Eighteen years after their fourth album, Eyes Open, provided their first No.1, Snow Patrol finally return to the summit, with eighth studio album, The Forest Is The Path, debuting in pole position on consumption of 29,307 units (18,590 CDs, 5,382 vinyl albums, 1,795 cassettes, 1,867 digital downloads and 1,673 sales-equivalent streams).

That’s the smallest first week sale by any album by the band since they established themselves with third album, Final Straw, in 2003. It is 25.08% below the 39,118 ...