As Davido eyes this week’s highest new entry with 5ive
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department could see a spectacular return to the Official Albums Chart summit this week; eyeing a 23-place jump back to the top spot.
The superstar’s eleventh studio LP, which has already clocked 10 non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 in the UK since its release last April, sees a surge thanks to the release of a signed CD edition celebrating the record’s one-year anniversary.
The Tortured Poets Department broke Official Chart records on its original release, surpassing Adele’s 30 to earn Taylor the biggest opening week for an album in the UK in seven years; since Ed Sheeran’s 2017 LP ÷.
This week’s highest new entry could come courtesy of Nigerian-American singer, songwriter and record producer Davido. The Atlanta-born, Lagos-raised star eyes a career-best with fifth studio collection 5ive (4).
Previously, Davido saw Albums Chart success with 2020’s A Better Time (88) and 2023’s Timeless (10).
English rock outfit Hawkwind expect to see their 37th studio record There Is No Space For Us make its debut this week (14). Should it hold on, it’ll become the group’s highest-charting LP in 50 years; since 1975’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time (13). Across a career spanning five decades, Hawkwind have claimed a total of 16 Official Top 40 albums to date.
Doechii’s debut Alligator Bites Never Heal looks to make its UK Top 40 debut at Number 21 this week. Previously, the album peaked at Number 65 here.
Penfriend – the musical project of Nottingham-based artist Laura Kidd – could score a second Top 40 LP this Friday. House Of Stories (28) expects to follow the success of 2021 release Exotic Monsters (24).
With the release of its deluxe edition featuring brand-new tracks It’s Amazing To Be Young and Before You I Just Forget, Fontaines D.C.’s Romance is on the rebound, up 17 midweek (25).
This week’s final new Top 40 entry may come from Julien Baker and TORRES, with their first collaborative LP Send A Prayer My Way (34). It’d earn TORRES a personal best in the UK, while Baker secured a chart-topping album as a member of boygenius with 2023’s the record.
