Paloma Faith heading for first Number 1 album with Fall To Grace

Hackney starlet Paloma Faith could be on track for her first Official Number 1 album this weekend, as Fall To Grace drops straight into the top spot of today’s Official Albums Chart Update. Plus: See the Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 in full!

Hackney starlet Paloma Faith could be on track for her first Official Number 1 album this weekend, as Fall To Grace drops straight into the top spot of today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

The second studio album from the singer/songwriter, produced by Nellee Hooper, looks set to be her highest charting record to date as 2009 debut album Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful peaked at Number 9. The albums features Top 10 single Picking Up The Pieces.

Watch an interview with Paloma talking about the album below:

New Entries

Paloma Faith (1) leads a flurry of 13 new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update, the rest of the Top 5 separate d only by a few thousand copies.

Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band are new in at Number 2 with Diamond Jubilee release Sing, while New York glam pop outfit Scissor Sisters are on track for Number 3 with Magic Hour. Rumer’s Boys Don’t Cry and Russell Watson’s Anthems complete the Top 5. Watch an interview with Russell Watson below:

Elsewhere Iceland’s Sigur Ros are back with new album Valtari (6), Melody Gardot’s The Absence (8), Ultravox’s Brilliant (9) Alt-J’s An Awesome Wave (13), Regina Spektor’s What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (14), Architect’s Daybreaker (22) and Laura Wright’s Glorious (30) are all new entries on today’s Update.

And finally, completing this week’s Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is Public Image Limited with new release This Is PiL (39). In a recent interview with OfficialCharts.com, PiL and Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, AKA Johnny Rotten, let slip that he actually had no idea the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee was coming up this weekend.

The singer, who caused wide-spread public outrage with his band’s single God Save The Queen during Her Majesty Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee 35 years ago, was asked what he was planning to do to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, he replied: “I wasn’t actually aware it was coming up! And I’m not joking, this is the actual truth.”

Lydon added that he didn’t remember much of Her Majesty’s Silver Jubilee, either. “When the Sex Pistols did the Jubilee Boat Tour, I was in no fit condition to be aware that was happening either.”

Watch the interview below.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

01	FALL TO GRACE	PALOMA FAITH
02	SING	GARY BARLOW/COMMONWEALTH BAND
03	MAGIC HOUR	SCISSOR SISTERS
04	BOYS DON'T CRY	RUMER
05	ANTHEMS	RUSSELL WATSON
06	VALTARI	SIGUR ROS
07	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
08	THE ABSENCE	MELODY GARDOT
09	BRILLIANT	ULTRAVOX
10	NUMBER ONES	BEE GEES
11	TALK THAT TALK	RIHANNA
12	21	ADELE
13	AN AWESOME WAVE	ALT-J
14	WHAT WE SAW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS	REGINA SPEKTOR
15	STRANGELAND	KEANE
16	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
17	MYLO XYLOTO	COLDPLAY
18	SOME NIGHTS	FUN
19	+	ED SHEERAN
20	MAKING MIRRORS	GOTYE
21	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY
22	DAYBREAKER	ARCHITECTS
23	WATCH THE THRONE	JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
24	SPIRIT IN THE ROOM	TOM JONES
25	WHO YOU ARE	JESSIE J
26	STEREO TYPICAL	RIZZLE KICKS
27	BORN AND RAISED	JOHN MAYER
28	PINK FRIDAY - ROMAN RELOADED	NICKI MINAJ
29	THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR	ALEX CLARE
30	GLORIOUS	LAURA WRIGHT
31	DRIVING TOWARDS THE DAYLIGHT	JOE BONAMASSA
32	SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING	LMFAO
33	HEAVEN	REBECCA FERGUSON
34	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
35	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT	DAVID GUETTA
36	STREETS IN THE SKY	ENEMY
37	ELECTRONIC EARTH	LABRINTH
38	IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW	OLLY MURS
39	THIS IS PIL	PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
40	LONELY ARE THE BRAVE	MAVERICK SABRE