Imagine Dragons vs Bring Me The Horizon in albums race

Imagine Dragons and Bring Me The Horizon go head-to-head in the race for this week’s Official Albums Chart Number 1!

Imagine Dragons go head-to-head with Bring Me The Horizon in a battle of the bands for this week’s Official Albums Chart Number 1 title.

Following the success of recent Top 40 singles, Radioactive and Hear Me, US indie rockers Imagine Dragons have taken an early over their British metal counterparts. After 48 hours on sale, the band’s debut album, Night Visions (Number 1), is narrowly ahead of Bring Me The Horizon’s fourth full-length, Sempiternal (2) by just over 3,000 copies.

Reigning chart topper Justin Timberlake falls two placed to Number 3 with The 20/20 Experience, while David Bowie’s The Next Day and Bastille’s Bad Blood are at Number 4 and 5, respectively.

New Entries And Re-Entries

In addition to Imagine Dragons (Number 1) and Bring Me The Horizon (2), there are seven other new entries on this week’s Official Albums Chart Update.

US metal heavyweights Killswitch Engage look set to debut inside the Top 10 on Sunday with their sixth studio album, Disarm The Descent (7). Disarm… is KsE’s new material in almost four years, and first release since reuniting with original vocalist Jesse Leach who left the band in 2002.

Tyler, The Creator, leader of LA hip-hop collective Odd Future, is also Top 10-bound with his third solo album, Wolf (9), while Brighton indie rockers British Sea Power are new in at Number 11 with Machineries Of Joy.

East London MC Wiley looks set to score his first Top 40 album on Sunday with The Ascent. Featuring the Top 10 singles Heatwave, Can You Hear Me? (Ayayaya) and Reload, The Ascent debuts at Number 21 on today’s Update. The midweek new entries are completed by The Flaming Lips’ The Terror (30), New Kids On The Block’s 10 (31) and Alkaline Trio’s My Shame Is True (38).

And finally, the new 35th anniversary edition of Meat Loaf’s iconic 1978 album, Bat Out Of Hell, has helped the classic return to the Top 40 at Number 15. Bat Out Of Hell is the 21st biggest selling album of all-time.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

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