The Cure’s ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ is currently the best-selling album in the US, based on physical sales.
The band’s 14th studio record has landed at the Number One spot on the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart and the Billboard Top Album Sales chart, the latter of which takes into account all physical sales as well as digital downloads. It also sits atop the Top Rock and Top Alternative Albums charts in the country.
On the overall albums chart, the Billboard 200, which also counts streaming figures, it has debuted at Number Four, the second highest ever for The Cure, behind only ‘Wish’ in 1992, which reached Number Two. It sits behind Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Chromakopia’, Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ and Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Eternal Atake 2’.
Its Stateside success comes after the record topped the UK Albums Chart earlier this month, their first album since ‘Wish’ 32 years ago to achieve the feat. It has also recently been officially certified Silver in the UK.
Reacting to that news, frontman Robert Smith told the Official Charts Company: “It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album. To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years – THANK YOU!”
‘Songs Of A Lost World’ is the band’s first full-length album in 16 years, and the follow-up to 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’. It was released on November 1, and the band played it in full at London’s Troxy on release day, as well as two shows at the iconic BBC Radio Theatre.
Reviewing ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ in a five-star review, NME wrote: “‘Songs Of A Lost World’ feels sufficient enough for the wait we’ve endured, just for being arguably the most personal album of Smith’s career.
“Mortality may loom, but there’s colour in the black and flowers on the grave.”
In a lengthy interview with Matt Everitt, which saw Smith reveal that The Cure have another new album that’s “virtually finished” – with a third new record also on the way, Smith shared that The Cure plan to tour in 2025.
“We’ll start up again next year,” said Smith. “Seriously, I have to finish the second album. We were going to play festivals next year, but then I decided that we weren’t going to play anything next summer. The next time we go out on stage will be autumn next year.
“But then we’ll probably be playing quite regularly through until the next anniversary – the 2028 anniversary! It’s looming on the horizon. The 2018 one, I started to think about in late 2016, thinking, ‘I’ve got a year and a half, it’s easy!’ And yet I still didn’t manage to get there in time. Now, I’m starting to think, ‘2028, I must get things in order’; so [that’s] the documentary film and things like that.”
Back in 2019, the frontman said the new LP had been shaped by his “experience of life’s darker side” following the deaths of his mother, father and brother.
He recently opened up about the writing of his brother’s death in their track ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye‘ , and also revealed that his wife Mary Poole Smith helped him finalise the tracklisting for ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.