The Cure have earned their first U.K. No. 1 album in 32 years with the band’s 14th studio LP, Songs Of A Lost World, making it to the top of the chart.
Songs Of A Lost World, which was released on November 1st, sold over 50,000 copies in its first week in the country and marks the English rock band’s second U.K. top-charting project after 1992’s Wish.
The record has also earned the group their 23rd Top 40 album.
“It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album,” the band’s Robert Smith said. “To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years – THANK YOU!”
Songs Of A Lost World also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the week’s biggest seller on wax, and the Official Record Store Chart, proving the most popular LP of the past seven days in independent U.K. record shops.
Smith, who wrote and arranged the songs, co-produced and mixed the tracks alongside Paul Corkett. Recordings took place at Rockfield Studios in Wales.
The Cure’s current lineup features Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Roger O’Donnell, Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper and Reeves Gabrels.
