QOTSA and Disclosure battle it out for Official Album Chart Number 1

Josh Homme's QOTSA face off with the Disclosure brothers in nail-biting race for Number 1.

Josh Homme's QOTSA and the Disclosure brothers go head-to-head in nail-biting race for Number 1.

The gloves are off!

It’s USA vs UK / Californa vs Surrey / veterans vs rookies / rock vs electronica / man vs machine as Palm Desert’s Queens Of The Stone Age go head-to-head with Reigate duo Disclosure in the race for Number 1 on the Official Album Chart.

…Like Clockwork, the sixth album from US rock veterans QOTSA snatches a nail-biting lead on Disclosure’s debut album Settle of only a few thousand copies in today’s Official Chart Update, but the gap is steadily narrowing with all still to play for.

Josh Homme’s band of merry men have yet to secure a UK Number 1 album. 2002’s Songs For The Deaf and 2005’s Lullabies To Paralyze both peaked at Number 4.

Meanwhile, Disclosure brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence, who have boasted a string of hit singles in recent months, spearheaded by the Number 2-peaking White Noise FT AlunaGeorge, should by no means rule themselves out of a debut chart topper this weekend. With Disclosure currently enjoying no less than three tracks riding in today’s Top 50 over on the Official Singles Chart Update, the UK public are clearly keen - could an albums upset be on the cards come Sunday’s final whistle?

Daft Punk look set to lose their two-week hold on Number 1 as Random Access Memories falls down two to Number 3, while Rod Stewart’s Time slips to Number 4.

Miles Kane is on course for his highest charting solo album to date, as the former Rascals and Last Shadow Puppets singer’s second release Don’t Forget Who You Are is at Number 5 in this week’s Official Chart Update.

New entries

Rock super veterans Megadeth are on course for their highest charting album in almost a decade as their fourteenth studio album Supercollider is at Number 14 midweek. At Number 20 is Mutation’s Error 500, followed by City & Colour at Number 21 with The Hurry And The Harm.

This week’s new entries are rounded off by Sleeping With Sirens’ third album Feel at Number 28 and Camera Obscura’s Desire Lines (30).

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1	LIKE CLOCKWORK	QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
2	SETTLE	DISCLOSURE
3	RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES	DAFT PUNK
4	TIME	ROD STEWART
5	DON'T FORGET WHO YOU ARE	MILES KANE
6	ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS	PASSENGER
7	HOME	RUDIMENTAL
8	BAD BLOOD	BASTILLE
9	RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME	OLLY MURS
10	HALCYON	ELLIE GOULDING
11	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
12	THE SHOCKING MISS EMERALD	CARO EMERALD
13	UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX	BRUNO MARS
14	SUPER COLLIDER	MEGADETH
15	TO BE LOVED	MICHAEL BUBLE
16	18 MONTHS	CALVIN HARRIS
17	ONCE I WAS AN EAGLE	LAURA MARLING
18	LONDON WITH THE LIGHTS ON	STOOSHE
19	NIGHT VISIONS	IMAGINE DRAGONS
20	ERROR 500	MUTATION
21	THE HURRY AND THE HARM	CITY & COLOUR
22	GRAFFITI ON THE TRAIN	STEREOPHONICS
23	ENGLISH RAIN	GABRIELLE APLIN
24	BEST OF - DECADE IN THE SUN	STEREOPHONICS
25	LES MISERABLES	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
26	THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE	PINK
27	JAKE BUGG	JAKE BUGG
28	FEEL	SLEEPING WITH SIRENS
29	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
30	DESIRE LINES	CAMERA OBSCURA
31	THE CONVERSATION	TEXAS
32	MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY	VAMPIRE WEEKEND
33	THE LUMINEERS	LUMINEERS
34	PARAMORE	PARAMORE
35	THE HEIST	MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS
36	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT	DAVID GUETTA
37	TROUBLE WILL FIND ME	NATIONAL
38	DEMI	DEMI LOVATO
39	NUMBER 3	SCRIPT
40	BABEL	MUMFORD & SONS