The Last Dinner Party’s debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, went straight to number one on Friday evening, knocking James Arthur off the top spot.
The band, consisting of Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci, charted 32,800 in its first week with its first album.
It’s the biggest opening week for a chart-topping debut album since 2015, when Years & Years reached 55,000 with their debut LP Communion, according to the Official Charts Company.
Prelude to Ecstasy is also the bestseller in UK independent record stores this week, landing at number one on the Official Record Store Chart, and is also the biggest vinyl album of the week.
With a total of over 14,000 vinyl copies, this is the highest sales week for a vinyl album since Oasis’ The Masterplan remaster in November.
The Last Dinner Party’s debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, went straight to number 1 on Friday evening, knocking James Arthur off the top spot.
It’s the biggest opening week for a band’s successful debut album since 2015 (pictured members Abigail Morris (vocals), Lizzie Mayland (vocals, guitar), Emily Roberts (lead guitar, mandolin, flute), Georgia Davies (bass) and Aurora Nishevci (keyboards, vocals)
The band’s incredible success propelled Jamie Webster’s ’10 For the People’ to number one and saw James Arthur’s fifth album, ‘Bitter Sweet Love’, drop from number two to number 38.
In recent weeks, The Last Dinner Party has been named both the BRIT Awards’ Rising Star 2024 and BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2024.
Clara Amfo announced the band as winners of the Rising Star Award on her BBC Radio 1 Future Sounds in December.
The band hopes to follow in the footsteps of Adele, Ellie Goulding, Jorja Smith, Sam Smith, James Bay and Sam Fender, who have all previously received the prestigious award.
Formerly known as the Critics’ Choice Award, the category is judged by a group of editors and critics, with the award being presented at the BRIT ceremony – where singer Raye has received a record seven nominations – on Saturday, March 2.
Speaking about their win, The Last Dinner Party said: ‘We are so proud to have won the Rising Star from the BRITs.
“It’s an honor to achieve something so iconic so early in our career and we can only hope to continue making music that resonates with all the wonderful people who have listened to and supported us so far. Thank you!’
The indie rock quartet will perform in Hebden Bridge at The Trades Club on March 4 as part of BRITs week.
In recent weeks, The Last Dinner Party has been named both the BRIT Awards’ 2024 Rising Star and BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2024.
The band described the Rising Star Award as ‘iconic’ and that it was an ‘honour’ before stating that they were ‘proud beyond measure’.
The five women who performed live in the studio on the Graham Norton Show at the end of January described the TV presenter as ‘very shiny in person’ and the experience as ‘insane’.
They will be joined by alternative pop singer Rachel Chinouriri who will provide the support act for the evening.
The group consists of five women who write and perform melody-rich, guitar-heavy indie rock dramas.
The band performed live in the studio on the Graham Norton Show at the end of January, before Abigail and Emily joined the TV presenter for a chat.
Speaking about their time on the BBC show, they posted a photo of the guest line-up including Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and captioned it: ‘In today’s episode of really really insane things that happen to us
‘GN is personally very shiny, not in a sweaty way mind you, more like an ethereal glow. The good witch of talk shows.’