Because it stands on the midweek mark, fewer than 200 chart models presently separate Noel’s Council Skies (1) and the Foos’ However Right here We Are (2) from the highest spot.
There’s actually rather a lot at stake for the 2 acts within the working this week – Council Skies would prolong Noel Gallagher’s unbroken string of 10 consecutive #1 albums, each as a member of Oasis and with Excessive Flying Birds, that means he’s topped the Official Albums Chart with each studio album he’s ever launched.
However Right here We Are can also be one of the crucial necessary releases of the Foo Fighters’ storied profession, being their first full-length LP because the loss of life of their drummer, Taylor Hawkins, final yr. Lead by Dave Grohl, the American rockers have 5 #1 albums to their identify together with 2021’s Drugs At Midnight.
An all-new High 4 might be accomplished on Friday by Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Hana (3) – the English pop queen’s potential fifth High 10 report (with the potential to be her highest peaking since 2002 debut Learn My Lips hit Quantity 2) – and Bob Dylan’s landmark fortieth album Shadow Kingdom (4), comprised of re-recorded songs from early in his profession.
Three extra releases set for High 10 debuts this week come from Louise’s 30-year profession retrospective Best Hits (6), Jake Shears’s second solo report Final Man Dancing (7), and US heavy metallic outfit Avenged Sevenfold’s eighth studio album Life Is However A Dream… (8).
Exterior the High 10, Nashville-based rock band Rival Sons might rating a fifth High 40 report with Darkfighter (12), Wrexham indie-pop outfit Royston Membership are on the way in which to make their Official Chart debut with Shaking Hips and Crashing Automobiles (16), and English singer Baxter Dury prepares to enter the High 40 for the primary time with I Thought I Was Higher Than You (17).
Additional down, Buckcherry are on monitor to say the highest-charting album of their profession with Vol 10 (20), whereas shut behind is Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters’ bodily launch of his 2022 solo assortment The Lockdown Periods (21).
American punk band Rancid’s Tomorrow By no means Comes (32) might turn into their third High 40 assortment, and our final new entry of the week might belong to Ok-pop boy band Stray Youngsters, with their fourth studio album 5-Star (34) doubtlessly changing into their first UK High 40 entry.
