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Royal Blood Lead Race for Fifth UK Number 1 Album

Royal Blood are in pole position to keep their unblemished Official Albums Chart run going, with their fifth studio album Dead Company leading the midweek race for Number 1.

The Brighton duo of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher sit at the top of what could be an entirely new Top 5. All four of their previous studio records have reached Number 1 – the self-titled 2014 debut, How Did We Get So Dark? in 2017, Typhoons in 2021 and Back to the Water Below in 2023 – so a fifth consecutive chart-topper is within reach.

Right behind them is James Blunt, whose eighth studio album Airplane Mode is heading for a Number 2 debut. That would give him a ninth straight Top 10 entry, a run that goes back to Back to Bedlam in 2004.

At Number 3, Steven Wilson enters with his ninth solo studio album, Requiem for a Village, which could become his fifth solo Top 10 record. Kings of Leon are at Number 4 with O My Beloved, their first full-length release produced entirely by the band themselves, and are chasing a 10th Top 10 album.

The possible all-new Top 5 is completed by George Michael with The Faith Tour, which gathers 18 previously unreleased live recordings from his landmark 1988 concert in Paris.

Further down the midweek updates, Skepta is at Number 6 with The Fork and Knife, while Bryan Adams is at Number 8 with How's It Goin' and is aiming for a 13th Top 10 album.

Passenger holds Number 9 with Wild Love, and Queen close the Top 10 with Budapest, a remixed live release marking the band's 40th anniversary.

Other new entries across the chart include a deluxe reissue of Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure, Tinie Tempah's The Night's Not Dead, La Roux's Old Flames and a 30th-anniversary box set from the Spice Girls.

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