Nice to see Paul and Jacqui claim their first number 1 album as a duo!
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott have clinched their first Number 1 as a duo on this week’s Official Albums Chart with their new collection Manchester Calling.
The pair’s fourth album as a double act scores 20,500 chart sales – 94% of which are physical sales - to earn the former members of
The Beautiful South this week’s Number 1.
Reacting to the news, Paul and Jacqui said:
“Thank you very, very much for making us Number 1. Thanks to everybody who bought it, the people who helped get it there, and Official Charts for giving us this lovely trophy. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It means so much. It means everything.”
As a duo, their previous three albums all landed in the Top 5, and as members of The Beautiful South they claimed three Number 1 albums: Carry On Up The Charts: The Best Of (1994), Blue Is The Colour (1996) and Quench (1998).