Miley Cyrus takes an early lead in the race for this week’s Official Number 1 album as she heads for the top spot with ninth studio set Something Beautiful.
Something Beautiful, which comes accompanied by a visual film of the same name, could become the genre-hopping superstar’s third UK Number 1 album, possibly following 2013’s Bangerz and 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation.
She faces stiff competition from alt-rock icons Garbage, though, whose eighth studio album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light right behind (2). If it maintains this position until Friday, it will become Garbage’s seventh UK Top 10 album and highest charting since 1998’s Version 2.0, which peaked at Number 1.
Matt Berninger is on course for his first solo Top 10 album with sophomore set Get Sunk (5). Berninger, frontman of The National, previously charted at Number 21 with his 2021 solo debut Serpentine Prison. With The National he’s scored five Top 10 albums, including 2017 chart-topper Sleep Well Beast.
The 1975 are heading for a seventh Top 10 album with their live LP Still… At Their Very Best (Live From The AO Arena, Manchester, 17.02.24) (7). The album was released on streaming in March of this year, but is expected to chart for the first time thanks to a limited edition transparent 3LP vinyl pressing.
Following Friday's announcement that Taylor Swift has bought back the rights to her first six albums, the star's sixth studio set reputation could return to the Top 10 (8).
Many Swifties had been expecting a Taylor's Version re-recording of the album to be announced imminently, but the singer revealed on Friday that she hasn't "re-recorded even a quarter of it" because she "kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it." reputation originally peaked at Number 1 in 2017.
Pet Shop Boys’ 1991 compilation album Discography could re-enter the Top 40 for the first time in 31 years thanks to a reissue on 2LP blue vinyl (35). The album, which collects 18 of the duo’s early singles, originally peaked inside the Top 5 in 1991 (3).
And finally, Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon could make the Top 40 with his debut studio album In Limerence (36).
Something Beautiful, which comes accompanied by a visual film of the same name, could become the genre-hopping superstar’s third UK Number 1 album, possibly following 2013’s Bangerz and 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation.
She faces stiff competition from alt-rock icons Garbage, though, whose eighth studio album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light right behind (2). If it maintains this position until Friday, it will become Garbage’s seventh UK Top 10 album and highest charting since 1998’s Version 2.0, which peaked at Number 1.
Matt Berninger is on course for his first solo Top 10 album with sophomore set Get Sunk (5). Berninger, frontman of The National, previously charted at Number 21 with his 2021 solo debut Serpentine Prison. With The National he’s scored five Top 10 albums, including 2017 chart-topper Sleep Well Beast.
The 1975 are heading for a seventh Top 10 album with their live LP Still… At Their Very Best (Live From The AO Arena, Manchester, 17.02.24) (7). The album was released on streaming in March of this year, but is expected to chart for the first time thanks to a limited edition transparent 3LP vinyl pressing.
Following Friday's announcement that Taylor Swift has bought back the rights to her first six albums, the star's sixth studio set reputation could return to the Top 10 (8).
Many Swifties had been expecting a Taylor's Version re-recording of the album to be announced imminently, but the singer revealed on Friday that she hasn't "re-recorded even a quarter of it" because she "kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it." reputation originally peaked at Number 1 in 2017.
Pet Shop Boys’ 1991 compilation album Discography could re-enter the Top 40 for the first time in 31 years thanks to a reissue on 2LP blue vinyl (35). The album, which collects 18 of the duo’s early singles, originally peaked inside the Top 5 in 1991 (3).
And finally, Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon could make the Top 40 with his debut studio album In Limerence (36).
