Chris Brown on course for highest-charting album to date

Chris Brown's Fortune is on course to knock Linkin Park’s Living Things off the top of the Official Albums Chart. Plus: see the Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 in full!

Chris Brown looks set to score his highest-charting UK album to date on Sunday. According to today’s Official Chart Update, the US singer’s fifth full-length release, Fortune, is on course to knock Linkin Park’s Living Things off the top of the Official Albums Chart.

Fortune, which features the Official Number 1 smash Turn Up The Music and its Number 3 follow-up single, Don’t Wake Me Up, has nearly sold twice as many copies as its closest competitor - Maroon 5’s Overexposed (Number 2) - so far this week. Brown’s previous highest charting albums, 2007’s Exclusive and 2011’s F.A.M.E, reached Number 3 and 10, respectively.

Linkin Park’s Living Things slides two places to Number 3, while Scottish singer/songwriter Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events, which is the second biggest selling album of 2012 so far, is at Number 4. Ed Sheeran’s + completes this week’s Official Update Top 5.

New entries and high climbers

In addition to Chris Brown’s Fortune (Number 1) there are two other new entries in today’s Official Albums Chart Update. US country star Mary Chapin Carpenter could be on track for her first UK Top 20 album on Sunday. Her eleventh studio album, Ashes And Roses, is this week’s second highest new entry at Number 19. UK folk punks The King Blues’ fourth and final album, Long Live The Struggle, is at Number 29.

Following their triumphant sold-out reunion shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park over the weekend, Madchester indie gods the Stone Roses’ are tracking as the week’s highest climbers so far. The band’s 1989 self-titled debut album is up 20 places to Number 32, while their Very Best Of collection climbs 13 places to Number 8. US band Fun. also ascend 13 places with Some Nights to Number 15.

The full Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

01	FORTUNE	CHRIS BROWN
02	OVEREXPOSED	MAROON 5
03	LIVING THINGS	LINKIN PARK
04	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
05	+	ED SHEERAN
06	WATCH THE THRONE	JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
07	TALK THAT TALK	RIHANNA
08	THE VERY BEST OF	STONE ROSES
09	A MILLION LIGHTS	CHERYL
10	FALL TO GRACE	PALOMA FAITH
11	MYLO XYLOTO	COLDPLAY
12	BELIEVE	JUSTIN BIEBER
13	21	ADELE
14	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
15	SOME NIGHTS	FUN
16	LIFE IN A BEAUTIFUL LIGHT	AMY MACDONALD
17	NUMBER ONES	BEE GEES
18	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY
19	ASHES AND ROSES	MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER
20	WILD ONES	FLO RIDA
21	WHO YOU ARE	JESSIE J
22	CALIFORNIA 37	TRAIN
23	STRONGER	KELLY CLARKSON
24	PINK FRIDAY - ROMAN RELOADED	NICKI MINAJ
25	LOOKING 4 MYSELF	USHER
26	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
27	SING	GARY BARLOW/COMMONWEALTH BAND
28	TEENAGE DREAM	KATY PERRY
29	LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE	KING BLUES
30	IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW	OLLY MURS
31	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING
32	THE STONE ROSES	STONE ROSES
33	ELECTRONIC EARTH	LABRINTH
34	LONELY ARE THE BRAVE	MAVERICK SABRE
35	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT	DAVID GUETTA
36	25 YEARS - THE CHAIN	FLEETWOOD MAC
37	GRACELAND	PAUL SIMON
38	STEREO TYPICAL	RIZZLE KICKS
39	BOYS DON'T CRY	RUMER
40	CEREMONIALS	FLORENCE & THE MACHINE