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The Prodigy on track for sixth Number 1 album
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They may have been away for a while, but The Prodigy are back with a bang. The Essex trio look set to score their sixth Number 1 with their first studio album in six years, the critically-acclaimed The Day Is My Enemy.
At this midweek stage, The Prodigy are outselling their nearest rival James Bay by almost two copies to one. It’s almost 21 years since their second album Music For The Jilted Generation, gave them their first chart-topper.
View The Prodigy's full chart archive
Last week’s Number 1, BRITs Critics’ Choice winner James Bay’s debut Chaos And The Calm, falls a place to Number 2 in today’s Update, while Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour is at Number 3.
Ed Sheeran’s x falls one place to Number 4 and American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens looks set to score his first Top 10 album this Sunday – Carrie & Lowell is a new entry at Number 5.
New entries and high climbers
Along with The Prodigy (1) and Sufjan Stevens (5), there are nine albums making their debut in today’s Official Chart Update Top 40.
Finnish metal band Nightwish could be celebrating their first Top 10 album on Sunday, Endless Forms Most Beautiful is new at Number 7.
Liverpool band Circa Waves’ debut Young Chasers is new at Number 8 and Irish folk duo Hudson Taylor’s first studio album Singing For Strangers is currently at Number 12.
A third Top 40 for indie rockers looks a cert for Death Cab For Cutie, with Kintsugi (18), and French electropop solo artist Madeon is on track to make an Official Albums Chart debut with Adventure (20).
Legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter Steve Hackett is heading for an eighth Top 40 album with Wolflight new at Number 21, while Canadian rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor are in with a chance of their first – Asunder Sweet And Other Distress is at Number 30 today.
Former Orbital star Paul Hartnoll’s new project 8:58 is new at Number 35 with its album of the same, and Californian super-group We Are Harlot’s eponymous debut album rounds off our new entries at Number 37.
Highest climber this week is Sia’s 1000 Forms Of Fear, which zooms 18 places to Number 6 following the secretive star’s performance on The Voice UK’s semi-final last weekend.
View the full Official Albums Chart Update Top 100 here (from 4pm)
Photo: Paul Dugdale
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