Iggy Azalea on track to bag this week’s highest new album entry

Australian rapper Iggy Azalea looks set to score this week’s highest new entry on the Official Albums Chart.

Iggy Azalea looks set to grab the highest new entry on this weekend’s Official Albums Chart.

The 23-year-old Australian rapper’s debut album, The New Classic, is currently at Number 3 on today’s midweek Official Chart Update, sitting pretty behind reigning chart king Paolo Nutini’s Caustic Love (Number 1), and The Vamps’ Meet The Vamps (2) who both remain unmoved since Sunday.

The news comes almost a year to the day that Iggy made her UK chart debut with her first single, Work, which peaked at Number 17 last March. Since then, she has clocked up three further Top 20 hits including Bounce (Number 13), Change Your Life (10) and Fancy FT Charli XCX, which reached Number 5 earlier this month.

John Legend’s Love In The Future is a non-mover at Number 4, while US band Eels are on track to enter at 5 with their eleventh studio album, The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett.

This week’s new entries are completed by Flood by Kelis. The US singer songwriter, who first shot to fame in 2000 with The Neptunes-produced single Caught Out There, is currently at Number 8 on today’s Official Albums Chart Update. Should Food’s performance continue, it will become the highest charting UK album of Kelis’ career to date; her previous chart best was 2004’s Tasty which peaked at Number 11.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows. The Official Albums Chart Top 100 will be posted in full, here, on Sunday at 7pm.

1	CAUSTIC LOVE	PAOLO NUTINI
2	MEET THE VAMPS	VAMPS
3	THE NEW CLASSIC	IGGY AZALEA
4	LOVE IN THE FUTURE	JOHN LEGEND
5	THE CAUTIONARY TALES OF MARK OLIVER	EELS
6	A PERFECT CONTRADICTION	PALOMA FAITH
7	THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING	ELBOW
8	FOOD	KELIS
9	GIRL	PHARRELL WILLIAMS
10	EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION & WAR	KAISER CHIEFS
11	LITTLE RED	KATY B
12	SYMPHONICA	GEORGE MICHAEL
13	OUT AMONG THE STARS	JOHNNY CASH
14	GOING BACK HOME	WILKO JOHNSON/ROGER DALTREY
15	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS
16	IF YOU WAIT	LONDON GRAMMAR
17	BAD BLOOD	BASTILLE
18	THE VERY BEST OF	STONE ROSES
19	THE POWER OF LOVE	SAM BAILEY
20	LIFT YOUR SPIRIT	ALOE BLACC
21	TRUE	AVICII
22	HALCYON	ELLIE GOULDING
23	THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION	WHITNEY HOUSTON
24	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY
25	NIGHT VISIONS	IMAGINE DRAGONS
26	MIDNIGHT MEMORIES	ONE DIRECTION
27	DAYS ARE GONE	HAIM
28	SUNNY SIDE UP	PAOLO NUTINI
29	THE STONE ROSES	STONE ROSES
30	THE 1975	1975
31	SINCE I SAW YOU LAST	GARY BARLOW
32	BEYONCE	BEYONCE
33	MOON LANDING	JAMES BLUNT
34	PRISM	KATY PERRY
35	HOMO ERRATICUS	IAN ANDERSON
36	PURE HEROINE	LORDE
37	LIQUID SPIRIT	GREGORY PORTER
38	+	ED SHEERAN
39	HOME	RUDIMENTAL
40	GREATEST HITS - SO FAR	PINK