BRIT Award winners Dua Lipa, Stormzy and more see huge uplift on this week’s Official Albums Chart

Winners from this week’s BRIT Awards are enjoying a big boost on the latest Official Albums Chart.

Dua Lipa, who was awarded Best British Female and Best Breakthrough at Wednesday’s ceremony (Feb 21), sees her self-titled debut climb eight places to a new peak of Number 3. The collection had previously peaked at Number 5 when it was released last June.

Rag’n’Bone Man, who picked up Best Single for Human, sees his album of the same name rebound eight spots to Number 4, while Stormzy, who won Best British Male and the Album of the Year award, sees his debut Gang Signs & Prayer zoom 31 places to Number 10 – a week-on-week sales uplift of 89% and its first appearance in the Top 10 for almost a year.

Best International Male winner Kendrick Lamar lifts seven places to 14 with DAMN., while nominated acts Liam Gallagher and J Hus also climb – Gallagher’s As You Were is up seven to 17, and J Hus’ Common Sense jumps eight to 23. Two Oasis albums feature in this week’s Top 40 following Gallagher’s moving performance of 1994 hit Live Forever - greatest hits album Time Flies at 27 and What’s The Story Morning Glory at 35.

Meanwhile, The Greatest Showman soundtrack leads the Official Albums Chart for a seventh week, and Camila Cabello’s Camila climbs nine places to Number 5 following a string of television appearances in the UK over the past week.

The week’s highest new entry goes to blues rock band The Temperance Movement, whose their third album A Deeper Cut opens at Number 6, and Scottish rockers Belle & Sebastian land at 28 with their latest collection How To Solve Our Human Problems.

Finally, as Arctic Monkeys fans anticipate their new album, the band’s 2013 record AM jumps 24 places to 37 – its first Top 40 appearance since January 2015.

View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full

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