Imagine Dragons vs Bring Me The Horizon in albums race

Imagine Dragons and Bring Me The Horizon go head-to-head in the race for this week’s Official Albums Chart Number 1!
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Imagine Dragons and Bring Me The Horizon go head-to-head in the race for this week’s Official Albums Chart Number 1!

Imagine Dragons go head-to-head with Bring Me The Horizon in a battle of the bands for this week’s Official Albums Chart Number 1 title.

Following the success of recent Top 40 singles, Radioactive and Hear Me, US indie rockers Imagine Dragons have taken an early over their British metal counterparts. After 48 hours on sale, the band’s debut album, Night Visions (Number 1), is narrowly ahead of Bring Me The Horizon’s fourth full-length, Sempiternal (2) by just over 3,000 copies.

Reigning chart topper Justin Timberlake falls two placed to Number 3 with The 20/20 Experience, while David Bowie’s The Next Day and Bastille’s Bad Blood are at Number 4 and 5, respectively.

New Entries And Re-Entries

In addition to Imagine Dragons (Number 1) and Bring Me The Horizon (2), there are seven other new entries on this week’s Official Albums Chart Update.

US metal heavyweights Killswitch Engage look set to debut inside the Top 10 on Sunday with their sixth studio album, Disarm The Descent (7). Disarm… is KsE’s new material in almost four years, and first release since reuniting with original vocalist Jesse Leach who left the band in 2002.

Tyler, The Creator, leader of LA hip-hop collective Odd Future, is also Top 10-bound with his third solo album, Wolf (9), while Brighton indie rockers British Sea Power are new in at Number 11 with Machineries Of Joy.

East London MC Wiley looks set to score his first Top 40 album on Sunday with The Ascent. Featuring the Top 10 singles Heatwave, Can You Hear Me? (Ayayaya) and Reload, The Ascent debuts at Number 21 on today’s Update. The midweek new entries are completed by The Flaming LipsThe Terror (30), New Kids On The Block’s 10 (31) and Alkaline Trio’s My Shame Is True (38).

And finally, the new 35th anniversary edition of Meat Loaf’s iconic 1978 album, Bat Out Of Hell, has helped the classic return to the Top 40 at Number 15. Bat Out Of Hell is the 21st biggest selling album of all-time.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1 NIGHT VISIONS IMAGINE DRAGONS
2 SEMPITERNAL BRING ME THE HORIZON
3 THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
4 THE NEXT DAY DAVID BOWIE
5 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
6 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE
7 DISARM THE DESCENT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
8 THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE P!NK
9 WOLF TYLER THE CREATOR
10 UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX BRUNO MARS
11 MACHINERIES OF JOY BRITISH SEA POWER
12 GRAFFITI ON THE TRAIN STEREOPHONICS
13 UNAPOLOGETIC RIHANNA
14 DELTA MACHINE DEPECHE MODE
15 BAT OUT OF HELL MEAT LOAF
16 BABEL MUMFORD & SONS
17 TAKE ME HOME ONE DIRECTION
18 THE LUMINEERS THE LUMINEERS
19 LES MISERABLES MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
20 PEOPLE HELL & ANGELS JIMI HENDRIX
21 THE ASCENT WILEY
22 BOTH SIDES NOW MICHAEL BALL
23 RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME OLLY MURS
24 JAKE BUGG JAKE BUGG
25 RED TAYLOR SWIFT
26 EVERY KINGDOM BEN HOWARD
27 OPPOSITES BIFFY CLYRO
28 18 MONTHS CALVIN HARRIS
29 THE NORTH BORDERS BONOBO
30 THE TERROR FLAMING LIPS
31 10 NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
32 NUMBER 3 THE SCRIPT
33 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
34 COMEDOWN MACHINE THE STROKES
35 UP ALL NIGHT ONE DIRECTION
36 OLD SOCK ERIC CLAPTON
37 WHAT ABOUT NOW BON JOVI
38 MY SHAME IS TRUE ALKALINE TRIO
39 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC
40 GIRL WHO GOT AWAY DIDO

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