Liam Gallagher and John Squire have achieved their first primary album with their eponymous debut collaboration, Liam Gallagher & John Squire.

The former Oasis frontman and The Stone Roses guitarist - each Manchester rock royalty - outsold their closest competitors three-to-one, in response to the Official Charts.

They additionally topped the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, which made up 45% of their gross sales.

Their report was the most-purchased album of the week within the UK's impartial report retailers, claiming primary on the Official Record Store Chart, too.

Gallagher and Squire instructed the Official Charts: "Thanks to everybody that went out and bought this, it means a lot!"

Gallagher now has a complete of 14 official primary albums, throughout a profession spanning three a long time.

As a member of Oasis, he achieved eight chart-toppers: Definitely Maybe (1994), (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (1995), Be Here Now (1997), Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (2000), Heathen Chemistry (2002), Don't Believe The Truth (2005), Dig Out Your Soul (2008) and hits compilation Time Flies… 1994-2009 (2010).

Oasis famously cut up up in 2009, minutes earlier than a headline present in Paris, with rumours of a bodily altercation involving a guitar.

While brothers Liam and Noel have been feuding ever since, rumours of them getting back together are by no means removed from the headlines.

Gallagher achieved an additional 5 primary albums after leaving Oasis: As You Were (2017), Why Me? Why Not. (2019), dwell recording MTV Unplugged (2020), C'mon You Know and Knebworth 22 (each in 2022).

His band Beady Eye, which disbanded in 2014, earned two high 5 LPs: 2011's Different Gear, Still Speeding and 2013 launch BE.

Meanwhile, Noel went his personal manner with the band High Flying Birds, reaching 4 primary albums so far: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (2011), Chasing Yesterday (2015), Who Built The Moon (2017) and Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2021).

Noel's final LP Council Skies peaked at quantity two on the Official Albums Chart.

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For Squire, his collaboration with Gallagher marks his first-ever UK primary album.

Squire's earlier UK chart greatest got here courtesy of Do It Yourself, the only real album from his 1996-1999 venture The Seahorses, which peaked at quantity two on its launch in 1997, and went on to spend 49 weeks within the chart.