Dublin band Fontaines D.C. fly straight to Number 1 with their new album Skinty Fia. Skinty Fia becomes the five-piece’s first ever Number 1 collection in Ireland, and their third Top 50, following 2019’s Dogrel which peaked at Number 4, and 2020’s A Hero’s Death which reached Number 2.
The group earn the biggest week of albums chart sales of the year so far, with 82% of their total made up of physical copies.
Skinty Fia claims the biggest first-week chart sales for an album by a homegrown act since Inhaler’s chart-topping It Won’t Always Be Like This in July 2021.
Fontaines D.C. said, “We're touched by everyone's response to Skinty Fia, thank you to everyone who bought, streamed or downloaded it.
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