Lana Del Rey has shot straight to Quantity One within the UK albums chart with ‘Do you know that there’s a tunnel underneath Ocean Blvd’.
The singer-songwriter beat off competitors from Depeche Mode‘s fifteenth full-length effort, ‘Memento Mori’ to attain her sixth chart topping album, tying herself degree Arctic Monkeys, Blur and Radiohead on the checklist of acts with essentially the most UK Quantity One information to their identify.
Del Rey additionally ranks as the feminine solo artist with the fifth-most chart topping albums within the UK after Madonna (12), Taylor Swift (9), Kylie Minogue (8) and Barbra Streisand (7).
She beforehand hit the highest spot with ‘Born To Die’ (2012), ‘Ultraviolence’ (2014), ‘Lust For Life’ (2017), ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ (2019) and ‘Chemtrails Over The Nation Membership’ (2021).
‘Do you know that there’s a tunnel underneath Ocean Blvd’ additionally tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, proving the most well-liked document of the week on wax, and is the week’s most-purchased LP in impartial document outlets, too.
Reviewing Del Rey’s album, NME wrote: “As she steps into new lyrical territory right here, so too does Lana enter new sonic worlds. Her ninth album merges the soulful, basic, timeless sounds of a singer-songwriter from a distant time and the vocal melodies and methods of an previous Hollywood starlet (it’s not arduous to think about the likes of Audrey Hepburn singing elements on songs like ‘Candy’) with lure beats, speaker-wobbling bass and spoken phrase tracks edited with a way of Warholian spirit.”
‘Memento Mori’, in the meantime, gave Depeche Mode their highest-peaking document in 10 years (2013’s ‘Delta Machine’ reached Quantity Two, whereas the 2017 follow-up ‘Spirit’ got here in at Quantity 5).
In the meantime, Del Rey just lately mentioned it was “unfathomable” to her that she is headlining the Different Stage at this yr’s Glastonbury Pageant.
The singer-songwriter was just lately introduced as a part of the primary wave of acts for this summer time’s Worthy Farm occasion, which might be headlined by Arctic Monkeys, Weapons N’ Roses and Elton John.