Moist Leg Race to U.Okay. Chart Crown

Moist Leg run the race of a lifetime because the indie-rock outfit scores the U.Okay. chart title with their eponymously-titled debut album.

The Isle of Wight outfit bows at No. 1 on the Official U.Okay. Albums Chart with Moist Leg, outselling the remainder of the High 5 mixed and chalking up the second-biggest opening week for any chart-topping album in 2022, after Central Cee’s 23. 

Led by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, Moist Leg has the No. 1 album in Australia and the album is the best-seller on wax within the U.Okay., the OCC reviews.

It’s a “landmark” chart, notes the OCC, because the High 3 spots within the U.Okay. are occupied by unbiased label releases, the primary time this has occurred in 11 years.

Coming in at No. 2 is Father John Misty’s Chloe and The Subsequent twenty first Century (by way of Bella Union), a profession finest chart place for the U.S. artist; whereas Jack White’s Worry Of The Daybreak (Third Man) begins at No. 3.

In accordance with the charts compiler, the final time indie releases dominated the High 3 was again in Could 2011 — with Adele’s 21 (No. 1) and 19 (No. 3 each by way of XL) and Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues (No. 2 by way of Bella Union). It’s simply the third time within the 1,162 weeks which have elapsed for the reason that flip of the century that indie LPs have occupied all the prime three positions.

“The implausible first week by Moist Leg actually is the tip of an unbiased iceberg, with the Domino launch pipping Bella Union’s Father John Misty and Third Man’s Jack White to make for an indie treble,” feedback Martin Talbot, CEO of the Official Charts Firm. “Coming after chart topping successes for Stereophonics, Central Cee and Don Broco, this 12 months can also be underlining the unbiased sector’s energy in uncovering and growing expertise.”

In the meantime, spoken-word poet and rapper Kae Tempest scores a primary High 10 entry with This Line Is A Curve (Fiction), new at No. 8, whereas Camila Cabello’s third album Familia (Columbia) lands at No. 9, for her second High 10 look.