Suede land UK Record Store Chart number one with The Blue Hour

Suede are leading the charge of new entries on the UK Record Store Chart.

The band’s latest studio effort The Blue Hour is at number one, ahead of more Top 10 debuts from Villagers, Christine & The Queens, Black Honey, Beak, The Blinders and Prince.

For the past few years, the Official Charts Company has been using the Record Store Chart to showcase the best selling weekly albums from 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.

UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:

1 – (new) Suede – The Blue Hour
2 – (new) Villagers – The Art Of Pretending To Swim
3 – (new) Christine & The Queens – Chris
4 – (new) Black Honey – Black Honey
5 – (new) Beak – 3
6 – (new) The Blinders – Columbia
7 – (new) Prince – Piano & Microphone 1983
8 – Low – Double Negative
9 – Aphex Twin – Collapse
10 – Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
11 – (new) Gazelle Twin – Pastoral
12 – (new) Joe Bonamassa – Redemption
13 – Paul Weller – True Meanings
14 – Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
15 – Jungle – For Ever
16 – Sleaford Mods – Sleaford Mods
17 – Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers
18 – (new) Slash feat. Myles Kennedy – Living The Dream
19 – (new) Billy F Gibbons – The Big Bad Blues
20 – Orbital – Monsters Exist