To avoid unjustly mischaracterising Royal Blood’s latest outing, let’s back up a sec. Once proclaimed as the saviours of rock and roll - in the UK, at the very least - Mike and Ben can be seen hurriedly stamping out the flames of that almost revolution, following in the recent chart-topping footsteps of Muse and Imagine Dragons with woefully mixed results. With their bluesy, garage rock edges sanded down and the pursuit of artistry put on the back-burner, Typhoons sees the band squeezing themselves into an increasingly generic (lucrative) mould, blending poppier, dancier, funkier sounds into their previously straight-shooting, overdriven sound. You get the gist, I'm sure: on their 3rd LP, British (ex-)rock duo, Royal Blood, have perfected the inoffensive ear-worm. “Either You Want It”? Well, it certainly has the good musical notes. Highest position that the album reached in the UK Albums Chart.Review Summary: Having resurrected rock and roll, Royal Blood kick it to death (again)Ĭredit where credit’s due, Typhoons is rather catchy.
The date that the album first appeared in the chart. Albums by Taylor Swift, Jess Glynne, James Bay, Coldplay and George Ezra were also in the top ten best-selling albums of the year.Īlbum peaked in 2014 but still in chart in 2015.Īlbum released in 2015 but peaked in 2016. Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour, If I Can Dream from Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Purpose by Justin Bieber made up the top five. The following table (collapsed on desktop site) does not include acts who had previously charted as part of a group and secured their first top 10 solo album, or featured appearances on compilations or other artists recordings.Īdele had the best-selling album of the year with 25. Overall, thirty-five different albums peaked at number one in 2015, with thirty-five unique artists hitting that position.īackground Chart debuts The first new number-one album of the year was Uptown Special by Mark Ronson. James Bay, Jess Glynne, Years & Years and The Weeknd were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top-ten album in 2015. Hozier by Hozier was the only album from 2014 to reach its peak in 2015. Fifteen albums from 2014 remained in the top ten for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay was released in 2015 but did not reach its peak until 2016. One-hundred and sixty-nine albums were in the top 10 this year. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced). This list shows albums that peaked in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart during 2015, as well as albums which peaked in 20 but were in the top ten in 2015. Since 2004 the chart has been based on the sales of both physical albums and digital downloads. The UK Albums Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling albums of the week in the United Kingdom. Since its release, the album has sold an estimated 3,500,000 million copies in the UK alone. As well as being this year's Christmas number-one album, 25 would also become the best-selling album of 2016.
Adele had the best-selling album of 2015 with her third studio album 25.
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