Harry Styles is in line to register his second chart double—#1 on both the Official Albums and Singles charts—as
Post Malone eyes the week’s highest debut at albums and a couple of decades-old singles are Top 5-bound.
Should
Harry’s House (
Columbia) return to #1, it would be the first record to score a second week at #1 this year. “As It Was” is still #1 as it vies for a 10th consecutive week at the top.
Malone’s fourth studio album,
Twelve Carat Toothache (
Island), sits at #2 midweek and is positioned to be Posty's fourth consecutive U.K. Top 10 LP.
Other contenders for Top 10 debuts are
Prince & the Revolution–Live (
Sony Music CMG) at #6, a 10th anniversary edition of
You Me at Six’s
Sinners Never Sleep (
Virgin) at #7 and
Angel Olsen’s
Big Time (
Jagjaguwar) at #10. It would be Olsen's first U.K. Top 10 record.
Queen’s
Greatest Hits (
Parlophone), fresh off its record-setting chart week, is up to #11.
At singles, two tracks that first charted many decades ago are headed for Top 5 landings this week.
Kate Bush’s 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill” (
Fish People) is eyeing a six-slot jump to #2 thanks to its use in
Netflix’s
Stranger Things. The
Sex Pistols’ two new vinyl pressings of “God Save the Queen” (
UMC) has
Johnny Rotten & company eyeing a return to the Top 5 for the first time in more than 40 years; the song hit #2 back in 1977.
Sam Ryder’s Eurovision anthem “SPACE MAN” (
Parlophone) is up two to #9 following his performance at the Platinum Party at the Palace concert during the Queen’s Jubilee.
Malone’s “I Like You (A Happier Song)” is most likely the week’s highest new entry; its currently #19.