The Lottery Winners on course for second UK Number One album with ‘KOKO’

The Lottery Winners are on course to secure their second UK Number One album with their new record ‘KOKO’.

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The group made headlines in 2023 when their third LP ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ reached the summit on the Official UK Albums Chart, and now that record’s follow-up is primed to repeat the achievement.

‘KOKO’ was released on Friday (March 21), and according to the Official Charts Company’s Chart Update on Monday (March 24), it is on course to become the band’s second chart-topper.

It is projected to land the top spot, just ahead of veteran pop act Deacon Blue’s 11th album ‘The Great Western Road’ and Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s ‘I Said I Love You First’. The Horrors’ new album ‘Night Life’ also makes the Top Five, along with Sabrina Carpenter’s wildly successful ‘Short N’ Sweet’.

Official Albums Chart Update Top Five: 

1. The Lottery Winners – ‘KOKO’ (Modern Sky) 
2. Deacon Blue – ‘The Great Western Road’ (Cooking Vinyl) 
3. Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Short N’ Sweet’ (Island) 
4. Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco – ‘I Said I Love You First’ (Interscope) 
5. The Horrors – ‘Night Life’ (Fiction) 

Frontman Thom Rylance spoke to NME in December about feeling the pressure of having to repeat the chart success of ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’. “Of course the pressure is back,” he said. “Can we ever do this again? Do we want to? Yes, so we’ll throw everything at getting a second Number One album for Leigh. Getting that first Number One meant acceptance, that we’d broken into the industry despite all the uphill battles.”

“We seem to be doing OK with the new album so far. People are already getting tattoos of the artwork.”

‘KOKO’, named after the motto ‘keep on keeping on’, features the single ‘Ragdoll’, which includes a guest appearance from Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger, who the band got to know when they supported the ‘How You Remind Me’ rockers on a UK and European arena tour last year. Other guests on the album include Frank Turner, Shed Seven and Reverend & The Makers.

The Lottery Winners are set to embark on their 2025 ‘Keep On Keeping On’ UK headline tour next month. Find any remaining tickets here. Additionally, the band will hit the UK festival circuit this year with slots scheduled at Isle Of Wight Festival, Kendal Calling, Bearded Theory and more.

They will also be opening for Robbie Williams at his huge stadium shows in the UK this summer, in Edinburgh, London, Manchester and Bath. Find tickets here.

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