Madonna’s Madam X and Bruce Springsteen’s Western Road go head to head for this weeks Crown for UK’s Top Album Amid Initial LP Launches

It's a fight between The Boss and The Queen of Pop on the current week's Official Albums Chart as new records by Madonna and Bruce Springsteen clash for the Top Spot.

Bruce's Western Stars - his nineteenth studio collection - as of now drives the path over Madonna's fourteenth LP Madame X by barely short of 16,000 consolidated deals on the most recent Official Chart Update.

In the event that Western Stars holds its position, it'll mark Bruce's eleventh Number 1 collection on the Official UK Chart. The record is his first new studio collection of totally unique material since 2012's diagram fixing Wrecking Ball. View Bruce Springsteen's Official UK Chart history so far here.

Then, Madonna is looking at her thirteenth Number 1 collection - she at present holds the record for the most graph fixing records by a female craftsman, with 12. In the event that Madame X removes Western Stars by Friday's Official Chart, Madonna will join Elvis Presley as the performance artist with most Number 1s on the Official UK Albums Chart.

English band Bastille are solid for a Top 10 debut with their third collection Doom Days at Number 3, and following a month at Number 1, Lewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent looks set to be ousted from the top, at present at Number 4.

Somewhere else, Joy Division are on course to arrive inside the Top 10 - at present at Number 5 - with a 40th commemoration reissue of their introduction collection Unknown Pleasures. The British post-punk band's widely praised record neglected to outline upon its unique discharge and later crested at Number 71 in August 1980 after the demise of lead artist Ian Curtis.

Further down, a re-arrival of two instrumental collections by Roy Orbison, A Love So Beautiful/Unchained Melodies, is at 12, and Jack Savoretti's most recent set Singing to Strangers bounce back 32 spots to 14 following a few days of TV appearances and live shows, including Soccer Aid 2019.

Ruler's 1980 Greatest Hits collection is additionally set for a Top 40 return at 16 after a restricted release on red vinyl this week, and a reissue of their 1984 collection The Works on clear vinyl is at 31.

US artist lyricist Bill Callahan is set to guarantee his first UK Top 40 collection with Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest at 22, Scottish band LaFontaines open at 23 with their third collection Junior, and Kate Tempest is on course to arrive her second Top 40 gathering with The Book of Traps and Lessons at 28.

At last, REM's In Time - The Best Of 1988-2003 (32), Gold and Gray by Philadelphia metal band Baroness' (35) and Roger Daltrey's The Who's Tommy Orchestral live collection (39) could all procure a spot in the current week's Official Albums Chart Top 40 .

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