Billie Eilish will not be crushed to the U.K. chart crown.

Primarily primarily based on earnings and streaming information captured by the Formal Charts Corporation, Eilish’s most existing LP Strike Me Hard And Tender (Interscope) is outselling the relaxation of the ideal 5 mixed.

It would be Eilish’s 3rd consecutive U.K. No. 1 album. Her debut When We All Drop Asleep, Where Do We Go? bowed at No. 1 in 2019 and stayed there for 3 weeks, though Happier Than At any time opened at the summit in 2021, wherever it logged a solitary week.

In a distant subsequent position on the chart blast is Zayn’s Space Underneath The Stairs (Republic Documents), his fourth solo album and initial in eight a lengthy time. It’s set to develop to be the former One distinct Way singer’s second solo ideal 10 album in the U.K., just just after 2016’s chart-topping debut work Thoughts of Mine.

Taylor Swift’s former chart winner The Tortured Poets Department (EMI) is predicted to finish the podium, down 2-3.

Meanwhile, Guns’N’Roses star Slash could snag a U.K. prime 5 debut with his all-star choice Orgy Of The Damned (Gibson), new at No. 4 on the Formal Chart Update. The guitar hero earlier cracked the major 10 with a handful of solo albums featuring Myles Kennedy — 2014’s Planet On Fire (No. 7), 2018’s Living The Desire (No. 4) and 2022’s 4 (No. 5).

Portishead singer Beth Gibbons is eying a U.K. major rated 10 with Lives Outgrown (Domino Recordings), her initially solo document. It’s new at No. 5 on the chart blast. As a member of Bristol, England electronica act Portishead, Gibbons has a handful of U.K. ideal 10 appearances.

Also on observe for a major rated 10 berth is Michael Head & The Crimson Elastic Band, with Loophole (Present day Sky). Its established to arrive at No. 6, for the Liverpool, England act’s second ideal 10 all round appear following 2022’s Pricey Scott peaked at No. 6.

Last but not least, new releases from Kerry King (From Hell I Rise at No. 15 by way of Reigning Phoenix Tunes), Jack Savoretti (Pass up Italia at No. 16 by indicates of Universal Audio Italia), Shiny Light Bright Light-weight (Take pleasure in Youth at No. 23 by indicates of YSKWN), Ferocious Dog (Kleptocracy at No. 35 by employing Graphite), New Children On The Block (Nonetheless Young kids at No. 37 by way of BMG) and Clavish (Chapter 16 at No. 38 by indicates of Polydor) could snag major 40 areas.

All will be found when the Official Chart is revealed late Friday, Could 24.