New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The Prodigy's new album No Tourists is heading for No 1 on the UK Albums Chart. The electronic group's seventh studio album leads the way on today's UK Chart Update, currently ahead of A Star Is Born's Motion Picture Cast Recording by 6,500 combined chart sales.
Should No Tourists hold onto its lead, it will become The Prodigy's seventh UK chart topper; they first hit the top spot in 1994 with
Music For The Jilted Generation. To date, The
Prodigy have sold 4.67 million albums (including streams) across their studio records and greatest hits.
New entries and high climbers
Barbra Streisand is also new in the midweek Top 5; her politically-charged album
Walls opens at Number 5 and is on course to earn her a 14th UK Top 10 album.
Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks, is set for a Top 10 debut at Number 6, while
Ariana Grande's Sweetener is set for a Top 10 return following her
Ariana at the BBC TV special - it's up five to Number 10.
Sheridan Smith's second album A Northern Soul begins at 13, ahead of Michael Buble's Christmas, heading back to the Albums Chart for the eighth year running, rising 43 places to Number 20.
US producer
Metro Boomin could hit the UK Top 40 for the first time this week with Not All Heroes Wear Capes at 21, ahead of Metallica's reissued And
Justice For All at Number 22.
Also set for the Top 40 are Katie Melua's Ultimate Collection (23),
Negative Capability from Marianne Faithfull (27), Dead Can Dance's Dionysus (28), and Post-Apocalypto by
Tenacious D (30).
Finally, a further three new releases may claim a Top 40 position come Friday's UK Chart: Bill Ryder-Jones' Yawn (32), The Last Rocket from
Takeoff (36), and Imogen Heap's The
Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (38).