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Ed Sheeran's X is set to break the 2014 record for first week sales according to the midweek charts.
This is the second time that the bar has been raised in a month, as Coldplay set the previous record in June with 168,000 copies of their Ghost Stories album sold. According to The Official Charts Company, Sheeran has already sold 100,000 copies of X, which puts him on course to nail the fastest selling album of the year (so far).
Much of the top ten albums chart remains the same with Kasabian at No. 5 ahead of their headline set at Glastonbury this weekend. Mastodon are the only new entry at the moment coming in at No.7 with their great psychadelic riff-based record Once More 'Round the Sun.
Listen to Mastodon's new single 'High Road' below
As for the singles chart, it looks like Ella Henderson will be knocked off the No.1 spot by Oliver Helden and Becky Hill's collaboration 'Ghost', which is climbing fast. Ed Sheeran's No.1 single 'Sing' is still hanging in there, dropping only to No. 3, Example's 'One More Day (Stay With Me) is at No.4 and Usher's 'Good Kisser' is at No.5.
The album chart:
1) Ed Sheeran – x
2) Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
3) Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
4) Coldplay – Ghost Stories
5) Kasabian – 48:13
6) Dolly Parton – Blue Smoke: The Best Of
7) Mastodon – Once More Round The Sun
8) Linkin Park – The Hunting Party
9) Paolo Nutini – Caustic Love
10) Ed Sheeran – +
The singles chart:
1) Ella Henderson - 'Ghost'
2) 5 Seconds of Summer - 'Don't Stop'
3) Ed Sheeran - 'Sing'
4) George Ezra - 'Budapest'
5) Sam Smith - 'Stay With Me'
6) Tiesto - 'Wasted' Feat. Matthew Koma
7) Gorgon City - 'Here For You' feat. Laura Welsh
8) Jason Derulo - 'Wiggle' feat, Snoop Dogg
9) Mr. Probz - 'Waves'
10) John Legend - 'All of Me'
Below: The best selling singles of the millenium
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