Taylor Swift's '1989' outselling Top 5 albums combined

Taylor Swift is on course to score her second UK Number One album with 1989.

The 24-year-old’s fifth studio album shifted almost 60,000 copies in its first two days on sale – outselling the rest of the Top 5 albums combined – and looks set to follow in the footsteps of her last album Red, which hit the top spot back in October 2012 and has since sold over half a million copies in the UK.

Swift’s closest competitors include Ed Sheeran, who currently sits at Number Two with former chart-topper X, and Sam Smith, whose debut album In the Lonely Hour climbs back to Number Three after 22 weeks in the chart.

Annie Lennox is a new entry at Number 6 with Nostalgia. The covers record is Lennox’s first studio album in four years and could become the 59-year-old’s highest-charting album since 2003’s Bare.

Over on the Official Singles Chart, Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud looks set to finally topple Meghan Trainor from the top spot and end All About That Bass‘s four-week reign at Number One.

The single has shot to the top spot after 19 weeks on the chart following Sheeran’s performance on The X Factor over the weekend (October 26), and could become his second UK Number One after June’s Pharrell collaboration Sing.

Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ outselling Top 5 albums combined

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