Madness top UK Record Store Chart with Theatre Of The Absurd


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Madness make it a chart double.

Madness have matched their success on the main album rundown by debuting at #1 on the UK Record Store Chart with Theatre Of The Absurd Pts C’est La Vie.

The National are one place adrift after the release of Laugh Track, their second studio album of the year, while Trampolene land at #8 on the back of the re-release of their debut album Swansea To Hornsey.




Further back, The Kinks are at #10 with The Journey Pt 2 and their fellow vets The Rolling Stones have another week in the Top 20 with Hackney Diamonds.



UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:

1/ (new) Madness – Theatre Of The Absurd Pts C’est La Vie
2/ (new) The National – Laugh Track
3/ (new) Thea Gilmore – Thea Gilmore
4/ (new) Matt Berry – Simplicity
5/ (new) Emeli Sande – How Were We To Know
6/ (new) Jai Paul – Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
7/ (new) Bryan Ferry – Mamouna
8/ (new) Trampolene – Swansea To Hornsey
9/ Louis Tomlinson – Faith In The Future
10/ (new) The Kinks – The Journey Pt 2
11/ (new) Evanescence – Fallen
12/ (new) Vince Clarke – Songs Of Silence
13/ (new) Lany – A Beautiful Blur
14/ (new) Deary – Deary
15/ (new) Smoke Fairies – Carried In Sound
16/ The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
17/ (new) Elliott Smith – New Moon
18/ (new) Cult – Electric
19/ (new) Pearl Jam – Vs
20/ (new) Nation Of Language – Strange Disciple Companion Piece


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