The Script's No Sound Without Silence blasts to the top of Albums Chart

The Script have blasted their way to Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with their latest record No Sound Without Silence.
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The group’s fourth studio LP, which includes their UK Top 10 single Superheroes, marks their third UK Number 1 album following their eponymous debut in 2008 and 2010’s Science & Faith.

New in at Number 2 this week is Barbra Streisand with her duets album Partners. The record, which includes collaborations with Lionel Richie, John Legend, Michael Buble and Elvis Presley, marks her highest charting album in the UK since 2009’s Love Is The Answer.

Meanwhile, last week’s Number 1 Sam Smith slips to 3 with In The Lonely Hour, and Chris Brown’s X debuts at Number 4. The singer’s sixth album already includes four UK Top 40 singles; Fine China, Love More, Loyal and latest track New Flame.

New entries

Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash lands at Number 7 with his latest album World On Fire. The record is officially his highest charting solo LP to date, following 2010’s Slash (peak of 17) and 2012’s Apocalyptic Love (12).

US rockers Train enter at nine with their seventh album Bulletproof Picasso, and Catfish & The Bottlemen land at 10 with their debut album The Balcony.

Elsewhere, Counting Crows are new at Number 15 with Somewhere Under Wonderland, and Riptide singer Vance Joy is at 20 with his debut LP Dream Your Life Away.

2014 Mercury Prize nominees Jungle climb a massive 26 places to 27 with their eponymous album following their shortlisting, and Barbra Streisand rounds out the Top 40 with a re-entry of her 2010 retrospective, The Ultimate Collection.

The Official Albums Chart Top 10 is as follows. Click here to see the Official Albums Chart Top 100 in full after 7pm.

1 NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE THE SCRIPT
2 PARTNERS BARBRA STREISAND
3 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH
4 X CHRIS BROWN
5 X ED SHEERAN
6 WANTED ON VOYAGE GEORGE EZRA
7 WORLD ON FIRE SLASH
8 ROYAL BLOOD ROYAL BLOOD
9 BULLETPROOF PICASSO TRAIN
10 THE BALCONY CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN

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