Liam Gallagher beating The Hives in race for UK Number 1 album
He's on for his fifth solo chart-topper
Liam Gallagher is on course to secure his fifth solo UK Number 1 album with ‘Knebworth 22’.
Released last Friday, ‘Knebworth 22’ immortalises Liam Gallagher’s two sold-out concerts at Knebworth on 3rd and 4th June 2022 in front of 170,000 adoring fans.
The 16-track collection is dominated by nine Noel Gallagher-penned Oasis songs alongside seven tracks from Liam’s trio of solo studio albums.
According to the Official Charts Company, Liam Gallagher’s ‘Knebworth 22’ is currently at Number 1 at the midweek stage ahead of The Hives’ ‘The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons’ in second spot.
If Liam holds strong at the summit, ‘Knebworth 22’ will be his fifth solo chart-topper following ‘As You Were’ (2017), Why Me? Why Not (2019), C’mon You Know (2022) and live album MTV Unplugged (2020).
Last year’s live album ‘Down by the River Thames’ peaked at Number 4 on these shores.
Alongside the live album, Liam Gallagher released the documentary film Knebworth 22 last November that chronicles his shows at the same venue Oasis played 26 years earlier.
Liam claimed that his older brother Noel Gallagher prohibited him from using Oasis tracks in the film.
Asked by a fan if the Oasis tracks will feature, Liam replied: “No oasis songs as the angry squirt has blocked them he also blocked the oasis I sang for Taylor Hawkins tribute he’s a horrible little man.”
Elsewhere on this week’s midweek chart, the 50th anniversary release of David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: Motion Picture Soundtrack’ is at Number 4.