Idles have stormed into the lead for this Friday’s UK Number 1 album, outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined on the midweek Official Albums Chart Update.
Powered heavily by physical sales, if the Bristolian post-punk band’s maintain their momentum with third studio album Ultra Mono, it’ll mark their first chart-topping album.
2018’s Hyundai Mercury Prize nominated album Joy as an Act of Resistance peaked at Number 5. In at Number 2 midweek is Prince’s Sign O’ The Times.
The 1987 collection has been reissued with 45 unreleased tracks and is set to surpass its original Official Albums Chart peak of Number 4.
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