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The Cure Earns First U.K. No. 1 Album in 32 Years With ‘Songs of a Lost World’


The Cure score No. 1 album on the U.K. with ‘Songs of a Lost World.'

The Official Charts Company reports that the band outsold the rest of the top five combined as they soared to victory and amassed 50,000 units during release week. Speaking to the OCC, frontman Robert Smith said: “It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album. Songs of a Lost World was celebrated with a number of shows in London and performances across the BBC’s TV and radio stations and has seen the band’s 2001 Greatest Hits compilation return to the top 40.

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