Skindred say they “feel like David and Goliath” in chart battle for first-ever Number One album

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Skindred are on course to achieve their first-ever UK Number One album.However, it is a close competition, and the band have revealed that they “feel like David and Goliath” in the race for the chart-topping spot.The bid for the peak position comes after the release of their eighth and latest studio album, ‘Smile’, which arrived last Friday (August 4) via Earache Records.On Wednesday (August 9), it was revealed that the LP is their most chart-friendly release to date, and on course to be their first Number One since they formed a quarter of a century ago.

However, it is still too close to call, as by the mid-week mark, the band were in a neck-and-neck race with The Sherlocks’ ‘People Like Me and You’ album and Cian Ducrot’s debut album ‘Victory’ and only 500 units separated the three.Now, with the chart-topping album set to be officially announced later today (August 11), the band have revealed what it would mean to them to cinch the peak position.“We’ve been Number One for the past two days, and we’re just going to push like hell until Friday,” frontman Benji Webbe said on Tuesday (August 8) in a discussion with the Official Charts. “We feel like David and Goliath, we’re calling on all of our fanbase and friends to give the album a push.”“I really do feel like we’ve got something to say and something to offer the world that hasn’t been done before, in the way Skindred does it.“The whole bringing black and white together thing, lifting people up and saying, ‘Come as you are.’ We hope we’re giving people some sort of hope,” he added. “We’ve been doing this for years, and it’d be amazing to have the biggest platform on the planet to do this.”Part of the success of the album comes after the band experienced a TikTok.