The Greatest Showman soundtrack denies Manic Street Preachers Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart

Plus there are new entries from The Damned, Gary Barlow and Isaac Gracie on this week's Official Albums Chart.
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The Greatest Showman soundtrack is back at Number 1 on this week's Official Albums Chart, scoring its 13th week at the top. 

The collection rebounds 2 to 1 on this week's chart, denying Manic Street Preachers' this week's chart-topper with their new album Resistance Is Futile. The band's 13th album led the way at the midweek stage but has to settle for Number 2.

Resistance Is Futile was this week's biggest physical seller, accounting for 85% of its total sales, and takes the top spot on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.

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Meanwhile, George Ezra holds at 3 with Staying At Tamara's, last week's Number 1, Kylie Minogue's Golden, slips to 4, while Cardi B's Invasion lifts a place to 5. 89% of sales of the rapper's debut album this week came from streaming.

New entries and high climbers

British punk rockers The Damned claim their first ever Top 10 album this week with Evil Spirits, new at 7, Dua Lipa's self-titled hops three places to return to the Top 10 at 8, as does Sam Smith's The Thrill Of It All, up from 13 to 10. 

Elsewhere, A Real Labour Of Love by UB40 ft. Ali, Astro and Mickey vaults 28 places back into the Top 40 at Number 15, just ahead of Arctic Monkeys' 2013 album AM, which zooms from 31 to 16 in anticipation of their new album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. The band's 2006 debut, Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not, also returns to the Top 40 at Number 27. Check out Arctic Monkeys' complete Official Chart history here.

Isaac Gracie

Isaac Gracie (Press)

A 21st anniversary reissue of Gary Barlow's chart-topping solo debut album Open Road is new at 25, US rockers Breaking Benjamin land at 35 with their sixth album Ember, the self-titled debut from Londoner Isaac Gracie opens at 36, and Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. is back in the Top 40 at 37 following his Pulitzer Prize win this week.

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Michelle Phillips

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Much better than ed sheeran trash