King Kendrick Lamar has scored his first Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with To Pimp A Butterfly.
The rapper’s second record held off fierce competition to top this week’s tally, finishing just 572 chart sales ahead of Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour, which slips to second place.
Lamar’s latest record beats the Number 16 peak of his 2012 debut Good Kid M.A.A.D City and takes the title of this week’s most-streamed album with 3722 weighted streams. Earlier this week it was revealed the album had set a new record on Spotify after it had been streamed 9.6 million times worldwide in one day.
Meanwhile, Dire Straits guitarist
Mark Knopfler earns the highest-charting album of is his career with his eighth studio opus
Tracker at Number 3, and Ed Sheeran’s X is at 4.
Rounding off the Top 5 is Van Morrison’s Duets – Re-working The Catalogue. The Irish singer-songwriter’s 35th studio album is his highest-charting collection since 2005’s Magic Time, which peaked at 3.
Marina and the Diamonds earns her third Top 10 album with FROOT, which debuts at Number 10, and Bjork’s Vulnicura re-enters the Top 40 at Number 14 following its physical release.
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Sam Smith and John Legend have notched up a second week at Number 1 on this week’s Official Singles Chart.
Lay Me Down, which serves as the official 2015 Comic Relief single, extends its reign at the top with a lead of 9,000 combined chart sales over its closest competitor,
Years & Years’ King, which remains at Number 2.
Meanwhile,
Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney’s FourFiveSeconds climbs two places to Number 3 and claims the title of this week’s most-streamed track with 1.98 million streams.
James Bay’s Hold Back The River reaches a new peak on the tally after jumping six places
to Number 4, and Ellie Goulding completes the Top 5 with Love Me Like You Do.
Pitbull earns his 24th UK Top 40 hit this week with the Ne-Yo-assisted Time Of Our Lives (28), and Norwegian producer Kygo leaps 16 places to makes his Top 40 debut with Firestone.
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Well deserved 
