{"id":655453,"date":"2026-10-24T04:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655453\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T04:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:44:11","slug":"fontaines-d-c-s-dopamine-chamber-is-no-1-on-u-k-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655453\/","title":{"rendered":"Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Dopamine Chamber’ Is No. 1 on U.K. Albums Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFontaines D.C. <\/a>has secured its second No. 1 on the U.K.\u2019s Official Albums Chart <\/a>with Dopamine Chamber, delivering one of the biggest album debuts of 2026 so far.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the Official Charts Company,<\/a> the Irish five-piece shifted more than 70,000 chart units during the album\u2019s opening week for the chart dated Oct. 23, giving Dopamine Chamber the third-biggest opening week for an album in 2026, following Harry Styles\u2019 Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally (183,000 chart units) and Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love (103,000 chart units). It marks the band\u2019s second U.K. chart-topper, following 2022\u2019s Skinty Fia.<\/p>\n

\n\tReviewing Dopamine Chamber<\/a> for Billboard U.K., editor Thomas Smith wrote that the album \u201ctreads a fine line between introspection and darkness, with stadium-headlining ambition and does so superbly,\u201d adding that the set \u201ccould be the start of the band\u2019s Imperial Phrase, to borrow a phrase from Pet Shop Boys\u2019 Neil Tenant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo\u2019s you seem pretty sad follows at No. 2, while Michael Jackson\u2019s The Essential Compilation lands at No. 3. Olivia Dean\u2019s The Art of Loving holds firm at No. 4, while Sienna Spiro\u2019s July debut LP, Visitor, rounds out the top five.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBritish-Zimbabwean singer Rachel Chinouriri earns her first top 10 album as sophomore LP I Think I Spoke Too Soon finishes at No. 9, with Zach Bryan\u2019s Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs coming in at No. 11.<\/p>\n

\n\tTate McRae\u2019s 2025 album So Close To What also rebounds into the top 40, landing at No. 29 following renewed interest sparked by her latest single, \u201cHousewife.\u201d Midlands singer-songwriter Nieve Ella scores a milestone as her debut album, How Long Will It Take?, enters the chart at No. 31.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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