Yard Act and Years & Years in close race for this week’s UK Number One album

nme.com:

Yard Act and Years & Years are in a close race for this week’s UK Number One album, with just 400 sales separating them.Last Friday (January 21) saw the rising Leeds band release their debut record ‘The Overload’ as Olly Alexander dropped Years & Years’ third studio effort ‘Night Call’.

Both albums were awarded four stars by NME.As the Official Charts Company reports today (January 25), Yard Act are edging closer to securing their first Number One in the UK albums chart on Friday (January 28).Should the group achieve the victory, they would become the first act of 2022 to land at the top spot with their debut full-length.Fewer than 400 sales separate Yard Act and Years & Years in the chart battle as of today.

The former’s sales are largely made up of physical units: 93 per cent of their total is made up of CD, vinyl and cassette copies.Despite Years & Years being outsold by the band on physical formats, ‘Night Call’ is currently performing strongly across digital download and online streaming services.As the race heats up, Yard Act have shared a spoof video on social media in a bid to get fans to “invest in records, CDs, cassettes and downloads and take The Overload to the very top”.Come on, come on, come on Invest in records, cds, cassettes and downloads and take The Overload to the very tophttps://t.co/CfSubJwyN5 pic.twitter.com/nKTg9TOvuP— Yard Act (@YardActBand) January 24, 2022This band has been 2 yrs of saying "let's do that" because "it'll be funny" and it will, and often is.

But I'm secretly rooting for 4 meatloaf albums to rush past at the last minute and crush both ours and @yearsandyears coz honestly, that would be funniest.