{"id":610728,"date":"2026-05-29T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:45:10","slug":"maisie-peters-pips-michael-florescence-pinches-number-1-on-the-official-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610728\/","title":{"rendered":"Maisie Peters pips Michael! Florescence pinches Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florescence joins her 2023 record The Good Witch<\/a> in reaching the Official Albums Chart summit, securing back-to-back Number 1 crowns.\u00a0 Florescence further\u00a0tops the Official Record Store Chart<\/a> and the Official Vinyl Chart<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking on the success, Maisie said: \u201cI\u2019m really proud of myself and for the team, everyone worked really hard. Michael Jackson tried, but he couldn\u2019t come up against the real M-dog!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pic: Maisie Peters with her Number 1 award for the album, Florescence. (Credit: Official Charts)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u00a0a 15th\u00a0Top 10 accolade for\u00a0Michael Ball<\/a>, as latest project\u00a0Glow<\/a>\u00a0slots in at Number 9.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With two physical variants of the album\u00a0containing\u00a0new tracks and features dropping last week,\u00a0YUNGBLUD<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Idols<\/a>\u00a0returns to the main standings (17),\u00a0as American rockers\u00a0Bleachers<\/a>\u00a0earn\u00a0a second Top 20 on\u00a0Everyone\u00a0For\u00a0Ten Minutes<\/a>\u00a0(18).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Legend<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Bob Marley<\/a>\u00a0rockets 34 spots to Number 29,\u00a0following the 45th\u00a0anniversary of the iconic musician\u2019s death.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congratulations go to\u00a0A<\/a>, who bag Number 1 on the\u00a0Official Rock & Metal Char<\/a>t with\u00a0Prang<\/a>, their first studio release since 2001!\u00a0The album also makes the Official Chart Top 100, coming in at Number 42.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pic: The band A with their specialist Rock and Metal Number 1 award for their album, Prang (Credit: Official Charts)<\/p>\n

Finally, following his incredibly open and honest chart quest, Northampton independent artist\u00a0Billy Lockett<\/a>\u00a0clinches Number 1 on this\u00a0week’s\u00a0Official Independent Albums Breakers Chart<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Things Are Looking Up<\/a>. Billy and his Mum have gone viral over recent weeks making social media videos in their kitchen showing the brutal reality for independent artists as they strive to make a living selling albums and tour tickets.\u00a0Praised for\u00a0his transparency, the video series\u00a0has\u00a0helped\u00a0earn the singer\/songwriter his first-ever placing on the Official Albums Chart Top 100\u00a0too\u00a0(Number 50).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pic: Billy Lockett with his specialist Independent Breakers Chart Number 1 award for his album, Things Are Looking Up (Credit: Official Charts)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florescence joins her 2023 record The Good Witch in reaching the Official Albums Chart summit, securing back-to-back Number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4023,206322,96,204115,128,43995,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-a","tag-billy-lockett","tag-entertainment","tag-maisie-peters","tag-music","tag-number-1-award","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610728","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=610728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}