Because it stands, Anne-Marie’s third studio album UNHEALTHY – which has already yielded the Prime 10 hit Psycho with Aitch (5) and just lately scored a second Prime 20 hit with the title monitor that includes Shania Twain (19) – is forward at Number one.
However there’s no time to get comfy, with Travis’s UTOPIA – his long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s influential Astroworld – kicking at Anne-Marie’s heels. UTOPIA can be set to flood three tracks into the Official Singles Chart Prime 10 later this week.
The race is prone to go right down to the wire, with each artists standing to achieve their first UK Number one album. Anne-Marie has beforehand reached the Prime 3 with 2018’s Converse Your Thoughts (3) and 2021’s Remedy (2), whereas Travis Scott has sunk three Prime 40 albums thus far; 2015’s Rodeo (22), 2016’s Birds In The Entice Sing McKnight (19) and the aforementioned Astroworld (3).
In the meantime, Submit Malone’s fifth studio album AUSTIN is anticipated to debut at Quantity 3, probably his fifth UK Prime 10 album, whereas Brummie pop-rock outfit Dexys (previously Dexys Midnight Runners) may rating their highest-charting LP since 1982 with sixth album The Female Divine, at Quantity 4 midweek.
Simply exterior the Prime 10, musical legend Joni Mitchell’s first reside live performance efficiency in 22 years – her 2022 look at Newport Folks Pageant – has been immortalised on Joni Mitchell At Newport (11), which seems to be set to grow to be the icon’s highest-charting UK launch since 1976’s Hejira, which additionally hit Quantity 11.
Lastly, a brand-new vinyl and CD field set re-issue of The Rolling Stones’ biggest hits Forty Licks may make a re-entry at Quantity 20. Upon its preliminary launch in 2002, the double compilation album peaked at Quantity 2.
