McCartney top of pops

New York – Paul McCartney is back on the top of the charts, on Sunday earning his first solo number one album in the US in 36 years.

Egypt Station – a confident 16-track album in which McCartney experiments with a younger rock feel in addition to his classic Beatles sound – marked the first time he’s debuted as a solo artist on top of the US Billboard chart.

Surprisingly, McCartney. 76, did not replicate the feat in his native Britain, where Egypt Station debuted at number three, with veteran US rapper Eminem’s surprise album, Kamikaze, reigning.

Egypt Station sold the equivalent of 153 000 copies in the US in the week since its release on September 7. Virtually all of the sales were traditional purchases rather than through streaming, or individually downloaded tracks.

McCartney last topped the chart as a solo artist in 1982, with Tug of War.