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THE SAW DOCTORS' Green and Red of Mayo is the highest new entry at #6 on the Official Irish Singles Chart today, having topped the Irish Spotify Chart earlier in the week following Mayo's historic All-Ireland win! To Win Just Once also cracks the top 20! 💪🇮🇪
CHARLI XCX is the highest new entry today at #3 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with her eigth studio album Music, Fashion, Film, released 24 July via Atlantic Records! The 11-track, 30-minute record was produced with frequent collaborators A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, and the album's greyscale cover art features musician John Cale, designer Marc Jacobs, and director Martin Scorcese.
DECEMBER 10 debut at #3 today with their debut EP On Your Side, out now via EMI Records! The seven-piece, formed on Simon Cowell's Netflix series The Next Act, play Belfast's Ulster Hall this Mon 20 July and a sold-out show at the National Stadium, Dublin on Tue July 21. #december10 #onyourside #simoncowell #ireland
SIENNA SPIRO enters the Albums Chart at #6 today with Visitor, out now via Capitol Records! The debut album from the 20-year-old soul sensation was recorded live at Electric Lady Studios, Abbey Road, and Valentine Recording Studios. Sprio has been announced to play Fairview Park, Dublin in June next year. #siennaspiro #visitor #ireland #soulmusic
MADONNA debuts at #2 today on the Irish Albums Chart with Confessions II, her 15th studio album out now via Warner! Over twenty years on from Confessions on a Dance Floor, the Queen of Pop returns with its sequel, featuring collaborations with Sabrina Carpenter, Martin Garrix, Feid, and Stromae! #madonna #confessionsii #danceteria
MUSE return with The Wow! Signal, their 10th studio album and this week's highest new entry at #8! New single Hush featuring ELLIE GOULDING is out now via Warner Records! #muse #thewowsignal #elliegoulding #newmusic
SAM FENDER and OLIVIA Dean return to Number 1 on the IRMA Official Singles Chart today with REIN ME IN! Dean, who played two sold-out nights at Marlay Park last weekend, sees three other tracks surge into the top 10: Man I Need climbs to #2, SO EASY (TO FALL IN LOVE) leaps to #4, and NICE TO EACH OTHER jumps to #5. Her album The Art of Loving also rises to #2 on the Albums Chart while her 2023 debut Messy shoots up to 11 after charting for the first time last week at 36. #irishcharts
Scottish electronic duo Boards of Canada top the Independent Chart and land at no. 7 on the Albums Chart today with fifth studio album Inferno, their first release in 13 years and this week's highest new entry! The album ties with 2013's Tomorrow's Harvest as their highest ever Irish Charts placement. Album track The Word Becomes Flesh features as the end credits music on new A24 horror film Backrooms, with 20-year old director Kane Parsons citing the duo as a direct influence on the movie's sound design and atmosphere, along with other artists such as Aphex Twin and Burial. #boardsofcanada #inferno #backrooms #a24 #irishcharts