Lana Del Rey heading for second Number 1 album with Ultraviolence

Lana Del Rey is on track for her second Number 1 album in the UK this weekend with Ultraviolence.

Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence is leading the race for this week’s Number 1 album in today’s Official Chart Update.

Lana Del Rey looks set to score her second chart-topping album this weekend with her third studio album, Ultraviolence. The album, which features current single, West Coast, counts The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach amongst its producers, and has been described as Lana as “a little more stripped down, but still cinematic and dark.”

Lana previously hit the top spot on the Official Albums Chart back in 2012, when debut album, Born To Die, went straight in at Number 1 and became one of the fastest selling albums of the year.

Ultraviolence has sold nearly 30,000 copies in the UK so far this week and currently sits over 14,000 copies ahead of today’s Official Albums Chart Update Number 2, Linkin Park’s self-produced, sixth studio album, The Hunting Party.

Down one place to Number 3 is Coldplay’s Ghost Stories, followed closely by current summit-holders, Kasabian’s 48:13 at 4, and Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour at 5.

New Entries

Further to Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence (Number 1) and Linkin Park’s The Hunting Games (2), there are five other new entries in today’s Official Albums Chart Update. Canadian producer, Deadmau5’s seventh studio album, While (1 is new in at Number 13, and Dutch DJ/producer, Tiesto, debuts at Number 21 with his first album release in five years, A Town Called Paradise.

Indie rockers, Klaxons’ Love Frequency enters the chart at Number 25, while American country singer/songwriter Willie Nelson’s Band Of Brothers is at 32. Rounding out today’s new entries is Jennifer Lopez’s latest offering, A.K.A., which is in at Number 36 today.

The highest climber on today’s Official Albums Chart Update is Ed Sheeran’s + which jumps a massive 40 places to Number 10 ahead of the release of the Suffolk singer’s second studio album, x, next week.

Lana Del Rey’s 2012 release, Born To Die, climbs 27 places to Number 28 while Passenger’s All The Little Lights is up 22 places to 30, giving the British singer/songwriter his second entry on today’s update, along with Whispers (9).

Finally, Kings Of Leon’s 2013 album, Mechanical Bull, has climbed 11 places to Number 31 following the group’s headline set at last weekend’s Isle Of Wight Festival.

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.

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