U.K. MIDWEEKS: A RACE FOR #1

The second albums form Mabel and beabadoobee are vying for the top slot on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart, while the challenge to LF System at singles owes to a performance on ITV’s Love Island.

Mabel’s About Last Night… (Polydor) is #1 at midweek. Beabadoobee’s Beatopia (Dirty Hit) is the biggest release of the week so far on physical formats. Mabel’s debut, High Expectations, peaked at #3; beabadoobee’s Fake It Flowers topped out at #8.

Naturally, Harry Styles’ Harry’s House (Columbia), currently #3, can’t be counted out to return to #1 for a sixth non-consecutive week.

Interpol’s The Other Side of Make-Believe (Matador) is tracking at #4 and could be their fifth Top 10 album. Fear Fear (Heavenly/[PIAS]), by Yorkshire’s Working Men’s Club, comes in at #6, and Lizzo’s Special (Atlantic), currently #7, could become her first U.K. Top 10.

Black Midi’s Hellfire (Rough Trade) sits at #8. The sixth studio record from Deaf Havana, The Present Is a Foreign Land (SO), is #9. Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp’s first collaborative album, 18 (Rhino), parks at #11, and the debut from BTS member j-hope, Jack in the Box (Big Hit), pops up at #28.

At singles, David Guetta, Becky Hill and Ella Henderson’s “Crazy What Love Can Do” (Parlophone) is set to crack the Top 5 following Hill’s performance on the popular TV series Love Island as LF System’s “Afraid To Feel” (Warner) is poised to log a third consecutive week at #1. Love Island has also pushed Sigala and Talia Mar’s “Stay the Night” (Ministry of Sound) to #15.