Only the third artist album to sell more than 100,000 copies in a week thus far in 2017, Liam Gallagher's debut solo set, As You Were, outpaced the rest of the Top 15 combined and would be No.1 even if it had been released only on vinyl, so emphatic was its victory.

With sales of 102,660 copies, including 8,882 from streams, it provides Gallagher, who turned 45 last month, with the ninth No.1 album of his career, the other eight ...