The Official Charts Company has launched a dedicated UK Prog Album Chart for the first time, and it’s topped by Tame Impala.
“We felt it was an oversight not to have done this a long time ago,” the OCC’s Martin Talbot says. “Progressive music is as alive and kicking as it’s ever been. It’s more a state of mind than a genre.”
“There are some artists who embrace the term ‘progressive’, and there might be lots of others who don’t because it is a tainted word.”
Tame Impala’s ‘Currents‘ is ahead of Muse‘s ‘Drones‘, while there’s fittingly a place for both Roger Waters and Pink Floyd in the Top 10.
UK Prog Album Chart, Top 10:
1/ Tame Impala – ‘Currents’
2/ Muse – ‘Drones’
3/ Roger Waters – ‘Amused to Death’
4/ Joe Satriani – ‘Shockwave Supernova’
5/ Public Service Broadcasting – ‘The Race for Space’
6/ Faith No More – ‘Sol Invictus’
7/ Symphony X – ‘Underworld’
8/ Pink Floyd – ‘The Endless River’
9/ Tim Bowness – ‘Stupid Things That Mean the World’
10/ Nightwish – ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’