Oasis prime the album charts for the primary time in 14 years

Oasis have come out number one on the UK album charts for the first time in over a decade amid fury from fans over inflated prices for tickets to their reunion tour. 

Last week their debut album Definitely Maybe was in fifth place, however over the last few days has seen the iconic Britpop project skyrocket to first place. 

The feat – which marks their first number one in 14 years – came with a 408 per cent week-on-week uplift in the last seven days, the Official Charts Company has said. 

The project, which debut at the top of the UK charts when it was released in September 1994, pushes American songstress Sabrina Carpenter’s album Short N’ Sweet album into second place. 

Oasis landed number one spot, bolstered by the release of a 30th anniversary deluxe edition, despite fans angered by ticket queueing chaos last week as they attempted to bag tickets to the highly anticipated reunion tour.

Definitely Maybe has also topped the vinyl albums chart, with more than 50 per cent of its weekly total made up of vinyl sales.

It has also proved to be the most popular album in UK independent record shops in the past seven days.

Oasis have recently dominated the charts, bagging the number three spot with their greatest hits compilation Time Flies 1994-2009, whilst their 1995 classic (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? remains at number four.

Over in the UK singles chart, their hit Live Forever has hit a new peak, sitting at number eight, while Don’t Look Back in Anger has returned to the top for the first time in nearly three decades. 

One of their most renowned songs, Wonderwall,  has also risen six places to number 11.

Following the news, the band took to X (formerly Twitter) to thank fans for their support, writing: ‘A massive thank you to everyone who’s supported Oasis this week.’

Official Charts chief executive Martin Talbot said: ‘As if the huge demand for their tour dates wasn’t evidence enough, the enduring power of Oasis is underlined by the success of Definitely Maybe this week.

‘Congratulations to Liam and Noel – topping the Official Charts together for the first time in 14 years.’

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham added: ‘Congratulations to Oasis on Definitely Maybe’s return to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart.

‘Greater Manchester is in a different moment now with a thriving economy, and Oasis returning and playing shows in their home city will only boost this.

‘Manchester often has a tendency to talk about its past glories, of which Oasis were very much a part, but I think this is a fantastic opportunity for a new generation of Greater Mancunians to celebrate some of its most famous sons.

‘I was delighted to hear the news of Liam and Noel getting back together to reform as I never actually got the chance to see them live.

‘There has been a palpable buzz in Manchester since the news of Oasis reforming broke and it very much feels like the city is having another big moment.’

It comes after the band announced last week that they were finally getting back together for a reunion tour in 2025 following their acrimonious split in 2009.

However, fans were hit with queuing chaos online last Saturday, from accused of being bots and booted from the queue, and others seeing ticket prices double from around £148 to £355 on Ticketmaster. 

Amid a sea of angered fans who lost out on a chance to get a ticket as the tour sold out in less than a day, the band announced they would be adding additional Wembley dates on September 27 and 28 using a balloting system. 

It comes as the competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Ticketmaster over Oasis concert ticket sales, it has announced. 

The Competition and Markets Authority said fans ‘may not have been given clear information about ticket prices’ as they struggled to snap up tickets for the Oasis Live ’25 tour last week.

Regulators will investigate whether Ticketmaster has engaged in ‘unfair commercial practices’, prohibited under consumer law, and whether fans were given clear and timely information on the Uber-style ‘dynamic pricing’ used to set the cost of tickets.

The competition watchdogs for the UK and Ireland have both launched an investigation into Ticketmaster, including how so-called ‘dynamic pricing’ may have been used during the sale of the Oasis tickets.

Watchdogs are also set to assess whether concert-goers were pressured into buying the tickets within a short space of time and at a higher price than they thought they were going to pay.

It came after the band appeared to blow up some of the goodwill built up by fans over 15 years in a matter of days after announcing the reunion tour – as would-be concert-goers hit out at ‘dynamic pricing’ that doubled standing ticket prices.

Scalpers also appeared to scoop tickets in bulk and placed them on resale websites for vastly inflated figures.

The CMA is at the initial stage of its investigation and will engage with Ticketmaster and ‘other sources’ such as the band’s management and the event promoters.

Fans are being asked to submit evidence to the CMA outlining their experiences of buying – or attempting to buy – Oasis tickets after they went on sale last week and sold out within hours. 

This can be done via the regulator’s CMA Connect platform. 

Earlier today, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher told fans he felt ‘smug’ about the band’s reunion tour. 

Launching an online rant after their ticketing debacle left millions disappointed, the singer broke his social media silence – but face further flak for his outbursts.

He posted on X, formerly Twitter, this morning: ‘OASIS are back your welcome and I hear there ATTITUDE STINKS good to know something’s never change.’

When fans responded by criticising the ticketing approach, he replied: ‘SHUTUP [sic]’

And when asked how he was feeling, the 51-year-old responded: ‘SMUG only kidding SMUG AS F*** I told you all we were gonna get back together 1 fine day [sic]’

He was also asked how his mother Peggy felt about him and older brother Noel reuniting 15 years after the band split and following years of public feuding.

Liam commented, ‘She’s gutted she couldn’t get a ticket’, and joked about there now being ‘kneeling tickets only’. 

His ‘SHUTUP’ response came to a fan who had told him: ‘Didn’t expect them to rip the fans off as much as they have done. It’s genuinely a shame.’

When asked whether he had any spare tickets, Liam hit back: ‘S*** loads but there really expensive 100 thousand pounds Kneeling only.’