Little Mix make it two weeks at albums Number 1 with Glory Days

New albums from Kate Bush and The Weeknd impact this week's Official Albums Chart Top 5.
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Little Mix have scored a second week at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with Glory Days.

After achieving the highest first week sales for a UK female girl group Number 1 since Spice Girls' Spiceworld last week, the record notched up another 57,000 combined sales in the last seven days and is now certified Gold for sales over 100,000.

Glory Days is the 24th Number 1 album from an act coming from the X Factor, and Little Mix's first UK Number 1 album. Other X Factor alumni to top the Official Albums Chart this year include Olly Murs and James Arthur.

Just 2,000 copies behind Little Mix are Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, whose album Together rebounds two places to Number 2. Together has now spent four weeks inside the Top 5.

MORE: See this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full 

New entries and high climbers

After starting the week in pole position, Kate Bush's Before The Dawn finishes today at Number 4. The live album continues Kate's unbroken run of Top 10 albums on the Official Albums Chart and becomes her 12th Top 10 record.

The Weeknd's third studio album Starboy is a new entry at Number 5 today and was the most streamed album of the week. Starboy follows The Weeknd's debut album Kiss Land - which peaked at Number 12 – and 2015 chart topper Beauty Behind The Madness.

Andre Rieu's eighth Top 10 album is in the bag at Number 7 with Falling in Love, while TV presenter Bradley Walsh lands at Number 10 with his debut album Chasing Dreams. Busted are the next new entry - their first studio album in 13 years Night Driver pulls over at 13.

MORE: Busted interview: "Year 5000? We don't think that would have gone down well"

Pete Tong & The Heritage Orchestra bow at 16 with Classic House, Susan Boyle's A Wonderful World impacts at 22, and Prince's new retrospective collection 4Ever featuring the previously unreleased track Moonbeam Levels debuts at 24.

Finally, Rumer scores her 4th Top 40 album with This Girl's in Love at 28, and Aled Jones' One Voice at Christmas becomes his second Top 40 album of 2016 at Number 30.

Check out this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full

Look through every Official UK Number 1 album of 2016 so far below:

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etin

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Wasnt kate #1 in midweek?

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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Yeah but than Glory Hole Days stopped it

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Peyton

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Aww I'm so happy for them they've worked hard for this & it's actually their best album so they deserve it & kudos for beating off such stiff competition.

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Scott Harris

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So they managed to block out Metallica, Kate Bush, The Weeknd, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe from the top spot? Wow, that's really impressive!

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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What the actual f**k. I am not a fan of Kate Bush in any way but I'd rather her over Little Mix. Glory Days gets two weeks while 24HRS comes and passes quickly. This is pouring with

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Maz

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Really? But congrats to Little Mix.

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TW

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Beats me how they have overlooked the fact that Elvis has gone back up two places to no.3. Will he go back to no.1 over Christmas?

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MusicStan_1997

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Last week they beat Metallica and Bruno Mars to No.1 and this week they beat Kate Bush and The Weekend to No.1, like them or not there is no ending their popularity. I'm happy for them, the album is amazing.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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Hopefully there will be an end to their popularity soon

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Alexander

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love your av are you going to see her in jan I am Dublin and the koko. cant wait also so true little mix aint going away anytime soon and that's as it should be.

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MusicStan_1997

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That's unlikely, they are getting more and more successful with each album.

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MusicStan_1997

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Thanks. You're so lucky, I wanted to see her in Manchester but I didn't manage to get tickets, I'm gutted, I'm hoping she might do more dates. I agree, they are talented and amazing, they don't deserve to fizzle away.

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Alexander

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extra date added in london feb 1st presale on now. love little mix. going to see them 5 times next year. new album is amazing. bonus dvd live concert is beyond brillant. went to the get weird tour seven times.

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MusicStan_1997

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I'm in Manchester, I can't get to London for those dates. She said on twitter that there's more to come so hopefully she will announce more dates soon so I can get tickets. Lucky, I wish I could see them that many times on the Glory Days Tour. I couldn't get tickets to any of the dates until Thursday, I was so happy they announced more dates and I managed to get amazing seats on Thursday to their new Manchester show. I saw them once on the Get Weird Tour and once on the DNA Tour, I would have loved to have seen the Salute Tour.

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Alexander

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salute the tour as with the lp was awesome. hope jojo does more dates. if they are selling as well the dates in jan she should.

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Alfred Lock

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even i thought the legend that is Kate Bush would do it but in the end the young generation of today are the winners as far as albums go so fair do to the mix girls for holding off some formidable competition

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Piran

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Well I was expecting Kate Bush to be #1 considering she was leading the mid-week update.
Congratulations to Little Mix though! 'Glory Days' is already one of my favourite albums of 2016 & I'm very pleased for all the success the group have had on the UK Charts, especially this year.

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Sunshine Gal

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hey mate!! so, this isn't the official article for the albums' chart?

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Piran

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Well this just announces the Top 10, along with some gains & debuts in the Top 40. The rest of the Top 100 should be posted shortly. :)
In other news, Clean Bandit's 'Rockabye' just got a fourth consecutive week at #1 on the singles chart.

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Sunshine Gal

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well you should be happy about clean bandit right? :D and then the singles' article should be up momentarily too? i'm grabbing a quick bite in between articles ;). did brocolli and juju do well over here? :D

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Piran

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Yeah, 'Rockabye' is my favourite song at the moment. 'Rockabye' now matches 'Rather Be' as their longest UK #1 single. :)
Well I only remember seeing 'Broccoli' in the 90-100 range & 'Juju' peaked at #37 (just dropped out of the Top 40), so not really!

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Sunshine Gal

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well all that's good ;)...did clean bandit do anything on the hot 100 chart?

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Piran

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Yeah, 'Rather Be' reached the Top 10 (I believe it peaked at #10) on the Hot 100 back in 2014. It was the second biggest song of that year in the UK though! :)
'Rockabye' is climbing up the Bubbling Under charts fast at the moment, so I think that will also enter the actual Hot 100 before the end of the year.

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Sunshine Gal

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well that's good, ok mate, i'll be on the uk article for the next few min. putting up my throwbacsks ;) i think you'll like the act i picked :D

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Techfan

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Hey Piran! I'm kind of disappointed myself, although not as much since it's a live album, isn't it? Probably surprised that Starboy was only #5. At least, got another week at #1. :)

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Piran

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Yeah, 'Before The Dawn' is a live album. I was also surprised about how low 'Starboy' debuted this week, but The Weeknd did get six songs from it in the UK Top 40 this week. According to HDD, it looks like the album is going to enter the BB200 on Sunday with 300k+ copies in total which is awesome! :)

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#1 KPOP STAN

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The UK gets four Queens instead of one.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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One of the cheesiest comments I've ever read in my life.

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Alexander

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they won the others lost build a bridge it might keep you off here for a while anyway.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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SOUND THE FOG HORNS! BUTTHURT LITTLE MIX FANS SPOTTED!!!

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Alexander

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Christ you really are as unfunny as I taught with your first comment. fog horn yeah I wish you would fog horn off.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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I wish you would walk into fog and then never come back.

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Alexander

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if it meant not having to see your stupid comments I gladly would.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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THEY KEEP COMING