Paul Heaton is gearing up for his first solo UK Number 1 album with The Mighty Several leading the charge to top the Official Albums Chart this week.
A former member of both The Beautiful South (3 UK Number 1 albums) and The Housemartins (3 Top 10 albums), Heaton has also topped the Official Albums Chart twice with former Beautiful South bandmate Jacqui Abbott. The Mighty Several would mark his first time topping the charts entirely solo.
But you can never count a BRAT out! Charli xcx’s club opus could return to its peak in the Top 10 (2), thanks to the release of remix project Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, featuring the likes of Ariana Grande, The 1975 and Shygirl.
With Charli’s streaming numbers potentially set to surge throughout the week, could the club queen catch up and finally take BRAT all the way to Number 1?
Elsewhere in the Top 5, James Blunt’s chart-topping 2004 debut album Back To Bedlam could return to the Top 10 for the first time in 18 years, following its 20th anniversary reissue (4).
Joke’s on you! After its release on physical formats, Lady Gaga’s soundtrack album Harlequin is set to vault back into the chart at Number 5 – and could secure Mother Monster her 9th Top 10 record, in the same week the lead single from her next full-length album is set to drop.
A final new entry in the Top 10 this week could belong to Wakefield indie-rock trio Skinny Living, who are close to securing their first Top 10 album in the UK with Day By Day (9).
The Last Dinner Party’s chart-topping debut Prelude To Ecstasy could re-enter the Top 40 thanks to the release of its deluxe edition (12), while Ben Howard’s 2014 second album I Forget Where We Were is heading for a re-entry into the chart to celebrate its 10th anniversary (19), having reached Number 1 in 2014.
We could also see brand new entries in the Top 40 from US sensation Jelly Roll’s Beautifully Broken (22), Myles Kennedy’s The Art of Letting Go (26) and The Offspring’s Supercharged (30).
