Architects claim their first Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart following an exceptionally close race for this week’s top spot which sees an all-new Top 5.
The Brighton metalcore band’s ninth album For Those That Wish To Exist finishes the week just 550 chart sales ahead of their closest competition, Maximo Park and their new record Nature Always Wins (2).
For Architects, it’s not only their first chart-topper, but first Top 10 album too; their previous peak was Number 15 with 2016’s All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us.
View Architects’ Official Chart history here. Celebrating the news, and paying tribute to their late bandmate Tom Searle, singer Sam Carter told OfficialCharts.com, “I cannot begin to tell you how much this means to us.
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