Muse have secured their fifth UK album chart No 1 with Drones, knocking Florence + the Machine off the top spot after just one week.
The stadium rock trio’s latest album features singles Dead Inside and Mercy and shifted almost 73,000 copies this week, according to the UK Official Charts Company. Muse have previously topped the charts with albums Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, The Resistance and The 2nd Law.
Florence Welch’s latest album How Big How Blue How Beautiful is down one place to No 2, followed by Collabro’s Act Two, Ed Sheeran’s X and Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour. New entries include FFS – the indie supergroup featuring members of Franz Ferdinand and Sparks – who debut at No 17, Leftfield, who had the highest new entry at No 6, while Pete Townshend’s symphonic version of the Who’s 1973 album, Classic Quadrophenia, enters the charts at No 32.
As the album top 5 revisits its regular lineup of Sheeran and Smith, there’s very little change on the singles charts too, with singer Jason Derulo on top for a third week with Want to Want Me, and OMI’s Cheerleader, Major Lazer’s Lean On, Skrillex, Diplo and Justin Bieber’s Where Are U Now, and Galantis’ Runaway (You & I) completing the rest of the top five.
