The Script look set to top the UK Albums Chart this week with ‘Satellites’.

The latest album from the group is leading the first look at the midweeks, meaning it could become their seventh overall chart-topper in the process.

Five of their studio albums and one greatest hits compilation have previously hit the top spot: ‘The Script’ (2008), ‘Science & Faith’ (2010), ‘No Sound Without Silence’ (2014), ‘Freedom Child’ (2017), ‘Sunsets & Full Moons’ (2019) and ‘Tales From The Script: Greatest Hits’ (2021).

Speaking exclusively to RETROPOP, frontman Danny O’Donoghue reflected upon the new record, which arrives following the passing of founding member, guitarist Mark Sheehan, in April 2023, leaving the vocalist and drummer Glen Power to question the future of the group.

“When Mark passed away, everything got put on the backburner and we were really trying to round up the troops as far as, ‘Where do we go from here?’,” he confessed

“Everybody was trying to work their way through the devastation and decide what’s next for us. You know, do we stop The Script? Or do we want to continue? […] I needed to finish what we’d started.

“What we’ve done so far in the music industry so far has been absolutely incredible – and even if my career did finish tomorrow I’d be really happy – but at the same time I’m a born musician and I love making music. Genuinely, I have no idea what I would do if I wasn’t in music.”

While dealing with the loss, Danny made a conscious decision that The Script’s new music would be uplifting, insisting the material on ‘Satellites’ “celebrates” Mark’s legacy.

He added: “I’m sure people are expecting it to be quite an emotional album, or an album that deals in the past, but it’s not. It’s more of an optimistic album; it’s like, ‘Let’s stop grieving and start celebrating someone’s life’.”