They have a dream! Westlife pursue a ninth Number 1 album with 25 – The Ultimate Collection

They have a dream! Legendary Irish boyband Westlife are pursuing their ninth Number 1 album with 25 – The Ultimate Collection.  

Bringing together some of their greatest hits with brand-new tracks, the album is the ultimate celebration of Shane Filan, Kian Egan, Nicky Byrne and Mark Feehily’s 25 years in the game. 

If all remains, the group will join the likes of Ed Sheeran, Bob Dylan, Take That and Stereophonics on nine chart-topping records. 

See all of Westlife’s Number 1 albums below: 

• Coast To Coast (2000)  

• World of Our Own (2001)  

• Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Volume 1 (2002)  

• Turnaround (2003)  

• Face To Face (2005)  

• The Love Album (2006)  

• Back Home (2007) 

• Spectrum (2019) 

Sheffield-based five-piece Reverend And The Makers are on course to earn their highest-charting project to date with Is This How Happiness Feels? at Number 3 midweek. The release is set to surpass their 2007 debut The State of Things, which peaked at Number 5.  

Basement, the British post-hardcore cohort whose last project came in 2018, are well on their way to a first Albums Chart appearance with their explosive comeback, WIRED (8). 

A return to the Top 40 is on the cards for enigmatic rock quartet Sleep Token with their former Number 1 Even In Arcadia (16), following the release of a brand-new version of the LP, which is entirely instrumental.  

Elsewhere, Chris Brown lasers in on a 12th Top 40 accolade with BROWN (12), as Manchester indie outfit The Covasettes eye their maiden main chart appearance with debut album, Honeymoon Forever (14).  

Midge Ure finds his latest solo effort A Man of Two Worlds looking to enter the fray (17).  

Glam metal rockers Black Veil Brides may attain their fourth Top 40, and first since 2018’s Vale with recent cut, VINDICATE (20).  

LA-formed MUNA are hoping to take Dancing On The Wall to Top 40 glory, currently sat at Number 22. 

Finally, Neil Diamond and Wild At Heart aims to secure the iconic American singer-songwriter a 37th Top 40 accomplishment (31).  

See the full Official Albums Chart Update Top 100 here from 5.45pm.

Images: Matt Holyoak