The former Wham! star looks set to score his seventh solo Number 1 on Sunday, and is more than 8,500 copies ahead of Kylie at this midway stage. However, there is still everything to play for between now and midnight on Saturday evening when sales close for this week’s Official Charts.

Top 40 Albums

1 George Michael * (25,500)
2 Kylie Minogue * (16,877)
3 Pharrell Williams (7.1k)
4 Elbow (7k)
5 Paloma Faith (6.8k)

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...-1-album-2833/

Duke Dumont could secure his second chart-topping single this weekend with I Got U FT Jax Jones.

The house track, which samples Whitney Houston’s My Love Is Your Love, looks set to replicate the success of the British DJ and producer’s smash Need U 100% FT A*M*E, which peaked at Number 1 last April.

Top 40 Singles

1 Duke Dumont/ Jax Jones * (69k)
2 Route 94/ Jess Glynne (24,7k)
3 John Legend (19,7k)
4 Little Mix * (18,9k)
5 DVBBS & Borgeous/ Tinie Tempah (18,3k)

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...-i-got-u-2834/

Poor Kylie

George released an album?

and he's going to block her from number 1...

No wonder, its his first album of new work since 2004!

No Kylie

Expected and not remotely surprising

It's a live recording from his Symphonica tour

Well damn

This.

Who is still using George Michael? I thought he was an 80's icon, not some sort of longevity queen.

That sucks, i thought Kylie would have had much bigger numbers cause of The Voice

I use George Michael with pleasure.

But damn Kylie is floping hard.

The sales.

Such a flop.

So happy for George.

George has always been huge in the UK so I'm not that surprised.

Congrats. George is a legend and has such an incredible history of achievements. Look it up he's had 8 US no1s and broken all kinds of records.

Plus he's had serious health issues past few years and just recovered from a scary car accident in may. He's also now drug free and sober for first time in many many years.

So yeah, this is great new start for him. But its not surprising he's a megastar in UK and many other countries still. He tweeted that its no1 in 11 countries already.

Yes, the king of Pop released his album 'Unannounced' and is currently slaying.

George Michael has 11 #1s (He wrote every song that hit #1)

George is the definition of 'Longevity' go look at his track record. He slayed our faves for years!