Encore, the new album from the ska legends, saw off competition from noughties pop-punk band Busted, who had also been hoping to top the album charts for the first time.After numerous splits and reunions over the years, the current incarnation of The Specials features original members Lynval Golding, Terry Hall and Horace Panter.
Speaking to OfficialCharts.com after getting the number one, the band said in a statement: "Recording the album has been one of the most amazing trips of our lives. What can we say? It couldn't have been better timing.
"A real thanks to the fans who have stayed with us for all this time. We all share in this, thank you."The Specials, known for hits including Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town and A Message To You, Rudy, formed in Coventry in the late 1970s.
Infusing ska with punk, they provided a musical backdrop to economic recession, urban decay and societal fracture at the time, and quickly became huge.
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