Queens of the Stone Age lead all-American rock band race for this week's Official UK Number 1 album

Plus there are new albums from Shane Filan, Fifth Harmony and Lil Uzi Vert heading for this week's Official Albums Chart.

Queens of the Stone Age are on course to claim their first Number 1 record and lead an all-American rock band race for the top spot on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

The band’s seventh studio album Villains - produced by Mark Ronson - is leading the charge on the albums chart, currently outselling its closest rival by 3:1. Four of the band’s previous six records have landed inside the Top 10, with 2013’s Like Clockwork peaking at Number 2. Check out their full Official UK Chart history here.

Fellow American rockers War On Drugs are currently in second place with their fourth collection A Deeper Understanding - all but certain to earn the band their first Top 10.

Also on track for a personal best are Massachusetts trio PVRIS, their second album All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell starts at 3.

New entries and high climbers

Meanwhile, former Westlife singer Shane Filan could be claiming his second Top 10 album as a soloist this week – his third collection Love Always is at Number 5, and Fifth Harmony’s new, self-titled album is on course to become their second Top 10, currently at 7.

US southern rockers The Cadillac Three open at Number 10 with their third album Legacy, US rapper XXXTentacion opens at 13 with his debut record 17, and hip-hop star Lil Uzi Vert is at 15 with his new album Luv Is Rage 2.

Further down, Iron & Wine’s Beast Epic (34) and Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination (37) could be landing in this week’s Top 40, and a number of albums are tracking massive climbs: Haim’s Something To Remember is up 27 places to 19, Paramore’s After Laughter so far re-enters at 30, and Kasabian’s latest record For Crying Out Loud is up 48 spots to 38.

This week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart Update

POS	TITLE	ARTIST
1	VILLAINS	QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
2	A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING	WAR ON DRUGS
3	ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN ALL WE NEED OF	PVRIS
4	DIVIDE	ED SHEERAN
5	LOVE ALWAYS	SHANE FILAN
6	THE 50 GREATEST HITS	ELVIS PRESLEY
7	FIFTH HARMONY	FIFTH HARMONY
8	HUMAN	RAG'N'BONE MAN
9	ADIOS	GLEN CAMPBELL
10	LEGACY	CADILLAC THREE
11	DUA LIPA	DUA LIPA
12	MOANA	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
13	17	XXXTENTACION
14	GLORY DAYS	LITTLE MIX
15	LUV IS RAGE 2	LIL UZI VERT
16	TO THE BONE	STEVEN WILSON
17	X	ED SHEERAN
18	LUST FOR LIFE	LANA DEL REY
19	SOMETHING TO TELL YOU	HAIM
20	THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION	JOHN DENVER
21	CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS	EMINEM
22	MORE LIFE	DRAKE
23	EVERYTHING NOW	ARCADE FIRE
24	HYBRID THEORY	LINKIN PARK
25	GREATEST HITS	FOO FIGHTERS
26	TRIBE	CHASE & STATUS
27	COMMON SENSE	J HUS
28	TRUTH IS A BEAUTIFUL THING	LONDON GRAMMAR
29	EVOLVE	IMAGINE DRAGONS
30	AFTER LAUGHTER	PARAMORE
31	HOW DID WE GET SO DARK	ROYAL BLOOD
32	DAMN.	KENDRICK LAMAR
33	LEGEND	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
34	BEAST EPIC	IRON & WINE
35	DIRECT HITS	KILLERS
36	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC
37	HOLIDAY DESTINATION	NADINE SHAH
38	FOR CRYING OUT LOUD	KASABIAN
39	TIME FLIES - 1994-2009	OASIS
40	THE VERY BEST OF	FLEETWOOD MAC
41	TROLLS	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
42	FUNK WAV BOUNCES - VOL 1	CALVIN HARRIS
43	A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS	COLDPLAY
44	THE PEACE AND THE PANIC	NECK DEEP
45	1989	TAYLOR SWIFT
46	25	ADELE
47	COZY TAPES - VOL 2 - TOO COZY	ASAP MOB
48	MY EVERYTHING	ARIANA GRANDE
49	WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY	OASIS
50	+	ED SHEERAN
51	STARBOY	WEEKND
52	GANG SIGNS & PRAYER	STORMZY
53	24K MAGIC	BRUNO MARS
54	GREATEST HITS	QUEEN
55	LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM/CHRISTINE MCVIE	BUCKINGHAM/MCVIE
56	TIMELESS - THE ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS	BEE GEES
57	04:44	JAY-Z
58	SCARECROW	CATS IN SPACE
59	GREATEST HITS - SO FAR	PINK
60	NUMBER ONES	MICHAEL JACKSON
61	RAINBOW	KESHA
62	ONE MORE LIGHT	LINKIN PARK
63	I CRY WHEN I LAUGH	JESS GLYNNE
64	WITNESS	KATY PERRY
65	UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK	NIRVANA
66	HARRY STYLES	HARRY STYLES
67	DANGEROUS WOMAN	ARIANA GRANDE
68	PURPOSE	JUSTIN BIEBER
69	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS
70	MELODRAMA	LORDE
71	A FEVER DREAM	EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
72	LIVE FOR THE MOMENT	SHERLOCKS
73	SO GOOD	ZARA LARSSON
74	THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION	DONNA SUMMER
75	GOLD - GREATEST HITS	ABBA
76	CROOKED CALYPSO	PAUL HEATON & JACQUI ABBOTT
77	LEGACY	DAVID BOWIE
78	ILLUMINATE	SHAWN MENDES
79	THE VERY BEST OF	DOLLY PARTON
80	ALL OVER THE WORLD - THE VERY BEST OF	ELO
81	THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON	PINK FLOYD
82	GREATEST HITS	GUNS N' ROSES
83	STONEY	POST MALONE
84	METEORA	LINKIN PARK
85	BACK TO BLACK	AMY WINEHOUSE
86	BLURRYFACE	TWENTY ONE PILOTS
87	THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION	WHITNEY HOUSTON
88	VIEWS	DRAKE
89	THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2	EMINEM
90	NEVERMIND	NIRVANA
91	DEFINITELY MAYBE	OASIS
92	BEAUTY AND THE BEAST	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
93	BEST OF - DECADE IN THE SUN	STEREOPHONICS
94	THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP	EMINEM
95	GREATEST HITS	RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
96	IN THE LONELY HOUR	SAM SMITH
97	RENAISSANCE IN EXTREMIS	AKERCOCKE
98	SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND	BEATLES
99	LEAGUE OF MY OWN II	CHIP
100	THE EMINEM SHOW	EMINEM