The National have scored their first Number 1 on the UK Albums Chart, beating Nothing But Thieves into second place.
The band’s new album ‘Sleep Well Beast’ has gone straight in at the top spot, beating their previous best – a Number 3 for 2013’s ‘Trouble Will Find Me’.
Nothing But Thieves enter the chart at Number 2 with their new album ‘Broken Machine’, while Alvvays manage to make the Top 40, debuting at Number 28 with ‘Antisocialites’.
You can read interviews with Nothing But Thieves here, and Alvvays here.