Wet Leg glide towards Number 1 with "moisturizer"

Wet Leg are making a major splash on this week’s Official Albums Chart.

The Isle of Wight duo’s second album moisturizer is on course to debut at Number 1 – just as their self-titled debut did when it was released in April 2022.

At present, Moisturizer is more than 7,000 units ahead of its nearest challenger, Oasis’s singles compilation Time Flies… 1994-2009, which returned for Number 1 on Friday for the first time since its week of release in 2010.

But with the Manchester icons continuing their hometown return this week with three further shows at Heaton Park, could the gap close in the coming days?

Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald is tracking for a Top 3 debut with her sixth studio album Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For? (3). This would be her highest Official Albums Chart position since 2017’s Under Stars peaked at Number 2.

Justin Bieber’s seventh studio set SWAG – a huge surprise release on Friday – is on course to become the pop prince’s seventh Top 5 album (5).

Scottish dance don Barry Can’t Swim could score his first UK Top 10 album with second LP Loner (6). He previously made Number 12 with his Mercury Prize-nominated debut When Will We Land?.

Singer-guitarist Steve Hackett, a former member of Genesis, could net his first Top 20 album since 1983 with The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall (11).

Right behind, Afrobeats king Burna Boy is blazing towards a fifth Top 20 album with his eighth studio set No Sign of Weakness (12).

Also heading towards for the Top 20 is Let God Sort Em Out, the fourth studio album by Clipse (13). This would be the first Official Albums Chart entry for the duo comprising brothers Malice and Pusha T.

Still Living in the Past, a significantly expanded edition of Jethro Tull’s 1972 compilation album Living in the Past, is tracking for a Top 20 debut (18).

Gigi Perez’s debut studio album At the Beach, In Every Life, home to the Number 1 single Sailor Song, is set to make its Official Albums Chart debut following a vinyl release (23).

US singer-songwriter Giveon looks set to net a second Top 40 album with his second studio album Beloved (25).

And finally, The Beta Band’s 1998 compilation The Three E.P.’s could return to the Top 40 for the first time since its original week of release (39).