Stereophonics are leading an all-new Top 3 on the U.K’s Official Albums midweek chart with their 10th studio album and debut for Parlophone, Scream Above The Sounds; it has sold 34k combined since Friday. Decca duo Michael Ball & Alfie Boe are #2, followed by another Decca/Blue Note release, Gregory Porter’s Nat King Cole & Me.

Should Scream Above The Sounds maintain its top spot, the album will be Stereophonics’ seventh #1. Ball & Boe’s second album, Together Again, is currently 11k sales behind. Porter is set for his highest charting album yet with his album featuring covers of Nat King Cole classics.

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