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Ed Sheeran is celebrating his third week at the top of the charts with new album, X, beating off competition from nearest rivals Manic Street Preachers.
Manics' 12th album Futurology was selling well after huge acclaim from fans and critics, as well as a storming set of UK dates and glorious performances at both Glastonbury and T In The Park.
However, Sheeran's X (which is pronounced ‘multiply’) is on an unstoppable chart-topping sales run - having sold over 327,000 copies in the UK since it s release last month.
Taking to Twitter to celebrate being the highest new entry, Wire posted:
Massive thanks from us to everyone who bought futurology-who wrote about it-who tweeted-who screamed+who saw it live-xxxxxx
— ManicStreetPreachers (@Manics) July 13, 2014
- Check back later for our full and frank interview with Manic Street Preachers discussing Futurology
Elsewhere in the albums chart, Dolly Parton is at No.3 with her new best of album Blue Smoke, while Sam Smith comes in at No.4 with In The Lonely Hour and George Ezra completes the top five with his acclaimed debut, Wanted On Voyage.
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