Paramore set to end Justin Timberlake’s albums reign

Hayley Williams and co. take on Justin Timberlake in this week’s Official Albums Chart race to Number 1.

Paramore look set to end Justin Timberlake’s three week run at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart on Sunday.

The Tennessee rockers’ self-titled, fourth studio album, and first since the departure of guitarist and drummer Josh and Zac Farro in 2010, is currently in pole position on today’s Official Albums Chart Update, outselling Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience (Number 2) by nearly three copies to one.

The album has spawned two singles so far – Now (39) and latest single Still Into You, as performed on last week’s Graham Norton Show is shooting into the Top 40, currently riding at Number 34 in today’s Update. Frontwoman Hayley Williams also enjoyed a chart topper in 2010, guesting on B.o.B’s Airplanes.

If Paramore can maintain its lead though to Sunday, it will be the band’s second UK Number 1 album; their first being 2009’s Brand New Eyes.

P!nk’s latest album, The Truth About Love, climbs two places to Number 3, while Imagine Dragons are down two to Number 4 with Night Visions. This week’s Top 5 is completed by Slipknot duo Corey Taylor and Jim Root’s side-project Stone Sour. The pair are new in at Number 5 with their fifth album, House Of Gold & Bones - Part 2.

New Entries

In addition to Paramore (1) and Stone Sour (5), there are seven other new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

London-based singer/songwriter and producer James Blake is on course for his second Top 10 album this weekend. Overgrown, the follow-up to his eponymous 2011 debut (which peaked at Number 9) is at 6 today. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark enter one place behind him with their twelfth studio album, English Electric (7), while Swedish electro duo Knife are new in at Number 19 with Shaking The Habitual.

US jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux looks set to score her fourth Official Top 40 album with The Blue Room (29), and Kurt Vile is poised to make his UK chart debut with Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze (32).

This week’s Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 new entries are completed by Brad Paisley’s Wheelhouse (36) and Big Country’s The Journey (37).

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1	PARAMORE	PARAMORE
2	THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
3	THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE	P!NK
4	NIGHT VISIONS	IMAGINE DRAGONS
5	HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES - PT 2	STONE SOUR
6	OVERGROWN	JAMES BLAKE
7	ENGLISH ELECTRIC	OMD
8	UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX	BRUNO MARS
9	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
10	BAD BLOOD	BASTILLE
11	THE NEXT DAY	DAVID BOWIE
12	BAT OUT OF HELL	MEAT LOAF
13	TAKE ME HOME	ONE DIRECTION
14	BABEL	MUMFORD & SONS
15	18 MONTHS	CALVIN HARRIS
16	UNAPOLOGETIC	RIHANNA
17	LES MISERABLES	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
18	THE LUMINEERS	THE LUMINEERS
19	SHAKING THE HABITUAL	KNIFE
20	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
21	SEMPITERNAL	BRING ME THE HORIZON
22	RED	TAYLOR SWIFT
23	GRAFFITI ON THE TRAIN	STEREOPHONICS
24	NUMBER 3	THE SCRIPT
25	JAKE BUGG	JAKE BUGG
26	HALCYON	ELLIE GOULDING
27	RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME	OLLY MURS
28	AN AWESOME WAVE	ALT-J
29	THE BLUE ROOM	MADELEINE PEYROUX
30	DELTA MACHINE	DEPECHE MODE
31	OPPOSITES	BIFFY CLYRO
32	WAKIN ON A PRETTY DAZE	KURT VILE
33	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
34	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC
35	OLD SOCK	ERIC CLAPTON
36	WHEELHOUSE	BRAD PAISLEY
37	THE JOURNEY	BIG COUNTRY
38	THE VERY BEST OF	FLEETWOOD MAC
39	BOTH SIDES NOW	MICHAEL BALL
40	DELETED SCENES FROM THE CUTTING ROOM	CARO EMERALD