- Music
- 04 Mar 16
2 shoots straight in at the top
In a conundrum to cause maths teachers everywhere to break out in hives, 2 has proven bigger than 25, as The Gloaming knock Adele off the top of the Irish charts.
The trad supergroup, who featured on the cover of the last issue of Hot Press enter the rundown at the top, as their sophomore effort dislodges the English songstress from top spot.
While Adele - whose visits to the SSE and 3Arena this week will have done her sales no harm - clings onto second spot, there's another new entry behind her, in the form of The 1975. The British band - whose frontman Matty Healy opened up to in a fascinating interview in the aforementioned issue of Hot Press (do we know how to pick 'em or what?) - see their tongue twister of second album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, enter at No. 3.
And while there's yet another new entry at the upper reaches - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' latest effort This Unruly Mess I've Made sits at No. 6 - some things stay the same. Former chart-toppers Walking On Cars continue to perform well, with Everything This Way good enough to beat Justin Bieber to fourth spot, while Rod Stewart, Nathan Carter, Kenny Rogers and The Bee Gees continue their admittedly unusual tenure in the top ten.