Rap royalty\u00a0J.Cole<\/a>\u00a0bows out in style as his final album\u00a0The Fall-Off<\/a>\u00a0earns the American his fifth Top 10 accolade (3).<\/p>\n Joji<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Piss in the Wind<\/a>\u00a0earns the Japanese singer-songwriter his highest charting album to date and a fourth Top 40 entry overall (6).<\/p>\n And ahead of his upcoming biopic\u00a0Michael,\u00a0Michael Jackson<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0The Essential<\/a>\u00a0climbs back into the Top 10 (8).<\/p>\n Following a special double deluxe vinyl release,\u00a0Lorien Testard<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/a>\u00a0makes a first entrance into the Top 40 at Number 16.<\/p>\n Lorien Testard\u00a0exclusively tells\u00a0Official Charts:<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank all the players and listeners for welcoming our music into your lives.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t really have the words to express how moving it is for us to share our songs with you in your daily life, whether they are by your side for joyful dances around a saxophone, or moments gathered around a guitar, singing for those we hope to see again…<\/p>\n \u201cEvery day, I feel that invisible and deep bond that music creates between us. I will be forever grateful to have had the chance to paint the Clair-Obscur with you. I look forward to meeting you again for a new adventure – whether in shadow, in light or somewhere in between, so that a bouquet may be born.\u201d<\/p>\n Danny Kelleher,\u00a0CEO\u00a0and founder of\u00a0Laced Records, adds: “We remain completely bowled over by the response to the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 video game soundtrack, both in terms of digital streams & sales and physical units sold.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the Laced team worked tirelessly on this campaign, its success belongs to the incredibly talented co-composers Lorien Testard & Alice Duport-Percier, and the passionate game developers at Sandfall Interactive. Together, they created a phenomenon for those who come after.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a label that has championed video game music for over 10 years, it\u2019s very exciting for us to see music from a new game achieve this level of record-breaking commercial success and break into the mainstream music charts, especially with so many No.1 spots in the Official Charts.\u201d<\/p>\n Manchester post-punk outfit\u00a0IST IST<\/a>\u00a0bag their second Top 40 record and best-performing to date with\u00a0DAGGER<\/a>\u00a0(21).<\/p>\n There’s also a hotshot debut for Jamaican-British musician\u00a0Marnz Malone,<\/a>\u00a0whose powerful project\u00a0Yaqeen<\/a>\u00a0enters at 36 to become his first Top 40 album.<\/p>\n Congratulations, too, to Portsmouth-based group\u00a0Crystal Tides<\/a>, who score their maiden album chart entry with\u00a0Toothpaste<\/a>\u00a0(37).<\/p>\n Celebrating the news,\u00a0Crystal Tides\u00a0tell\u00a0Official Charts: \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible feeling to have landed in Top 40 with our debut album Toothpaste.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cThe last 8 years of being a band have been hard work but very proud of what we\u2019ve achieved here as an independent band. We couldn\u2019t have done it without our amazing fanbase, truly the best community we could ask for. This is for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n MORE: Where every Bad Bunny song and album has charted in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n