Florence + The Machine scores third chart-topping album with How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

Florence + The Machine lands straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

The singer’s third studio album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful racked up combined sales of just under 70,000 to score her third chart-topping record, following 2009’s Lungs (which re-enters the Top 40 today at 18) and 2011’s Ceremonials.

Elsewhere in an almost all-new Top 5, Britain’s Got Talent winners Collabro enter at 2 with their second album Act Two, and Jamie xx is new at 3 with his debut solo album In Colour.

Simply Red’s Big Love lands at Number 4 and becomes his 13^th Top 10 album, and Taylor Swift’s 1989 rounds off the Top 5. Since its release in November last year, the album has spent 31 of its 32 weeks in the Top 10, slipping out for just one week (to Number 11) back in April.

New entries

Punk band Slaves land at Number 8 with their debut album Are You Satisfied?, and rockers The Darkness debut at 12 with their fourth studio record Last Of Our Kind.

Jason Derulo’s fourth collection Everything Is 4 is new at Number 16, and Major Lazer’s third album Peace Is The Mission lands at 25.

The final new entries on this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 40 come from US singer-songwriter Melody Gardot, who enters at Number 31 with Currency Of Man, and indie-folk singer SOAK, whose debut Before We Forgot How To Dream lands at 37.

View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart here