Bombay Bicycle Club lead this week’s albums chart race

Bombay Bicycle Club look set to score their first ever Number 1 album this weekend, while Within Temptation are on track for their highest charting UK album to date.

Bombay Bicycle Club could be on course for their first ever Number 1 album this weekend. The London-based indie rockers are in pole position on today’s Official Albums Chart Update with their fourth studio album, So Long, See You Tomorrow.

Since making their Official Albums Chart debut in 2009 with I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose, which peaked at 46, the quartet have steadily climbed up the chart with each successive release: 2010’s Flaws peaked at Number 8, while 2011’s A Different Kind Of Fix reached Number 6.

Meanwhile, Within Temptation are set to debut one place behind them today with their sixth album, Hydra. Should the Dutch symphonic metallers maintain their momentum though to Saturday night’s final whistle, it will be their highest charting UK album to date.

Avicii slides one place to Number 3 with True, while today’s Top 5 is completed by Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon (4) and Beyonce’s self-titled album (5).

New Entries

In addition to Bombay Bicycle Club’s So Long, See You Tomorrow (Number 1) and Within Temptation’s Hydra (2), there are seven other new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

Newcastle’s Maximo Park are on course for their third Top 10 album this weekend with Too Much Information (6), while Broken Bells (AKA Gnarls Barkley’s Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer are one place behind them today with After The Disco (7). Dartmoor folk singer Seth Lakeman is also heading for the Top 10 on Sunday with his new album, Word Of Mouth (9).

After a seven year hiatus, Suzanne Vega looks set to return to the Official Albums Chart this weekend with her eighth album, Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles (22). Brooklyn’s Augustines (formerly We Are Augustines) enter at Number 30 today with their self-titled second album, while Tina Turner’s new Best Of collection, Love Songs, is at 34. Polish extreme metallers Behemoth complete this week’s new entries with their tenth studio album, The Satanist (36).

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows. The Official Albums Chart Top 100 will be posted in full, here, on Sunday at 7pm.

1	SO LONG SEE YOU TOMORROW	BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
2	HYDRA	WITHIN TEMPTATION
3	TRUE	AVICII
4	HALCYON	ELLIE GOULDING
5	BEYONCE	BEYONCE
6	TOO MUCH INFORMATION	MAXIMO PARK
7	AFTER THE DISCO	BROKEN BELLS
8	CAVALIER YOUTH	YOU ME AT SIX
9	WORD OF MOUTH	SETH LAKEMAN
10	WANDERLUST	SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR
11	IF YOU WAIT	LONDON GRAMMAR
12	BAD BLOOD	BASTILLE
13	PURE HEROINE	LORDE
14	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS
15	FEELS LIKE HOME	SHERYL CROW
16	MOON LANDING	JAMES BLUNT
17	UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX	BRUNO MARS
18	HIGH HOPES	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
19	TRIBUTE	JOHN NEWMAN
20	THE 1975	1975
21	SINCE I SAW YOU LAST	GARY BARLOW
22	TALES FROM THE REALM OF THE QUEEN OF	SUZANNE VEGA
23	MIDNIGHT MEMORIES	ONE DIRECTION
24	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
25	IN A PERFECT WORLD	KODALINE
26	THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2	EMINEM
27	HOME	RUDIMENTAL
28	SHANGRI LA	JAKE BUGG
29	NIGHT VISIONS	IMAGINE DRAGONS
30	AUGUSTINES	AUGUSTINES
31	PRISM	KATY PERRY
32	SETTLE	DISCLOSURE
33	SWINGS BOTH WAYS	ROBBIE WILLIAMS
34	LOVE SONGS	TINA TURNER
35	NATIVE	ONEREPUBLIC
36	THE SATANIST	BEHEMOTH
37	RED	TAYLOR SWIFT
38	DEMONSTRATION	TINIE TEMPAH
39	SOUND CITY - REAL TO REEL - OST	SOUND CITY
40	DAYS ARE GONE	HAIM