Olivia Dean appears ready to guide her former chart leader The Art Of Loving back to the Number 1 position on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
If it succeeds, the album, already home to five Top 40 singles, would enjoy a second non-consecutive week in the top spot.
The biggest new arrival of the week may come from Jessie J, as her sixth studio project Don’t Tease Me With A Good Time is on course to become her first Top 5 record in more than a decade. Jessie previously reached similar heights with 2011’s Who You Are, 2013’s Alive and 2014’s Sweet Talker.
With December officially underway, the season is making its presence known, and Michael Bublé’s holiday staple continues its usual yearly climb, rising nineteen places at midweek.
A deluxe version featuring two new songs is helping Ed Sheeran’s recent chart leader Play move back toward the Top 10, jumping sixteen positions in the midweek update.
Now issued as a Complete Edition that brings together Parts 1 and 2, Teddy Swims’ long-running I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy is also seeing a boost, rising thirty nine places in today’s report.
Bedtime Stories, Madonna’s seventh full studio album, is tracking toward a return to the Top 40 for the first time since its original 1994 release, thanks to a wide-ranging reissue. Bedtime Stories – The Untold Chapter, which includes rare demos, alternate mixes and previously unreleased material, is also shaping up to land inside this week’s Albums Chart.
Iron Maiden’s 1985 release Life After Death is aiming to rejoin the Top 40 via a 40th anniversary vinyl reissue, which could mark its first appearance in as many years.
As they begin their UK arena tour, Wolf Alice’s Mercury Prize-nominated Number 1 album The Clearing is moving upward in the midweek rankings.
Emerging artist Freddie Halkon is on track to secure his first Official Top 40 entry with Shoulders Of The World. The singer-songwriter, currently in his second year studying law at the University of Leeds, is balancing his rising music profile with his undergraduate studies.
To close things out, a twentieth anniversary deluxe edition of The Darkness’s 2005 album One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back could bring it back into the Top 40, placing at Number 35 midweek. The record originally peaked at Number 11 when it first arrived.