Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds set for highest charting UK album to date

Nick cave And The Bad Seeds are on course for their highest charting UK album to date with Push The Sky Away.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds are on course for their highest charting UK album to date with Push The Sky Away.

According to the Official Charts Company’s latest sales data, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' fifteenth studio album, Push The Sky Away, is currently at Number 1 in today’s mid-week chart. Their previous UK career best was with 2008’s Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!, which peaked at Number 4 on the Official Albums Chart.

Push The Sky Away has a clear lead of 6,500 copies on its closest competitor, Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events at this mid-way stage. However, given that the Emeli is nominated for three awards at tonight’s BRITs, it’s not unfeasible that Our Version Of Events could return to Number 1 in its 54th week on the Chart.

Last week’s chart topper, The Motion Picture Cast Recording of Tom Hooper’s big screen adaptation of Les Miserables, falls two places to Number 3, while Foals’ Holy Fire (4) and Jake Bugg’s debut self-titled album complete this week’s Official Albums Chart Update Top 5.

New entries and high climbers

In addition to Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Push The Sky Away (Number 1), there is just one other new entry on today’s Update.

Acclaimed British blues singer Joe Cocker makes a welcome return to the Official Albums Chart with his first new material in almost three years. Fire It Up, which is Cocker’s twenty-third studio album in a career spanning more than half a century, is new on today’s Official Chart Update at Number 8.

Ahead of this evening’s BRIT Awards, The Script (who are nominated in the International Group category) see their latest album, #3, surge a massive 20 places to Number 24. Similarly, Channel Orange by Frank Ocean (who is nominated for International Male) bounds upwards 14 places from 47 to 33, while Red by Taylor Swift (who is performing at tonight’s ceremony and is nominated for International Female) is up 13 places to Number 12.

The full effects of this year’s BRIT Awards on the Official Singles and Official Albums Charts will be revealed on Sunday.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1	PUSH THE SKY AWAY	NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
2	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
3	LES MISERABLES	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
4	HOLY FIRE	FOALS
5	JAKE BUGG	JAKE BUGG
6	BABEL	MUMFORD AND SONS
7	UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX	BRUNO MARS
8	FIRE IT UP	JOE COCKER
9	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC
10	18 MONTHS	CALVIN HARRIS
11	UNAPOLOGETIC	RIHANNA
12	RED	TAYLOR SWIFT
13	HALCYON	ELLIE GOULDING
14	TAKE ME HOME	ONE DIRECTION
15	OPPOSITES	BIFFY CLYRO
16	THE LUMINEERS	THE LUMINEERS
17	SOME NIGHTS	FUN.
18	THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE	P!NK
19	+	ED SHEERAN
20	RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME	OLLY MURS
21	FALL TO GRACE	PALOMA FAITH
22	DNA	LITTLE MIX
23	AN AWESOME WAVE	ALT-J
24	NUMBER 3	THE SCRIPT
25	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
26	PASSIONE	ANDREA BOCELLI
27	ORA	RITA ORA
28	EL CAMINO	BLACK KEYS
29	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT	DAVID GUETTA
30	GIRL ON FIRE	ALICIA KEYS
31	CHAPMAN SQUARE	LAWSON
32	THE GOLDEN AGE OF SONG	JOOLS HOLLAND AND HIS R&B ORCHESTRA
33	CHANNEL ORANGE	FRANK OCEAN
34	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
35	21	ADELE
36	TEMPER TEMPER	BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
37	GRRR	ROLLING STONES
38	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY
39	BELIEVE - ACOUSTIC	JUSTIN BIEBER
40	ELECTRIC	RICHARD THOMPSON