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Stones top album chart for first time since 1994
Re-issue of 'Exile on Main Street' beats new Faithless album to top spot
The hoopla surrounding the re-issue of the Rolling Stones' classic 1972 album Exile on Main Street - including a visit by Mick Jagger to the Cannes film festival, and last night's BBC1 broadcast of the documentary Stones in Exile - has paid off. The group has just scored its first UK number one album for 16 years.
The re-issued album, which includes the tracks Tumbling Dice and Rocks Off, beat The Dance, the new album from the dance band Faithless to top spot.
The last Stones album to go to number one was Voodoo Lounge in 1994. David Joseph, chairman of the Stones's label Universal Music UK, said: "It's quite a result for an album from 1972 to be back at number one. It proves the Stones's music is as powerful today as when it was created."
Bizarrely, Exile on Main Street is not the only 1972 recording to suddenly reappear in the charts. At the other end of the music spectrum, a song by Leeds United's 1972 squad has been re-released to celebrate the club's promotion to the Championship. Leeds Leeds Leeds (Marching On Together) is at Number 10 in the singles chart. ·
