Dr Dre tops Official Albums Chart with ‘Compton’

Dr Dre has topped the UK’s Official Albums Chart with ‘Compton’, his first album in sixteen years.

The follow-up to 1999’s ‘2001’ is Dre’s first UK number one, selling 28,000 more copies than #2, Frank Turner’s ‘Positive Songs For Negative People’. Ed Sheeran, Years & Years and Sam Smith complete the top five.

Elsewhere, new entries come from Don Broco (#6 with ‘Automatic’) and Mac DeMarco, who scores his first Top 40 album with mini-LP ‘Another One’.

Julio Bashmore’s ‘Knockin’ Boots’ is at #25 and Fear Factory’s ‘Genexus’ is at #31.

The full top 100 is viewable here (from 5.45pm, Friday 14th August).