Life songs deliver another No 1 hit

RAG’N’BONE Man has earned his second chart-topping album after Life By Misadventure went to No 1.

The record, his follow-up to 2017’s Human, outsold the rest of the top five combined, with 42,000 chart sales including 33,000 in physical formats.

This gives the singersongwriter from East Sussex with the big baritone voice the biggest opening week for a British act this year and the fastestselling album by a solo artist in the same period.

It comes after Rag’n’bone Man, real name Rory Graham, performed his single Anywhere Away From Here with P!nk at the

Brit Awards on Tuesday, backed by the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir.

Life By Misadventure explores how he has grown as a man since becoming a father and touches on separating from his wife of 10 years.

It eschews the strippedback blues and soul of his debut in favour of pop.

He leads an all-new top five this week with Michael Ball at No 2 with We Are More Than One and Youtuber Dodie at No 3 with her debut release, Build A Problem.

Brighton post-punk band Squid enter at No 4 with their debut Bright Green Field, this week’s bestseller on vinyl, and Sir Van Morrison is at No 5 with the Latest Record Project – Volume One.