{"id":117694,"date":"2024-05-10T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/10\/dua-lipas-radical-optimism-debuts-at-1-on-british-chart-with-big-sales\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T21:02:34","slug":"dua-lipas-radical-optimism-debuts-at-1-on-british-chart-with-big-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/10\/dua-lipas-radical-optimism-debuts-at-1-on-british-chart-with-big-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa&#8217;s &#8216;Radical Optimism&#8217; debuts at #1 on British chart with big sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-10\/M_DuaLipaRadicalOptimism_031324_0.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tyrone Lebon\/Warner Records<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dua Lipa<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Radical Optimism<\/em> has paid off: Her album dances into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/dua-lipa-radical-optimism-number-1-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#1 spot<\/a> on the Official Albums Chart in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Dua&#8217;s first album to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6y4uDXsRfQ\/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debut at #1<\/a> in her home country, and it&#8217;s also posted the biggest sales numbers for a record by a British female artist since<strong> Adele<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>30<\/em> back in 2021. Plus, <em>Radical Optimism<\/em> had the biggest opening week for an album by any British act overall so far this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Kentish<\/strong>, who signed Dua to her record deal 10 years ago, when she was just 18, tells\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/labels\/read\/joe-kentish-on-the-evolution-of-dua-lipa\/089749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Music Week<\/em><\/a> of <em>Radical Optimism<\/em>, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a more complete album than the previous two in the way it came together &#8230; it hangs together more than the things she has done before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of the record reflecting her and where she&#8217;s at personally, it does that more than the previous ones have,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;There&#8217;s something heartfelt about what she&#8217;s singing on lots of the songs, which is something that she gets deeper into that she has previously. It\u2019s a lot more her in terms of personality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrone Lebon\/Warner Records Dua Lipa&#8216;s Radical Optimism has paid off: Her album dances into the #1 spot on the Official Albums Chart in the U.K. It&#8217;s Dua&#8217;s first album to debut at #1 in her home country, and it&#8217;s also posted the biggest sales numbers for a record by a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/10\/dua-lipas-radical-optimism-debuts-at-1-on-british-chart-with-big-sales\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}