{"id":572583,"date":"2026-05-08T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572583\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:09:08","slug":"kneecap-melanie-c-and-michael-jackson-vie-for-uk-number-one-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572583\/","title":{"rendered":"Kneecap, Melanie C and Michael Jackson vie for UK number one album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What do an Irish language rap group, Sporty Spice and the King of Pop have in common?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are all battling it out for the number one spot in the official UK album chart on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-way contest between Kneecap, Melanie C and Michael Jackson emerged in the midweek chart update with the Official Charts Company saying Kneecap were currently leading the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The album Fenian dropped earlier this month and could be the first ever number one album on the UK charts for the trio, known as Mo Chara, M\u00f3gla\u00ed Bap and DJ Pr\u00f3va\u00ed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kneecap&#8217;s last release, 2024&#8217;s Fine Art, went to number 43 in the UK and number two in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do an Irish language rap group, Sporty Spice and the King of Pop have in common? They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}