Music
08 Oct 21

The Script's Greatest Hits debuts at No.1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart

The Script's <i>Greatest Hits</i> debuts at No.1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart

The Dublin band knock Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour from the top spot this week. Photo: WESTENBERG

Current Hot Press cover stars The Script continue their unbroken streak of Number Ones on the Official Irish Albums Chart this week – with Tales From The Script: Greatest Hits debuting at the top of the chart.

The retrospective release, which spans 13 years of chart success, features tracks from across their chart-topping LPs, including: The Script (2008), Science & Faith (2010), #3 (2012), No Sound Without Silence (2014), Freedom Child (2017) and Sunsets & Full Moons (2019).

Tales From The Script also scored the most sales of the week – with 85% of its weekly total coming from physical and download sales.

“Thank you so much to everybody for making Tales From The Script our seventh Number 1 album in Ireland," frontman Danny O’Donoghue told Official Charts Ireland. "I want to thank our family, our friends, everyone who has been along this crazy journey – from the Sugar Club all the way to Croke Park and beyond. We’ve turned tragedies into triumphs, turned losses into wins - when one chapter is over another begins. This is just the start. We’ll see you out on the road real soon.”

Elsewhere on the chart, The Specials – who were also interviewed in the current issue of Hot Press – enter at No.18 with Protest Songs 1924-2012.

Last week’s No.1, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, drops to No.2 – but is also Ireland’s most-streamed album of the week.

On the Official Irish Singles Chart, meanwhile, Ed Sheeran maintains his No.1 spot for a fourth week with 'Shivers' – while Elton John and Dua Lipa's 'Cold Heart' (Pnau Remix) leaps from No.5 to No.2.

Following the release of No Time To Die, Billie Eilish's Bond theme re-enters the chart at No.38.

Pick up the current issue of Hot Press – featuring cover stars The Script – in shops now, or order online below.

In one of his most intimate and revealing interviews yet, Danny O’Donoghue talks personal epiphanies, love during lockdown, family, magic moments and, as they release their greatest hits album, The Script’s place in the pop scheme of things.