Taylor Swift’s 1989 outselling the rest of the Top 5 albums

The singer’s fifth album 1989 has a strong sales lead on today’s Official Chart Update, having shifted almost 60,000 copies and is outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined.

As such, 1989 is likely to become Taylor’s second chart-topping album this Sunday, following 2012’s Red, which to date has sold over half a million copies in the UK.

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Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran is at Number 2 with X, and Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour returns to the Top 5 at Number 3.

Led Zeppelin land at Number 4 midweek with the re-issue of their chart-topping 1971 album IV, and last week’s Number 1 Ben Howard rounds off the Top 5 with I Forget Where We Were.

New entries and high climbers

New at Number 6 at the halfway point of the week is Annie Lennox’s Nostalgia. The covers record marks the singer’s first album in four years and is on track to be her highest charting album in over a decade, since 2003’s Bare.

Another Led Zeppelin reissue – 1973’s Houses Of The Holy – enters at Number 7, and OneRepublic’s Native rebounds 31 to 12.

Cambridge rock band Mallory Knox debut at 13 with Asymmetry, Black Veil Brides’ self-titled LP lands at 14, and Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens’ 14th album Tell ‘Em I’m Gone enters at 18.

Elsewhere, Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water (19), Devin Townsend Project’s Z2 (24), Rancid’s Honor Is All We Know (31), You Me At Six’s Cavalier Youth (32), Twilight Sad’s Nobody Wants To Be Here (34) and Worship Central’s Set Apart (36) are all on course for a place in the Top 40 this Sunday.

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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