Florence and The Machine

2022 - 5 - 20

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Florence + The Machine earn fourth UK Number 1 album with ... (Official Charts Company)

With further new entries from Kendrick Lamar, The Black Keys, Bear's Den and more.

The most-streamed album of the week, the record achieves this position in the absence of a physical release. See Bear’s Den’s Official Charts history in full here. See Florence + The Machine’s Official Charts history in full here. Kendrick Lamar’s fifth studio album, and first in as many years, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is a new entry at Number 2 this week. Sending so much love and thanks to everyone." Speaking to OfficialCharts.com, Florence says: "I’m so grateful and moved to be Number 1 in the UK. There were so many moments when I nearly gave up on this record.

Florence + The Machine delivers a powerful hymn to dance with her ... (Numéro Magazine)

Last February, Florence Welch, aka Florence + The Machine, came back with the song King along with a mystic and feminist music video directed by American ...

An ode to the power of dance and to freedom of movement, which feels good in the current pandemic situation that has hindered our body for the past two years. This time, the singer of the 2008 hit Dog Days Are Over wants to keep her head above water and get some fresh away from the rather gloomy context everyone has gone through for the past few years. It took over four years for the singer to find inspiration again, as well as to get back on her feet from years of excessive alcohol use and from a painful breakup, as she confessed recently in an interview.

Florence + The Machine score fourth UK Number One album with ... (NME.com)

Florence + The Machine have scored their fourth Number One album with 'Dance Fever' after beating Kendrick Lamar.

Yes, the contest can be silly – hello, ‘Give That Wolf A Banana’ – but it’s also strangely and fundamentally profound.” A celebration of music, joy and togetherness,” he said. Elsewhere, in the UK singles chart, Sam Ryder‘s ‘Space Man’ was pipped to Number One by Harry Styles‘ ‘As It Was’, despite his success in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Polydor takes Top 2 albums with Florence + The Machine and ... (Music Week)

Polydor Records is celebrating a 1-2 finish in the albums chart, while Olivia Rodrigo's Sour marks its first anniversary without ever leaving the Top 20…

Overall, Polydor had five albums in the Top 20, including hits collections from Eminem and ABBA, as well as Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour at No.7, which marks its first anniversary since release with consumption to date of 494,237. Polydor has four Top 20 singles entries, including the three for Lamar plus Where Did You Go? by Jax Jones feat. Dance Fever sold 12,161 CDs, 6,520 vinyl double packs, 6,664 cassettes and 1,796 digital downloads, in addition to its 4,046 sales-equivalent streams. It’s testament to the team at Polydor’s careful and hard work, that we’ve been able to achieve such great chart results for them both “It’s testament to the team at Polydor’s careful and hard work, that we’ve been able to achieve such great chart results for them both.” The No.1 and No.2 result helped deliver a first place position for Polydor in the All Music (All Albums) market share metric in the latest chart week with a 10.9% share.

Music Week (Music Week)

Charts analysis: Florence + The Machine land fourth No.1 and biggest weekly sale of 2022 so far. by Alan Jones Friday, May 20th 2022 at 5:39PM.

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