80s pop legends’ first new album in 16 years is outselling the rest of the UK top 10

80s stone set The Cure has blown the remainder of the UK Top 10 retired of the h2o aft dropping their long-awaited caller album, Songs of a Lost World.

It comes 16 years aft their erstwhile workplace album, 2008’s 4:13 Dream, and has already made rather an content connected fans and critics alike – not slightest successful its awesome income figures.

The 14th workplace medium – composed solely by frontman Robert Smith – features 8 tracks including the pb single, Alone. Since its merchandise connected November 1, it has racked up 40,918 income per Music Week.

This comprises of 36,970 physical sales, 2,838 downloads and 1,110 sales.

For comparison, coming successful astatine 2nd spot was popular prima Sabrina Carpenter’s with a tenth of the merchantability astatine  4,877 and Tyler the Creator successful 3rd with 4,408.

Given this spectacular caput commencement the Official Charts Company has stated The Cure are good connected their mode to their archetypal fig 1 medium successful 32 years. They past achieved this with the 1992 LP Wish.

Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia, Bastille’s & and Chappell Roan’s Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess are each comfortably successful the apical 10 for now. But The Cure could swoop successful to shingle things up imminently.

And if critics’ reviews are thing to spell by, the acclaim is well-deserved.

As Pitchfork praised: ‘Perhaps the top compliment to pay Songs of a Lost World is that it already feels inevitable, a enactment of contented and grace that extends people from the infinitesimal the Cure took up their instruments successful a section religion hallway each those years ago.’

Meanwhile, The Guardian’s five-star reappraisal echoed: ‘It’s powerful, possessed of a acheronian quality and often moving successful a mode that feels antithetic to thing they’ve released before.’

The Friday I’m In Love hitmakers launched the caller worldly with an intimate sold-out amusement astatine London’s Troxy and Robert has already shared plans to bash a afloat satellite circuit successful 2025 and beyond.

In a wide-spanning interview, helium revealed determination was an almost-finished 2nd medium and hopes to execute live.

‘The adjacent clip we spell retired connected signifier volition beryllium autumn adjacent year,’ the 65-year-old revealed.

‘But past we’ll astir apt beryllium playing rather regularly done until the adjacent day – the 2028 anniversary! It’s looming connected the horizon.

‘The 2018 one, I started to deliberation astir successful precocious 2016, thinking, “I’ve got a twelvemonth and a half, it’s easy!” And yet I inactive didn’t negociate to get determination successful time. Now, I’m starting to think, “2028, I indispensable get things successful order”; truthful [that’s] the documentary movie and things similar that.’

All this to say, there’s plentifulness connected the skyline for The Cure fans to look guardant to successful the coming years.

But the caller medium is not the lone crushed Robert has been making headlines this week.

The alt-rock guitarist, known for his vampire aesthetic, revealed to  Jo Whiley for BBC Radio 2 that helium has immoderate bizarre plans to alteration up the sheep slumber rhythm to lucifer his lifestyle.

‘Apparently, you can’t bid sheep, but I’m determined,’ helium said connected the show. Although helium anticipated it could go ‘another viral moment.’

And it was his nocturnal mode of beingness that besides motivated him to commencement a band.

‘My crushed for being successful a set was chiefly truthful I didn’t person to get up for work,’ helium explained, with his bedtime astatine sunrise.

He continued: ‘The others each get up, they’re each daytime people, and I honestly spell to furniture astatine like… I bash perceive to the Breakfast Show and I bash ticker the prima travel out, and past I spell to bed.’

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