Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism will probably be exhausting to catch within the U.Ok. chart race.
Based mostly on midweek gross sales and streaming information captured by the Official Charts Firm, the British pop singer’s third studio album has a wholesome lead.
Radical Optimism is outselling the next-best-placed LP, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, by 2 to 1, and may storm house for Lipa’s second chief.
Assuming it continues on its path, Radical Optimism will develop into Lipa’s first album to debut at No. 1. Her self-titled 2017 debut Dua Lipa peaked at No. 3 and has logged 354 weeks on the body, whereas her sophomore effort from 2020, Future Nostalgia, climbed to No. 1 in its second week. Future Nostalgia logged 4 weeks at No. 1, and has now clocked 203 weeks on the Official Chart – and counting.
Radical Optimism is already a U.Ok. hit, yielding three prime 10 singles chart entries: “Houdini (No. 2 peak), “Coaching Season” (No. 4) and “Phantasm” (No. 9).
With Dua Lipa’s newest effort flying excessive, Swift’s Tortured Poets appears to be like set to dip 1-2 after two weeks on the chart penthouse. It’s TayTay’s twelfth U.Ok. No. 1 album.
In the meantime, Hampshire, England rock artist Frank Turner is on monitor for a podium end with Undefeated. It’s new at No. 3 on the Official Chart Replace, and is ready to develop into Turner’s sixth U.Ok. prime 10 look.
Kelly Jones, frontman of Welsh indie-rock favorites Stereophonics, may nab his solo profession finest with Inevitable Unimaginable, his second LP. Inevitable Unimaginable is on track for a No. 4 begin, nicely forward of the No. 8 finest for his debut solo effort Don’t Let The Satan Take One other Day from 2020. As a member of Stereophonics, Jones has eight U.Ok. No. 1s.
Lastly, Scottish indie-pop act Digicam Obscura is peering in on a first-ever U.Ok. prime 10 look with Look To The East, Look To The West, their first studio album in over a decade. It bows at No. 10 on the chart blast, and may give Digicam Obscura a 3rd U.Ok. prime 40.
All will probably be revealed when the Official U.Ok. Albums Chart is printed late Friday, Might 10.
