{"id":770630,"date":"2026-09-14T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770630\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:40:10","slug":"ezra-collective-leading-race-to-land-first-number-1-album-with-here-because-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770630\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Collective leading race to land first Number 1 album with Here Because of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noughties darlings Bloc Party<\/a>\u00a0sit at Number 2 in the latest update with\u00a0Anatomy Of A Brief Romance. The four-piece’s seventh studio\u00a0LP\u00a0is on course to earn them their highest charting project since 2007’s A Weekend In the City<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Completing the current\u00a0all-British Top 3 is producer and DJ Bonobo<\/a> with Distance in Static (3). If positions remain as they are come Friday, it will become the Brighton-born musician’s best performing album to date.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fresh from securing her first Top 10\u00a0with\u00a0RESTORATION<\/a>\u00a0last year,\u00a0the enigmatic\u00a0R\u00d8RY<\/a>\u00a0looks\u00a0to continue her good fortune, with BLOODLETTING beginning the week at Number 5.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

London rockers\u00a0Green Lung<\/a> are all but set to make their Top 40 debut on fourth studio cut,\u00a0Necropolitan (7).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mad fer it? With Oasis<\/a> set to announce a series of 2027 live dates today, the band\u00a0find three albums on the\u00a0up\u00a0in anticipation: Time Flies… (1994-2009)<\/a> (11), (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?<\/a> (13) and Definitely Maybe<\/a> (25).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Punk duo The Meffs<\/a>, comprised of\u00a0Lily Hopkins and Lewis Copsey,\u00a0begin their campaign for a maiden album chart entry on Business (17),\u00a0as another double-act in The Proclaimers<\/a> pursue their ninth Top 40 accolade with You May Offend (20).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finally,\u00a0Jhen\u00e9 Aiko<\/a>\u00a0and Westside Whimsy\u00a0is presently situated at Number 37, while the Pixies\u2019<\/a> Bossanova<\/a> from 1990 looks to re-enter the main standings, following the release of a remastered version on vinyl (39).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

See the full Official Albums Chart Update Top 100 here from 5.45pm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noughties darlings Bloc Party\u00a0sit at Number 2 in the latest update with\u00a0Anatomy Of A Brief Romance. The four-piece’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[105393,96,254385,128,50,3675,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bloc-party","tag-entertainment","tag-ezra-collective","tag-music","tag-news","tag-rory","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770630","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=770630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}