Adele's 25 is set to continue its Official Album Chart domination this week
Adele is set to continue her reign atop this week’s Official Albums Chart with 25.
Sales of the singer’s third album currently stand at 158,000 this week – more than double her nearest competitor, Elvis Presley’s If I Can Dream. Elvis celebrates his own sales milestone today, as combined sales of the orchestral album surpass 500,000.
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Meanwhile, Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams slips a place to Number 3, Justin Bieber’s Purpose holds at 4, and Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh rounds off the Top 5.
New entries and high climbers
Outside the Top 10, James Bay’s Chaos And The Calm leaps seven places to 13, Hozier’s self-titled debut vaults back into the Top 40 at 26, and Stereophonics’ Keep The Village Alive jumps 12 places to 29 following their performance at the BBC Music Awards.
Further down the chart, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbot, who also performed at the BBC Music Awards, rebound 21 places to 33 with Wisdom Laughter And Lines, and Ben Haenow’s self-titled album returns to the Top 40 at 39.
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Brian Quinn
Elvis sold over 514,000 last week. He will go Double Platinum this week.
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
Remarkable for a person who was last seen leaving a recording studio on May 12, 1975, forty years ago, and who spent in the UK a total of 100 minutes, and that was at a stopover at Prestwick airport on March 3, 1960, more than a half a century ago...