Brit Beat: Wet Leg Play the Longue Game in the U.S. After Topping the U.K. Charts
variety.comMark Sutherland British indie rock sensations Wet Leg famously sang about having “a pack of warm beer that we can consume” on breakout hit “Chaise Longue”.
But the duo – Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – might be upgrading to chilled champagne after their eponymous debut album went straight in at Number One in the U.K.
charts this month.“Wet Leg” sold an impressive 28,972 copies in its first week, according to the Official Charts Company, becoming the fastest-selling debut album since Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour.” And Wet Leg manager Martin Hall of Hall or Nothing, tells Variety there is much more to come from the Isle of Wight-based band.“It’s not just the No.
1, the numbers were so high,” he says. “Just shy of 29,000 is fantastic for a guitar band, and it stayed in the Top 5 the following week.
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