George Michael racked up his seventh British number one album on Sunday as “Symphonica” took the top spot on the charts, beating off competition from Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue, the Official Charts Company said.
Michael’s first new album in nearly 10 years outsold Minogue’s “Kiss Me Once” by 20,000 copies in a battle between the two artists with a record of British chart success stretching back to the 1980s.
Last week’s number one album, Elbow’s “The Take Off And Landing of Everything”, drifted to fifth place, while Paloma Faith’s “A Perfect Contradiction” fell to fourth from second. Pharrell Williams’s “G I R L” held its place at number three.
