Paloma Faith heading for first Number 1 album with Fall To Grace

Hackney starlet Paloma Faith could be on track for her first Official Number 1 album this weekend, as Fall To Grace drops straight into the top spot of today’s Official Albums Chart Update. Plus: See the Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 in full!
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Hackney starlet Paloma Faith could be on track for her first Official Number 1 album this weekend, as Fall To Grace drops straight into the top spot of today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

The second studio album from the singer/songwriter, produced by Nellee Hooper, looks set to be her highest charting record to date as 2009 debut album Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful peaked at Number 9. The albums features Top 10 single Picking Up The Pieces.

Watch an interview with Paloma talking about the album below:

New Entries

Paloma Faith (1) leads a flurry of 13 new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update, the rest of the Top 5 separate d only by a few thousand copies.

Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band are new in at Number 2 with Diamond Jubilee release Sing, while New York glam pop outfit Scissor Sisters are on track for Number 3 with Magic Hour. Rumer’s Boys Don’t Cry and Russell Watson’s Anthems complete the Top 5. Watch an interview with Russell Watson below:

Elsewhere Iceland’s Sigur Ros are back with new album Valtari (6), Melody Gardot’s The Absence (8), Ultravox’s Brilliant (9) Alt-J’s An Awesome Wave (13), Regina Spektor’s What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (14), Architect’s Daybreaker (22) and Laura Wright’s Glorious (30) are all new entries on today’s Update.

And finally, completing this week’s Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is Public Image Limited with new release This Is PiL (39). In a recent interview with OfficialCharts.com, PiL and Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, AKA Johnny Rotten, let slip that he actually had no idea the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee was coming up this weekend.

The singer, who caused wide-spread public outrage with his band’s single God Save The Queen during Her Majesty Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee 35 years ago, was asked what he was planning to do to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, he replied: “I wasn’t actually aware it was coming up! And I’m not joking, this is the actual truth.”

Lydon added that he didn’t remember much of Her Majesty’s Silver Jubilee, either. “When the Sex Pistols did the Jubilee Boat Tour, I was in no fit condition to be aware that was happening either.”

Watch the interview below.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

01 FALL TO GRACE PALOMA FAITH
02 SING GARY BARLOW/COMMONWEALTH BAND
03 MAGIC HOUR SCISSOR SISTERS
04 BOYS DON'T CRY RUMER
05 ANTHEMS RUSSELL WATSON
06 VALTARI SIGUR ROS
07 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE
08 THE ABSENCE MELODY GARDOT
09 BRILLIANT ULTRAVOX
10 NUMBER ONES BEE GEES
11 TALK THAT TALK RIHANNA
12 21 ADELE
13 AN AWESOME WAVE ALT-J
14 WHAT WE SAW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS REGINA SPEKTOR
15 STRANGELAND KEANE
16 EVERY KINGDOM BEN HOWARD
17 MYLO XYLOTO COLDPLAY
18 SOME NIGHTS FUN
19 + ED SHEERAN
20 MAKING MIRRORS GOTYE
21 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY
22 DAYBREAKER ARCHITECTS
23 WATCH THE THRONE JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
24 SPIRIT IN THE ROOM TOM JONES
25 WHO YOU ARE JESSIE J
26 STEREO TYPICAL RIZZLE KICKS
27 BORN AND RAISED JOHN MAYER
28 PINK FRIDAY - ROMAN RELOADED NICKI MINAJ
29 THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR ALEX CLARE
30 GLORIOUS LAURA WRIGHT
31 DRIVING TOWARDS THE DAYLIGHT JOE BONAMASSA
32 SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING LMFAO
33 HEAVEN REBECCA FERGUSON
34 UP ALL NIGHT ONE DIRECTION
35 NOTHING BUT THE BEAT DAVID GUETTA
36 STREETS IN THE SKY ENEMY
37 ELECTRONIC EARTH LABRINTH
38 IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW OLLY MURS
39 THIS IS PIL PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
40 LONELY ARE THE BRAVE MAVERICK SABRE

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