Michael Buble blocks Frank Turner and Will.I.Am from albums top spot

Michael Buble’s To Be Loved spends a second week at Number 1, but it's Frank Turner who scores a personal best! 

London-based singer-songwriter Frank Turner, who performed during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, lands at Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart today with his fifth album Tape Deck Heart, just behind Canadian crooner Buble.

Tape Deck Heart not only sees off tough competition from global megastar Will.I.Am and his new album #Willpower, Tape Deck Heart, Turner’s “break-up album”, delivers the singer his highest charting album to date, following his previous best - 2011’s England Keep My Bones which peaked at Number 12.

Black Eyed Peas main man and The Voice coach Will.I.Am’s fourth solo album, #Willpower, debuts at Number 3. #Willpower has already spawned four Official Singles Chart Top 40 hits (including the Number 1s This Is Love FT Eva Simons and Scream And Shout FT Britney Spears).

The Official Albums Chart Top 5 is completed by P!nk’s The Truth About Love (4) and Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events (5) which today makes Official Chart history by smashing a chart record that has been held by The Beatles for the past 50 years. Our Version Of Events has now spent the most number of consecutive weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 of any debut album ever, overtaking The Beatles Please Please Me, which spent 62 weeks in the Top 10 between its release in 1963 and 1964. Our Version Of Events was released in February of last year and has not dropped out of the Top 10 since, that’s a staggering 63 weeks! 

New entries and high climbers

In addition to Frank Turner’s Tape Deck Heart (2) and Will.I.Am’s #Willpower (3), there are three new entries on this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 40.

Versailles rockers Phoenix scoop their first Top 20 hit as fifth album Bankrupt! lands at Number 14 today. Rob Zombie’s Venomous Rat Regeneration Chamber is at Number 33, finishing one place ahead of the artist formally known as Snoop Dogg; the hip hop icon sees his reggae rebirth as Snoop Lion enter at 34 with Reincarnation.

And finally, as robot fever sweeps the UK in anticipation of their forthcoming new album Random Access Memories, no less than FIVE of Daft Punk’s back catalogue releases creep back into the Top 200. 2001’s Discovery breaks all the way through into the Top 40 at Number 23, plus Homework (87), Musique – Vol 1 1993-2005 (119), Alive 2007 (176) and lastly, Human After All (182).

This week's Official Albums Chart Top 10 is as follows. You can see the Official Albums Chart Top 100 in full, here, after 7pm.

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