Lily Allen takes on The Molotovs for this week’s Official Number 1 album.
Following its release on physical formats having previously been available only on digital platforms, Lily’s fifth studio album West End Girl vaults an incredible 93 spots midweek, currently tracking to take the top spot. Should it hold on, it’ll become Lily’s third chart-topping LP in the UK, on course to join 2009’s It’s Not Me, It’s You and 2014’s Sheezus.
But it’s by no means a done deal yet, as London duo The Molotovs, aka siblings Matthew and Issey Cartlidge, sit closely behind at Number 2 midweek. The pair’s debut album Wasted On Youth comes ahead of their support slot on YUNGBLUD’s IDOLS World Tour this April.
Liverpudlian rock outfit Cast expect to net their highest-charting album in 29 years with their eighth studio collection, Yeah Yeah Yeah (4). The record will look to try and match the group’s Number 3 best earned with 1997’s Mother Nature Calls.
Fellow English rockers Kula Shaker could be looking at their best-performing work in 30 years, with their eighth studio LP Wormslayer at Number 5 midweek. The last time the group saw Top 5 success was with their debut release K, which topped the Official Albums Chart back in 1996.
Available for the first time on vinyl, and ahead of his upcoming biopic Michael, Michael Jackson’s 2003 Number Ones compilation eyes a return to the Top 10 (6).
Status Quo founder and frontman Francis Rossi could bank his highest-charting album as a solo artist with latest collection The Accidental (7), as Texan rapper, singer and songwriter Don Toliver also hopes for a personal best with fifth LP OCTANE (9).
As they prepare to play their headline O2 Academy Brixton show, Reading-born rockers Only The Poets hope to secure their first-ever Top 10 album with debut release And I’d Do It Again (10).
In celebration of his 75th birthday on January 30, a brand-new coloured vinyl variant of Phil Collins’ 2016 compilation The Singles sees it surge 42 spots, up to Number 26 midweek. The record previously peaked at Number 2 on its original release.
With its deluxe version dropping on physical formats, MARINA’s 2025 album PRINCESS OF POWER tracks for a Top 40 return (27), as does Gary Numan’s 1980 LP Telekon, thanks to a 45th Anniversary Expanded Edition physical product (28).
The Rifles’ Unplugged Album Vol. 2: Recorded at Studio 2 could earn the Chingford-formed rock group a fifth Top 40 album (32), while Brighton-born singer-songwriter Passenger expects his 10th with One For The Road (Songs from the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry the Musical) (37).
