The Cure’s ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ is the top selling physical album in the US

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The Cure’s ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ is currently the best-selling album in the US, based on physical sales.The band’s 14th studio record has landed at the Number One spot on the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart and the Billboard Top Album Sales chart, the latter of which takes into account all physical sales as well as digital downloads.

It also sits atop the Top Rock and Top Alternative Albums charts in the country.On the overall albums chart, the Billboard 200, which also counts streaming figures, it has debuted at Number Four, the second highest ever for The Cure, behind only ‘Wish’ in 1992, which reached Number Two.

It sits behind Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Chromakopia’, Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ and Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Eternal Atake 2’.Its Stateside success comes after the record topped the UK Albums Chart earlier this month, their first album since ‘Wish’ 32 years ago to achieve the feat.

It has also recently been officially certified Silver in the UK.Reacting to that news, frontman Robert Smith told the Official Charts Company: “It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album.