Nearly 100,000 copies of Ed Sheeran’s new album, X, have been purchased in the UK in the last 48 hours.
Ed Sheeran is on course to debut at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart this weekend with his second studio album, X.
According to the Official Charts Company’s latest sales data, X (pronounced multiply) has already clocked up nearly 100,000 UK sales during its first 48 hours of release. At this midway stage, the album has also nearly equalled the entire first week sales tally of his 2011 debut +, which sold 102,000 copies in its opening week (1.8 million copies to date).
If its sales momentum continues, X, looks set to challenge Coldplay for the fastest selling album of 2014. The current record is held by the band's latest album, Ghost Stories, which sold more than 168,000 copies during its first week of release in May.
Official Albums Chart Update Top 40
1 X ED SHEERAN
2 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH
3 ULTRAVIOLENCE LANA DEL REY
4 GHOST STORIES COLDPLAY
5 2.009027778 KASABIAN
6 BLUE SMOKE - THE BEST OF DOLLY PARTON
7 ONCE MORE 'ROUND THE SUN MASTODON
8 THE HUNTING PARTY LINKIN PARK
9 CAUSTIC LOVE PAOLO NUTINI
10 + ED SHEERAN
11 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION PALOMA FAITH
12 SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE STEVIE WONDER
13 WHISPERS PASSENGER
14 LIQUID SPIRIT GREGORY PORTER
15 LAZARETTO JACK WHITE
16 XSCAPE MICHAEL JACKSON
17 LOVE IN THE FUTURE JOHN LEGEND
18 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
19 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY
20 GIRL PHARRELL WILLIAMS
21 WHILE(1<2) DEADMAU5
22 IF YOU WAIT LONDON GRAMMAR
23 MEET THE VAMPS VAMPS
24 NEW EYES CLEAN BANDIT
25 STAY GOLD FIRST AID KIT
26 MECHANICAL BULL KINGS OF LEON
27 WHAT HAVE WE BECOME PAUL HEATON & JACQUI ABBOTT
28 TURN BLUE BLACK KEYS
29 NATIONAL TREASURE - ULTIMATE COLLECTION VERA LYNN
30 STOCKHOLM CHRISSIE HYNDE
31 THE 1975 1975
32 SALUTE LITTLE MIX
33 ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS PASSENGER
34 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
35 HANK HANK MARVIN
36 SELECTED WORKS 1972-1999 EAGLES
37 PRISM KATY PERRY
38 TAPESTRY CAROLE KING
39 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
40 A TOWN CALLED PARADISE TIESTO
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Official Singles Chart Update Top 40
1 GECKO (OVERDRIVE) OLIVER HELDENS & BECKY HILL
2 GHOST ELLA HENDERSON
3 SING ED SHEERAN
4 ONE MORE DAY (STAY WITH ME) EXAMPLE
5 GOOD KISSER USHER
6 STAY WITH ME SAM SMITH
7 BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA
8 WIGGLE JASON DERULO FT SNOOP DOGG
9 WAVES MR PROBZ
10 DON'T STOP 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
11 WASTED TIESTO FT MATTHEW KOMA
12 ALL OF ME JOHN LEGEND
13 HERE FOR YOU GORGON CITY FT LAURA WELSH
14 DANGEROUS LOVE FUSE ODG FT SEAN PAUL
15 SUMMER CALVIN HARRIS
16 A SKY FULL OF STARS COLDPLAY
17 HAPPY PHARRELL WILLIAMS
18 I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN RITA ORA
19 ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS PALOMA FAITH
20 THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN
21 ONE ED SHEERAN
22 I WANNA FEEL SECONDCITY
23 JUBEL KLINGANDE
24 SALUTE LITTLE MIX
25 MMM YEAH AUSTIN MAHONE & PITBULL
26 LET IT GO IDINA MENZEL
27 TREMOR DIMITRI VEGAS/MARTIN GARRIX
28 FANCY IGGY AZALEA FT CHARLI XCX
29 HIDEAWAY KIESZA
30 LOYAL CHRIS BROWN/LIL WAYNE/TYGA
31 DON'T ED SHEERAN
32 LOVE NEVER FELT SO GOOD MICHAEL JACKSON
33 NEON LIGHTS DEMI LOVATO
34 PHOTOGRAPH ED SHEERAN
35 NOBODY TO LOVE SIGMA
36 RATHER BE CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE
37 CLARITY ZEDD FT FOXES
38 EEZ-EH KASABIAN
39 SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
40 I GOT U DUKE DUMONT FT JAX JONES
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