The singer-songwriter’s third studio album ‘Lost Weekend‘ was released last Friday (August 14) and today, it landed at Number One on the UK Albums Chart.
Bridgers has been photographed holding her Number One Album award in a hospital bed today (August 21), after a week in which she has been receiving treatment for appendicitis.
‘Lost Weekend’ surpasses the Number Six peak for her last solo record ‘Punisher‘ in 2020, although Bridgers did hit the top spot as part of Boygenius, alongside Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, with their album ‘The Record‘ in 2023.
Recently the singer performed a haunting acoustic rendition of the song, from the grunge icons’ 1991 album ‘Nevermind’, on the Wednesday August 19 edition of the long-running music show.
She also treated fans to performances of ‘Lost Boys’, the lead single from her new album ‘Lost Weekend’, as well as the track ‘Bobby’.
You can listen to the whole episode here, or hear audio from the performance of ‘Lithium’ below.
The session appears to have been recorded before Bridgers became ill from appendicitis, which caused her to cancel a series of intimate UK gigs this week. “I got appendicitis for my birthday,” she wrote on Instagram stories, captioning a photo of herself in a hospital bed. “Everything in the UK this week will have to move but I’ll make it up to you!!!!”
