The Leeds-based indie quartet Yard Act are on track for a third consecutive Top 5 entry with You’re Gonna Need A Little Music, currently positioned at Number 5. The project follows their 2022 debut The Overload and 2024’s Where’s My Utopia?. Meanwhile, Bradford-born producer and singer Nia Archives is aiming for a career-best performance with her second studio set, Emotional Junglist. The album is currently holding the Number 7 position, placing her on course to claim her first-ever Official Top 10 record and surpassing her 2024 debut Silence Is Loud.
Just outside the top tier, Manchester icons New Order see their retrospective collection, The Best Of & The Rest Of, start the week at Number 11. If it holds its ground, the release will mark the band’s 18th Official Top 40 album. Pennsylvania metalcore group Motionless In White are also tracking towards a milestone, with Decades hovering at Number 15 midweek, potentially yielding their first UK Top 40 entry. Liverpool metallers Loathe are eyeing a similar career first, with A Stranger To You currently sitting at Number 22.
Further down the chart, folk-rock veterans The Waterboys eye an 11th Top 40 record with Atlantic Rain at Number 31, while Brighton pop-punk band As It Is look set to claim their third with their self-titled project at Number 33. Finally, pop superstar Bruno Mars enjoys a significant chart boost as his tour arrives at London’s Wembley Stadium today, propelled by his 2010 debut Doo-Wops & Hooligans leaping 13 places to Number 37.
