The Civil Wars take on Britain’s Got Talent stars in albums race

Can The Civil Wars knock Richard and Adam off the top of the Official Albums Chart this weekend?
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Can The Civil Wars knock Richard and Adam off the top of the Official Albums Chart this weekend?

US folk-rock duo The Civil Wars take on Britain’s Got Talent finalists Richard and Adam Johnson as the talent show brothers lead the race to this week’s Number 1 album.

Richard and Adam, the brothers from Holywell, North Wales, knocked X Factor star Jahmene Douglas off the top of the Official Albums Chart on Sunday with their debut full-length, The Impossible Dream.

Grammy award-winning US duo The Civil Wars are set to score this week’s highest new entry with their eponymous second album. The Rick Rubin (Adele / Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Charlie Peacock (Amy Grant / Switchfoot)-produced album is new in on today’s Official Chart Update at Number 2, but trailing Richard and Adam by less than 4,000 copies. It is all still to play for!

Mike Rosenberg, AKA Passenger, holds firm at Number 3 with All The Little Lights, while Imagine DragonsNight Visions (up six places to Number 4) and Jahmene DouglasLove Never Fails (5) complete the Top 5.

New Entries

In addition to The Civil Wars (Number 2), there are three other new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update.

West Midlands-based indie rockers Swim Deep are set to make their Top 10 debut on Sunday with Where The Heaven Are We (6), while Asking Alexandria are on course for their highest charting UK album to date with their third studio album, From Death To Destiny (15). The York metallers found fame overseas after relocating to the US in 2009. Their 2011 second album, Reckless & Relentless, went Top 10 on America’s Billboard 200 albums chart.

And finally, Example’s Best Of collection, #Hits, is new in today at Number 16. The 16-track album includes the London rapper’s chart-topping singles Changed The Way You Kissed Me and Stay Awake.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1 THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM RICHARD & ADAM
2 THE CIVIL WARS CIVIL WARS
3 ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS PASSENGER
4 NIGHT VISIONS IMAGINE DRAGONS
5 LOVE NEVER FAILS JAHMENE DOUGLAS
6 WHERE THE HEAVEN ARE WE SWIM DEEP
7 MAGNA CARTA HOLY GRAIL JAY-Z
8 TO BE LOVED MICHAEL BUBLE
9 ENGLISH RAIN GABRIELLE APLIN
10 HOME RUDIMENTAL
11 TIME ROD STEWART
12 NOTHING BUT THE BEAT DAVID GUETTA
13 UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX BRUNO MARS
14 BABEL MUMFORD & SONS
15 FROM DEATH TO DESTINY ASKING ALEXANDRIA
16 HITS EXAMPLE
17 SETTLE DISCLOSURE
18 JAKE BUGG JAKE BUGG
19 18 MONTHS CALVIN HARRIS
20 GREATEST HITS SCOUTING FOR GIRLS
21 BLURRED LINES ROBIN THICKE
22 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
23 LONG WAY DOWN TOM ODELL
24 RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES DAFT PUNK
25 RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME OLLY MURS
26 THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE PINK
27 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE
28 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
29 BODY MUSIC ALUNAGEORGE
30 EVERY KINGDOM BEN HOWARD
31 TAKE ME HOME ONE DIRECTION
32 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC
33 THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
34 MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL OF MONSTERS & MEN
35 IN A WORLD LIKE THIS BACKSTREET BOYS
36 RED TAYLOR SWIFT
37 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY
38 THE SHOCKING MISS EMERALD CARO EMERALD
39 SIGH NO MORE MUMFORD & SONS
40 GRAFFITI ON THE TRAIN STEREOPHONICS

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