Can The Killers make it a fourth Number 1 album?

According to today’s Official Chart Update, The Killers’ Battle Born looks set to debut at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart this coming Sunday.

According to today’s Official Chart Update, The Killers’ Battle Born looks set to debut at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart this coming Sunday.

The Las Vegas band’s latest album, which was released on Monday, has shot ahead of P!nk’s The Truth About Love (Number 2), and currently leads the Blow Me (One Last Kiss) singer’s long awaited sixth studio album by 9,000 copies.

If The Killers can maintain their momentum through to Sunday’s final whistle, it will give frontman Brandon Flowers and co their fourth Number 1 on UK shores.

The Script, who topped the Official Singles Chart last weekend with Hall Of Fame FT Will.I.Am, fall one place to Number 3 in today’s Official Albums Chart Update with their latest full-length, #3, while current reigning album kings and queens The XX slide three places to Number 4 with Coexist. Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events holds firm at Number 5.

New Entries

In addition to The Killers’ Battle Born (Number 1) and P!nk’s The Truth About Love (2), there are 12 other new entries on this week’s Official Albums Chart Update.

The 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson’s seminal 1987 album, Bad, is on course to debut at Number 6 on this week’s chart. The album, which spawned nine Top 40 hits (including the Number 1 I Just Can't Stop Loving You) between ’87 and ’89, is the UK’s ninth biggest selling album of all time.

Call Me Maybe star Carly Rae Jepsen is currently at Number 8 with new offering Kiss, while US indie rockers Grizzly Bear and Band Of Horses look set to score their highest charting UK albums to date with Shields and Mirage Rock at numbers 11 and 13, respectively.

US blues quartet Rival Sons are at 19 with Head Down, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora’s Aftermath Of The Lowdown is at 25, while Skink Anansie’s Black Traffic (27) also looks set to give the Brit rockers their highest charting album since reforming in 2009.

This week’s new entries are completed by Marillion’s seventeenth studio album, Sounds That Can’t Be Made, at Number 27, Ben Folds Five’s The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind (31), Nelly Furtado’s The Spirit Indestructible (34), We Are The Ocean’s Maybe Today Maybe Tomorrow (38) and Down’s Episode 1 Of 4 (39).

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

01	BATTLE BORN	THE KILLERS
02	THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE	PINK
03	NUMBER 3	THE SCRIPT
04	COEXIST	THE XX
05	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
06	BAD	MICHAEL JACKSON
07	TEMPEST	BOB DYLAN
08	KISS	CARLY RAE JEPSEN
09	MYLO XYLOTO	COLDPLAY
10	ILL MANORS - OST	PLAN B
11	SHIELDS	GRIZZLY BEAR
12	COME OF AGE	THE VACCINES
13	MIRAGE ROCK	BAND OF HORSES
14	+	ED SHEERAN
15	BEACON	TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
16	FALL TO GRACE	PALOMA FAITH
17	ORA	RITA ORA
18	SOME NIGHTS	FUN.
19	HEAD DOWN	RIVAL SONS
20	21	ADELE
21	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT 2.0	DAVID GUETTA
22	AN AWESOME WAVE	ALT-J
23	MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL	OF MONSTERS & MEN
24	HERE'S WHAT I BELIEVE	JOE MCELDERRY
25	AFTERMATH OF THE LOWDOWN	RICHIE SAMBORA
26	BLACK TRAFFIC	SKUNK ANANSIE
27	SOUNDS THAT CANT BE MADE	MARILLION
28	EL CAMINO	BLACK KEYS
29	SIGH NO MORE	MUMFORD & SONS
30	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
31	THE SOUND OF THE LIFE OF THE MIND	BEN FOLDS FIVE
32	PRIVATEERING	MARK KNOPFLER
33	OVEREXPOSED	MAROON 5
34	THE SPIRIT INDESTRUCTIBLE	NELLY FURTADO
35	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
36	TALK THAT TALK	RIHANNA
37	ELYSIUM	PET SHOP BOYS
38	MAYBE TODAY MAYBE TOMORROW	WE ARE THE OCEAN
39	EPISODE 1 OF 4	DOWN
40	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY