The 1975 have broken the record for having the longest Number One album title in US chart history.
The 71-character ‘I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It’ was released in February, topping the charts in both the UK and US.
Billboard reports that the record for longest US Number One album title was previously held by LL Cool J‘s 59-character ‘G.O.A.T. Featuring James T. Smith: The Greatest of All Time’, released in 2000.
However, the Official Charts Company has confirmed that The 1975’s album isn’t the longest Number One album of all-time in the UK, but the second longest.
Tyrannosaurus Rex hold the current record with 1972 double album reissue ‘Prophets, Seers And Sages The Angels Of The Ages / My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair… But Now They’re Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows’, which has a total of 123 characters.
Speaking to NME about their new album, The 1975 frontman Matt Healy recently said he believes “the world needs” the band’s new album.
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The frontman admited that the ambitious nature of the band’s new album could prove a stumbling block but that he couldn’t have made the album any other way.
“I’m challenging people to sit through an hour and 15 minutes and 17 songs that all sound completely different from each other,” he said. “It’s quite an emotional investment. It’s art. It’s what I want to do. The world needs this album.”
The 1975 are currently embarking on a UK tour, which kicked off in London this week. See their remaining live dates below.
Manchester, O2 Apollo (March 12-15)
Glasgow, O2 Academy (March 17-19)
Birmingham, Barclaycard Arena (March 22)