U.K. MIDWEEKS: KYLIE SET FOR 9TH #1

Kylie Minogue’s Tension (BMG) is outselling the rest of the U.K. Official Albums Top 30 combined at today’s halfway point. Over on Singles, Kenya Grace is challenging Doja Cat.

As of Friday, Tension should afford Minogue her ninth chart-topping LP.

Doja Cat’s Scarlet (Ministry of Sound) is new at #3 today, while STRENGTH TO STRENGTH (One Thousand8) by Headie One and K-Trap is looking at a #4 debut.

Teenage Fanclub is at #5 with Nothing Lasts Forever (PEMA), and Bakar’s Halo (Black Butter) is #8.

On the U.K.’s Official Singles midweeks, “Paint the Town Red” (Ministry of Sound) by Doja Cat is still #1. However, with “Strangers” (FFRR) by Grace rising one place to #2, the top spot is up for grabs.

Tom Odell is fixin' to earn the week’s highest new entry with “Black Friday” (UROK), on track to land at #15.

And at #17, the title track from blink-182’s upcoming album, ONE MORE TIME (Columbia), could score the band its highest-charting single in 19 years.