Justin Timberlake and Haim go head-to-head in this week’s albums race

Just 700 copies currently separate Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 and Haim’s Days Are Gone at the top of today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

Haim are going head-to-head with Justin Timberlake in the race to this week’s Official Albums Chart Number 1.

LA sisters – Este, Danielle and Alana Haim - shot to fame back in January after winning the BBC’s Sound Of 2013 poll. Their debut album, Days Are Gone, which features their Official Top 40 hits, Don’t Save Me, Falling and The Wire, is currently trailing Justin’s The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 by an incredibly close margin of just over 700 copies.

Part 1 of The 20/20 Experience album spent three weeks at Number 1 back in March of this year, and it is one of the Top 20 biggest selling albums of 2013 so far. Should Justin maintain his lead though to Sunday’s final whistle, The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 will be his fourth consecutive Number 1 UK album.

Kings Of Leon fall two places to Number 3 with Mechanical Bull, Alter Bridge are new in at Number 4 with Fortress, while Monkey’s former chart topper, AM (5), completes this week’s Top 5.

New Entries

In addition Justin Timberlake (Number 1), Haim (2) and Alter Bridge (4), there are 11 other new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update Top 40.

Dizzee Rascal looks set to score his fourth Top 10 album in a row this weekend with his latest full length, The Fifth (Number 9). The Fifth features Dizzee’s recent Official Singles Chart Top 40 hits Bassline Junkie, Goin’ Crazy FT Robbie Williams and his new single, Something Really Bad FT Will.I.Am. Sub Focus, AKA producer Nick Douwma, is also on course to debut in the Top 10 with his second album, Torus (10).

The 20/20 Experience: The Complete Experience, which collects together both parts of Justin Timberlake’s series of albums, is at Number 17, while Status Quo’s new live album, The Frantic Four Reunion 2013, is new in at 18. Moby is on track for his tenth UK Top 40 album with Innocents (21), while Through The Never, Metallica’s soundtrack to their new film of the same name, is at Number 25 today.

This week’s Official Albums Chart Update new entries are completed by Kids In Glass Houses’ Peace (Number 27), The Answer’s New Horizon (29), All Time Low’s Don’t Panic (37), Johnny Flynn’s Country Mile (38) and Turin Brakes’ We Were Here (39).

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	THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE - 2 OF 2	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
2	DAYS ARE GONE	HAIM
3	MECHANICAL BULL	KINGS OF LEON
4	FORTRESS	ALTER BRIDGE
5	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS
6	NOTHING WAS THE SAME	DRAKE
7	ALIVE	JESSIE J
8	IF YOU WAIT	LONDON GRAMMAR
9	THE FIFTH	DIZZEE RASCAL
10	TORUS	SUB FOCUS
11	TRUE	AVICII
12	TATTOOS	JASON DERULO
13	ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS	PASSENGER
14	THE BONES OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE	CHVRCHES
15	FIRE WITHIN	BIRDY
16	TIME	ROD STEWART
17	THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE - THE COMPLETE	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
18	THE FRANTIC FOUR REUNION 2013	STATUS QUO
19	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
20	THE 1975	THE 1975
21	INNOCENTS	MOBY
22	25 YEARS - THE CHAIN	FLEETWOOD MAC
23	KETEVAN	KATIE MELUA
24	NATIVE	ONEREPUBLIC
25	THROUGH THE NEVER - OST	METALLICA
26	BAD BLOOD	BASTILLE
27	PEACE	KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES
28	TO BE LOVED	MICHAEL BUBLE
29	NEW HORIZON	ANSWER
30	THE HEIST	MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS
31	THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM	RICHARD & ADAM
32	HALCYON	ELLIE GOULDING
33	LONG WAY DOWN	TOM ODELL
34	THE DIVING BOARD	ELTON JOHN
35	TAKE ME HOME	ONE DIRECTION
36	UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX	BRUNO MARS
37	DON'T PANIC	ALL TIME LOW
38	COUNTRY MILE	JOHNNY FLYNN
39	WE WERE HERE	TURIN BRAKES
40	THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE