{"id":474360,"date":"2026-06-12T21:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474360\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:29:11","slug":"niall-horan-joins-exclusive-chart-club-with-third-uk-no-1-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474360\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Horan joins exclusive chart club with third UK No. 1 album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1405718_113641_updates.jpg\"   width=\"700\" height=\"400\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Niall Horan joins exclusive chart club with third UK No. 1 album\"\/>Niall Horan joins exclusive chart club with third UK No. 1 album<\/p>\n<p>Niall Horan has earned his third UK Number 1 album with Dinner Party.<\/p>\n<p>The singer&#8217;s latest record debuted at the top of the Official Albums Chart, giving him the biggest opening week of his solo career. It follows the success of his previous chart-topping albums Heartbreak Weather and The Show.<\/p>\n<p>With the achievement, Horan becomes only the second former One Direction member to score three solo UK Number 1 albums, matching former bandmate Harry Styles.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner Party also topped the Official Vinyl Albums Chart after selling the most vinyl copies during the week.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the chart, indie band overpass landed their first Top 5 album as Elsewhere, Always entered at Number 5. The album also topped the Independent Albums Chart and the Record Store Chart.<\/p>\n<p>Actor and musician Jeff Goldblum reached a career-best chart position with Night Blooms, which debuted at Number 9. Meanwhile, rock band Evanescence secured their fifth UK Top 10 album as Sanctuary entered at Number 10.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the chart, Dua Lipa&#8217;s Live From Mexico climbed to a new peak at Number 14. New entries also came from Malcolm Todd, Prospa, Jalen Ngonda and Barry Manilow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niall Horan joins exclusive chart club with third UK No. 1 album Niall Horan has earned his third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-474360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}