Blossoms take lead for fourth UK Number 1 album ‘Gary’

Blossoms have kicked the week off in the lead for their fourth UK Number 1 album with Gary.

The indie-rock Stockport outfit have previously topped the Official Albums Chart three times with Blossoms (2016), Foolish Loving Spaces (2020) and Ribbon Around The Bomb (2022), while 2018’s Cool Like You reached Number 4.

However, not far away at Number 2 midweek is the Midwest Princess herself, Chappell Roan and her former Number 1 debut album The Rise And Fall of a Midwest Princess, which is right now a little over 2,000 chart units away from overtaking Blossoms, and is a definite contender to top the Official Albums Chart for a second non-consecutive week this Friday.

Meanwhile at Number 3, BRIT award-winning singer-songwriter Tom Walker’s second album I Am could become the Scottish star’s second UK Top 5 album. He previously reached Number 1 in 2019 with debut LP What A Time To Be Alive.

Pop queen Katy Perry is also eyeing a Top 5 debut with her sixth record 143 (4). It’s on track to be the California Gurl’s fifth Top 5 album, and if it maintains its midweek position would become Katy’s highest-charting album in the UK in more than a decade, since 2013’s chart-topping Prism.

Acclaimed British producer Jamie xx could be celebrating his second Top 10 solo album with In Waves (6). Jamie Smith’s influential debut solo record, In Colour, previously peaked at Number 3, while as a member of The xx alongside Romy and Oliver Sim, he’s claimed two UK Number 1 LPs; Coexist (2012) and I See You (2017).

Elsewhere in the Top 10, West Yorkshire rockers Terrorvision approach their highest-charting record yet with We Are Not Robots (7), Future’s Mixtape Pluto could mark the rapper’s fifth Top 10 (9) and and post-punk Manchester outfit Ist Ist are on the way to celebrating their first-ever UK Top 10 record, Light A Bigger Fire (10).

Further down, viral pop band Deco are expected to make their Top 40 debut at Number 21 with Destination – I Don’t Know, Finnish symphonic-hardcore rockers Nightwish’s Yesterwynde contends for a Number 23 debut and Bob Dylan & The Band’s The 1974 Live Recordings is heading for Number 24.

Grand dame of pop, Cher, could see her latest greatest hits collection, Forever, become her 16th Top 40 entry in the Official Albums Chart.

And finally, art-pop duo The Waeve are looking to enter the Official Albums Chart at Number 35 with their second album City Lights.