Faith In The Future is no. 1 in this week's Official UK Record Store Chart 15/12/23
The UK's biggest albums of the week sold through 100 UK independent record shops is compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, vinyl and other formats - in partnership with Record Store Day.
Faith In The Future also made a re-entry at no. 61 in the official UK album chart this week (Dec 15-21) as well as at no. 16 on the Albums Chart Update and no. 17 on the Official Sales Chart
ATEEZ Is 2nd K-Pop Male Group Ever To Spend 2 Consecutive Weeks On UK’s Official Albums Chart
ATEEZ has just achieved an impressive feat in the United Kingdom!
Last week, ATEEZ’s latest album “THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL” debuted at No. 2 on the United Kingdom’s Official Albums Chart (widely regarded as the U.K. equivalent to the U.S. Billboard 200). According to the Official Charts, ATEEZ “just missed out” on the No. 1 spot, making them only the third K-pop group ever to enter the top 2 (following BTS and BLACKPINK).
On December 15 local time, the Official Charts revealed that “THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL” had successfully remained on the Official Albums Chart for a second week. For the week of December 14 to 20, the album stayed strong at No. 57.
ATEEZ is now only the second male K-pop group in history to spend two consecutive weeks on the Official Albums Chart (again, following BTS). They are also only the fourth K-pop group ever to chart an album for multiple weeks, following BTS, BLACKPINK, and NewJeans.
“It’s funny, I wrote maybe 4 or 5 tunes in one of the breaks of the tour legs, and actually, I just wanna spend a bit of time. I’m really excited for those songs, but I don’t know when the next records gonna come and the thing about me is when I start writing, I’m just desperate to release things as soon as a possible, so I wanna take a bit of time on this record. So when that might be, who knows.”
-Louis on if he has any idea when LT3 will be out! (23 November 2023)
“They write constantly. They write on the road, so before or after a gig they'll write nearly every night. It's a serious process, but you don't know how it's going to turn out until you start practising it together, because everybody's done it individually.”
—Muse manager Anthony Addis on the band's writing process for The 2nd Law, in 2011.