Amble crest the Irish summit with The Swell

Amble have claimed their first number one on the Official Irish Singles Chart. The new list, dated 11 September 2026, places The Swell at the summit and brings to a close the eleven-week run enjoyed by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean with Rein Me In.

The single has been certified platinum by IRMA, equal to 15,000 units in combined sales and streaming. It comes from the band’s second album, Love and All Its Wares, set for release in January 2027, and had its live premiere at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in June.

Three counties, one rapid rise

Amble formed in 2022 when Robbie Cunningham, Ross McNerney and Oisín McCaffrey left day jobs to play full time. Cunningham, on vocals and guitar, is from Leitrim; McNerney, who plays mandolin, bouzouki and banjo, is from Longford; McCaffrey, on guitar and vocals, is from Sligo. The geography matters: this is a west-of-Ireland folk trio whose sound has travelled without sanding down the instruments that define it.

Their debut album, Reverie, was released in May 2025 on Warner Records and went to number one on the Irish albums chart. More than a year later it remains inside the top ten, a hold that few debuts manage. Recognition had already come through the RTÉ Choice Music Prize, where the band won Single of the Year for Schoolyard Days and took the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award.

Those foundations turned into larger rooms. In 2026 Amble played headline slots at Electric Picnic. They supported Ed Sheeran and Dermot Kennedy on stadium dates, carrying mandolin and bouzouki onto bills designed for pop and stadium songwriting on a much larger scale. For an act that only quit the day jobs four years ago, the leap is steep.

From Grouse Lodge to January

Love and All Its Wares was recorded over three weeks in April at Grouse Lodge Recording Studios in Westmeath, with Philip Weinrobe as producer. A short, focused session at a residential studio points to a band chasing live takes rather than a prolonged studio construction. The Swell was the first fruit of that work to reach a wide audience, first from the Opry stage and then across Irish streaming and retail.

To knock a collaboration between Sam Fender and Olivia Dean off the top after eleven weeks takes more than a favourable playlist week. Rein Me In had become a fixture of the Irish summer. The Swell’s platinum award and its first place together show sustained demand, not a one-week curiosity.

The number one arrives with the second album already finished and dated. Reverie is still charting. The live work has moved from early rooms to festival headlines and support slots alongside two of the biggest writer-performers in British and Irish pop. What comes next is clear on the calendar if not yet fully on the tracklist: Love and All Its Wares in January 2027, and the test of whether a debut that topped the albums chart can be matched by a follow-up that keeps Amble at the centre of the Irish conversation.

For now that conversation has a simple shape. Amble are at number one, platinum already secured, with a new record only months away.