Yungblud is heading toward his first #1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums midweeks with Weird! (Polydor) leading the way by 11,000 sales. Over on singles, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” (Columbia) could finally hit the top of the chart 26 years after its release.
Arctic Monkeys’ Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Domino) is new at #2 on albums today followed by the first solo album in 13 years from Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones, Don’t Let the Devil Take Another Day (Parlophone), at #4. Shawn Mendes closes out the Top 5 with Wonder (EMI).
Michael Buble’s Christmas (Reprise) travels forward two places to #7, while another festive collection on the rise is Jamie Cullum’s The Pianoman at Christmas (Island), which rises to a new peak of #12.
Over on singles, Carey leads the chart today by a margin of 1,300 sales over Wham!’s “Last Christmas” (Epic). Jess Glynne’s cover of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas”— released as part of the Amazon Originals series–flies up 25 places to #3, while another track from the series, Justin Bieber’s take on “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” is up 16 places to #5.