Michael Jackson is well on his way to claiming the Official Albums Chart Number 1 this weekend with his second posthumous release Xscape.
Back in March it was announced Epic Records had teamed up with the late Michael Jackson’s estate to compile an album of previously unheard tracks.
Xscape features ‘contemporised’ versions of the original track recordings and high-profile producers include Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins, JRoc, Stargate and John McClain.
Michael Jackson has an impressive chart history scoring 30 Official Albums Chart Top 40s and nine Number 1s, to date. And,
selling over 25,000 copies so far this week, Xscape looks on track to be the late King Of Pop’s 10th UK Number 1 album.
New in at Number 2 on today’s Official Albums Chart Update is American rock duo, The Black Keys, with their first UK album release since 2011, Turn Blue. Fellow new entry Foxes follows at Number 3 with her debut studio album, Glorious, while Paloma Faith’s A Perfect Contradiction is a non-mover on the Update this week, holding firm at Number 4.
1 XSCAPE MICHAEL JACKSON
2 TURN BLUE BLACK KEYS
3 GLORIOUS FOXES
4 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION PALOMA FAITH
5 CAUSTIC LOVE PAOLO NUTINI
6 SHEEZUS LILY ALLEN
7 SINCE I SAW YOU LAST GARY BARLOW
8 LOVE IN THE FUTURE JOHN LEGEND
9 UNREPENTANT GERALDINES TORI AMOS
10 FIRST MIND NICK MULVEY
11 NABUMA RUBBERBAND LITTLE DRAGON
12 BLONDIE 4(0)-EVER BLONDIE
13 EL CAMINO BLACK KEYS
14 EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION & WAR KAISER CHIEFS
15 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
16 GIRL PHARRELL WILLIAMS
17 TRIBAL IMELDA MAY
18 GOING BACK HOME WILKO JOHNSON/ROGER DALTREY
19 A AGNETHA FALTSKOG
20 MAGIC MOUNTAIN BLACK STONE CHERRY
21 EVERYDAY ROBOTS DAMON ALBARN
22 MEET THE VAMPS VAMPS
23 PRISM KATY PERRY
24 THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING ELBOW
25 IF YOU WAIT LONDON GRAMMAR
26 LIFT YOUR SPIRIT ALOE BLACC
27 THE COMMON LINNETS COMMON LINNETS
28 WHITE WOMEN CHROMEO
29 LUMINOUS HORRORS
30 EP 2 OF 4 DOWN
31 AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH MICHAEL BOLTON
32 SYMPHONICA GEORGE MICHAEL
33 BAT OUT OF HELL MEAT LOAF
34 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
35 MOON LANDING JAMES BLUNT
36 TO BE KIND SWANS
37 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
38 NEVER FORGET - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION TAKE THAT
39 THE 1975 1975
40 THE SPIRIT OF RADIO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
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