ABBA are outselling rest of UK Top 40 combined with ‘Voyage’

nme.com:

ABBA are currently outselling the rest of the UK Top 40 combined in the midweek charts, with their new album ‘Voyage‘ set to clinch this week’s top spot.‘Voyage’ saw 118,000 chart sales over the weekend and is already scooping the fastest-selling physical release and biggest first-week pure sales (physical and digital) of 2021 so far.

If it tops the chart this Friday (November 12), it will become the Swedish pop legends’ 10th UK Number One album and their first studio album to top the UK charts in 40 years.Additionally, if ‘Voyage’ manages to eclipse the first-week sales of Ed Sheeran’s latest offering ‘=‘, which stand at 139,000, ABBA’s new record will become the biggest opening week for an album in over four years [via.