The Rolling Stones equal The Beatles with 15th UK Number One album

The Rolling Stones have reached a historic milestone in the British music industry. With their latest studio record Foreign Tongues reaching the top of the Official Albums Chart this week, the band now holds 15 UK Number One albums. This achievement ties them with The Beatles for the second most chart-topping albums in UK history. Only Robbie Williams remains ahead of the group with 16 solo records.

Foreign Tongues hit the market on July 10 and maintains the momentum the band established with their 2023 release Hackney Diamonds. The new record includes a variety of high-profile collaborations. Listeners can find Paul McCartney on bass, while Robert Smith from The Cure provides guitar work and vocals. The album also features a contribution from the late Charlie Watts, sourced from his final recording sessions before his death in 2021.

This success arrives more than 62 years after the band achieved their first Number One with their self-titled debut in 1964. The group celebrated the release with a major event in London attended by various figures in entertainment, including Daniel Craig and Sam Fender. Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood have expressed their intentions to take the new material on tour in the near future.

Mick Jagger shows no signs of retirement despite the band's decades of work. He noted in recent interviews that he continues to write new material. He has even suggested that he has enough concepts to potentially form another record. The band has also released a six-part podcast titled Speaking In Tongues to document the creative process behind the current release. Fans continue to track the band's output as they look toward future live performances.