Official Charts Analysis: Michael Kiwanuka's new album Love & Hate debuts at No.1
by
Alan Jones
Friday, Jul 22nd 2016 at 6:00PM
London R&B/soul singer/songwriter Michael Kiwanuka effects the 17th change of leadership on the album chart in as many weeks, debuting atop the list with his second album, Love & Hate.
First week sales of 11,639 (including 585 from streams) for Love & Hate - which becomes the UK's 1,085th No.1 album 60 years to the day after Frank Sinatra's Songs For Swinging Lovers! became the first - are substantially below the 30,163 pure sales that Kiwanuka's introductory album, Home ...