Metallica land first UK number one album in 15 years

US dense metallic set Metallica person landed their 4th UK fig 1 medium and archetypal successful 15 years with 72 seasons.

Their 11th LP outsold the remainder of the apical 5 combined connected Friday.

"Number 1 successful the UK? Spectacular! We're grateful," they told the Official Charts Company. "Thank you, UK - we can't hold to spot you!"

This year's Download headliners antecedently topped the illustration with their eponymous 1991 medium Metallica, 1996's Load and Death Magnetic from 2008.

Their latest offering, which contains typically dark, almighty tracks similar Screaming Suicide, proved to beryllium the astir fashionable vinyl merchandise of the past 7 days too, up of Saturday's Record Store Day.

It was described by the BBC's euphony analogous Mark Savage arsenic 1 of the band's "hardest, astir pulverising records to day - a continuous onslaught of riffs that falls connected you similar a landslide".

Speaking of the album-making process, founding subordinate Lars Ulrich explained: "It's 1 of the lone things that hasn't changed successful 40 years.

"There'll beryllium a full slew of riffs and jams and dependable checks, past it falls into my thigh to spell done them and identify, 'That one's great, that one's good, possibly there's a opus implicit here'."

They fended disconnected contention from the year's biggest medium wide - the Weeknd's top hits collection, The Highlights; arsenic good arsenic Taylor Swift's fashionable 2022 merchandise Midnights.

In this week's singles chart, Lewis Capaldi's latest affectional ballad, Wish You The Best - taken from his forthcoming 2nd medium Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent - debuted astatine fig one.

With 5 fig 1 singles nether his loop present successful total, the Scotsman is present officially connected a par with the likes of David Bowie, Beyoncé and the Bee Gees.

"Thank you to each of those who bought the song, streamed the song, privation you the best," said Capaldi, who precocious mentioned connected signifier that helium had Tourette's. "To each my enemies, I anticipation you perish successful the flames..."

In the caller Netflix documentary, Lewis Capaldi: How I Feel Now, the prima opened up astir however the unthinkable occurrence of his best-selling 2019 debut medium had affected his intelligence health.

"Making the archetypal medium was arsenic adjacent to dreams coming existent arsenic you could perchance get," helium said. "But arsenic soon arsenic the archetypal medium does well, it's similar tin helium bash it again though?"

Last year, his aching ballad Someone You Loved became the UK's most-streamed opus of each time, overtaking Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You.

His latest chart-topping way has pushed past week's fig one, Miracle, by compatriot Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding, into 2nd spot, portion US TikTok sensation David Kushner besides made his apical 10 debut with Daylight astatine fig three.