Tuesday Update:
Singles
1 Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk (30.3k)
2 Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin (28.7k) *
3 Hozier - Take Me To Church (13.9k)
4 Philip George - Wish You Were Mine (12.6k)
5 Olly Murs feat. Demi Lovato - Up (8.9k)
6-10
8 Avicii - The Nights
10 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
11-20
13 Blonde feat. Melissa Steel - I Loved You
18 Jeremih feat. YG - Don't Tell 'Em
20 Echosmith - Cool Kids
21-30
21 George Ezra - Blame It On Me
22 James Bay - Hold Back The River
25 Take That - These Days
31-40
32 Sigma feat. Paloma Faith - Changing
33 Kid Ink feat. Chris Brown - Hotel *
35 Idina Menzel - Let It Go
37 Majestic and Jungle 70 - Creeping In The Dark *
38 Years & Years - Desire ^
Other notable new entries
51 Maroon 5 - Sugar
72 Jessie J - Masterpiece
88 Orla Gartland - Lonely People
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Albums
1 Fall Out Boy - American Beauty / American Psycho (16.5k) *
2 Mark Ronson - Uptown Special (14.4k) *
3 Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep (9.1k) *
4 Ed Sheeran - x (6.3k)
5 Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour (5.5k)
6-10
7 Belle And Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance *
9 Above & Beyond - We Are All We Need *
10 The Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World *
11-20
11 Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor *
12 The Waterboys - Modern Blues *
20 Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love *
21-30
21 Dr. Dre - 2001 ^
24 Funeral For A Friend - Chapter And Verse *
31-40
36 Ji Liu - Piano Encores *
Other notable new entries
81 Potter Payper - 24
84 Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Wednesday Update:
Singles
1 Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
2 Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin' *
3 Hozier - Take Me to Church
4 Philip George - Wish You Were Mine
5 Olly Murs feat. Demi Lovato - Up
6-10
9 Avicii - The Nights
10 Sia - Elastic Heart
11-20
11 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
19 Echosmith - Cool Kids
20 Sam Smith - I'm Not the Only One
21-30
22 George Ezra - Blame It On Me
23 Jeremih feat. YG - Don't Tell 'Em
31-40
31 James Bay - Hold Back the River
34 Sigma feat. Paloma Faith - Changing
37 Lillywood & Robin Schulz - Prayer in C
38 Idina Menzel - Let It Go
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Top 40 Albums
1 Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho (1.5k lead) *
2 Mark Ronson - Uptown Special *
3 Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep *
4 Ed Sheeran - x
5 Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour
6-10
8 Belle & Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance *
9 Above & Beyond - We Are All We Need *
10 The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World *
11-20
11 Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor *
12 The Waterboys - Modern Blues *
15 Dr Dre - 2001 ^
18 Joey Badass - B4.DA.$$ *
21-30
22 Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love *
28 Funeral for a Friend - Chapter and Verse *
31-40
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars are heading for a 6th non-consecutive week at #1 this week - a feat last achieved by Rihanna's 'We Found Love' in late 2011. Meghan Trainor may not be too far behind though as 'Lips Are Movin'', her follow-up to 'All About That Bass', is released this week and seems to have at least #2 on lock.
In complete contrast to the year so far, this week's album chart is looking to be mixed up with the release of several new albums. Fighting for the top spot will be Mark Ronson's Uptown Special and Fall Out Boy's American Beauty/American Psycho. Neither have reached #1 with an album before but both are no stranger to the #2 spot - Mark is perhaps more deserving of #1 to avoid a hat-trick of #2s.