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Megadeth are in an Albums Chart battle with Louis Tomlinson
The Official Charts Company report that Louis Tomlinson is at Number One, but Megadeth are fighting hard in second place for their highest-charting record to date.
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Megadeth’s final album is their joint-highest charting ever in the UK
This week’s UK chart results are in, and Megadeth’s final album sees the thrash heroes going out at Number Three!
- Words:
- Emily Garner
- Photo:
- Paul Harries
Megadeth’s final studio album has landed at Number Three in the UK charts.
Dave Mustaine and co.’s 17th full-length follows in the footsteps of its predecessor The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!, making it the joint-highest charting LP of their whole career. According to the Official Albums Charts, they’ve come up just behind One Direction man Louis Tomlinson’s How Did I Get Here? in first place, and Olivia Dean’s 2025 album The Art Of Loving at Number Two.
In Kerrang!’s 3/5 review of Megadeth, we noted how, “The Last Note finds Dave grappling with what it means to walk away from something that’s given and taken so much from him, with the knowledge that the fruits of his labours will live on forever: ‘Let this last note never die.’”
We concluded that, “Megadeth (the album) is the perfect encapsulation of how Megadeth (the band) have lived: bold, frequently brilliant but occasionally flawed. And, despite The Last Note’s insistence there’ll be ‘a quiet end to it all’, they’re going out very fucking loudly, indeed.”
Congrats, chaps!
