Robbie Williams has earned another accolade to add to his already exhaustive mantlepiece; not only has new album Swings Both Ways hit the top spot in this week’s UK Official Album Charts, however Williams has also made history by scoring the 1,000th UK number one album.
The album (which we reviewed earlier this week), knocks Lady Gaga’s new LP ARTPOP from the top of the charts, which drops to a lowly number nine, whilst Jake Bugg’s new entry with Shangri-La joins Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 to make up the top three.
Elsewhere, on the Official Singles Charts, Lily Allen’s cover of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know for John Lewis’ latest Christmas TV commercial climbs from second place to secure Number One, whilst Bastille’s brilliant Of The Night and Gary Barlow’s Let Me Go make up the top three. Somewhere Only We Know marks Lily Allen’s second entry into the Top Ten this week, with her first solo release in four years Hard Out Here entering at number nine.
