The Vaccines and Two Door Cinema Club in Number 1 album race

The Vaccines and Two Door Cinema Club are going head-to-head in the race to Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart. Plus: See the Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 in full!

The Vaccines and Two Door Cinema Club are going head-to-head in the race to Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

According to today’s Official Chart Update, The Vaccines have taken an early lead with their newly released second album, Come Of Age, currently sat in pole position. Meanwhile County Down trio Two Door Cinema Club’s Beacon, which is also their second album, is just 5,000 copies behind the London indie rockers at Number 2.

If both bands can maintain their current chart leads, Come Of Age and Beacon will be their highest charting releases to date (The Vaccines’ 2011 album, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?, and Two Door Cinema Club’s 2010 album, Tourist History, previously reached Number 4 and Number 24, respectively, on the Official Albums Chart).

Reigning Official Albums Chart queen Rita Ora slips from number 1 to Number 3 with her debut album, ORA, while Ronan Keating’s ninth studio album, Fires, looks set to debut at Number 4. Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events (5), which last week overtook Adele’s 21 to become the biggest selling album of 2012 so far, completes this week’s Official Albums Chart Update Top 5.

New Entries And High Climbers

In addition to The Vaccines (1), Two Door Cinema Club (2) and Ronan Keating (4) there are six other new entries in today’s Official Albums Chart Update. Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler’s latest solo album, Privateering, is currently at Number 6, while Scouting For Girls also look set to go Top 10 with their third album, The Light Between Us (8).

US rockers Matchbox Twenty are at Number 11 with North, Essex’s self-proclaimed ‘new soul rebels’ The Milk are at 19 with Tales From The Thames Delta, while Cat Power’s Sun (25) and Animal Collective’s Centipede HZ (33) completes this week’s Official Albums Chart Update’s new entries.

This week’s highest climber is Paul Simon’s Graceland, up 26 places from to 34, while Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto climbs 18 places to Number 26. Both Twin Atlantic’s Free and David Guetta’s Nothing But The Beat are currently up five places to Number 36 and 38, respectively.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

01	COME OF AGE	VACCINES
02	BEACON	TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
03	ORA	RITA ORA
04	FIRES	RONAN KEATING
05	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
06	PRIVATEERING	MARK KNOPFLER
07	ILL MANORS - OST	PLAN B
08	THE LIGHT BETWEEN US	SCOUTING FOR GIRLS
09	FALL TO GRACE	PALOMA FAITH
10	MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL	OF MONSTERS & MEN
11	NORTH	MATCHBOX TWENTY
12	EL CAMINO	BLACK KEYS
13	SOME NIGHTS	FUN
14	+	ED SHEERAN
15	DEAD IN THE BOOT	ELBOW
16	OVEREXPOSED	MAROON 5
17	TALK THAT TALK	RIHANNA
18	UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION
19	TALES FROM THE THAMES DELTA	MILK
20	EVERY KINGDOM	BEN HOWARD
21	CEREMONIALS	FLORENCE & THE MACHINE
22	21	ADELE
23	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
24	LIFE IN A BEAUTIFUL LIGHT	AMY MACDONALD
25	SUN	CAT POWER
26	MYLO XYLOTO	COLDPLAY
27	WHO YOU ARE	JESSIE J
28	CALIFORNIA 37	TRAIN
29	NEED YOU NOW	LADY ANTEBELLUM
30	THE SELDOM SEEN KID	ELBOW
31	PINK FRIDAY - ROMAN RELOADED	NICKI MINAJ
32	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY
33	CENTIPEDE HZ	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
34	GRACELAND	PAUL SIMON
35	GREATEST HITS	FOO FIGHTERS
36	FREE	TWIN ATLANTIC
37	IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW	OLLY MURS
38	NOTHING BUT THE BEAT	DAVID GUETTA
39	TOURIST HISTORY	TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
40	SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING	LMFAO