Bob Dylan has his eighth number 1 album in the U.K. this week with ‘Shadows in the Night’.
For Dylan, this has to be sweet revenge after so many questioned the wisdom of his doing an album of pop standards. The reviews have been extremely good for the set and the British public has responded. It’s his second number 1 in the last six years after 2009’s Together Through Life. Prior to that, he hadn’t had a British number 1 since 1970’s New Morning.
Diana Krall also took a risk with her new album, changing from jazz and pop standards to more contemporary music, and it doesn’t seem to have hurt her sales. Wallflower opens this week in the U.K. at number 19, just slightly better than her last album, 2012’s Glad Rag Doll, which peaked at 21. Her best showing in Britain is the 2004 album The Girl in the Other Room which went to number 4.
Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms makes a huge leap from outside the top 200 to number 8, putting it in the top ten for the first time in over thirty years.
The German power metal band Blind Guardian may finally be breaking into the mainstream, 27 years after releasing their debut album. Beyond the Red Mirror debuts at 54, by far the highest they have ever been on the British charts. Of their nine previous studio albums, only 2010’s At the Edge of Time charted and it stopped at 197.
OMD (aka Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) start at 73 with the deluxe edition of their 1984 album Junk Culture. That album went to number 9 in its original run.
A much bootlegged concert by Bruce Springsteen from 1978 gets an official release in Britain with Passaic Night which debuts at 91.
Finally, T’Pau’s first album in 17 years, Pleasure and Pain, debuts at 98.
The top five albums this week in the U.K.:
1. Shadows in the Night – Bob Dylan
2. X – Ed Sheeran
3. Title – Meghan Trainor
4. In the Lonely Hour – Sam Smith
5. Hozier – Hozier
The top five singles:
1. Love Me Like You Do – Ellie Goulding
2. Uptown Funk! – Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
3. Take Me to Church – Hozier
4. FourFive Seconds – Rihanna Featuring Kanye West & Paul McCartney
5. Lips Are Movin’ – Meghan Trainor
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