The Cure score first UK No 1 album in 32 years with Songs of a Lost World

Robert Smith performing with the Cure at the Troxy, London, to mark the album’s release. Photograph: Tom Pallant

The Cure have scored their first UK No 1 album in 32 years, with Songs of a Lost World.

The band’s frontman Robert Smith said: “It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album. To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years – thank you!”