Ellie Goulding has her third #1 on the Official Albums Chart while
Joel Corry has secured his first #1 at singles. Goulding’s
Brightest Blue (
Polydor) follows her debut, 2010’s
Lights, and 2014’s
Halcyon in topping the chart.
Four more new releases land inside this week’s Top 10.
The Chicks’ first album in 14 years,
Gaslighter (
Columbia), is their highest-charting album ever in the U.K., entering at #5. A 40th anniversary reissue of
Joy Division’s
Closer (
Rhino) opens at #6 followed by
Lianne La Havas’ self-titled
Warner collection at #7, and
Massive Wagons’
House of Noise (
Earache) at #9. After being released on vinyl,
Bob Dylan’s former chart-topper
Rough And Rowdy Ways (Columbia) rebounds 12 places to #4.
Beyond the Pale from
Jarvis Cocker’s new project
JARV IS… (
Rough Trade) opens at 11;
Brian McFadden &
Keith Duffy’s first album as duo
Boyzlife,
Strings Attached (
Last Man Music), is #12.
At singles, Joel Corry f/
MNEK’s summer dance anthem “Head & Heart” (
Asylum) racked up 68,000 chart sales this week, including 7.5m streams, to dethrone three-week chart-topper “Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat)” by
RCA’s
Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo, which drops to #2. “Head & Heart” is both artists’ first #1 though Corry has had three Top 10 singles and MNEK four.
Columbia’s
Harry Styles earns his third Top 5 with “Watermelon Sugar,” up one place to #5, and
DJ Khaled has the highest new entry of the week, the
Drake-assisted “Greece” (
OVO/
We The Best/Epic) at #8. Their “Popstar” opens at #11. Drake is also featured on
Headie One’s” Only You Freestyle” (OVO/
Relentless), which comes in at #9 after dropping on Monday.