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Blur The Magic Whip Outselling Other Albums Five To One In UK

by Music-News.com on May 1, 2015

in New Music,News,Noise Pro

Taking twelve years off sure has whipped Blur fans into a frenzy.

The band’s album, The Magic Whip, is their first in over a decade and sales are showing just how much they were missed.

At the mid-week point, the Official Charts Company is reporting that the album is an easy number 1 for the band and is currently outselling numbers 2 through 5 combined.\

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The Magic Whip is the band’s eighth studio album since their debut came out in 1991 and only the first two did not make the top of the charts:

Leisure (1991 / #7)
Modern Life is Rubbish (1993 / #15)
Parklife (1994 / #1)
The Great Escape (1995 / #1)
Blur (1997 / #1)
13 (1999 / #1)
Think Tank (2003 / #1)
The Magic Whip (2015 / projected #1)

Last week’s number 1, Josh Groban’s Stages, drops to number 2 while Paul Simon’s The Ultimate Collection goes 2 to 3.

At this point, it looks like there will be a decent debut for the Proclaimers’ tenth album, Let’s Hear It For the Dogs. The midweek chart has it at number 14 which, if it holds, will be there best showing since 2007’s Life With You.

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