Emeli Sande could overtake Adele thanks to Olympic sales boost

Emeli Sande looks set to return to the top of the Official Albums Chart on Sunday, thanks to her performances at the London 2012 Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies. Plus: See the Official Albums Chart Update Top 40!

Emeli Sande looks set to return to the top of the Official Albums Chart on Sunday, thanks to her performances at the London 2012 Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies.

The Scottish singer’s debut album, Our Version Of Events, has climbed three places to retake the Number 1 position on today’s Official Chart Update. And, if the album can maintain its Olympics sales boost, Our Version Of Events is on course to overtake Adele’s 21 as the biggest selling album of 2012 so far.

According to the Official Charts Company’s latest sales data, Our Version Of Events is just 39,000 copies behind 21 in year-to-date sales. However, Our Version Of Events still has a long way to go before eclipsing 21’s total sales; since it was released January, 2011, 21 has sold 4.4 million copies in the UK, making it the fifth biggest-selling album of all-time.

Emeli Sande is also leading the Olympics charge on the Official Singles Chart Update, too. Emeli features on the lion’s share (six) of the 78 tracks from the opening and closing ceremonies which look set to enter the Official Singles Chart Top 200 on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Paloma Faith’s Fall To Grace climbs three places to Number 2, while London indie rockers Spector look set to debut at Number 3 with Enjoy It While It Lasts.

Also riding the London 2012 wave, Ed Sheeran’s + is up four places to Number 4 and Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid , which was last in the Top 5 three years ago, climbs 134 places from 139 to Number 5. Sales of the Spice Girls' Greatest Hits album are also up since the closing ceremony; on today’s Official Albums Chart Update, it climbs 155 places to Number 9.

New Entries

In addition to Spector’s Enjoy It While It Lasts (Number 3), there are five other new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

Britain’s Got Talent star Ryan O'Shaughnessy’s eponymous debut album is new in at Number 6, while Brit rockers While She Sleeps and Don Broco are currently at Number 13 with This Is The Six and Number 14 with Priorities, respectively. A new Kinks Greatest Hits collection, Waterloo Sunset, looks set to chart at Number 25, while US pop-punks Yellow Card complete this week’s Official Albums Chart Update new entries with Southern Air debuting at 38.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

01	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
02	FALL TO GRACE	PALOMA FAITH
03	ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS	SPECTOR
04	+	ED SHEERAN
05	THE SELDOM SEEN KID	ELBOW
06	RYAN O'SHAUGHNESSY	RYAN O'SHAUGHNESSY
07	OVEREXPOSED	MAROON 5
08	WHO YOU ARE	JESSIE J
09	GREATEST HITS	SPICE GIRLS
10	TALK THAT TALK	RIHANNA
11	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
12	ILL MANORS - OST	PLAN B
13	THIS IS THE SIX	WHILE SHE SLEEPS
14	PRIORITIES	DON BROCO
15	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
16	THE MIDNIGHT BEAST	MIDNIGHT BEAST
17	LIFE IN A BEAUTIFUL LIGHT	AMY MACDONALD
18	THE WHOLE STORY	KATE BUSH
19	TOTAL MADNESS	MADNESS
20	21	ADELE
21	CALIFORNIA 37	TRAIN
22	STRANGELAND	KEANE
23	PINK FRIDAY - ROMAN RELOADED	NICKI MINAJ
24	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING
25	WATERLOO SUNSET - THE BEST OF	KINKS
26	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY
27	BELIEVE	JUSTIN BIEBER
28	CONTRAST	CONOR MAYNARD
29	BUILD A ROCKET BOYS	ELBOW
30	NEED YOU NOW	LADY ANTEBELLUM
31	CEREMONIALS	FLORENCE & THE MACHINE
32	CHANNEL ORANGE	FRANK OCEAN
33	MYLO XYLOTO	COLDPLAY
34	HANDWRITTEN	GASLIGHT ANTHEM
35	TEENAGE DREAM	KATY PERRY
36	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT	DAVID GUETTA
37	NUMBER ONES	BEE GEES
38	SOUTHERN AIR	YELLOWCARD
39	WATCH THE THRONE	JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
40	LIVING THINGS	LINKIN PARK