The Cure have managed to surpass 40,000 physical album sales with their new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ – as they vie to top the UK charts.
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The goth icons returned last Friday (November 1) with their first studio record in 16 years, which has so far outsold the rest of the UK top 10 combined.
Now, Music Week has reported that The Cure are well and truly on their way to a Number One debut, with the record racking up 45,054 sales so far.
Over 40,000 of those sales are entirely physical releases, with downloads accounting for over 3,000 sale – and streams only 1,600.
For comparison, Tyler, The Creator‘s ‘CHROMAKOPIA’ (which was released on October 28) occupies the Number Two slot, and currently has over 8,400 sales.
The Cure live at Troxy, London. Credit: Tom Pallant
Reviewing ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ in a five-star review, NME wrote: “‘Songs Of A Lost World’ feels sufficient enough for the wait we’ve endured, just for being arguably the most personal album of Smith’s career.
“Mortality may loom, but there’s colour in the black and flowers on the grave.”
In a lengthy interview with Matt Everitt, which saw Smith reveal that The Cure have another new album that’s “virtually finished” – with a third new record also on the way, Smith shared that The Cure plan to tour in 2025.
“We’ll start up again next year,” said Smith. “Seriously, I have to finish the second album. We were going to play festivals next year, but then I decided that we weren’t going to play anything next summer. The next time we go out on stage will be autumn next year.
“But then we’ll probably be playing quite regularly through until the next anniversary – the 2028 anniversary! It’s looming on the horizon. The 2018 one, I started to think about in late 2016, thinking, ‘I’ve got a year and a half, it’s easy!’ And yet I still didn’t manage to get there in time. Now, I’m starting to think, ‘2028, I must get things in order’; so [that’s] the documentary film and things like that.”
In other news, Robert Smith is auctioning artwork he made inspired by ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ for Heart Research UK.
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