Collabro look set to end Ed Sheeran’s Official Albums Chart reign

Britain’s Got Talent winners leading the race to this week's Number 1 album.
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Collabro look set to bring Ed Sheeran’s eight week run at Number 1 to an end this Sunday with their debut album, Stars.

The vocal group – Michael Auger, Richard Hadfield, Jamie Lambert, Matt Pagan and Thomas Redgrave – are from all over England, and met online in January of this year. Collabro shot to fame after competing in, and winning, ITV’s hit reality TV talent contest, Britain’s Got Talent. They were subsequently snapped up by head judge Simon Cowell’s record label, Syco.

According to the Official Charts Company’ssales data, Stars is currently outselling its closest rivals, Concrete Love by Manchester indie rockers The Courteeners (Number 2), by more than two copies to one.

Meanwhile Ed Sheeran’s X slides two places to Number 3 on today’s Official Albums Chart Update. Twin Atlantic are on track for their highest charting album to date. The Scottish rockers’ third album, Great Divide, is new in at Number 4 today, while Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour (Number 5) completes today’s Top 5.

New Entries

In addition to Collabro’s Stars (Number 1), The CourteenersConcrete Love (Number 2), and Twin Atlantic’s Great Divide (4), there are six other new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

US rockers Blackberry Smoke enter at 16 with their new live album, Leave A Scar. Whiz Khalifa enters at 19 today with Blacc Hole, while Imogen Heap is at 23 with her new album, Sparks.

London-based metallers DragonForce enter at 24 with their sixth studio album, Maximum Overload, while Luke Sital-Singh’s The Fire Inside (30) and The Magic NumbersAlias (39) complete today’s new entries.

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 COLLABRO COLLABRO
2 CONCRETE LOVE COURTEENERS
3 X ED SHEERAN
4 GREAT DIVIDE TWIN ATLANTIC
5 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH
6 WANTED ON VOYAGE GEORGE EZRA
7 BLUE SMOKE - THE BEST OF DOLLY PARTON
8 CAUSTIC LOVE PAOLO NUTINI
9 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION PALOMA FAITH
10 AT THE MOVIES RICHARD & ADAM
11 GHOST STORIES COLDPLAY
12 NATIVE ONEREPUBLIC
13 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
14 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
15 NIGHT VISIONS IMAGINE DRAGONS
16 LEAVE A SCAR - LIVE NORTH CAROLINA BLACKBERRY SMOKE
17 MEET THE VAMPS VAMPS
18 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
19 BLACC HOLLYWOOD WIZ KHALIFA
20 THE 1975 1975
21 GET HURT GASLIGHT ANTHEM
22 HOME RUDIMENTAL
23 SPARKS IMOGEN HEAP
24 MAXIMUM OVERLOAD DRAGONFORCE
25 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
26 IF YOU WAIT LONDON GRAMMAR
27 FINEST SELECTION - THE GREATEST HITS SATURDAYS
28 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY
29 ULTRAVIOLENCE LANA DEL REY
30 THE FIRE INSIDE LUKE SITAL-SINGH
31 DIRECT HITS KILLERS
32 2.009027778 KASABIAN
33 LOVE IN THE FUTURE JOHN LEGEND
34 GLORIOUS FOXES
35 ERIC CLAPTON & FRIENDS - THE BREEZE ERIC CLAPTON
36 18 MONTHS CALVIN HARRIS
37 THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING ELBOW
38 NEW EYES CLEAN BANDIT
39 ALIAS MAGIC NUMBERS
40 PRISM KATY PERRY

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