Miley Cyrus set for Number 1 Double with Wrecking Ball and Bangerz!

Miley Cyrus looks set to be Number 1 on both the Official Singles Chart AND the Official Albums Chart this weekend, according to today’s Official Chart Update.

Miley Cyrus is on course for not one, but two Number 1s this weekend! According to the Official Charts Company’s latest sales data, her latest single Wrecking Ball, is leading the charge on the Official Singles Chart, while new album, Bangerz, is currently in pole position on the Official Albums Chart.

Should Miley maintain her lead though to Sunday morning’s cut off point, it will be the first Official Chart Double of 2013.

Despite starring in Disney’s Hannah Montana between 2006 and 2011, and releasing music as herself and under her on-screen alter ego, the 20-year-old singer and actress only scored her first chart topper on these shores little over two months ago with We Can’t Stop.

With a sales tally of nearly 62,000 copies, Wrecking Ball is almost certain to become Miley’s second Number 1 UK single, and is more than 18,000 copies ahead of today’s Official Singles Chart Update Number 2, Eminem’s Berzerk, at this midway stage. The controversial video for the track had amassed nearly 205 million views on YouTube as of this morning.

Meanwhile over on the Official Albums Chart Update, Bangerz is fending off tough competition from Chase & Status’ hotly anticipated third studio album, Brand New Machine (new in at Number 2) and reigning chart queens Haim’s Days Are Gone (down two places to Number 3). Miley’s previous highest charting album was 2010’s Can’t Be Tamed, which peaked at Number 8.

Official Singles Chart Update New Entries

In addition to Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball (Number 1) there are six other new entries in today’s Official Singles Chart Update Top 10.

Eminem is on course for his 20th Top 10 single as a lead artist with Berzerk (Number 2). The track is taken from the US rapper’s upcoming eighth studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, which is released in the UK next month.

Conor Maynard is new in at Number 3 today with R U Crazy, the lead single from Conor’s forthcoming second album was co-written with Labrinth. The Saturdays are set to debut one place behind him with Disco Love (4), while James Blunt is heading back to the Top 10 for the first time in six years with Bonfire Heart (6), followed by John Newman’s Cheating (7) and Justin Bieber’s Heartbreaker (8).

And finally, Norwegian comedy duo Bard and Vegard Ylvisaker, AKA Ylvis, look set to climb into the Top 40 on Sunday with The Fox. The Gangnam Style-esque novelty track climbs 12 places from 46 to 34 today.

The Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 is as follows. The Official Singles Chart Top 100 will be posted in full, here, on Sunday at 7pm.

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Official Albums Chart Update New Entries

While Miley Cyrus is set to debut at Number 1 on Sunday with Bangerz, Chase & Status are on course for this week’s second highest new entry. Brand New Machine (Number 2) features the London-based duo’s recent Top 10 hits Lost & Not Found and Count On Me.

Lucy Spraggan is also on course to enter the Top 10 on the Official Albums Chart on Sunday with her major label debut Join The Club (6). The former X Factor star’s first self-penned full-length, Top Room At the Zoo, peaked at Number 22 last September before she was forced to pull it from sale by the show’s producers.

Las Vegas’ Panic! At The Disco are on track for a Top 10 placing with Too Weird To Live Too Rare To Die (8), while fellow US rockers Korn are heading for their highest charting UK album in over a decade with The Paradigm Shift (11). Prefab Sprout are new in at 13 with Crimson/Red, while hip-hop duo Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip are at 14 today with their third album, Repent Replenish Repeat.

This week’s Official Albums Chart Update’s new entries are completed by The Fratellis’ We Need Medicine (17), The Feeling’s Boy Cried Wolf (18), Anna Calvi’s One Breath (19) and British singer/songwriter John Martyn’s posthumous collection, The Island Years, (29).

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.

© 2013 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.