Mumford & Sons take early lead for fourth Number 1 album with Prizefighter

As Hilary Duff and Leigh-Anne eye Top 5 debuts

Mumford & Sons storm ahead in the Official Albums Chart race, with the folk-rock trio setting their sights on a fourth Number 1 accolade with Prizefighter.

If successful, it will be the British outfit’s second project to reach the summit in under a year, after Rushmere hit the summit in April 2025. Prizefighter would also join Babel (2012) and Wilder Mind (2015) in Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane and Ben Lovett’s tally of chart-toppers.

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But can George Michael’s Faith regain top spot almost 40 years after it first debuted at Number 1?

With its physical reissue across 1LP picture disc, 2LP red and marble vinyl, 1 and 2LP black vinyl, plus a 10-track CD, George’s 1987 solo debut currently sits at Number 2, set to return to the Top 10 for the first time in 38 years.

Hilary Duff’s return could see her bag her highest charting album to date with luck... or something (3). Her sixth LP, it’s set to smash her previous personal best which came courtesy of 2007’s Dignity (25).

Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne is Burning Up, with her debut solo album My Ego Told Me To on course to pierce the Top 5 this week (4).

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a compilation of Elvis Presley’s classic recordings and live hits from Baz Luhrmann’s new film, released in cinemas this Friday February 27, is on course to break the Top 10 (6).

Californian rapper and record producer Baby Keem is tracking for a first Top 40 accomplishment with his second studio album, Ca$ino (22). The same can be said for American country singer Megan Moroney, who eyes a debut Top 40 LP with Cloud 9 (25).

And finally, Paul Draper’s Mansun Retold, which reimagines 11 of his previous compositions as the frontman of Britpop band Mansun, is tracking for a Top 40 finish (30).