Bono’s son and his band top UK chart with debut album

Elijah Hewson has proved he can follow in his father Bono’s footsteps after the debut album by his band Inhaler entered the united kingdom chart at favorite .

Hewson fronts Irish band, whose LP Won’t Always Be Like This has knocked Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour off the highest spot.

Although Bono’s band U2 have had 10 UK favorite albums in total, Inhaler have managed something they didn’t by getting to the summit with their debut.

“We can’t believe our album has gone to favorite ,” Inhaler said.

“From beginning in small clubs within the UK to where we are today, never did we expect during the making of this album that this is able to be possible for us four chancers,” they told the Official Charts website.

Inhaler finished fifth on the BBC Sound of 2020 list and have now become the primary Irish act to top the united kingdom chart with their debut album since The Script in 2008.

It comes 40 years after U2’s debut, 1981’s Boy, which didn’t even make the highest 40.

While acknowledging the influence of and interest in his famous father, 21-year-old Hewson stressed that his own band had worked hard to prove themselves and build their own fanbase on the high .

“It has definitely allowed tons of doors to be opened, but i feel those doors shut even as fast because some people may have pre-biases to the band,” he said.

“It’s in fact really, really handy to be able attend someone like that and invite advice,” he continued. “But i feel we’ve all discovered that we’d like to work things out on their own.

“I am sure tons of individuals would have expected us just to require the straightforward route and use connections and stuff, but we’ve not done that. We did all the grafting.”

Nancy Sinatra had two favorite singles within the UK. These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ was successful in 1966, and Somethin’ Stupid was a duet together with her dad Sinatra the subsequent year.

Julio Iglesias topped the united kingdom singles chart in 1981 with Begin The Beguine – a feat matched by son Enrique Iglesias in 2002 with Hero, which was taken from his favorite album Escape.

Child actor-turned-adult-singer Miley Cyrus followed within the footsteps of her US country singer father Billy Ray Cyrus, who had variety three hit in 1992 with Achy Breaky Heart. His daughter racked up a UK favorite album in 2013 with Bangerz, which yielded two chart-topping singles, Wrecking Ball and that we Can’t Stop. Her dad enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in 2019 when he teamed up with Lil Nas X for a country-rap mash from his ubiquitous hit Old Town Road.

Neneh Cherry is best-known for her 1988 hit Buffalo Stance, which peaked at number three. Thirty-one years later, her daughter Mabel’s hit Don’t Call Me Up reached an equivalent position – as did her album High Expectations. The apple never falls faraway from the tree.