The Rolling Stones are fighting it out with James Blunt to score their first UK number one album since 1994’s Voodoo Lounge.
Retail reports suggest the band’s newly-issued Virgin album A Bigger Bang is slightly ahead of James Blunt’s Atlantic-issued Back To Bedlam as the band look to achieve their 11th UK chart-topper, the highest for any group bar The Beatles.
The Stones are likely to be joined in this Sunday’s Top 20 by fellow Sixties survivor Bob Dylan whose No Direction Home soundtrack to the documentary Martin Scorsese has made about him is due to become the week’s second highest debut. In an unusually quiet first week of September, the only other brand new albums challenging to enter the Top 40 are Interscope-signed rapper Tony Yayo with Thoughts Of A Predicate Felon an Kate Rusby’s Pure-issued Girl Couldn’t Fly.
Meanwhile, the summer’s stability at the top of the singles chart seems to be well and truly over with Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes’ Don’t Cha (A&M) comfortably on course to become the fifth different chart-topper in as many weeks. It expected to be joined in the top five by Parlophone act Coldplay’s new single Fix You and the Breastfed-issued Doctor Pressure by Mylo Vs Miami Sound Machine.
Lower down Atlantic’s Goldie Lookin Chain with Your Missus Is A Nutter and Fiction’s Ian Brown with All Ablaze are both challenging for Top 20 places, while Top 40 entries are likely to include new singles by Rough Trade’s Arcade Fire, BMG acts Faithless and Foo Fighters, Atlantic-signed Transplants and Eye Industries/UMTV’s Supafly Vs Fishbowl.
Source: Music Week
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