Adele takes back her Official Albums Chart throne
She's been in the wilderness for a while, but today Adele says a big hello to the top of the Official Albums Chart once again.
After ceding the Number 1 spot to David Bowie and Coldplay for five weeks, Adele's 25 is back on top following the star's powerful performance at Sunday's Grammys in LA. This gives 25 an eighth non-consecutive week at Number 1.
MORE: See this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full
David Bowie's hits retrospective and former chart-topper Best of Bowie climbs back up a place to 2, while Justin Bieber's Purpose also advances a spot to Number 3.
Highest new entry of the week goes to Ronan Keating, scoring his eighth Top 10 hit with ninth studio album Time Of My Life, and completing the Top 5 is last week's Number 1 from Coldplay, with A Head Full Of Dreams.
New entries and high climbers
Little Mix are back in the Top 10 with Get Weird, after their performance of latest single Secret Love Song on Graham Norton's chat show last week, up seven places to Number 8.
Aside from Ronan Keating at Number 4, there are two brand new entries and four releases breaking back into the Top 40.
American singer-songwriter Lissie snares her third Top 20 album, with latest collection My Wild West going straight in at Number 17, while Fleetwood Mac's 1977 classic Rumours leaps 35 slots to Number 27.
Following his spectacular performance at Sunday's Grammys, Kendrick Lamar's former Number 1 To Pimp A Butterly zooms 72 places to Number 31, and Kula Shaker score their first Top 40 album in almost 17 years – K 2.0 is new at 32.
BRIT Award-nominated Amy Winehouse's second album Back To Black breaks back into the Top 40 at 38, and Twenty One Pilots also make a return, with Blurryface climbing four spots to Number 40.
View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full
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Stuart naylor
How much did Adele sell this week? And what's 25s total??
Mrs. Brooks
Adele is unstoppable! I hope she spends at least two more weeks at the top.
I Am A Stegosaurus
NOOOOOO! But then again, better Adele Albums #1 than Lukas Graham Singles #1.
Brian Quinn
Elvis' 'If I Can Dream' starting to rise again up from 16 to 11.
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
Did he finally get those 12,000 units needed to reach the million?
Brian Quinn
Not quite. He sold 7,844 units this week giving him a sales total of 995,586 to date. Almost certain to reach the million mark next week.
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Stuart naylor
How much did Adele well this week? And what's 25s total sales??