The K’s storm ahead in the race for this week’s Official Number 1 album with second studio set Pretty On The Internet.
The Earlestown-formed rock outfit – comprising Jamie Boyle, Ryan Breslin, Dexter Baker and Nathan Peers – lead the pack midweek, having previously enjoyed Top 5 success with debut LP I Wonder If The World Knows? (3).
Paul Weller could be celebrating his 24th solo Top 10 album, with latest collection Find El Dorado expecting a Number 2 debut. The record sees The Modfather collaborate with the likes of Noel Gallagher and Robert Plant on reimagined hits from?The Kinks?(Nobody's Fool),?Bee Gees?(I Started A Joke) and more.
American rockers Alice Cooper reunite on their first new album in 50 years. The original Alice Cooper group, comprising Alice Cooper (vocals), Michael Bruce (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass), Neal Smith (drums), and Glen Buxton (guitar) - redefined rock in the early 1970s, blending raw, hard-hitting music with shocking theatricality, and this week eye their highest-charting UK album in 36 years, with The Revenge Of Alice Cooper on its way to become their ninth Top 10 album (3).
Aussie multihyphenate Tim Minchin hopes to bank a career-best with Time Machine (5). Previously, Minchin peaked with 2020 lockdown LP Apart Together (27).
In the week Madonna celebrates the 40th anniversary of her first-ever UK Number 1 single Into the Groove, ‘lost’ remix album Veronica Electronica (8) could earn the pop icon a 24th Top 10 album. Originally intended as a companion LP to 1998 chart-topper Ray of Light, Veronica Electronica finally received its official release last week.
Gary Numan rounds out the midweek Top 10 with A Perfect Circle, recorded live at London’s OVO Arena Wembley in May 2022 (10). Could it become the English electronic music pioneer’s eighth Top 10 album?
Derby-born singer-songwriter Alessi Rose tracks for her first-ever Official Albums Chart entry, her third studio collection Voyeur is expected to land at Number 13 this Friday.
Alfredo 2 – the second collaborative project from Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs and Californian producer The Alchemist – could provide the pair with their first UK chart entry as a duo (15).
Following the sad news of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne’s death last week, his catalogue continues to surge. Occupying the midweek Top 40 we see Black Sabbath’s The Ultimate Collection expecting to secure a new peak (16), Ozzy’s The Essential eyeing a re-entry for the first time in 20 years (24) and Sabbath’s Paranoid on course for its highest position since 1971 (29).
And finally, with the release of The Making Of Five Leaves Left, English folk musician Nick Drake expects his 1969 debut Five Leaves Left to makes its Official Albums Chart debut (23).
