With just 1.18 million units sold across the UK last week, the album is one again looking in a precarious state. To be clear, that’s a depressingly historic figure: the lowest weekly total in 19 years.

Some blame can be apportioned to a particularly weak release slate, with only Maroon 5’s universally-panned V troubling the Top 5 of the Official Chart - on a hold-the-champers-let’s-get-some-Brut-from-Aldi 17,000 sales. (The unimpressive state of the albums market can perhaps best be summed up by ...