released in physical formats in October last year, narrowly saw off competition from Bicep’s Isles.
Oli Sykes (Lewis Stickley/PA)
Singer Oli Sykes said: “We really weren’t expecting to get a number one after having a record out for three months, so we’re super stoked for this to happen especially after getting the top five last year.
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29 January 2021
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Bring Me The Horizon leapfrog midweek leaders Bicep in a last-minute sprint to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with their latest EP Post Human: Survival Horror.
Following its release on physical formats, Bring Me The Horizon hit a brand-new peak following its Number 5 debut last October, this marks the band’s second chart topping album, exactly two years after 2019’s Amo debuted at Number 1. 92% of the record’s chart sales this week were physical purchases.
BMTH’s success comes following an extremely close race against Northern Irish electronic act Bicep, whose second album Isles enters at Number 2 after leading at the midweek point by just 103 chart sales.