The 75 latest releases from the "Rock'n'Goal Capital of the World" listed in order of Spotify plays
Chart includes artists from Manchester, groups formed in Manchester, bands with Mancunian lead singers or key musicians, RNCM and Chetham's alumni, and includes bands with a strong Manchester connection.
Going straight into the UK charts at no.1 (before dropping to no.11 this week), the follow-up to the Stockport band's 2018 "Cool Like You" (UK no,4) features the single "Your Girlfriend" and delivers a multi-instrumental colour and widescreen sound of TV game show-theme synths, danceable grooves and even a wall of gospel harmony. A deluxe edition contains acoustic versions (31 Jan)
The brilliant new album from the hotly-tipped Oldham vocalist, featuring his previous "Only One Is King" and "Tales Of Us". blending rock, soul, RnB and Hip Hop in a similar way to Finley Quaye, Shotty Horroh, JP Cooper, or Rag'n'Bone Man. Remember his name; this is an artist going places. (7 Feb 2020)
Celebrating 20 years since the release of what would - eventually - go on to become the multi-platinum-selling album from the Altrincham folk rocker. The deluxe edition features a remastered version of the iconic album plus a second disc of previously unreleased and rare White Ladder-era B-sides and demos. 20 years ago, this very website was plugging endlessy the album, and watched with frustration as it failed to chart (outside of Ireland) on its release in Nov'98 until 18 months later following its re-release on Dave Matthews' label. (14 Feb)
The Manchester hitman returns to his trademark crime-fuelled hard-hitting grime sound with plenty of the usual references to his favourite subject; his own success "How many million views did we do last week?
Man I got too many fans (What?)". (3 Feb 2020)
The new EP from the Glossop four piece sees 80s synths, and hair metal-inspired guitars with an anthemic chorus that has seen them compared to The 1975 and Blossoms. It brings together previous tracks "Hit and Run", "Flood", "Pieces" and "Make You Better" (14 Feb 2020)
The Rusholme hip hop and trap artist who drinks, bathes and brushes his teeth with Hennessy cognac appears on the new single from South East London duo 808INK. (7 Feb 2020)
Fresh from writing for Beyonce, LA-based former Kid British frontman, Adio Marchant, teams up with Chloe Angelides. the American songwriter for the likes of Jason Derulo, Jessie J, Melanie Martinez, Selena Gomez and Nicki Minaj amongst others (14 Feb 2020)
Initially Steve Diggle’s solo single in 2014, the legendary Bolton punk rockers release their first single since the death of co-founder Pete Shelley in 2018, (14 Feb)
Middleton vocalist David Gedge's indie rock band release the first track from their fourth volume of recordings for BBC's Marc Riley (due 21st Feb), taken from the Octoer 2017 session (7 Feb)
The controversial Manchester-raised, Reddish living reggae star, who seems to have fallen a long way since being crowned 1998 BRIT Awards Best Male Solo Artist, releases a new version of his recent demo; another chilled out acoustic track and hum along. (5 Feb 2020)
Look who is back! With his first release since 2016's Time single, electronic music producer Neil Claxton produces another Rusholme influenced track. (7 Feb 2020)
The new single taken from Finders Keepers records boss Dom Thomas's Mancunian dreamy psych-pop band brilliant "Hard Times" album, which features La Roux, Badly Drawn Boy, John Grant, Super Furry Animals Gruff Rhys, Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell, Nouvelle Vague's Melanie Pain & Chrysta Bell. (7 Feb)
Featuring Chrysta Bell, the latest single to be lifted from the superb "Hard Times" album by the Mancunian dreamy psych-pop band from Finders Keepers records boss Dom Thomas; a cover of Cher's 1966 hit. (14 Feb)
The new single from Paul Lush's Manchester reggae act, who have been heavily responsible for the city's Roots Reggae music scene over the past 18 years, with Brixton's Brother Culture and Ossie Gad. (7 Feb)
The Jose Gonzalez soaked single from acclaimed Manchester downtempo and instrumental hip-hop producer, Matt Brewer, featuring Manchester singer-songwriter Ben P Williams. gets a remix from New York beatmaker Blockhead(7 Feb)
The third track to be released from the Mancunian saxophonist's "To Cy and Lee" project (due 28th Feb); melodies and tunes inspired by his work for Ordinary Lifestyles, a charity in North Manchester, which supports people with disabilities to live in their own homes and to live fulfilling lives. Specifically, he was working with the titular Cy and Lee. His job was to get the guys socializing and he did this by making up songs with them. They'd make up melodies together, humming tunes in the house when they needed something calm, or when they were haring round the city in a battered car. Record these impromptu sessions in his phone, he would then take them to the studio and use the material as starting points for songs, (11 Feb 2020)
A bootleg release of the prog rock legends legendary Glastonbury 2003 set, during the band's '35th Anniversary World Tour' and featuring their classic line-up including Accrington born vocalist and Manchester United fanatic Jon Anderson who emerged through the 1960's Manchester music scene with his band The Warriors. Die-hard Manchester City fan Rick Wakeman also plays keyboards, (14 Feb)
Sir Mark Elder leads the Hallé through the completion of their Sibelius Symphonies Cycle with inspiring and particularly haunting performances of his Symphony No.4 and elusive Symphony No.6 (7 Feb 2019)
The new single from the Manchester rapper, featuring Manchester raised Polish songstress, Angelika Kuliga and Mancunian producer Jack Tingey. (14 Feb 2020)
Another stomping guitar rock anthem from the brilliant Manchester/Winsford threesome. How these guys are not already playing stadiums is beyond us. (3 Feb)
The November 1926 Free Trade Hall recording of "Symphony no.4 in B flat major" by Manchester's leading orchestra, with Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty, is released by Beulah to celebrate Beethoven's 250th anniversary, alongside a 1926 recording by the New Queens Hall Orchestra(7 Feb 2019)
Manchester duo Balraj Samrai and Ruben Platt, famed for their dancehall club night at Soup Kitchen, join forces with the soulful Somalian-born, Danish-raised, Claremont-living singer. (7 Feb)
This week's 50 minute long 2 track release from prolific Mancunian ambient instrumentalist Brin Coleman, who also records under the aliases The Lovely Moon, Ghost Harmonics, Blocker, Ambient Visitor and Theta Wave Orchestra, whilst also performing keyboard in the Manchester based Daniel Land & The Modern Painters. (4 Feb)
The 2002 single from the Salford trance queen gets a new recording and eight remixes from Oliver Lieb, 29 Palms, Trailer Trash, and others. (7 Feb 2020)
The Manchester based Austrian DJreleases his Valentine's single, a fully re-vocaled edit of Dinah Washington's "What a Difference a Day Makes" (14 Feb 2020)
The 485th repetitive formulatic weekly release from the same Stockport producer behind Discotron, Daft Funk, Weekend Players, Audio Jacker, Disko Junkie, Boogie Freaks, Martello, Jack Le Funk, Serial Thrilla, Giorgio Rodgers, Soul Power, Hype The Phunk, Phunk Rokerz, and countless other aliases on his Tasty Recordings label. (7 Feb)
The beautiful new folk album from the Hebden Bridge/Manchester based Gibraltarian who famously bought herself out of a contract with Decca to raise her son and rescue a three-story warehouse in the Northern Quarter to create the Wonder Inn. (2 Feb 2020)
The 486th funky but formulatic weekly release from the same Stockport producer behind Discotron, Daft Funk, Weekend Players, Audio Jacker, Disko Junkie, Boogie Freaks, Martello, Jack Le Funk, Serial Thrilla, Giorgio Rodgers, Soul Power, Hype The Phunk, Phunk Rokerz, and countless other aliases on his Tasty Recordings label. (14 Feb)
Manchester-based Italian DJ Marc Nox remixes the new single from the Manchester based artist described by BBC 6 Music as "the outsider popstar we've all been waiting for". (14 Feb)
The Manchester no nonsense beats and bars hip hop duo MC Ghost One and Dr G release the 4th single from "BoomBap & Blunt Rapz" featuring legendary founding father of Queensbridge Hip Hop MC Shan, plus New Jersey's Tha Soloist, and Philadelphia's Windchill with DJ Tmb. (11 Feb 2020)
Manchester artists currently in the Official UK charts
Chart includes artists from Manchester, groups formed in Manchester, bands with Mancunian lead singers or key musicians, RNCM and Chetham's alumni, and includes bands with a strong Manchester connection.
The follow up to the UK no.8 (no.2 in Classical Charts) album from the popular Salford tenor with Aled Jones entered the UK album charts that one space higher and topped the Classical Charts. An album of their favourite standards and arias. (1 Nov)
The chart-topping New Moston rapper appears on the UK no.1 album, "Heavy Is The Head", from fellow United fan Stormzy , with their collab track streamed 7.4 millions times. (13 Dec 2019)
Entering the UK charts at no.3, this is the second album from Holmes Chapel's One Direction star, who has come a long way from Manchester band White Eskimo. Winning 5 Star reviews across the board, it includes the hit singles "Lights Up" (UK no.3), "Adore You" (no.7), "Watermelon Sugar" (UK no.17), and "Falling" (UK no.39). (13 Dec)
Reaching UK no.7, with 188 million Spotify streams, the third single taken from the new "Fine Line" album (released 13th Dec) by Holmes Chapel's One Direction star. (6 Dec 2019)
The incredible debut album from the Brit Award winning Chelford vocalist surprisingly entered the UK charts at no.1, beating Bryan Adams and Ariana Grande. Absolutely brilliant stuff, featuring duets with Zara Larsson and Rudimental, (1 Mar 2019)
Reaching no.5 in the UK Classical Charts, this collection of exquisite Brahmsian miniatures from the classical pianist from Thelwall, who studied at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music (where he is now the International Chair of Piano Studies) is currently only available on CD. (3 Jan 2020)
Entering the UK charts at no.9, (this week no.28) with 8 million Spotify streams, the popular New Moston rapper features on the new single from South London drill artist DigDat. The album of the same name reached UK no. 12 (16 Jan 2019)
The "Knutsford City Limits" Stoke pop legend, who found fame with Manchester boy band Take That, joins Rod Stewart and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on this live version of his 1990 hit with Tina Turner, a cover of the Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston song. Taken from Rod's incredible new UK chart-topping album with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, "You're In My Heart" (the song which namechecks his beloved Manchester United and Celtic), the track is also included on Robbie's "The Christmas Present" album, released on the same day. (22 Nov 2019)
Reaching no.19 in the UK Classical Charts, the former RNCM piano student (originally from Edinburgh) takes on the fearsome challenge of Prokofiev's War Sonatas trilogy, for some of the most ferociously volatile and brilliant piano music written in the twentieth century. Currently only available on CD. (31 Jan 2020)
The 336th week in the charts for the Gallagher brother's chart-topping "greatest hits" collection, which includes previous non-album tracks "Whatever" and "Lord Don't Slow Me Down". (14 Jun 2010)
The former Oasis frontman goes straight into the UK charts at no.1 with his second solo album, only to be knocked off the top spot by his idols, The Beatles (20 Sep 2019)
The 423rd week in the charts for the Gallagher brother's chart-topping second album, their most commercially successful release selling over 22 million copies so far. It includes hits "Some Might Say", "Roll with It", "Morning Glory", ""Don't Look Back in Anger","Champagne Supernova" and the 740 million streamed "Wonderwall", the most popular song by a Manchester artist on Spotify (2 Oct 1995)
The new album from Florida's Manchester Bee tattoo-wearing, first Honorary Citizen of Manchester - now the most popular artist in the world on Spotify - topped the UK charts for three weeks before being displaced by Manchester's Tom Walker. (8 Feb 2019)
Florida's Manchester Bee tattoo-wearing, first Honorary Citizen of Manchester, appears on this remix of Lizzo's UK no.7 single, with 135 million Spotify streams (25 Oct 2019)
Following their 2016 collab on "Sermon", Manchester competitive battle rapper Adam Rooney teams up once more with James Arthur for this track from the 2012 X Factor winner's new album, "You", which goes straight into the UK charts at no.1 and enjoys 29 million Spotify streams. (18 Oct 2019)
Reaching UK no.17 - with over 181 million Spotify streams in barely a month - Holmes Chapel's One Direction star delivers the second single from his second album, "Fine Line". (17 Nov)
The 345th week in the charts for the Burnage band's 8 million selling chart-topping debut album. It includes hits "Supersonic" , "Shakermaker" , "Live Forever" , "Cigarettes & Alcohol" and "Rock 'N' Roll Star". (29 Aug 1994)
Reaching UK no.39 - with over 73 million Spotify streams - the brilliant album track from Holmes Chapel's One Direction star's second album, "Fine Line". (17 Nov)
October's acoustic single from the chart-topping Brit Award winning Chelford vocalist reaches its highest UK Singles Chart position, with 29 million Spotify streams, (4 Oct 2019)
Entering the UK charts at no.35, with 10 million Spotify streams, the latest single from the Wilmslow boys who have gone on to be one of the biggest bands on the planet, is the fourth to be released from April's forthcoming "Notes On A Conditional Form" album (16 Jan 2020)
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