'CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED' Sports Team achieve highest first week sales for a debut album by a British band in four years, with debut Deep Down Happy

On the 12 June Sports Team achieved the highest first week sales for a debut album by a British band in four years, with critically acclaimed debut Deep Down Happy. Sports Team enter the OCC at #2, becoming the seller of the week, leading on physical sales (10K) and having the edge on digital downloads; as Lady Gaga only just takes the top spot. Sports Team have also scored #1 on the Official Vinyl Chart.

With no record stores open, and no live shows due to lockdown, the six-piece have still managed to achieve the biggest selling album of the w­­eek in Independent Retail, a mammoth feat for Britain’s next breakthrough guitar band. Blossoms were the last British band to record the highest week one sales in 2016, with Wolf Alice in 2015, Royal Blood in 2014, and the 1975 in 2013. The 12,248 sales week one, has eclipsed debuts by Shame, Idles, The Big Moon, Pale Waves and The Magic Gang.

Sports Team have built an incredibly loyal, impassioned fanbase, who carried the Gaga x Sports Team chart battle conversation last night on Twitter. From a Lewis Capaldi summoning circle which lead to support from the superstar (proving witchcraft does work), to TV fisherman Jeremy Wade, and Sam Fender, Sports Team fans were out in force, showing comradeship for the future of guitar music.
“It was Blur vs Oasis but with Lewis Capaldi, Sam Fender, shadow ministers and Jeremy Wade. Bizarre but amazing that the community of fans we’ve built around this can take on a global superstar. Live forever” – Sports Team
4* THE TIMES 5* DORK - 4* NME - 4* INDEPENDENT - 4* DIY - 4* DAILY STAR - 9.5/10 LOBF
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PRAISE FOR DEEP DOWN HAPPY >

"Recalling the rambunctious spirit of Blur and Pulp" – 4* THE TIMES
"As far as 'guitar music' is concerned, it's game on. Full of charm & unpredictability" – 4* Independent
The gobbiest new bunch on the block cement their early promise with a debut album full of hedonism, tribalism and untamed energy" – 4* NME
"Love them or hate them, dismiss them at your peril" 4* DIY
"Sounding like a gang having fun should be simple, but it's a spirit that's been missing lately. Sports Team deserve a medal for bringing it back" 4* Daily Star
"an album soaked in teen spirit...Sports Team are the complete package" – 5* DORK
"Their tales of life in your 20s in modern Britain is unmistakably now" – Q
"A debut as wry, energetic and charismatic as their inexhaustible live presence has always promised" – Loud & Quiet
"Sports Team evoke britpop spirit of Pulp, while throwing in nods to American punk (Iggy pop is a fan)" – Daily Mail
"May we introduce you to your new favourite band" – ES Magazine
"The weirdo UK guitar band you need to know"- PAPER

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