The Frames with a bullet

The Frames have gone straight to number one in the Irish album chart with Burn The Maps.

Its 7,371 bar sales compares with the 2,438 mustered by its nearest rival, Green Day's American Idiot, and the 2,436 which The Thrills' Let's Bottle Bohemia notched up last week to claim the top spot.

Indeed, the only record that's out-performed it this year in its first week of release is Norah Jones' Feels Like Home which shifted 7,638 copies in chart return shops.