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Taylor Swift Midnights (EMI) is already claimed this year’s fastest-seller, shifting 140k sales at the halfway point, and on its way to becoming her ninth U.K. Official Albums #1. She’s also in the lead at singles.
An all-new Top 8 today continues with Arctic Monkey’s The Car (Domino) at #2 with 105k sales so far, Loyle Carner’s Hugo (EMI) in third place, Simple Minds’ Direction of the Heart (BMG) at #4. A 25th anniversary release of Kylie Minogue’s Impossible Princess (BMG) is #5—it originally peaked at #10—and
a-ha’s True North (RCA) is #6, on track to become their highest charting album in the U.K. in 13 years.
Carly Rae Jepsen is set for a career best with The Loneliest Time (School Boy/Interscope) starting at #7, while Dry Cleaning’s Stumpwork (4AD) is #8.
On the U.K.’s Official Singles midweek chart, “Anti-Hero” looks set to become Swift’s second U.K. #1 single.
Should it hold onto its position by Friday, it will be Swift’s first chart-topper since “Look What You Made Me Do” in 2017.
The track is one of three from Midnights in today’s Top 3: “Lavender Haze” is #2 and “Snow on the Beach” f/Lana Del Rey is #3.
Elsewhere, Arctic Monkeys could score two Top 20 tracks from The Car: “I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am” is at #14 and “Sculptures of Anything Goes” at #15. Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ long-running #1, “Unholy” (Capitol), has moved down to #4.