Lovely and Brutal Yard, J Hus’s third album and first in three years, is at the moment eyeing-up a No 1 debut. If it holds on, it could be the Stratford MC’s second chart-topping album, following 2020’s Large Conspiracy. His acclaimed Mercury Prize-nominated 2017 debut Widespread Sense peaked at Quantity 6. See the place each J Hus tune and album has charted within the UK right here.
However with fewer than 2,000 chart models at the moment separating the Prime 3, we may very well be in for a photo-finish to this week’s race.
Final week’s chart-topper, Taylor Swift’s Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model), is at Quantity 2 midweek, whereas Rita Ora’s first album in almost half a decade, You & I, is anticipated to debut at Quantity 3, which might mark the British pop star’s second Prime 10 LP. Uncover extra in regards to the making of the album in The Official Chat with Rita Ora right here.
Additional new entries within the Prime 10 might come from Glaswegian singer-songwriter Gerry Cinnamon with Stay At Hampden Park (4), US alt-pop singer PVRIS, who might earn her second Prime 10 LP with Evergreen (5) and Lauren Spencer Smith, hoping for a giant debut along with her first full-length album Mirror (6).
Rising British R&B star Mahalia’s second file IRL is on observe for Quantity 9, in what can be her first Prime 10 entry on the Official Albums Chart.
Legendary Queen guitarist Brian Might might see the expanded, thirtieth anniversary assortment of his solo EP Star Fleet Challenge re-enter the Chart at Quantity 13, its highest place ever (having peaked at Quantity 35 in 1983).
American rapper Lil Tjay is on observe to safe a 3rd Prime 40 album with 222 (24), and Joel Corry’s singles assortment One other Friday Night time (28) is seeking to grow to be the British hitmaking DJ’s first-ever entry on the Official Albums Chart.
Pop auteur Charli XCX’s forward-thinking 2017 mixtape Pop 2 might enter the chart for the primary time ever this week at Quantity 29, due to a 5-year anniversary version, whereas Siouxsie’s re-issue of 2007 debut solo album Mantaray might see it hit a brand new peak of Quantity 34.
Lastly, Bastille’s debut LP Dangerous Blood celebrates its tenth anniversary this yr, and the newly-released version Dangerous Blood X might assist push the previous No 1 file again into the Prime 40 (38).