Franz Ferdinand lead the race for their second UK Number 1 album this week, with what could be their first in 20 years.
The Scottish rockers’ sixth LP The Human Fear comes in at Number 1 on today’s midweek update. It would the band’s first UK chart-topper since their second studio collection, 2005’s You Could Have It So Much Better.
Franz Ferdinand have claimed a further five Top 10 albums in total: eponymous debut Franz Ferdinand (2004), Tonight (2009), Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (2013), Always Ascending (2018) and Hits To The Head (2022).
Kicking at their heels at Number 2, however, is BBC Sound Of 2025 winner Chappell Roan. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is up five midweek. Little over 2,200 chart units separate Chappell and a return to Number 1 with her debut album.
Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls’ debut album Who Let The Dogs Out is predicted to debut at Number 3, netting Phoebe Lunny and Lily Macieira their first-ever Top 10 entry on the Official Albums Chart.
Teddy Swims’s debut LP I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy – Pt. 1 could rise back into the Top 20 (13), up 33 places midweek.
Ringo Starr will be looking to secure a 5th Top 40 solo record with country collection Look Up (23), while Bad Bunny’s sixth album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS could become the Latin superstar’s first-ever Albums Chart Top 40 entry (26).
Finally, US heavy metal outfit Tremonti are heading for Number 27 with The End Will Show Us How, their prospective fourth Top 40 LP.
