The Guardian

The Prodigy go straight in the albums charts at No 1

• 6th April 2015
• Guardian Music

The Day Is My Enemy is their sixth UK No 1 album

The Prodigy have scored their sixth UK No 1 album. The Day Is My Enemy, their first studio album for six years, has entered the album charts at the top, displacing James Bay in the process.

The Day Is My Enemy follows Music for the Jilted Generation (1994), The Fat of the Land (1997), Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004), Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005 (2005) and Invaders Must Die (2009) in taking the Essex band to the top of the charts.

While the usual suspects – Bay, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran – remain in the top five, they are joined this week by Sia, whose 1000 Forms of Fear has cracked the top 10 for the first time since its release last July. It has risen 19 places to No 5. Sufjan Stevens’s Carrie & Lowell becomes his first UK top 10 album, entering the charts at No 5, while Circa Waves and Nightwish also score new entries, at 10 and 12 respectively.

In the singles chart, Jess Glynne remains at No 1 for a second week with Hold My Hand. Ed Sheeran’s Bloodstream has claimed 24 places to No 2, with the rest of the top five completed by James Bay, Years & Years and Mark Ronson.

Sia is doing well in the singles chart as well as the albums – Elastic Heart has climbed to No 10 following her performance on The Voice last week, while Chandelier (no 29) has chalked up its 40th consecutive week in the top 40.

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• The Day Is My Enemy

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