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Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront) Request ID: CAPZa7kgjs6IftIVES4CraQPN1jHMn3Eq2gYUeUPiYdT_a4l0jsiTw==D-Block Europe Celebrate First-ever Number 1 Album With Rolling Stone
D-Block Europe celebrate their first-ever Official Number 1 album with Rolling Stone.
The Lewisham-formed rap duo, comprising Young Adz and Dirtbike LB, reach the summit with their third full-length studio album, which sees them collaborate with Yxng Bane, Noizy and Kodak Black.
Previously, D-Block saw Official Albums Chart success with 2018 Yxng Bane collaborative record Any Minute Now (14), 2019's Home Alone (6) and PTSD (4), 2020 releases Street Trauma (9) and The Blue Print – Us Vs. Them (2), 2021's Home Alone 2 (6), 2022 LP Lap 5 (2) and 2023 mixtape DBE World (6).
D-Block now reclaim their title as the British rap act with the most Top 10 albums, with eight in total. They pull ahead of The Streets, who boast seven Top 10 LPs: 2002's Original Pirate Material (10), 2004 follow-up A Grand Don't Come for Free (1), 2006's The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living (1), 2008's Everything is Borrowed (7), 2011 release Computers and Blues (8), 2020 LP None of Us are Getting Out of This Alive (2) and 2023's The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light (7).
Rolling Stone also tops this week's Official Record Store Chart, the most-purchased album of the past seven days in the UK's independent record stores, and debuts at Number 2 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
In a statement, D-Block Europe said: "D-Block Europe in the building! Young black rockstars! Number 1! Rolling Stone...Thank you. We love you. Gang gang, you know the vibes!"
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MORE: See where every D-Block Europe song and album has charted in the UKPlaistow-born, Atlanta-raised rapper 21 Savage secures his highest-charting solo LP with american dream (2). Prior to this Savage, born Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, saw Top 40 success with 2021's i am > i was (33), collaborative Metro Boomin record Savage Mode II (10) and 2023's chart-topping team-up with Drake, Her Loss (1).
Rounding out an all-new Top 3, London-formed rock outfit The Vaccines secure their sixth Top 5 album with Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations (3). The band, comprising Justin Hayward-Young, Árni Árnason, Timothy Lanthan and Yoann Intonti, previously enjoyed success with 2011 debut What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (4), 2012 Number 1 Come Of Age, 2015's English Graffiti (2), 2018 LP Combat Sports (4) and 2021's Back in Love City (5).
Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, and lands at Number 2 on this week's Official Record Store Chart.
Catch up on The Vaccines' episode of The Record Club, with Justin dissecting the album-making process, on Spotify here.
MORE: D-Block Europe's Official Top 20 biggest songs everElsewhere, Teddy Swims is seeing massive success on the Official Singles Chart with breakthrough hit Lose Control, and its parent album, I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 1) is up to another new peak today, rising three to Number 21.
And finally, Merseyside-born singer-songwriter and former The Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones claims a career-best with his fifth solo album Iechyd Da (30). The record, for which title means 'good luck' in Welsh, marks his first solo Top 40 collection, and sees Top 5 debuts on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart (2) and Official Record Store Chart (3).
D-Block Europe's Official Top 20 Biggest Songs In The UK Revealed
Now, as the duo release their third full-length studio album Rolling Stone (which features collaborations with Kodak Black and Yxng Bane), we've crunched the numbers to reveal D-Block Europe's official Top 20 biggest songs in the UK for the first time ever.
3. Ferrari Horses (with RAYE) Released: 2020Official Singles Chart peak: Number 14Total UK chart units: 809,000Proving to be one of the most important songs of D-Block's career, Ferrari Horses originally appeared on the lads' debut studio album, 2020's The Blue Print: Us vs Them, managing a not-too-shabby peak of Number 14. But the song would prove to be even more influential in the long-run, with RAYE's eye-catching first verse becoming the hook for Irish DJ cassö's re-working of the track, Prada.
One of the biggest sleeper hits at the tail-end of last year, Prada actually became D-Block Europe's highest-ever charting single in the UK, with a Number 2 peak, and the remix's popularity has clearly helped feed into the original's success too. As it stands, Ferrari Horses is D-Block's third most successful song in the UK, bringing in 809,000 chart units and over 111 million streams. Prada, for now, lags behind at Number 6 overall, but considering it's still in the UK Top 10 at the time of writing, expect this to inevitably rise.
2. Kitchen Kings Released: 2019Official Singles Chart peak: Number 16Total UK chart units: 898,000Kitchen Kings holds a special place in D-Block Europe's discography. Featured on 2019 mixtape Home Alone, it became their first-ever single to chart inside the UK Top 20, peaking at Number 16. While it sadly never flew any higher, the numbers speak for themselves. Kitchen Kings now ranks as D-Block's second biggest song overall, collecting 898,000 chart units and 135 million streams to date.
A nice fun fact? The video to Kitchen Kings is D-Block's most-streamed video in the UK (35 million streams).
1. Overseas (with Central Cee) Released: 2021Official Singles Chart peak: Number 6Total UK chart units: 1 millionA link-up between the biggest rising stars in the UK rap scene was inevitable, as was its success on the Official Chart. Overseas was an immediate success, becoming D-Block Europe's first-ever UK Top 10 single and Central Cee's third, after breakthrough hits Commitment Issues (9) and Obsessed With You (4).
Overall, it spent a total of 12 weeks inside the Top 10, and is of course the biggest song D-Block Europe have released in the UK so far. Flying to over 1 million chart units, Overseas is also their most-streamed track here (155 million).
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