Justin Timberlake way out in front with The 20/20 Experience

Justin Timberlake is on course for his third Official Number 1 album in a row with The 20/20 Experience.

Justin Timberlake eyes up his third UK Number 1 album in a row as The 20/20 Experience looks set to zoom straight in at the top this weekend.

Having already spawned two Top 5 singles prior to its release (Suit & Tie FT Jay-Z and Mirrors), The 20/20 Experience - the hotly anticipated new release from the ex-*NSync-er – has notched up sales of 57,000 copies putting it way out in front in the race for the Official Albums Chart Number 1 crown.

If JT can maintain his lead through to Sunday, it will be Timberlake’s third UK chart topper in a row; his debut, Justified, and the follow-up, FutureSex/LoveSounds, reached the top spot in 2002 and 2006.

Reigning albums king, David Bowie, slides one place to Number 2 with The Next Day, while Les Miserables shoots up seven places to Number 3 following the release of a new Deluxe Edition earlier this week.

Today’s Top 5 is completed by Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events (Number 4) and Bastille’s Bad Blood (5).

New Entries

In addition to Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience (Number 1), there are 11 new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

Recently reunited indie rockers Suede look set to debut at Number 7 with their first new album in 11 years, Bloodsports, while folk-rock hero Billy Bragg also looks set to go Top 10 this weekend with his thirteenth solo album, Tooth & Nail (Number 9).

London-based trio Daughter are new in at Number 13 with debut album, If You Leave, with Hadouken! on track to enter at 16 with Every Weekend.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are back with new offering Specter At The Feast (25), and French artist Yoann Lemoine (AKA Woodkid), who has previously directed music videos for Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Katy Perry, among others, is at 27 today with his debut album, The Golden Age.

This week’s midweek new entries are completed by Steve Mason’s Monkey Minds In The Devils Time (28), YouTube blogger Alex Day’s Epigrams And Interludes (29), Low’s The Invisible Way (34), Clutch’s Earth Rocker (35), and Wet Wet Wet frontman Marti Pellow’s Hope (40).

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1	THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE	JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
2	THE NEXT DAY	DAVID BOWIE
3	LES MISERABLES	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
4	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
5	BAD BLOOD	BASTILLE
6	UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX	BRUNO MARS
7	BLOODSPORTS	SUEDE
8	GRAFFITI ON THE TRAIN	STEREOPHONICS
9	TOOTH & NAIL	BILLY BRAGG
10	THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE	P!NK
11	WHAT ABOUT NOW	BON JOVI
12	BABEL	MUMFORD & SONS
13	IF YOU LEAVE	DAUGHTER
14	JAKE BUGG	JAKE BUGG
15	RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME	OLLY MURS
16	EVERY WEEKEND	HADOUKEN
17	TAKE ME HOME	ONE DIRECTION
18	HALCYON	ELLIE GOULDING
19	18 MONTHS	CALVIN HARRIS
20	GIRL WHO GOT AWAY	DIDO
21	ALL THAT ECHOES	JOSH GROBAN
22	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
23	THE LUMINEERS	THE LUMINEERS
24	RED	TAYLOR SWIFT
25	SPECTER AT THE FEAST	BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
26	SING TO THE MOON	LAURA MVULA
27	THE GOLDEN AGE	WOODKID
28	MONKEY MINDS IN THE DEVILS TIME	STEVE MASON
29	EPIGRAMS AND INTERLUDES	ALEX DAY
30	NUMBER 3	THE SCRIPT
31	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC
32	OPPOSITES	BIFFY CLYRO
33	EXILE	HURTS
34	THE INVISIBLE WAY	LOW
35	EARTH ROCKER	CLUTCH
36	UNAPOLOGETIC	RIHANNA
37	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
38	FALL TO GRACE	PALOMA FAITH
39	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT	DAVID GUETTA
40	HOPE	MARTI PELLOW