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Weekly Rock Chart Round-Up - 31/05/19

Welcome to the debut installment of my weekly UK Rock Chart recap! Every week I will be covering the most significant developments for rock artists on the UK charts, focusing in on new releases from the hottest artists the genre has to offer. If this proves popular then I will be sure to start a pop top 40 recap series in the future, so let me know what you think! But for now, let’s take a dive into this week’s biggest chart stories…

The incredible new album from industrial metal titans Rammstein is continuing to perform strongly, sitting atop the Rock Albums Chart for a second consecutive week. The self-titled LP is having a similarly good time over on the main albums chart, having dropped down to 23 after debuting at 3 last week. That was highest UK debut of Rammstein’s career, while managing to remain in the top 25 for a second week is an impressive feat for any metal band, so props to them!

Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes are enjoying their fourth week in the Rock Albums top 10 with the fantastic End of Sufferring, which is now at number 10 and is shaping up to be their most successful release to date. The latest record from classic metal act Diamond Head has also debuted at number 5 on rock albums, which is nice to see considering that the band never enjoyed the mainstream success of some of their early 80s contemporaries. 

(Photo credit: Alec Fung)
Over on the rock singles chart, Slipknot’s newest track Unsainted has dropped from 2 to 7 in its second week. This is a fairly small second week drop so the anticipation for the band’s upcoming new LP We Are Not Your Kind is clearly as huge as ever. Further down the rankings, Bring Me The Horizon’s Mother Tongue re-entered the chart at 31, no-doubt the result of the hype surrounding the band’s headline performance at All Points East festival this past weekend (pictured). Just below that is Rammstein’s Deutschland, spending its sixth week on the chart after re-entering last week with the release of the German metal sestet's new record. Deutschland is one of my favourite tracks of 2019 so far, so its great to see such a banger continuing to do well.

Looking ahead to next week, all eyes will be the on the performance of Yonaka’s debut album Don’t Wait till Tomorrow, easily my most anticipated record of this year. Be sure to check back here this weekend for coverage of all the most important chart developments in the rock world!

 - Danny

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