Blossoms score third UK Number One album with ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’

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Blossoms have scored their third UK Number One album with ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’, it has been confirmed.The Stockport band’s latest record follows their previous full-length releases, 2016’s ‘Blossoms’ and 2020’s ‘Foolish Loving Spaces’, in topping the Official UK Album Chart.As well as hitting the top spot on the main album chart, the new album has also claimed the Number One position on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.

Physical formats accounted for 90 per cent of ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’’s total sales, the Official Charts Company has revealed.“It’s happened again!

Ribbon Around the Bomb is the Official UK Number 1 album this week – [our] third time,” the band told OfficialCharts.com. “A hat-trick of Number 1s for us.

We’re very proud of this record, so thanks to everyone who bought it. We’re going to have a great night now. Nice one!”The band beat out competition from Future, whose latest release ‘I Never Liked You’ landed at Number Two, Rammstein’s ‘Zeit’ (Number Three), the continued charting dominance of Ed Sheeran’s ‘=’ (Number Four), and British rock band Thunder’s ‘Dopamine’ (Number Five).In the singles chart, Harry Styles continues to reign with ‘As It Was’, racking up a fifth consecutive week at Number One with the new single.