Justin Timberlake holds Imagine Dragons from albums top spot

Midweek leaders Imagine Dragons are held off the top of the Official Albums Chart by Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience.

It was looking like a potential debut chart topper for Las Vegas rockers Imagine Dragons earlier in the week, but as the final buzzer sounded, Justin Timberlake managed to claw his way back to snatch the Official Albums Chart Number 1 spot for a third week running.

JT’s The 20/20 Experience pipped the indie four-piece to the prize by less than 3,000 copies. Following the success of recent Top 40 singles, Radioactive and Hear Me, Imagine Dragons land a very respectable Number 2 with debut album Night Visions, finishing ahead of British metallers Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal (Number 3).

David Bowie’s The Next Day and Bastille’s Bad Blood are at Number 4 and 5.

New Entries

In addition to Imagine Dragons (Number 2) and Bring Me The Horizon (3), there are six other new entries on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
 
Bat Out Of Hell is the 21st biggest selling album of all time, and the new 35th anniversary edition of Meat Loaf’s iconic 1978 masterpiece has boosted the classic back into the charts, entering the Top 10 at Number 9.

US metal heavyweights Killswitch Engage return with their sixth studio album, Disarm The Descent (15). Disarm… is KsE’s first 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, finds his first Top 20 placing with Wolf (17). while Brighton indie rockers British Sea Power are new in at Number 19 with Machineries Of Joy, their highest charting album since 2008’s Do You Like Rock Music?

Following a turbulent week in the media spotlight, East London grime rapper Wiley has bagged his second Top 40 album with The Ascent (26). The album features the Top 10 singles Heatwave, Can You Hear Me? (Ayayaya) and Reload.
 
The Top 40 new entries are completed by Jimi Hendrix’s People, Hell And Angels (30).

The Official Albums Chart Top 10 is as follows. See the full Official Albums Chart Top 100 here after 7pm.

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