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When Pink Floyd took enough drugs to decide that playing the Pompeii amphitheatre was a good idea, did they imagine people would still be buying records of it 53 years later? Yet here we are, and here they are with a No.1 album. Alex Warren is officially the new Elvis. In a chart record sense, anyway.
Seven straight weeks Alex Warren has been No.1 on the Official UK Singles chart. So he's showing off his gong once more as he heads for double figures. Meanwhile the great Lorde comeback is on, and are The Stereophonics really one of the greatest album acts of all time? The stats say yes.
"Give me your money" demands Taylor Swift of her fans. And they do so on command, every single time. In a week of nothing else taking place, Tortured Poets Department is back on top of the pile.
It is a week for the ages. A particularly notable chart record that has stood for almost 18 years is shattered. And it is hard to see it ever being broken again. Lava Chicken anyone?
