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Foals To Lead Album Chart Shake-Up

Scott Fitzsimons

New releases from Foals, Tegan & Sara and Bullet For My Valentine are tracking strong

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A string of strong new releases are set to remodel the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, according to midweek figures.

Last week Oxford's Foals released their new record Holy Fire after a recent visit with the Big Day Out festival. Being in the public eye has helped their sales and the record is set to bullet on debut. Other strong debuts will come from Wales' Bullet For My Valentine with Temper Temper, Canadian twins Tegan & Sara's Heartthrob and Tim McGraw's Two Lanes Of Freedom.

If they're going to take the top spot they'll have to beat mainstays Pink's The Truth About Love and Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox, the latter having performed at the Grammys earlier this week. Either way, current number one Of Monsters & Men's My Head Is An Animal looks set to relinquish the position after taking 19 weeks to crack the top spot.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' time atop the ARIA Singles Chart with Same Love (featuring Mary Lambert) may finally be at an end, with both Pink featuring Nate Reuss' Just Give Me A Reason and Bingo Players featuring Far East Movement's Get Up (currently seven) set to bullet up the rankings.

Currently holding position two, James Arthur's Impossible will have another strong performance, as will current number five The Lumineers' Ho Hey.

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