Slipknot could claim first UK Number 1 album in 18 years with We Are Not Your Kind

Feeder and Bon Iver are also aiming for the Top 5.

After four weeks at Number 1, it looks like Ed Sheeran’s reign at the summit of the Official Albums Chart could be ended by Slipknot.

The heavy metal group’s sixth studio album and first in almost five years We Are Not Your Kind leads the Official Chart Update, currently ahead of Ed Sheeran’s No.6 Collaborations Project by over 13,000 chart sales. The masked group have sold the most physical copies and digital downloads across the weekend, while Ed still has the edge on streaming.

We Are Not Your Kind is on track to become Slipknot’s fifth consecutive Top 5 album. The group’s breakthrough album Iowa is their only UK Number 1 to date, topping the charts in September 2001. Click here to view Slipknot's full UK chart history.

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Elsewhere in the Top 5, Welsh rock duo Feeder are heading for their ninth Top 10 album with Tallulah. The band’s tenth studio album is currently at Number 3 and could become their highest-charting record since 2006 retrospective The Singles.

Bon Iver are also aiming for the Top 5 with their new album I,I. After a surprise early release on digital and streaming platforms, the band’s fourth LP occupies Number 5 at the midweek mark. The physical release arrives on August 30.

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Into the Top 20, Rick Ross starts at Number 13 with Port of Miami 2, Trippie Redd could claim his best ever UK chart placement with his second album ! at Number 14, and another new entry right behind at Number 15 is Any Human Friend by Marika Hackman, who could earn her first UK Top 40 album this Friday.

Finally, following the release of the movie based on his music Blinded by the Light, Bruce Springsteen’s latest album Western Stars – his 11^th UK Number 1 – is up seven places to Number 18.

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Jamie Crampton

15th August 2019

Somehow you get the feeling that OCC will fiddle with the stream counts so the ginger pillock stays at number one... I hope I'm wrong, this would be so awesome and it's a brilliant album.

I Am A Stegosaurus

14th August 2019

Iowa wasn't their breakthrough album, that was the self titled in 1999

I Am A Stegosaurus

14th August 2019

This must be dead confusing for people here for Ed Sheeran and Billie Eilish lol

Richard Conway

14th August 2019

So happy to see Feeder up there with their new album. Hope they remain there or even achieve higher! This could be their highest charted album.

thierry henon

12th August 2019

So happy that Ed may not be number 1 this week! Having Bon Iver at number 1 would have been fantastic but one can dream!! Bruce's new album is still in the chart!!? I would have expected like the great Madonna's new album to only remain in the chart for a few weeks!! Madonna's new album deserved much more success!! I can't believe it flopped big time even though it is her best album in years!!

Rob Parkinson

12th August 2019

I would hardly say that a number 2 peaking album is a flop, I think you would find the 1000s of artists and groups out there merely releasing an album is an amazing achievement in itself, let alone to get a placing in the top 100, top 40 or greater still the top 10. So a no.2 album is a great success and even though it dropped the week after it was still placed higher than other albums which were released the following week. Just because Madonna has had no.1 albums before doesn't make it a flop and also if Bruce's album hadn't been released the same week it would have been no.1 anyway.

Yummm

15th August 2019

For sure Hadgonnas album is a flop it was only in the top 200 in the US for 3 weeks! She is a no talent. Looking forward to a real talent like Kate Bush releasing new music though.