Taylor Swift prepares for Number 1 return with The Tortured Poets Department

It comes as The Tortured Poets Department: Anthology Edition receives its first-ever physical release.

Taylor Swift is set to return to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart this week with The Tortured Poets Department.

The 11th studio album from the pop superstar has already logged eight non-consecutive weeks at the top this year, although this would represent its first time back at Number 1 in nearly five months.

This is all due to the expanded Anthology edition receiving its physical release on CD and vinyl. Upon its release in April, The Tortured Poets Department opened with 2024’s biggest first-week sales, with Taylor shifting an extraordinary 270,000 chart units, the biggest opening week for any album in the UK in seven years.

Juice Wrld’s latest posthumous album The Party Never Ends is leading for this week’s highest new entry (4), it would mark the late rapper and singer’s third Top 10 album, following 2020’s chart-topping Legends Never Die and 2021’s Fighting Demons (8).

As we finally step into the most wonderful time of year, Michael Bublé’s chart-topping festive LP Christmas continues its seasonal ascent back into the Top 10 (6).

Billie Eilish is also looking forward to securing a fourth Top 10 album this week with HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (ISOLATED VOCALS) an off-shoot from her Number 1 third LP HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, featuring just her isolated vocals, receiving a physical release for Record Store Day Black Friday (10).

Another Record Store Day Black Friday drop, Olivia Rodrigo’s former chart-topper GUTS is predicted to bounce up 15 places (11), thanks to the release of a special edition coloured LP of its deluxe edition GUTS (spilled).

Fontaines D.C’s fourth album Romance plots a rise back inside the Top 20 (15) thanks to the lads starting their UK and Ireland 2024 tour. Romance originally peaked at Number 2 this summer.

Eminem’s The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) is on track to break back into the Top 40, vaulting up 46 places (20). The Death of… originally peaked at Number 1 for three consecutive weeks earlier this year.

Further down, Welsh rockers Bullet For My Valentine celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album The Poison with a special re-issue, which could net the album a re-entry at Number 23. Upon release in 2005, it originally peaked at Number 21.

Internet sensation James Marriott has released his 2022 EP Bitter Tongues on physical formats for the first time, which could see it enter at Number 26. Marriott’s debut studio album Are We There Yet? peaked at Number 17 in 2023.

Liverpudlian alt-rock icons Echo & The Bunnymen have issued their 1999 eighth studio album What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? on vinyl for the first time, which could result in it re-entering the chart at Number 35. It originally peaked at Number 21 in the UK.

And finally, English folk group The Unthanks zone in on their fourth Top 40 record with In Winter cruising towards a Number 36 debut.