Kings of Leon scoop their fifth consecutive Number 1 album with WALLS

Plus Phil Collins, Tom Chaplin, Oasis and Two Door Cinema Club hit the Top 5.
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Kings of Leon's latest album WALLS becomes their fifth consecutive studio album to top the Official Albums Chart.

The group's seventh collection follows in the footsteps of Because of the Times, Only by the Night, Come Around Sundown and Mechanical Bull to hit Number 1, all of which peaked at the top spot within their first week of release. View Kings of Leon's Official Chart history here.

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Commenting on their success, Kings of Leon said: "The UK is our home away from home, so to be Number One here really means a lot to us. We can't wait to come back next year and play to the best fans in the world." 

WALLS - an acronym for We Are Like Love Songs - scored combined chart sales of 50,000, outselling their nearest rival Phil Collins by three copies to one. Phil's The Singles retrospective enters at Number 2, sales boosted earlier in the week following his announcement that he is to come out of retirement for a European Tour.

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The all-new Top 5 continues with Keane lead-vocalist Tom Chaplin; The Wave is new at Number 3. All of Keane's studio albums reached Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart - view Keane's chart history here

Concluding the Top 5 are Oasis, whose classic album Be Here Now returns to the Top 5 following a re-issue (4), and Two Door Cinema Club, who score a second Top 5 entry with their third studio album Gameshow (5).

New entries and high climbers

Rebecca Ferguson has a fourth Top 10 album in the bag, her new offering Superwoman flies to Number 7. American country/rock group Blackberry Smoke penetrate the Official Albums Chart Top 10 for the first time at 8 with Like An Arrow, and Katie Melua scores her seventh consecutive Top 10 studio album with the self-produced In Winter (9).

Justin Bieber's Purpose vaults five places as his UK tour rolls on, and re-enters the Top 10 at 10. Further down the tally, Beth Hart's Fire on the Floor marks her fourth Top 40 record at 28, and David Teie's classical collection Music for Cats bows at Number 33.

John Cooper Clarke and Hugh Cornwell land at 34 with their new project This Time It's Personal; Hillsong Worship enter the Official Albums Chart at 36 with Let There Be Light; and finally, The Game's 1992 is new at Number 38.

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Christina

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I love Rebecca Ferguson's new album, it's amazing x