Can Morrissey topple Ed Sheeran from the Official Albums Chart summit?

World Peace Is None Of Your Business is set to become this week’s highest new albums entry.
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Ed Sheeran faces competition from Morrissey in the race to Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

According to the Official Charts Company’s sales data, the 23-year-old singer/songwriter’s new studio album, X, is currently in pole position on today’s Update. However, Morrissey’s critically acclaimed, tenth solo album, World Peace Is None Of Your Business, is close behind with just 6,000 copies in it at this midway stage.

Sam Smith’s former chart topper, In The Lonely Hour (up one place to Number 3), trades places with Dolly Parton’s Blue Smoke (down one to 4), while London-based band Jungle look set to debut at Number 5 with their self-titled debut album.

New Entries

In addition to Morrissey’s World Peace Is None Of Your Business (Number 1) and Jungle’s Jungle (5), there are four other new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

Judas Priest look set to score their highest charting UK album in 34 years. The legendary heavy metal band’s 17th studio effort, Redeemer Of Souls, is currently at Number 8 on today’s Official Albums Chart Update. If they can hold on through to Sunday, it will become only their third Top 10 album on home turf, and highest charting album since the iconic British Steel, which peaked at Number 4 back in 1980.

Elsewhere, US political punks Rise Against are also on for a personal best with The Black Market (9), their previous best chart performance came courtesy of 2011’s Endgame which finished at Number 27.

And finally, Jason Mraz’s Yes! (12) and Slow Club’s Complete Surrender (32) complete this week’s new entries.

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.

1 X ED SHEERAN
2 WORLD PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS MORRISSEY
3 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH
4 BLUE SMOKE - THE BEST OF DOLLY PARTON
5 JUNGLE JUNGLE
6 WANTED ON VOYAGE GEORGE EZRA
7 CAUSTIC LOVE PAOLO NUTINI
8 REDEEMER OF SOULS JUDAS PRIEST
9 THE BLACK MARKET RISE AGAINST
10 GHOST STORIES COLDPLAY
11 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
12 YES JASON MRAZ
13 2.009027778 KASABIAN
14 FUTUROLOGY MANIC STREET PREACHERS
15 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
16 MEET THE VAMPS VAMPS
17 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION PALOMA FAITH
18 ULTRAVIOLENCE LANA DEL REY
19 LIVE LIFE LIVING EXAMPLE
20 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 EMINEM
21 NIGHT VISIONS IMAGINE DRAGONS
22 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
23 THE QUEEN IS DEAD SMITHS
24 IF YOU WAIT LONDON GRAMMAR
25 1000 FORMS OF FEAR SIA
26 HOMECOMING NICOLA BENEDETTI
27 LOVE IN THE FUTURE JOHN LEGEND
28 JAKE BUGG JAKE BUGG
29 GOING BACK HOME WILKO JOHNSON/ROGER DALTREY
30 THE 1975 1975
31 THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING ELBOW
32 COMPLETE SURRENDER SLOW CLUB
33 GIRL PHARRELL WILLIAMS
34 LIQUID SPIRIT GREGORY PORTER
35 THE HUNTING PARTY LINKIN PARK
36 WHAT HAVE WE BECOME PAUL HEATON & JACQUI ABBOTT
37 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
38 SUNNY SIDE UP PAOLO NUTINI
39 + ED SHEERAN
40 NEW EYES CLEAN BANDIT

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