One Direction take on Robbie and Gary in Christmas albums race

1D are neck-and-neck with Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow in the race to claim this year’s festive chart topping album.
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1D are neck-and-neck with Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow in the race to claim this year’s festive chart topping album.

Robbie Williams was celebrating on Sunday night after reclaiming the Number 1 spot on the Official Albums Chart from One Direction. However, if the Take That star wants to hold onto his chart crown through to Christmas Day, he’s got a real fight on his hands!

It’s the One Direction boys who are in pole position at the midway stage with Midnight Memories. Despite being released just three-and-a-half weeks ago, Harry, Niall, Louis, Liam and Zayn's latest album is already the fourth biggest selling album of this year. However, with just 6,500 copies separating all of the Top 3 – Robbie’s Swing Both Ways (2) and Gary Barlow’s Since I Saw You Last – it could be all change come Sunday.

If Midnight Memories’ sales continue at their current rate, 1D could overtake Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events to become 2013’s biggest selling album. But with less than two weeks to go before the year end, it’s going to go down to the wire!

This week’s Top 5 is completed by Olly MursRight Place, Right Time (a non-mover at Number 4), and Beyonce’s self-titled fifth album also remains static at Number 5.

The week’s highest climber is The KillersDirect Hits. The Las Vegas band’s Best Of collection climbs 17 places to re-enter the Top 10 at Number 8 after they performed during The X Factor final on Sunday evening.

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.

1 MIDNIGHT MEMORIES ONE DIRECTION
2 SWINGS BOTH WAYS ROBBIE WILLIAMS
3 SINCE I SAW YOU LAST GARY BARLOW
4 RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME OLLY MURS
5 BEYONCE BEYONCE
6 LOVED ME BACK TO LIFE CELINE DION
7 TO BE LOVED MICHAEL BUBLE
8 DIRECT HITS KILLERS
9 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
10 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE
11 BZ 20 BOYZONE
12 THE NATION'S FAVOURITE ELVIS SONGS ELVIS PRESLEY
13 TIME ROD STEWART
14 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 EMINEM
15 SALUTE LITTLE MIX
16 CHRISTMAS WITH LOVE LEONA LEWIS
17 FREEDOM REBECCA FERGUSON
18 PRISM KATY PERRY
19 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
20 A MUSICAL AFFAIR IL DIVO
21 MUSIC OF THE NIGHT ANDRE RIEU & JOHANN STRAUSS OR
22 MOON LANDING JAMES BLUNT
23 MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY ROD STEWART
24 JAMES ARTHUR JAMES ARTHUR
25 HOME FOR CHRISTMAS SUSAN BOYLE
26 TRUST ALFIE BOE
27 IF YOU WAIT LONDON GRAMMAR
28 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
29 UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX BRUNO MARS
30 TRIBUTE JOHN NEWMAN
31 LONG WAY DOWN TOM ODELL
32 THE BEST OF KEANE
33 SHANGRI LA JAKE BUGG
34 TRUE AVICII
35 BACK AGAIN - NO MATTER WHAT BOYZONE
36 ARTPOP LADY GAGA
37 THE FABULOUS ROCK 'N' ROLL SONGBOOK CLIFF RICHARD
38 MECHANICAL BULL KINGS OF LEON
39 ALIVE JESSIE J
40 THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM RICHARD & ADAM

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